CELEX: 31978R2719
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2719/78 of 22 November 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nets and netting made of twine, cordage or rope, etc., falling within heading No 59.05 and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply

23 . 11 . 78                        Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 328 / 15
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2719/78
                                                 of 22 November 1978
              re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nets and netting made of twine,
              cordage or rope, etc., falling within heading No 59.05 and originating in deve­
              loping countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                    Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197 /78 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                the amounts of imports into the Community of the
COMMUNITIES,                                                  products in question , originating in countries covered
                                                              by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Economic Community,                                           Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 which provides that the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should
1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and                be re-established in respect of the products in ques­
providing for the administration of Community tariff          tion ,
preferences for textile products originating in deve­
loping countries and territories ('), and in particular        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 4 thereof,
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that                                   Article 1
customs duties may, for each category of products             As from 26 November 1978, the levying of customs
listed in Annex C thereto, be suspended up to a               duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
Community ceiling equal to 87 % of the sum arrived            (EEC) No 1197/78 , shall be re-established in respect
at by adding together the tonnage of the products in          of the following products, imported into the Commu­
question, imported into the Community in 1968 and              nity :
coming from countries listed in Annex D, but not
including products coming from countries already
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covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­           heading                        Description
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the 1970                          No
tonnage of such imports coming from other countries
and from countries already covered by such arrange­            59.05               Nets and netting made of twine, cordage
ments ; whereas Article 3 ( 1 ) of that Regulation                                 or rope, and made up fishing nets of yarn ,
provides that the levying of customs duties may be                                 twine, cordage or rope
re-established at any time once the Community
ceiling has been reached ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas, in respect of nets and netting made of
twine, cordage or rope, etc., falling within heading No       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
59.05, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,             following its publication in the Official Journal of
should be 25 tonnes ; whereas on 16 November 1978              the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 22 November 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 149, 5. 6. 1978, p. 1 .