CELEX: 31975R3149
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3149/75 of the Council of 24 November 1975 totally suspending the customs duties on certain industrial products originating in Malta (1976)

No L 317/40                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                8 . 12. 75
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 3149/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 24 November 1975
               totally suspending the customs duties on certain industrial products originating in
                                                         Malta ( 1976)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           the exception of products falling within heading
                                                                   Nos 55.05 , 56.04, 60.05 and 61.01 .
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                 Ireland, however, shall be authorized to apply to
pean Economic Community, and in particular Article                 such products duties equal to those which it applies
 113 thereof ;                                                     to Member States other than the United Kingdom.
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                2. The suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall
                                                                   apply solely to products originating in Malta. The
                                                                   rules of origin shall be those in force at the time as
Whereas, by virtue of the Agreement ( 1 ) establishing             regards the implementation of the above Agreement.
an association between the European Economic
Community and Malta, the Community applies the                     However, the last sentence of Article 1 (2) ( b ) of the
Common Customs Tariff duties, reduced by 70% , to                  Protocol relating to the definition of the concept of
products covered by this Agreement ; whereas it                    originating products and to methods of administra­
seems advisable provisionally to increase this tariff              tive cooperation shall not apply in the case of
 advantage by means of the total suspension of the                 products obtained in Malta from :
customs duties applicable to such products ; whereas,
however, this measure cannot affect the products
subject to the tariff quotas provided for in the                   — products originating in one or more Member
                                                                       States of the Community as originally constituted
abovementioned Agreement;
                                                                       and exported to one or more new Member States,
                                                                       or
Whereas, in order to avoid the danger of disrupting
traditional patterns of trade by imports of such pro­              — products originating in one or more new Member
ducts, provision should be made to enable the Com­                     States and exported to one or more Member
mission to re-introduce at any time, by means of                       States of the Community as originally constituted,
a Regulation, the levying of conventional duties in                                                           »
respect of Malta,                                                  where the products referred to in the two indents
                                                                   above have undergone only the insufficient working
                                                                   or processing listed in points 1 to 6 of List A annexed
                                                                   to the above Protocol .
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                           Article 2
                                                                   In order to avoid disrupting traditional trade patterns
                           Article 1                               by imports of ' products benefiting from the duty
                                                                   suspension provided for in Article 1 , the Commis­
1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1976 the                         sion may, by means of a Regulation, re-introduce the
Common Customs Tariff duties and the customs                       levying of customs duties at any time up to the end
tariff duties of the new Member States shall be totally            of the calendar year, at the level applicable in
suspended in respect of products falling within                    pursuance of Article 1 of Annex I to the aforesaid
Chapters 25 et seq. of the Common Customs Tariff,                  Agreement.
covered by the Agreement establishing an association
between the European Economic Community and
                                                                                           Article 3
Malta, pursuant to Article 1 of Annex I thereto, with
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
(!) OJ No L 61 , 14. 3 . 1971 , p. 3 .                             1976.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 24 November 1975 .
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                   B. VISENTINI