CELEX: 31978R2974
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2974/78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of sheep' s or lambs' wool or of fine animal hair, falling within heading No 53.11 and originating in Argentina, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply

No L 355/8                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 19 . 12. 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2974/78
                                                  of 15 December 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of sheep's or
               lambs' wool or of fine animal hair, falling within heading No 53.11 and origi­
               nating in Argentina, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                     Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197 /78 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of woven fabrics of sheep s or
COMMUNITIES,                                                   lambs' wool or of fine animal hair, falling within
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          heading No 53.11 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated
                                                               above , should be 357 tonnes, and therefore the
 Economic Community,
                                                               maximum amount is 71-400 tonnes ; whereas on 28
 Having regard to Council Regulaton (EEC) No                   November 1978 the amounts of imports into the
 1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and                Community of woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs'
providing for the administration of Community tariff           wool or of fine animal hair, falling within heading No
 preferences for textile products originating in deve­         53.11 and originating in Argentina, a country covered
loping countries and territories (*), and in particular        by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
Article 4 thereof,                                             maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation             objectives of Regulation (CEE) No 1197/78 which
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         provides that maximum amounts should not be
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be              exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %              respect of the products in question in relation to
of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of          Argentina,
the products in question, in tonnes, imported into the
Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in Annex D thereto, but not including products
coming from countries already covered by various pref­
erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­                                     Article 1
nity, and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports
coming from other countries and from countries                 As from 22 December 1978 , the levying of customs
already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,                duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
having regard to that ceiling the amounts for products         (EEC) No 1197/78 , shall be re-established in respect
originating in any one of the countries listed in              of the following products, imported into the Commu­
Annex D should be within a maximum Community                   nity and originating in Argentina :
amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the
exception of certain products for which the maximum                  CCT
amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated                 heading                        Description
                                                                      No
in Annex C to the abovementioned Regulation ;
whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage
will be 20 % ;                                                 53.11               Woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs' wool or
                                                                                   of fine animal hair
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that
customs duties may be re-established at any time on
imports of the products in question originating in any                                     Article 2
of the said countries and territories, with the excep­
tion of those listed in Annex E thereto, once the rele­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
vant    Community      maximum        amount    has   been     following its publication in the Official Journal of
reached :                                                       the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 15 December 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 149, 5. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .