CELEX: 31978R0778
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 778/78 of 18 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods, of other textile materials, falling within subheading 62.03 ex B and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

No L 105/ 10                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                   19 . 4. 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 778/78
                                                   of 18 April 1978
              re-establishing the levying of customs duties on sacks and bags, of a kind used
              for the packing of goods, of other textile materials, falling within subheading
              62.03 ex B and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential
                       tariff arrangements set out in Regulation ( EEC) No 2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77
COMMUNITIES,                                                  which provides that the ceiling should not be
                                                               exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          respect of the products in question,
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating
and providing for the administration of Community                                         Article 1
tariff preferences for textile products originating in
developing countries and territories (*), and in parti­       As from 22 April 1978, the levying of customs duties,
cular Article 4 thereof,                                       suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                               No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (2) of that Regulation             following products, imported into the Community :
provides that customs duties may, for each category of
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling                     CCT
which is indicated, for each of the products listed in              heading                        Description
                                                                      No
Annex B, under (a) in column 5 ; whereas only the
products originating in the countries and territories
listed in Annex D thereto, other than those specified          62.03               Sacks and bags of a kind used for the
under (b) in column 4 of Annex B, in respect of the                                packing of goods :
corresponding products, may be charged against that                                B. Of other textile materials :
ceiling ; whereas Article 3 ( 1 ) of that Regulation                                      I. Used :
provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­
established any time the Community ceiling has been                                              a) Of flax or of sisal
reached ;                                                                                    ex b) Other (excluding        coir
                                                                                                    fibres)
Whereas, in respect of sacks and bags, of a kind used                                 ex II. Other (excluding coir fibres)
for the packing of goods, of other textile materials,
falling within subheading 62.03 ex B, the ceiling,
calculated as indicated above, should be 178 tonnes ;
                                                                                          Article 2
whereas on 12 April 1978 the amounts of imports
into the Community of the products in question, origi­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
nating in countries covered by preferential tariff arran­      following its publication in the Official Journal of
gements, reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in            the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 18 April 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 67.