CELEX: 31978R1341
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1341/78 of 20 June 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 originating in Argentina, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

No L 164/8                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                  21 . 6 . 78
                              COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1341 /78
                                                  of 20 June 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 originating
              in Argentina, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council
                                       Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                               Whereas, in respect of woven fabrics of sheep s or
COMMUNITIES,                                                 lambs' wool or of fine animal hair, the ceiling, calcu­
                                                             lated as indicated above, should be 357 tonnes, and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                             therefore the maximum amount is 71.40 tonnes ;
Economic Community,
                                                             whereas on 12 June 1978 the amounts of imports into
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                 the Community of woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs'
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating              wool or of fine animal hair, originating in Argentina, a
and providing for the administration of Community            country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
tariff preferences for textile products originating in       reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­      mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77
cular Article 4 thereof,                                     which provides that maximum amounts should not be
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation           exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
provides that customs duties may, for each category of       respect of the products in question in relation to
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be            Argentina,
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %
of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of
the products in question, in tonnes, imported into the       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed
in its Annex D, but not including products coming                                        Article 1
from countries already covered by various preferential
tariff arrangements established by the Community,            As from 24 June 1978, the levying of customs duties,
and 5% of the 1970 tonnage of such imports coming            suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
from other countries and from countries already              No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard        following products, imported into the Community
to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating        and originating in Argentina :
in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
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senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of               heading                        Description
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                 No
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to
the abovementioned Regulation ; whereas, for those           53.11               Woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs' wool or
products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                 of fine animal hair
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                  Article 2
tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­
tories, with exception of countries listed in its Annex      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
E, once the relevant Community maximum amount                following its publication in the Official Journal of
has been reached :                                            the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 20 June 1978 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                   Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 67.