CELEX: 31978R0466
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 466/78 of 6 March 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 originating in the Philippines, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

No L 64/ 14                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                    7 . 3 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 466/78
                                                    of 6 March 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 originating in the Philip­
              pines, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                              tion (EEC) No 2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in respect of nets and netting made of
COMMUNITIES,                                                    twine, cordage or rope, etc ., falling within heading No
                                                                59.05, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           should be 25 tonnes and therefore the maximum
Economic Community,
                                                                amount is 1 2.5 tonnes ; whereas on 28 February 1978
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    the amounts of imports into the Community of nets
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating                 and netting made of twine, cordage or rope, etc.,
and providing for the administration of Community               falling within heading No 59.05, originating in the
tariff preferences for textile products originating in          Philippines, a country covered by preferential tariff
developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­         arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
cular Article 4 thereof,                                        whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation              (EEC) No 2706/77 which provides that maximum
provides that customs duties may, for each category of          amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation , be              should be re-established in respect of the products in
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %               question in relation to the Philippines,
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          As from 10 March 1978 , the levying of customs
tariff arrangements established by the Community,               duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports coming              (EEC) No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect
from other countries and from countries already                 of the following products, imported into the Commu­
covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard           nity and originating in the Philippines :
to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating
in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should
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be within a maximum Community amount repre­                          heading                        Description
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                    No
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to            59.05               Nets and netting made of twine, cordage
the abovementioned Regulation ;                                                     or rope , and made up fishing nets of yarn ,
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that                              twine, cordage or rope
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, 6 March 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, p. 67 .