31973R2911

No L 299/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 27 . 10 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2911 /73 OF THE COUNCIL of 26 October 1973 increasing the amount of the Community tariff quota for raw silk falling within heading No 50.02 of the Common Customs Tariff

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European The quota provided for in Article 1 of Regulation Economic Community, and in particular Article 28 (EEC) No 2734/72 shall be increased from 1 715 thereof ; metric tons to 2 215 metric tons . Article 2 Having consulted the Commission ; 1 . The shares allocated to Member States in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2734/72 shall be Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2734/72 (') amended as follows : opened and allocated among the Member States a Community tariff quota for 1973 of 1 715 metric tons Italy 900 metric tons, France 750 metric tons . of raw silk (not mown) falling within heading No 50.02 of the Common Customs Tariff ; 2. The Community reserve provided for under Article 2 (2) of the same Regulation shall be increased Whereas this quota was fixed according to advance from 300 metric tons to 350 metric tons . estimates of import requirements prepared at the end Article 3 of 1972 for the current quota period ; whereas new import requirements in the order of 50,0 metric tons This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day have become apparent ; whereas the initial amount of following its publication in the Official Journal of the quota should be increased by 500 metric tons, the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 26 October 1973 .

For the Council The President I. NØRGAARD

(') OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p . 118 .