31974R0470

No L 56/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 27 . 2. 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 470/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 26 February 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on knitted or crocheted fabrics, not elastic or rubberized, falling within subheading No 60.01 A, originating in deve­ loping countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3505 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached COMMUNITIES, that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3505/73 which provides that Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties Economic Community ; should be re-established in respect of the products in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No question, 3505/73 (^ of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : footwear originating in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; Article 1 Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that As from 2 March 1974, the levying of customs duties, customs duties may, for each category of textile suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling No 3505/73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be equal to 150 % of the sum arrived at by adding re-established in respect of the following products, together the metric tonnage of the products in ques­ imported into the Community : tion, imported into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries already covered by various pref­ CCT erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­ heading Description of goods nity, and 5 % of the 1 970 metric tonnage of such No imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas 60.01 Knitted or crocheted fabrics, not elastic Article 2(1 ) of that Regulation provides that the or rubberized levying of customs duties may be re-established at any A. Of wool or of fine animal hair time once the Community ceiling has been reached ;

Whereas, in respect of knitted or crocheted fabrics, not elastic or rubberized falling within subheading Article 2 60.01 A, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 30 metric tons ; whereas on 1 5 February This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 1974 the amounts of imports into the Community of following its publication in the Official Journal of the products in question, originating in countries the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 February 1974. For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(») OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973, p. 84.