31974R3120

12 . 12 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 332/ 15

REGULATION (EEC) No 3120/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 11 December 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, of cotton, falling within heading No 55.08 , originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­ lation (EEC) No 3503/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 1974 the amounts of imports into the Community of COMMUNITIES, the products in question , originating in countries covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives Economic Community ; of Regulation ( EEC) No 3503 /73 , which provides that Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the ceiling should not be exceeded , customs duties 3503/73 (^ of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ should be re-established in respect of the products in ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­ question , nating in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be Article 1 suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 1 50 % As from 15 December 1974, customs duties, of the sum arrived at by adding together the metric suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) tonnage of the products in question , imported into No 3503 /73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be the Community in 1968 and coming from countries re-established in respect of the following products, listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not imported into the Community : including products coming from countries already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ CCT blished by the Community, and 5 % of the 1970 heading Description of goods metric tonnage of such imports coming from other No countries and from countries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation 55.08 Terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, of cotton provides that customs duties may be re-established at any time once the Community ceiling has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, of cotton , falling within heading No This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 55.08 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above , following its publication in the Official Journal of should be 78 metric tons ; whereas on 5 December the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 11 December 1974 .

For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

( i ) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 69 .