31974R3122

12. 12. 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 332/ 17

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3122/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 11 December 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on women's, girls' and infants' under garments, of cotton fabric, falling within heading No ex 61.04, originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­ tion (EEC) No 3503 / 73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN lated as indicated above , should be 98 metric tons, COMMUNITIES, and therefore the maximum amount 49 metric tons ; whereas on 5 December 1974 the amounts of imports Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European into the Community of women's, girls' and infants' Economic Community ; under garments, of cotton fabric, originating in India, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, 3503/73 ( ! ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­ mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3503/73, nating in developing countries, and in particular which provides that maximum amounts should not be Article 4 (2) thereof ; exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation India, provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 150 % of the sum arrived at by adding HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : together the value of the products in question, in metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968 Article 1 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not including products coming from As from 15 December 1974, the levying of customs countries already covered by various preferential tariff duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation arrangements established by the Community, and (EEC) No 3503/73 of 18 December 1973, shall be 5 % of the 1 970 metric tonnage of such imports re-established in respect of the following products, coming from other countries and from countries imported into the Community and originating in already covered by sucfi arrangements ; whereas, India : having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries listed CCT in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a heading Description of goods maximum Community amount representing 50 % of No that ceiling ; ex 61.04 Women's, girls' and infants' under Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that garments, of cotton fabric the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ Article 2 ries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of women's girls' and infants' following its publication in the Official Journal of under garments, of cotton fabric, the ceiling, calcu­ 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

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