31975R3149

No L 317/40 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 12 . 75

REGULATION (EEC) No 3149/75 OF THE COUNCIL

of 24 November 1975

totally suspending the customs duties on certain industrial products originating in Malta ( 1976 )

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, the exception of products falling within heading Nos 55.05 , 56.04, 60.05 and 61.01 .

Ireland, however, shall be authorized to apply to Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ such products duties equal to those which it applies pean Economic Community, and in particular Article to Member States other than the United Kingdom . 113 thereof ;

2. The suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; apply solely to products originating in Malta. The rules of origin shall be those in force at the time as Whereas, by virtue of the Agreement ( 1 ) establishing regards the implementation of the above Agreement. an association between the European Economic Community and Malta, the Community applies the However, the last sentence of Article 1 (2) ( b ) of the Common Customs Tariff duties, reduced by 70% , to Protocol relating to the definition of the concept of products covered by this Agreement ; whereas it originating products and to methods of administra­ seems advisable provisionally to increase this tariff tive cooperation shall not apply in the case of advantage by means of the total suspension of the products obtained in Malta from : customs duties applicable to such products ; whereas, however, this measure cannot affect the products — products originating in one or more Member subject to the tariff quotas provided for in the States of the Community as originally constituted abovementioned Agreement; and exported to one or more new Member States, or Whereas, in order to avoid the danger of disrupting traditional patterns of trade by imports of such pro­ — products originating in one or more new Member ducts, provision should be made to enable the Com­ States and exported to one or more Member mission to re-introduce at any time, by means of States of the Community as originally constituted, a Regulation, the levying of conventional duties in » respect of Malta, where the products referred to in the two indents above have undergone only the insufficient working or processing listed in points 1 to 6 of List A annexed to the above Protocol .

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 2

In order to avoid disrupting traditional trade patterns Article 1 by imports of ' products benefiting from the duty suspension provided for in Article 1 , the Commis­ sion may, by means of a Regulation, re-introduce the 1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1976 the Common Customs Tariff duties and the customs levying of customs duties at any time up to the end of the calendar year, at the level applicable in tariff duties of the new Member States shall be totally pursuance of Article 1 of Annex I to the aforesaid suspended in respect of products falling within Agreement. Chapters 25 et seq . of the Common Customs Tariff, covered by the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Article 3 Malta, pursuant to Article 1 of Annex I thereto, with

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January (!) OJ No L 61 , 14. 3 . 1971 , p. 3 . 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 24 November 1975 .

For the Council

The President

B. VISENTINI