31976R0678

27. 3. 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 81 /29

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 678 /76 of 26 March 1976 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 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 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 3002/75, 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, 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ tial tariffs in respect of certain cotton textile and like HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : products originating in developing countries (•), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, Article 1 Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be As from 30 March 1976, the levying of customs suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 166 % duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation of the sum arrived at by adding together the metric (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be tonnage of the products in question, imported into re-established in respect of the following products, the Community in 1968 and coming from countries imported into the Community : listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not including products coming from countries already CCT covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ heading Description of goods No blished by the Community, and 5 % of the 1970 metric tonnage of such arrangements ; whereas Article 55.08 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that the levying of Terry towelling and similar terry fabrics of cotton customs duties may re-established at any time once the Community ceiling has been reached ;

Whereas in respect of terry towelling and similar terry Article 2 fabrics of cotton the ceiling calculated as indicated above should be 86 metric tons ; whereas on 24 March This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 1976 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 March 1976 .

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No L 310, 29. 11 . 1975, p. 9.