31976R0769

No L 90/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 3 . 4. 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 769/76 of 2 April 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on handkerchiefs of cotton fabric, falling within heading No ex 61.05, originating in India to which the preferen­ tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN lated as indicated above, should be 100 metric tons, COMMUNITIES, and therefore the maximum amount 50 metric tons ; whereas on 30 March 1976 the amounts of imports Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European into the Community of handkerchiefs of cotton fabric, Economic Community, falling within heading No ex 61.05, originating in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No India, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, tial tariffs in respect of certain cotton textile and like bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) products originating in developing countries ('), and No 3002/75, which provides that maximum amounts in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, should not be exceeded, customs duties should be Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to India, provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 166 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question, in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Article 1 Regulation, but not including products coming from countries already covered by various preferential tariff As from 6 April 1976, the levying of customs duties, arrangements established by the Community, and suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) 5 % of the 1 970 metric tonnage of such imports No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be coming from other countries and from countries re-established in respect of the following products, already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, imported into the Community and originating in having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for India : products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a CCT maximum Community amount representing 50 % of heading Description of goods that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for No which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; ex 61.05 Handkerchiefs : Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that — 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 once the Article 2 relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of handherchiefs of cotton fabric, following its publication in the Official Journal of falling within heading No ex 61.05, the ceiling, calcu the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 April 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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