31976R0968

No L 112/ 14 29 . 4 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 968 /76 of 27 April 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on handkerchiefs of cotton fabric, falling within heading No ex 61.05 , originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN by preferential tariff arrrangements, reached that COMMUNITIES, ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind objectives of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 3002/75, which provides that the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should Economic Community, be re-established in respect of the products in ques­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No tion , 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 2 May 1976, customs duties, suspended in suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 , shall be re-established in 166 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the metric tonnage of the products in question, imported respect of the following products, imported into the into the Community in 1968 and coming from coun­ Community : tries 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 arrangments ; whereas Article ex 61.05 Handkerchiefs : 2 (1 ) of that Regulation provides that the levying of — Of cotton fabric customs duties may be re-established at any time once the Community ceiling has been reached ;

Whereas, in respect of handkerchiefs of cotton fabric, Article 2 the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 100 metric tons ; whereas on 16 April 1976, the This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day amounts of imports into the Community of the following its publication in the Official Journal of products in question, originating in countries covered the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 April 1976.

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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