31976R1641

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COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1641 / 76 of 29 June 1976 amending Regulations (EEC) No 3152/75 and ( EEC) No 3153/75 opening , allo­ cating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for outer garments falling within heading Nos 60.05 and 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Malta ( 1976)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN and Malta (5), signed on 4 March 1976, the tariff COMMUNITIES , quotas in question have been increased to 190 metric tons and 730 metric tons respectively for the above­ mentioned products, i.e., to levels higher than those Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European for the current year ; whereas, in addition , the Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 Contracting Parties to the abovementioned Agree­ thereof, ment, agreed in a Joint Declaration that, under the tariff quotas of 190 metric tons and 730 metric tons, quantities of 90 metric tons and 430 metric tons Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , should be allocated to the new Member States ;

Whereas the Agreement of 5 December 1970 between Whereas the respective quantities allocated to the new the European Economic Community and Malta (') Member States , when shares in the tariff quotas provides for the opening by the Community of annual opened for 1976 were distributed, are less than 90 Community tariff quotas for the importation into the metric tons and 430 metric tons ; whereas , therefore , Community, as originally constituted, of 100 metric the difference , between the present quotas of 165 tons of outer garments and other articles, knitted or metric tons and 496 metric tons and the new quotas crocheted , not elastic or rubberized, falling within of 190 metric tons and 730 metric tons, should be allo­ heading No 60.05, and 300 metric tons of men 's and cated to the initial shares of the new Member States ; boys' outer garments, falling within heading No whereas it is therefore necessary to amend Regulations 61.01 ; whereas, at its meeting on 4 and 5 of June ( EEC) No 3152/ 75 and ( EEC) No 3153 /75 , 1973, the Council agreed that from 1 January 1974 Malta should enjoy treatment not less favourable than that accorded to countries eligible for generalized pref­ erences ; whereas, on that basis and by Regulations (EEC) No 3152/75 (2) and (EEC) No 31 53/75 (3), as HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1051 /76 (4), the Community opened, for 1976, tariff quotas of 165 metric tons and 496 metric tons respectively for products falling within tariff heading Nos 60.05 and Article 1 61.01 in which, following the Decision of 4 and 5 June 1975, the new Member States participate by the allocation of initial quota shares and by the possibility 1 . The quotas provided for in Article 1 of Regula­ of using the Community reserves which were set up ; tions ( EEC) No 3152/ 75 and ( EEC) No 3153 / 75, shall be increased respectively to 190 metric tons and 730 metric tons . Whereas under the Protocol laying down certain provi­ sions relating to the Agreement establishing an Associ­ ation between the European Economic Community 2. The initial shares provided for in Article 2 ( 1 ) of the said Regulations for Denmark, Ireland and the (') OJ No L 61 , 14 . 3 . 1971 , p. 3 . United Kingdom shall be amended as follows : (2) OJ No L 317, 8 . 12 . 1975, p. 49 . (}) OJ No L 317, 8 . 12. 197.5, p. 52. 4) OJ No L 120 , 7 . 5 . 1976 , p. 5 . (5 ) OJ No L 111 , 28 . 4 . 1976, p. 3 .

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Regulation (EEC) No 3152/75 : Article 2 Denmark 9 metric tons, Ireland 9 metric tons, United Kingdom 38 metric tons ; Regulation (EEC) No 3153/75 : Denmark 210 metric tons, This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh Ireland 3 metric tons, day following its publication in the Official Journal United Kingdom 110 metric tons . of the European Communities.

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

Done at Luxembourg, 29 June 1976.

For the Council

The President

G. THORN