31976R3045

20. 12. 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 350/65

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3045/76 of 9 December 1976 totally suspending the customs duties on certain industrial products originating in Malta ( 1977)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, totally suspended in respect of products falling within Chapters 25 et seq. of the Common Customs Having regard to the Treaty establishing , the Tariff covered by the Agreement establishing an European Economic Community, and in particular association between the European Economic Com­ Article 113 thereof, munity and Malta, pursuant to Article 1 of Annex I thereto, with the exception of products falll'ing within Having regard to the proposaH from the Commission, heading Nos 55.05, 56.04, 60.05 and 61.01.

Whereas, by virtue of the Agreement establishing Ireland, however, shall be authorized to apply to an association between the European Economic such products duties equal to those which it applies Community and Malta (1), the Community applies to Member States other than the United Kingdom. the Common Customs Tariff duties, reduced by 70% , to products covered by this Agreement; whereas it 2. The suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall seems advisable provisionally to increase this tariff apply solely to products originating in Malta. The advantage by means of tihe total suspension of the rules of origin shall fee those in force at the time customs duties applicaMe to such products ; wihereas, as regards the implementation of the aibove Agree­ however, this measure cannot affect the products ment . subject to the tariff quotas provided for in the abovementioned Agreement; Article 2 Whereas, in order to avoid the danger of disrupting traditional patterns of trade by imports of such products, provision should be made to enable the In order to avoid disrupting traditional trade patterns Commission to reintroduce at any time, by means by imports of products benefiting from the duty of a Regulation, the levying of conventional duties suspension provided for in Article 1, the Commission in respect of Malta, may, by means of a Regulation, reintroduce the levying of customs duties at any time up to the end of the cailendar year, at the level applicable in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : pursuance of Article 1 of Annex I to the aforesaid Agreement.

Article 1 Article 3 1 . From 1 January until 31 December 1977, the Common Customs Tariifif duties and the customs This Regulation shall enter into force on tariff duties of the new Member States shall be 1 January 1977.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 December 1976.

For the Council The President P. J. J. MERTENS

(*) OJ No L 61 , 14. 3. 1971, p. 3.