31977R0721

6. 4. 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 88/5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 721 /77 of 4 April 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nets and netting made of twine, etc., falling within heading No 59.05 , orginating in the Philippines to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3022/76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of nets and netting made of COMMUNITIES, twine, etc., falling within heading No 59.05, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 49 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount is 24-5 Economic Community, tonnes ; whereas on 30 March 1977 the amounts of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No imports into the Community of nets and netting 3022/76 of 13 December 1976 opening, allocating made of twine, etc., falling within heading No 59.05, and providing for the administration of Community orginating in the Philippines, a country covered by tariff preferences for textile products orginating in preferential tariff arrangements, reached that developing countries and territories ^), and in parti­ maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the cular Article 4 thereof, objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3022/76 which provides that maximum amounts should not be Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in provides that customs duties may, for each category of respect of the products in question in relation to the products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be Philippines, suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 174 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question, in tonnes, imported into the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed Article 1 in its Annex D, but not including products coming from countries already covered by various preferential As from 9 April 1977, the levying of customs duties, tariff arrangements established by the Community, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports coming No 3022/76, shall be re-established in respect of the from other countries and from countries already following products, imported into the Community covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard and originating in the Philippines : to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should CCT be within a maximum Community amount repre­ heading Description of goods senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of No certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to 59.05 Nets and netting made of twine, cordage the abovementioned Regulation ; or rope, and made up fishing nets of yarn , twine, cordage or rope Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ Article 2 tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­ tories, with exception of countries listed in its Annex This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day E, once the relevant Community maximum amount following its publication in the Official Journal of has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 April 1977. For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No L 349, 20. 12. 1976, p. 69 .