31977R1129

28 . 5 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 134/ 61

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1129/77 of 27 May 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­ ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, falling within heading No 61.10 , originating in Hong Kong 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 gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­ COMMUNITIES, ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, the ceiling, calculated as indicated Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European above, should be 42 tonnes, and therefore the Economic Community, maximum amount is 21 tonnes ; whereas on 25 May Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of 3022/76 of 13 December 1976 opening, allocating gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and sockettes, and providing for the administration of Community not being knitted or crocheted goods, originating in tariff preferences for textile products originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­ arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; cular Article 4 thereof, whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation (EEC) No 3022/76 which provides that maximum provides that customs duties may, for each category of amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties products listed in Annex C to that Regulation , be should be re-established in respect of the products in suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 174 % question in relation to Hong Kong, 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 in Annex D thereto, but not including products Article 1 coming from countries already covered by various pref­ erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­ As from 31 May 1977, the levying of customs duties, nity, and 5% of the 1970 tonnage of such imports suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) coming from other countries and from countries No 3022/76, shall be re-established in respect of the already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, following products, imported into the Community having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for and originating in Hong Kong : products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should be within a maximum Commu­ CCT nity amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with heading Description of goods Nq the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to the abovementioned Regula­ 61.10 Gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and tion ; sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods 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 Annex E This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day thereto, once the relevant Community maximum following its publication in the Official Journal of amount has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 May 1977 . For the Commission Stienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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