31977R1487

2.7.77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 164/ 31

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1487 / 77 of 1 July 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods, falling within subheading 62.03 B I a) ex b) ex II , origi­ nating in Pakistan to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3022/76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN packing of goods, originating in Pakistan a country COMMUNITIES , covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3022/76 which Economic Community, provides that maximum amounts should not be Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in 3022/76 of 13 December 1976 opening, allocating respect of the products in question in relation to and providing for the administration of Community Pakistan , tariff preferences for textile products originating in developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : cular Article 4 thereof, Whereas Article 2(1 ) to (3) of that Regulation provides Article 1 that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling As from 5 July 1 977, the levying of customs duties, which is indicated , for each of the products listed suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) under (a) in column 5 of Annex B ; whereas, only the No 3022/76, shall be re-established in respect of the products originating in the countries and territories following products, imported into the Community listed in Annex D to the Regulation in question , other and originating in Pakistan : than those specified under (b) in column 4 of Annex B, in respect of the corresponding products may be CCT charged against that ceiling ; whereas, having regard to heading Description of goods No that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should be within a maximum amount representing 50 % of that 62.03 Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the ceiling ; packing of goods : B. Of other textile materials : Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at I. Used : any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ a) Of flax or of sisal tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­ ex b) Other (excluding coir tories, with exception of countries listed in Annex E fibres) thereto, once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; ex II . Other (excluding coir fibres) Whereas, in respect of sacks and bags , of a kind used for the packing of goods, the ceiling, calculated as Article 2 indicated above, should be 356 tonnes , and therefore the maximum amount is 178 tonnes ; whereas on 21 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day June 1977 the maximum amounts of imports into the following its publication in the Official Journal of Community of sacks and bags, of a kind used for the the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 1 July 1977 . For the Commission Etienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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