31978R0557

No L 76/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 3 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 557/78 of 16 March 1978 amending Regulation (EEC) No 464/78 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, for all uses, etc., falling within tariff heading No ex 46.02, originating in South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas it is therefore necessary to limit the re­ COMMUNITIES, establishment to the said products and to amend Regu­ lation (EEC) No 464/78 with effect from 10 March Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1978 , Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ tial tariff arrangements in respect of certain products Article 1 originating in developing countries (J), and in parti­ cular Article 4 (2) thereof, The re-establishment by Regulation (EEC) No 464/78 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 464/78 of of the levying of custom? duties with regard to South 6 March 1978 (2) re-established, as from 10 March Korea shall be limited to the following products : 1978, the levying of customs duties on plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, for all uses, etc., CCT falling within tariff heading No ex 46.02, originating heading Description No in South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No ex 46.02 2705/77 apply ; Plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form, Whereas the re-establishment of the duty in question including matting, mats and screens ; straw was based on the fact that the imports into the envelopes for bottles Community of the products in question, originating in South Korea, had reached the Community maximum amount of 1953 300 units of account ; Article 2

Whereas this maximum amount of 1 953 000 units of This Regulation shall enter into force on the day account concerned only plaiting materials bound following its publication in the Official Journal of together in parallel strands or woven, in sheet form, the European Communities. including matting, mats and screens, straw envelopes for bottles : It shall apply with effect from 10 March 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 16 March 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission

[l) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23. ?) OJ No L 64, 7.3.1978, p. 11 .