31978R1066

No L 135/ 10 Official Journal of the European Communities 23 . 5 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1066/78 of 22 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, falling within heading No 60.02 and originating in Pakistan and the Philippines, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount is 17.50 COMMUNITIES, tonnes ; whereas on 5 May 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of gloves, mittens and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, Economic Community, originating in Pakistan and the Philippines, each of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No these countries covered by preferential tariff arrange­ ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, 2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) tariff preferences for textile products originating in No 2706/77 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­ developing countries and territories (*), and in parti­ cular Article 4 thereof, established in respect of the products in question in relation to these countries, Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) to (3) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling which is indicated, for each of the products listed in Annex B, under (a) in column 5 ; whereas only the Article 1 products originating in the countries and territories As from 26 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties, listed in Annex D thereto , other than those specified suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No under (b) in column 4 of Annex B, in respect of the 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the corresponding products, may be charged against that following products, imported into the Community ceiling ; whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the and originating in Pakistan and the Philippines : amounts for products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should be within a CCT maximum amount representing 50 % of that ceiling ; heading Description No 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 60.02 Gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­ tories, with exception of countries listed in Annex E, once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; Article 2

Whereas, in respect of gloves, mittens and mitts, This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, the following its publication in the Official Journal of ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 35 the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 May 1978 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 67 .