31978R1138

No L 141 / 12 30 . 5 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1138 /78 of 29 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on yarn of combed sheep's or lambs' wool (worsted yarn), not put up for retail sale, falling within heading No 53.07 and originating in South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2706/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 140.50 tonnes and therefore the maximum amount is COMMUNITIES, 70.25 tonnes ; whereas on 23 May 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of yarn of combed Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European sheep's or lambs' wool (worsted yarn), not put up for Economic Community, retail sale, originating in South Korea, a country Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached 2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the and providing for the administration of Community objectives of . Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 which provides that maximum amounts should not be tariff preferences for textile products originating in exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in developing countries^ and territories (*), and in parti­ cular Article 4 thereof, respect of the products in question in relation to South Korea, 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 2 June 1978 , the levying of customs duties, listed in Annex D thereto, other than those specified suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) under (b) in column 4 of Annex B, in respect of the No 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 South Korea : 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 53.07 Yarn of combed sheep's or lambs' wool tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­ (worsted yarn), not put up for retail sale tories, with the exception of countries listed in Annex E, once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of yarn of combed sheep's or This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day lambs' wool (worsted yarn), not put up for retail sale, following its publication in the Official Journal of the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 May 1978 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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