31978R1341

No L 164/8 21 . 6 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1341 /78 of 20 June 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs' wool or of fine animal hair falling within heading No 53.11 originating in Argentina, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of woven fabrics of sheep s or COMMUNITIES, lambs' wool or of fine animal hair, the ceiling, calcu­ lated as indicated above, should be 357 tonnes, and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European therefore the maximum amount is 71.40 tonnes ; Economic Community, whereas on 12 June 1978 the amounts of imports into Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the Community of woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs' 2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating wool or of fine animal hair, originating in Argentina, a and providing for the administration of Community country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, tariff preferences for textile products originating in reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­ mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 cular Article 4 thereof, which provides that maximum amounts should not be Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in provides that customs duties may, for each category of respect of the products in question in relation to products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be Argentina, suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 % 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 its Annex D, but not including products coming Article 1 from countries already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, As from 24 June 1978, the levying of customs duties, and 5% of the 1970 tonnage of such imports coming suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) from other countries and from countries already No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard following products, imported into the Community to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating and originating in Argentina : in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ OCT senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of heading Description certain products for which the maximum amount is to No be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to the abovementioned Regulation ; whereas, for those 53.11 Woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs' wool or products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ; of fine animal hair 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 its Annex This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day E, once the relevant Community maximum amount following its publication in the Official Journal of has been reached : the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 June 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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