31978R1894

No L 216/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 5 . 8 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1894/78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­ ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, falling within heading No 61.10 and originating in Hong Kong , to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­ COMMUNITIES, ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, the ceiling, calculated as indicated Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European above, should be 21 tonnes, and therefore the Economic Community, maximum amount is 10.5 tonnes ; whereas on 24 July Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of 1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and sockettes, providing for the administration of Community tariff not being knitted or crocheted goods, originating in preferences for textile products originating in deve­ Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff loping countries and territories ('), and in particular arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; Article 4 thereof, whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 which provides that maximum Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties provides that customs duties may, for each category of products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be should be re-established in respect of the products in suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 % question in relation to Hong Kong, 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 As from 8 August 1978 , the levying of customs duties, tariff arrangements established by the Community, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports coming No 1197/78 shall be re-established in respect of the from other countries and from countries already following products, imported into the Community covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard and originating in Hong Kong : to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should CCT be within a maximum Community amount repre­ heading Description senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of No certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to 61.10 Gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and the abovementioned Regulation ; . sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods Whereas Article d (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 the exception of countries listed in its This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Annex E, once the relevant Community maximum following its publication in the Official Journal of amount has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 August 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

(M OJ No L 149 , 5 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 .