31978R2033

No L 237/ 14 29 . 8 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2033 /78 of 25 August 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 Thailand, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation ( EEC) No 1197 / 78 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 35 COMMUNITIES, tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount is 17.50 tonnes ; whereas on 11 August 1978 the amounts of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European imports into the Community of gloves, mittens and Economic Community, mitts , knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No and originating in Thailand, a country covered by pref­ 1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and erential tariff arrangements , reached that maximum providing for the administration of Community tariff amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of preferences for textile products originating in deve­ Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs loping countries and territories ('), and in particular Article 4 thereof, duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to Thailand, 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 Article 1 under (a) in column 5 of Annex B ; whereas, only the products originating in the countries and territories As from 1 September 1978 , the levying of customs listed in Annex D thereto, other than those specified duties, suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) under (b) in column 4 of Annex B, in respect of the No 1197/78 , 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 Thailand : 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 60.02 Gloves, mittens and mitts , knitted or any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ 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 Article 2 been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of gloves, mittens and mitts, following its publication in the Official Journal of knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized , the the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 August 1978 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission

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