31978R2171

No L 254/24 16 . 9 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2171 /78 of 14 September 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, originating in Malaysia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council 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 7 September 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 originating in Malaysia, a country covered by preferen­ 1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum providing for the administration of Community tariff amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 which provides that preferences for textile products originating in deve­ 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 Malaysia, 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 19 September 1978 , the levying of customs listed in Annex D to the Regulation in question, other duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation than those specified under (b) in column 4 of Annex (EEC) No 1197/78, shall be re-established in respect B, in respect of the corresponding products may be of the following products, imported into the Commu­ charged against that ceiling ; whereas, having regard to nity and originating in Malaysia : that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should be CCT within a maximum amount representing 50 % of that heading Description ceiling ; 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 crocheted , not elastic or rubberized any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­ tories, with the exception of countries listed in Annex Article 2 E, once the relevant Community maximum amount has 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, 14 September 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission

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