31978R2720

No L 328 / 16 23 . 11 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2720/ 78 of 22 November 1978

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with preparations of cellulose derivatives, etc., falling within heading No 59.08 and originating in Yugoslavia, to which the pref­ erential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1197/78 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN cellulose derivatives, etc., falling within heading No COMMUNITIES, 59.08 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 263 tonnes, and therefore the maximum Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European amount is 131.5 tonnes ; whereas on 14 November Economic Community, 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No textile fabrics impregnated , coated, covered or lami­ 1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and nated with preparations of cellulose derivatives, etc., providing for the administration of Community tariff falling within heading No 59.08 and originating in preferences for textile products originating in deve­ Yugoslavia, 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 Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 which provides that maximum provides that customs duties may, for each category of amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties products listed in Annex C thereto, be suspended up should be re-established in respect of the products in to a Community ceiling equal to 87 % of the sum question in relation to Yugoslavia, arrived at by adding together the tonnage of the products in question , imported into the Community HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex D, but not including products coming from countries Article 1 already covered by various preferential tariff arrange­ ments established by the Community, and 5 % of the As from 26 November 1978 , the levying of customs 1970 tonnage of such imports coming from other duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation countries and from countries already covered by such (EEC) No 1197/78 , shall be re-established in respect arrangements ; whereas, having regard to that ceiling, of the following products, imported into the Commu­ the amounts for products originating in any one of nity and originating in Yugoslavia : the countries listed in Annex D should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 % of CCT that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for heading Description which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the No percentage indicated in Annex C to the abovemen­ tioned Regulation ; 59.08 Textile fabrics impregnated , coated , Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that covered or laminated with preparations of cellulose derivatives or of other artificial the levying of customs duties may be re-established at plastic materials any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­ tories, with exception of countries listed in Annex E, Article 2 once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of textile fabrics impregnated, following its publication in the Official Journal of coated, covered or laminated with preparations of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 November 1978 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission

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