31978R2844

No L 339/ 12 5. 12. 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2844/78 of 4 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of silk, falling within heading No 50.09 and originating in South Korea and India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN E thereto, once the relevant Community maximum COMMUNITIES, amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of woven fabrics of silk, the Economic Community, ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 97 tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount is 19.400 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No tonnes ; whereas on 27 November 1978 the amounts 1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and of imports into the Community of woven fabrics of providing for the administration of Community tariff silk, originating in South Korea and India, countries preferences for textile products originating in deve­ covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached loping countries and territories (!), and in particular that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Article 4 thereof, objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 which Whereas Article 2 (1 ) and (3) of that Regulation provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that customs duties may, for each category of exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be respect of the products in question in relation to suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 % South Korea and India, 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 Annex D thereto, but not including products Article 1 coming from countries already covered by various pref­ erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­ As from 8 December 1978 the levying of customs nity, and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation coming from other countries and from countries (EEC) No 1197/78, shall be re-established in respect already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, of the following products imported into the Commu­ having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for nity and originating in South Korea and India : products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should be within a maximum Commu­ CCT nity amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with heading Description No the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to the abovementioned Regula­ 50.09 Woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other waste silk tion ; whereas, for those products, this reduced percen­ tage will be 20 % ; Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that Article 2 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­ following its publication in the Official Journal of tories, with the exception of countries listed in Annex the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 December 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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