31978R2974

No L 355 / 8 19 . 12 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2974/78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs' wool or of fine animal hair, falling within heading No 53.11 and origi­ nating in Argentina, 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 woven fabrics of sheep s or COMMUNITIES, lambs' wool or of fine animal hair, falling within heading No 53.11 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European above , should be 357 tonnes, and therefore the Economic Community, maximum amount is 71-400 tonnes ; whereas on 28 Having regard to Council Regulaton (EEC) No November 1978 the amounts of imports into the 1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and Community of woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs' providing for the administration of Community tariff wool or of fine animal hair, falling within heading No preferences for textile products originating in deve­ 53.11 and originating in Argentina, a country covered loping countries and territories (*), and in particular by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that Article 4 thereof, maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation objectives of Regulation (CEE) No 1197/78 which provides that customs duties may, for each category of provides that maximum amounts should not be products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 % respect of the products in question in relation to of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of Argentina, the products in question , in tonnes, imported into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in Annex D thereto, but not including products coming from countries already covered by various pref­ erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­ Article 1 nity, and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports As from 22 December 1978 , the levying of customs coming from other countries and from countries duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, (EEC) No 1197/78 , shall be re-established in respect having regard to that ceiling the amounts for products of the following products, imported into the Commu­ originating in any one of the countries listed in nity and originating in Argentina : Annex D should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum CCT heading Description amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated No in Annex C to the abovementioned Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage 53.11 Woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs' wool or will be 20 % ; of fine animal hair Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may be re-established at any time on imports of the products in question originating in any Article 2 of the said countries and territories, with the excep­ tion of those listed in Annex E thereto, once the rele­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day vant Community maximum amount has been following its publication in the Official Journal of reached : the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 December 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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