31990R3248

No L 311 /20 Official Journal of the European Communities 10 . 11 . 90

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3248/90 of 9 November 1990 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties applicable to products of CN code 2915 70 10 originating in Malaysia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3896/89 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, reached on 30 January 1990 by charges of imports into the Community of the products in question originating in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Malaysia ; whereas the exchange of information organized Economic Community, by the Commission has demonstrated that continuance of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3896/89 the preference threatens to cause economic difficulties in of 18 December 1989 applying generalized tariff prefe­ a region of the Community ; whereas, therefore, customs rences for 1990 in respect of certain industrial products duties for the products in question must be re-established originating in developing countries ('), and in particular with regard to Malaysia, Article 9 thereof,

Whereas, in pursuance of Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : No 3896/89, customs duties on certain products origina­ ting in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex Article 1 III are totally suspended, and the products as such are, as a general rule, subject to statistical surveillance every three As from 13 November 1990, the levying of customs months on the reference base referred to in Article 8 ; duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3896/89, shall be re-established on imports into Whereas, as provided for in Article 8, where the increase the Community of the following products, originating in of preferential imports of these products, originating in Malaysia : one or more beneficiary countries, threatens to cause economic difficulties in a region of the Community, the CN code Description levying of customs duties may be re-established, once the Commission has had an appropriate exchange of informa­ tion with the Member States ; whereas for this purpose the 2915 70 10 — — Palmitic acid, its salts and esters reference base to be considered is equal, as a general rule, to 6 % of the total importations into the Community, Article 2 originating from third countries in 1987 ; Whereas, in the case of the products of CN code This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 2915 70 10, originating in Malaysia, the reference base is following its publication in the Official Journal of the fixed at ECU 21 000 ; whereas that reference base was European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 November 1990.

For the Commission Christiane SCRIVENER Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 383, 30. 12. 1989, p. 1 .