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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2209/84

of 30 July 1984

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on stockings, understockings, socks, ankle-socks, sockettes and the like, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, products of category 12 (code 0120), originating in Sri Lanka, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3570/83 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3570/83 of 16 December 1983 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1984 in respect of textile products originating in developing countries (1), and in particular Article 4 thereof,

Whereas Article 2 of that Regulation provides that preferential tariff treatment shall be accorded, for each category of products subjected to individual ceilings not allocated among the Member States, within the limits of the quantities specified in column 7 of Annex A or B thereto, in respect of certain or each of the countries or territories of origin referred to in column 5 of that Annex; whereas Article 3 of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question once the relevant individual ceilings have been reached at Community level;

Whereas, in respect of stockings, understockings, socks, ankle-socks, sockettes and the like, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, products of category 12 (code 0120), the relevant ceiling amounts to 139 100 pairs; whereas, on 24 July 1984, imports of the products in question into the Community, originating in Sri Lanka, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached and were charged against that ceiling;

Whereas it is appropriate to re-establish the levying of customs duties for the products in question with regard to Sri Lanka,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 3 August 1984, the levying of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3570/83, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in Sri Lanka:

1.2.3.4.5 // // // // // // Code // Category // CCT heading No // NIMEXE code (1984) // Description // // // // // // // (1) // (2) // (3) // (4) // // // // // // 0120 // 12 // ex 60.03 // // Stockings, understockings, socks, ankle-socks, sockettes and the like, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized: // // // // 60.03-11, 19, 20, 27, 30, 90 // Other than women's stockings of synthetic textile fibres // // // // //

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 July 1984.

For the Commission

Karl-Heinz NARJES

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 362, 24. 12. 1983, p. 92.