31974R1455

12 . 6 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 155/ 11

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1455 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 11 June 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives, etc., of stainless steel , falling within subheading 82.14 A, origi­ nating in South-Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc., COMMUNITIES , of stainless steel , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above , should be 2 663 000 units of account, and there­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European fore the maximum amount 798 900 units of account ; Economic Community ; whereas on 31 May 1974, the amounts of imports into Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the Community of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc ., of 3501 /73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ stainless steel, originating in South-Korea, a country ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the thereof ; objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 , which Whereas Article 1 ( 3 ) and (4) of that Regulation provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in gory of products, be suspended up to a Community respect of the products in question in relation to ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be South-Korea, equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not Article I including products coming from countries and territo­ ries already covered by various preferential tariff As from 15 June 1974, the levying of customs duties, arrangements established by the Community, and suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) 5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from No 3501 / 73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be other countries and from countries and territories re-established in respect of the following products, already covered by such arrangements ; imported into the Community and originating in South-Korea : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should CCT be within a maximum Community amount repre­ heading Description of goods No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 82.14 Spoons , forks, fish-eaters, butter- knives, be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to laddies , and similar kitchen or tableware : that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this A. Of stainless steel reduced percentage will be 30 % ; Whereas Article 2 ( 2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at Article 2 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day ries once the relevant Community maximum amount following its publication in the Official Journal of has been readied ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , II June 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 197.?, p. 15 .