31974R2485

2. 10 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 265 / 9

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2485 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 1 October 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), falling within heading No 82.09, 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 knives with cutting blades, COMMUNITIES, serrated or not (including pruning knives), falling within heading No 82.09 , the ceiling, calculated as Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European indicated above , should be 2 112 000 units of account, Economic Community ; and therefore the maximum amount 633 600 units of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No account ; whereas on 25 September 1974, the amounts 350 1 /73 ( 1 ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ of imports into the Community of knives with cutting ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) falling within heading No 82.09, originating in South thereof ; Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) gory of products, be suspended up to a Community No 3501 /73 , which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties should be ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to South Korea , value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : including products coming from countries and territo­ Article 1 ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ gements established by the Community, and 5% of As from 5 October 1974, the levying of customs the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other coun­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation tries and from countries and territories already covered ( EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be by such arrangements ; re-established in respett of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts South Korea : for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ CCT heading Description of goods senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of No certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to 82.09 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this (including pruning knives), other than reduced percentage will be 30 % ; knives falling within heading No 82.06 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 reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 1 October 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 15 .