31975R1428

No L 141 / 14 3 . 6 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1428/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 2 June 1975 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives falling within heading No 82.06, falling within heading No 82.09, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 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 82.06, the ceiling, calculated as Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European indicated above, should be 2 237 000 units of account, Economic Community ; and therefore the maximum amount 671 100 units of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No account ; whereas on 29 May 1975, the amounts of 3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­ imports into the Community of knives with cutting tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) falling within heading No 82.06, 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 3054/74 which provides that maximum amounts ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be should not be exceeded, customs duties should be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the re-established in respect of the products in question value of the products in question imported cif into in relation to South Korea, 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 6 June 1975, the levying of customs duties, the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) tries and from countries and territories already covered No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974, shall be by such arrangements ; re-established in respect 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 these 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, 2 June 1975 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(») OJ No L 329, 9 . 12. 1974, p. 70 .