31975R1808

No L 184/ 34 15 . 7 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1808 /75 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 July 1975 re-establishing the levying of 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 developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­ lation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN units of account ; whereas on 27 June 1975 the COMMUNITIES, amounts of imports into the Community of the products in question, originating in countries and terri­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements, Economic Community ; reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74, which 3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­ provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in customs duties should be re-established in respect of developing countries , and in particular Article 4 (2) the products in question , thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each category of products, Article 1 be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to the sum As from 18 July 1975, customs duties, suspended in arrived at by adding together the value of the products pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 of 2 December 1974, shall be re-established in respect and coming from countries and territories covered by of the following products, imported into the Commu­ those arrangements, but not including products nity : coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established CCT by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif heading Description of goods No imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; 82.09 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or no (including pruning knives), other thar Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that knives falling within heading No 82.06 the customs duties may be re-established at any time once the Community ceiling has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than This Regulation shall enter into force on the third da> knives falling within heading No 82.06, the ceiling, following its publication in the Official Journal o calculated as indicated above, should be 2 237 000 the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 July 1975.

For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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