31976R0123

No L 13/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 22 . 1 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 123/76 cf 21 January 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware, of stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, COMMUNITIES, butter-knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware, of stainless steel, the ceiling, calculated as indicated Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European above, should be 3 287 000 units of account, and there­ Economic Community, fore the maximum 657 400 units of account ; whereas Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No on 16 January 1976, the amounts of imports into the 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ Community of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc., of stain­ tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in less steel, originating in South Korea, a country developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached thereof, that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ provides that maximum amounts should not be gory of products, be suspended up to a Community exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in ceiling, expressed in units of account, which , will be respect of the products in question in relation . to equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding South Korea, together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products Article 1 coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 25 January 1976, the levying of customs by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation imports coming from other countries and from coun­ (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ re-established in respect of the following products, ments ; 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 heading Description of goods " be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 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 ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware : that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this A. Of stainless steel reduced percentage will be 20 % ; 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 amount has been following its publication in the Official Journal of reached : the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 January 1976. For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 310, 29. 11 . 1975, p. 70 .