31977R0074

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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 74/77 of 14 January 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on glazed setts, flags and paving , hearth and wall tiles falling within heading No 69.08 , originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ COMMUNITIES , tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ ries, with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation, once the relevant Community Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European amount has been reached ; Economic Community,

Whereas, in respect of glazed setts, flags and paving, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No hearth and wall tiles, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ cated above, should be 3 581 000 units of account, and tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in therefore the maximum amount is 716 200 units of developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) account ; whereas on 10 January 1977, the amounts of thereof, imports into the Community of glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles originating in South 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 3021 /76 which provides that maximum amounts ceiling expressed in units of account which will be should not be exceeded, customs duties should be equal, with the exception of certain products the value re-established in respect of the products in question of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the in relation to South Korea, abovementioned Regulation, to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ Article 1 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that As from 18 January 1977, the levying of customs resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of of the following products, imported into the Commu­ the addition ; nity and originating in South Korea :

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description of goods for products originating in any one of the countries or No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 69.08 Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of wall tiles certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ; Article 2 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (!) OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 . the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 January 1977 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission