31977R0130

No L 21 /30 25 . 1 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 130/77 of 24 January 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on melamine falling within subheading 2935 ex Q, 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, once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of melamine falling within subheading 29.35 ex Q, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No cated above, should be 486 000 units of account, and 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ therefore the maximum amount is 243 000 units of tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in account ; whereas on 21 January 1977, the amounts of developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) imports into the Community of melamine falling thereof, within subheading 29.35 ex Q, originating in South Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ No 3021 /76 which provides that maximum amounts gory of products, be suspended up to a Community should not be exceeded, customs duties should be ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be re-established in respect of the products in question equal — with the exception of certain products the in relation to South Korea, value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of As from 28 January 1977, the levying of customs this addition may in no case exceed 172*5 % of that duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of of the following products, imported into the Commu­ the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of nity and originating in South Korea : the addition ;

CCT heading Description of goods No 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 29.35 Heterocyclic compounds ; nucleic acids : be within a maximum Community amount repre­ ex Q. Melamine senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; 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.

25 . 1 . 77 No L 21 /31 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 24 January 1977.

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission