31977R0131

No L 21 / 32 Official Journal of the European Communities 25 . 1 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 131 /77 of 24 January 1977 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 South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ COMMUNITIES, 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 knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No knives falling within heading No 82.06, the ceiling, 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ calculated as indicated above, should be 3 473 000 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in units of account, and therefore the maximum amount developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) is 520 950 units of account ; whereas on 21 January thereof, 1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation pruning knives), other than knives falling within provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ heading No 82.06, falling within heading No 82.09, gory of products, be suspended up to a Community originating in South Korea, a country covered by pref­ ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum equal — with the exception of certain products the amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that the abovementioned Regulation — to the sum arrived maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs at by adding together the value of the products in duties should be re-established in respect of the question imported cif into the Community in 1974 products in question relation to South Korea, and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ Article 1 ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that As from 28 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 the addition ; of the following products, imported into the Commu­ nity and originating in South Korea :

Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT for products originating in any one of the countries or heading Description of goods territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 82.09 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not certain products for which the maximum amount is to (including pruning knives), other than be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to knives falling within heading No 82.06 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 15 % ;

Article 2 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques 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, 24 January 1977. For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission