31977R0536

No L 69 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 16 . 3 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 536 / 77 of 15 March 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tarpaulins , sails , awnings , etc. falling within heading No 62.04 , originating in South Korea to which the prefer­ ential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3022 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas , in respect of tarpaulins, sails, awnings, etc ., COMMUNITIES , falling within heading No 62.04 the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 278 tonnes , and there­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European fore the maximum amount is 139 tonnes ; whereas on Economic Community, 9 March 1977 the amounts of imports into the Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No Community of tarpaulins, sails, awnings, etc ., falling 3022/ 76 of 13 December 1976 opening, allocating within heading No 62.04, originating in South Korea and providing for the administration of Community a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, tariff preferences for textile products originating in reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­ mind the objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3022/76 cular Article 4 thereof, which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation respect of the products in question in relation to provides that customs duties may, for each category of South Korea , products listed in Annex C to that Regulation , be suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 174 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the products in question , in tonnes, imported into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed Article 1 in its Annex D , but not including products coming from countries already covered by various preferential As from 19 March 1977 , the levying of customs tariff arrangements established by the Community, duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports coming ( EEC) No 3022/76 , shall be re-established in respect from other countries and from countries already of the following products, imported into the Commu­ covered by such arrangements ; whereas , having regard nity and originating in South Korea : to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ CCT heading Description of goods senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of No certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C of 62.04 Tarpaulins , sails, awnings, sunblinds, tents the abovementioned Regulation ; and camping goods Whereas Article 3 (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 Article 2 tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­ tories , with exception of countries listed in its Annex This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day E , once the relevant Community maximum amount following its publication in the Official Journal of has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 15 March 1977 . For the Commission Etienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 349 , 20 . 12 . 1976 , p. 69 .