31977R0615

No L 77 / 22 Official Journal of the European Communities 25 . 3 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 615 / 77 of 23 March 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on umbrellas and sunshades, falling within heading No 66.01 , originating in Hong Kong to which the prefer­ ential 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 of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European nity amount has been reached ; Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of umbrellas and sunshades, falling within heading No 66.01 , the ceiling, calcu­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No lated as indicated above, should be 9 027 000 units of 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ account, and therefore the maximum amount is tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in 1 354 050 units of account ; whereas on 15 March developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) 1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of thereof, umbrellas and sunshades, falling within heading No 66.01 , originating in Hong Kong a country covered by Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which gory of products, be suspended up to a Community provides that maximum amounts should not be ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in equal — with the exception of certain products the respect of the products in question in relation to value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of Hong Kong, the Regulation in question — 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 28 March 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 Hong Kong :

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts liciiiling Description of goods No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 66.01 Umbrellas and sunshades (including senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of walking-stick umbrellas, umbrella tents, certain products for which the maximum amount is to and garden and similar umbrellas) be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to 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 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. 21 . 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, 23 March 1977 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission