31977R0994

12 . 5 . 77 No L 119 / 11 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 994/77 of 10 May 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on rubber tyres, tyre cases, inter­ changeable tyre treads, etc ., falling within heading No 40.11 , 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 of the same Regulation , once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of rubber tyres, tyre cases, inter­ changeable tyre treads, etc., falling within heading No Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 40.11 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ should be 14 457 000 units of account, and therefore tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in the maximum amount is 2 168 550 units of account ; developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) whereas on 5 May 1977, the amounts of imports into thereof, the Community of rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchan­ geable tyre treads, etc., falling within heading No Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation 40.11 , originating in South Korea, a country covered provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the gory of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 which equal — with the exception of certain products the provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of respect of the products in question in relation to the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by South Korea, 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 coming from countries and territories already covered HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 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 15 May 1977, the levying of customs duties, resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of following products, imported into the Community the addition ; 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 No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 40.1 1 Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for certain products for which the maximum amount is to wheels of all kinds be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 1 5 % ;

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, 10 May 1977.

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission