31977R0995

12 . 5 . 77 No L 119 / 13 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 995 / 77 of 10 May 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on knives with cutting blades, serrated or not ( including pruning knives), falling within heading No 82.09, origi­ nating in Hong Kong 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 of the same Regulation , once the relevant Community Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European amount has been reached ; Economic Community,

Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades, Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No serrated or not (including pruning knives), 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 5 May 1977, thereof, the amounts of imports into the Community of knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), originating in Hong Kong, a country Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ that maximum amount ; whereas , bearing in mind the gory of products, be suspended up to a Community objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 which ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be provides that maximum amounts should not be equal — with the exception of certain products the 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 Hong Kong, 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 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 Hong Kong :

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading 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 82.09 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of (including pruning knives), other than knives falling within heading No 82.06 certain products for which the maximum amount is to 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. 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