31977R1028

No L 124/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 5 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1028 / 77 of 16 May 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass : other, falling within subheading 70.14 B, 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 ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C COMMUNITIES , to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ nity amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass : other, falling within subheading 70.14 B, the ceiling, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No calculated as indicated above, should be 897 000 units 3021 / 76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ of account , and therefore the maximum amount is tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in 269 100 units of account ; whereas on 12 May 1977, developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) the amounts of imports into the Community of illumi­ thereof, nating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass : other, falling within subheading Whereas Article 1 ( 3) and ( 4) of that Regulation 70.14 B, originating in South Korea, a country covered provides that the customs duties may , for each cate­ by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that gory of products, be suspended up to a Community maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the 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 value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by respect of the products in question in relation to adding together the value of the products in question South Korea , 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 Artie e 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 21 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 fo 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 70.14 Illuminating glassware , signalling glassware senting SO % of that ceiling, with the exception of and optical elements of glass, not optically certain products for which the maximum amount is to worked nor of optical glass : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to B. Other that Regulation ; whereas , for these products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % .

Whereas Article 2 ( 2) of that Regulation provides that Article 2 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') Ol No L W4 , 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, 16 May 1977. For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission