31977R1060

No L 128 /28 Official Journal of the European Communities 24 . 5 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1060/ 77 of 18 May 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on plaiting materials (other than products falling within heading No 46.01 ) bound together in parallel strands etc., falling within heading No 46.02 , 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 of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ COMMUNITIES, nity amount has been reached ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of plaiting materials (other than Economic Community, products falling within heading No 46.01 ) bound together in parallel strands etc ., falling within heading Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No No 46.02, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ should be 4 823 000 units of account, and therefore tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in the maximum amount is 1 446 900 units of account ; developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) whereas on 11 May 1977, the amounts of imports into thereof, the Community of plaiting materials (other than products falling within heading No 46.01 ) bound Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation together in parallel strands etc., falling within heading provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ No 46.02, originating in South Korea a country gory of products, be suspended up to a Community covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the equal — with the exception of certain products the objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 which value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of provides that maximum amounts should not be the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in adding together the value of the products in question respect of the products in question in relation to imported cif into the Community in 1974 and South Korea, coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 27 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 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 46.02 Plaiting materials (other than products certain products for which the maximum amount is to falling within heading No 46.01 ) bound be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to together in parallel strands or woven in that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this sheet form , including matting, mats and reduced percentage will be 30 % ; screens ; straw envelopes for bottles

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 Article 2 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal oj («) OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p . 23 . the Euro bean Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 May 1977 .

For the Commission Etienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission