31977R1485

2.7.77 No L 164/ 29 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1485 /77 of 1 July 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on household utensils of wood falling within heading No 44.24 , originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN whereas, in respect of household utensils of wood, the COMMUNITIES , ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 2 576 000 units of account ; whereas on 21 June 1977 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the amounts of imports into the Community of the Economic Community, products in question, originating in countries and terri­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements, 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 / 76 which developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, thereof, customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question , Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in Article 1 question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif As from 5 July 1977, customs duties, suspended in into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76, tries and territories covered by those arrangements, shall be re-established in respect of the following but not including products coming from countries products , imported into the Community : and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, CCT and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming heading Description of goods from other countries and from countries and territo­ No ries already covered such arrangements ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in 44.24 Household utensils of wood no case exceed 172-5% of that resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of the year 1972 for the Article 2 year 1974 in the second term of the addition ; Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day the customs duties may be re-established at any time following its publication in the Official Journal of once the Community ceiling has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 1 July 1977 .

10 r the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

/Member of the Commission

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