31977R1911

No L 216/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 24. 8 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1911/77 of 23 August 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands etc., falling within heading No 46.02, originating in Hong Kong 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, of 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 plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands etc., falling within heading No 46.02, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No should be 4 823 000 units of account, and therefore 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ the maximum amount is 1 446 900 units of account ; tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in whereas on 19 August 1977, the amounts of imports developing countries (J), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, into the Community of plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands etc., falling within heading No 46.02, 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 ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from As from 27 August 1977, the levying of customs the sum of this addition may in no case exceed duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the of the following products, imported into the Commu­ addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the nity and originating in Hong Kong : second term of the addition ;

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 46.02 Plaiting materials (other than products senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of falling within heading No 46.01 ) bound certain products for which the maximum amount is to together in parallel strands or woven in be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to sheet form, including matting, mats and that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this screens ; straw envelopes for bottles 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 (1 ) 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, 23 August 1977. For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission