31977R2144

30 . 9 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 249/ 1 1

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2144/77 of 28 September 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives falling within heading No 82.06, falling within heading No 82.09, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­ lation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades, COMMUNITIES, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives falling within heading No 82.06, the ceiling, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European calculated as indicated above, should be 3 473 000 Economic Community, units of account ; whereas on 23 September 1977 the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No amounts of imports into the Community of the 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ products in question, originating in countries and terri­ tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements, developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the thereof, objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that customs duties should be re-established in respect of the customs duties may, for each category of products, the products in question, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings , HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 7^^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 3 October 1977, customs duties, suspended into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No tries and territories covered by those arrangements, 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the but not including products coming from countries following 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 by such arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this 82.09 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that (including pruning knives), other than resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for knives falling within heading No 82.06 the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of the addition ; Article 2 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, 28 September 1977. For the Commission Wilhelm HAFERKAMP Vice-President

(') OJ No L 349, 20. 12. 1976, p . 23 .