31977R2601

No L 302/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 11 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2601 / 77 of 25 November 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on basketwork, wickerwork and other articles of plaiting materials falling within heading No 46.03 , originating in the Philippines to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ COMMUNITIES, ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C 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 basketwork, wickerwork and other articles of plaiting materials, the ceiling, calcu­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No lated as indicated above, should be 14 824 000 units of 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ account, and therefore the maximum amount is tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in 2964 800 units of account ; whereas on 18 November developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) 1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of thereof, basketwork, wickerwork and other articles of plaiting materials, originating in the Philippines, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which gory of products, be suspended up to a Community provides that maximum amounts should not be ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in equal — with the exception of certain products the respect of the products in question in relation to the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to Philippines, the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by 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 Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from As from 29 November 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 the Philippines : second term of the addition ; CCT heading Description of goods Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should 46.03 Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles be within a maximum Community amount repre­ of plaiting materials, made directly to senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of shape ; articles made up from goods falling certain products for which the maximum amount is to within heading No 46.01 or 46.02 ; articles of loofah be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ;

Article 2 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 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') 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, 25 November 1977.

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission