31977R2726

9 . 12. 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 315 / 19

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2726/77 of 7 December 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on basketwork , wickerwork and other articles of playing materials falling within heading No 46.03 , 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 basketwork, wickerwork and COMMUNITIES, other articles of playing materials, the ceiling, calcu­ lated as indicated above , should be 14 824 000 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European account ; whereas on 30 November 1977 the amounts Economic Community, of imports into the Community of the products in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No question , originating in countries and territories 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that thereof, the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that question , customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings Article 1 for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together As from 12 December 1977 customs duties , the value of the products in question imported cif suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the tries and territories covered by those arrangements, following products, imported into the Community : but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential CCT heading Description tariff arrangements established by the Community, No and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territo­ 46.03 Basketwork , wickerwork and other articles ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, of playing materials, made directly to however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this shape ; articles made up from goods falling addition may in no case exceed 172 5% of that within heading No 46.01 or 46.02 ; articles resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for of loofah 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, 7 December 1977 . For the Commission £tienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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