31978R0061

No L 10 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 13 . 1 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 61 / 78 of 12 January 1978 re-establishing the levying of the 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 ex 82.09, originating in South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 2705 /77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the COMMUNITIES, relevant Community amount has been reached ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades, Economic Community, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives falling within heading No 82.06, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 3 473 000 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No units of account, and therefore the maximum amount 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ is 520 950 units of account ; whereas on 1 1 January tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of developing countries (•), and in particular Article 4 (2) knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including thereof, pruning knives), other than knives falling within heading No 82.06, originating in South Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ gory of products, be suspended up to a Community mind the objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 which 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 value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to South Korea, 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 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ Article 1 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas the ceiling resulting from the sum of As from 16 January 1978, the levying of customs this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation erential ceiling open for 1976 ; (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Commu­ Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts nity and originating in South Korea : for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should CCT be within a maximum Community amount repre­ heading Description of goods No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to ex 82.09 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to (including pruning knives), other than that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this knives falling within heading No 82.06 reduced percentages will be 1 5 % ;

Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­ Article 2 established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories — with the exception of those This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, 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, 12 January 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission