31978R0922

No L 119 /22 Official Journal of the European Communities 3 . 5 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 922/78 of 28 April 1978 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 ex 82.09 and originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 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, falling within heading No ex 82.09 the ceiling, calculated as indi­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European cated above, should be 3 473 000 units of account, and Economic Community, therefore the maximum amount is 520 950 units of account ; whereas, on 24 April 1978 , the amounts of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No imports into the Community of knives with cutting 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in other than knives falling within heading No 82.06, developing countries (l), and in particular Article 4 (2) falling within heading No ex 82.09 and originating in thereof ; Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties expressed in units of account, which will be equal — should be re-established in respect of the products in with the exception of certain products the value of the question in relation to Hong Kong, ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­ ries covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territories already covered by such arrangements : whereas however, the ceiling resulting Article 1 from the sum of this additon may in no case exceed 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; As from 6 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties, suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community territories listed in Annex B to the afore-said Regula­ tion should be within a maximum Community and originating in Hong Kong : amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum CCT heading Description amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated No in Annex A thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 1 5 % ; ex 82.09 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation knives falling within heading No 82.06 provides that the levying of customs duties may be reestablished at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said Article 2 countries or territories with the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; 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, 28 April 1978 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission