31978R1898

5 . 8 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 216/39

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1898 /78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on knives with cutting blades, excluding blades therefor and falling within heading No ex 82.09, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN indicated above, should be 3 473 000 units of COMMUNITIES, account ; whereas on 24 July 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of the products in ques­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tion , originating in countries and territories covered Economic Community, by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) be re-established in respect of the products in ques­ thereof, tion , Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each category of products, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the Article 1 exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in As from 8 August 1978 , customs duties, suspended in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 the value of the products in question imported cif shall be re-established in respect of the following into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ products, imported into the Community, coming tries and territories covered by those arrangements, from any beneficiary country or territory, with the but not including products coming from countries exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation and territories already covered by various preferential ( EEC) No 2705/ 77 : tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5% of the value of 1975 cif imports coming CCT from other countries and from countries and territo­ heading Description ries already covered by such arrangements ; however No the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ; ex 82.09 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives) other than Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation knives falling within heading No 82.06 provides that the customs duties may be re-established at any time on imports of the products in question coming from any country or territory, with the excep­ Article 2 tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation once the Community ceiling has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades, following its publication in the Official Journal of excluding blades therefor, the ceiling, calculated as the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 2 August 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .