CELEX: 31977R2125
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2125/77 of 27 September 1977 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 82.09, originating in Singapore to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

28 . 9 . 77                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 247/21
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2125/77
                                                 of 27 September 1977
                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 82.09, originating in Singapore 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
                                                             1 to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          nity amount has been reached ;
Economic Community,
                                                               Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­            knives falling within heading No 82.06 the ceiling,
                                                               calculated as indicated above, should be 3 473 000
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     units of account, and therefore the maximum amount
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)
thereof,                                                       is 520 950 units of account ; whereas on 22 September
                                                               1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of
                                                               knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               pruning knives), other than knives falling within
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           heading No 82.06, originating in Singapore, a country
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
equal — with the exception of certain products the             objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to         provides that maximum amounts should not be
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
adding together the value of the products in question          respect of the products in question in relation to
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and                    Singapore,
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                                  Article 1
ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of
this addition may in no case exceed 1 72-5 % of that
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for           As from 1 October 1977, the levying of customs
the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of         duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of          (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
the addition ;                                                 of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                                nity and originating in Singapore :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
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 for products originating in any one of the countries or             heading                 Description of goods
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of             82.09           Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             (including pruning knives), other than
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                           knives falling within heading No 82.06
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
 reduced percentage will be 1 5 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                  Article 2
 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, 27 September 1977.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Antonio GIOLITTI
                                                             Member of the Commission