CELEX: 31975R1428
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-02 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1428/75 of the Commission of 2 June 1975 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 82.09, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply

No L 141 / 14                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                    3 . 6. 75
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1428/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 2 June 1975
                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 82.09, originating in South Korea,
                to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation
                                    (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades,
COMMUNITIES,                                                   serrated or not (including pruning knives), falling
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          within heading No 82.06, the ceiling, calculated as
Economic Community ;                                           indicated above, should be 2 237 000 units of account,
                                                               and therefore the maximum amount 671 100 units of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   account ; whereas on 29 May 1975, the amounts of
3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­          imports into the Community of knives with cutting
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives),
developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)          falling within heading No 82.06, originating in South
thereof ;
                                                               Korea," a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               No 3054/74 which provides that maximum amounts
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          should not be exceeded, customs duties should be
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the             re-established in respect of the products in question
value of the products in question imported cif into            in relation to South Korea,
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
including products coming from countries and territo­
                                                                                          Article 1
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of               As from 6 June 1975, the levying of customs duties,
the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­          suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
tries and from countries and territories already covered       No     3054/74      of   2   December          1974, shall   be
by such arrangements ;                                         re-established in respect of the following products,
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts            imported into the Community and originating in
                                                               South Korea :
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                          CCT
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                 heading                    Description of goods
                                                                      No
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
                                                               82.09              Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not
                                                                                  (including pruning knives), other than
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                 knives falling within heading No 82.06
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
                                                                                          Article 2
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount                following its publication in the Official Journal of
has been reached :                                              the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 2 June 1975 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              The President
                                                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(») OJ No L 329, 9 . 12. 1974, p. 70 .