CELEX: 31977R0131
Language: en
Date: 1977-01-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 131/77 of 24 January 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 South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 21 / 32                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                  25 . 1 . 77
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 131 /77
                                                    of 24 January 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 South Korea
                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,
                                                                 once the relevant Community amount has been
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            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
                                                                 knives falling within heading No 82.06, the ceiling,
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­              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)        is 520 950 units of account ; whereas on 21 January
thereof,
                                                                 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, falling within heading No 82.09,
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                 originating in South Korea, a country covered by pref­
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be            erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
equal — with the exception of certain products the               amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to           Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that
the abovementioned Regulation — to the sum arrived               maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
at by adding together the value of the products in               duties should be re-established in respect of the
question imported cif into the Community in 1974                 products in question relation to South Korea,
and 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 172-5 % of that
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for             As from 28 January 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 South Korea :
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 15 % ;
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, 24 January 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission