CELEX: 31977R2067
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2067/77 of 20 September 1977 concerning the determination of the origin of slide fasteners

21 . 9. 77                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                               No L 242/5
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2067/77
                                                     of 20 September 1977
                           concerning the determination of the origin of slide fasteners
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           or operation and which result in the manufacture of a
COMMUNITIES,                                                             new product or represent an important stage of manu­
                                                                         facture, consist of the forming and placing of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    scOops or other interlocking elements onto the tapes
Economic Community,                                                      and the manufacture of the slider by processes such as
                                                                         stamping or moulding ; whereas the manufacture of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                             the end pieces does not constitute a substantial
802/68 of 27 June 1 968 concerning the common defi­                      process or operation within the meaning of Article 5 ;
nition of the concept of the origin of goods ('), and in
particular Article 14 thereof,                                           Whereas, in the absence of an opinion from the
                                                                         Committee on Origin, the Commission has not been
Whereas Article 5 of that Regulation lays down that a                    able to adopt the provisions which it envisages, in
product in the production of which two or more coun­                     accordance with Article 14 (3) (a) of Regulation (EEC)
tries were concerned shall be regarded as originating                    No 802/68 ; whereas the Commission has applied
in the country in which the last substantial process or                  Article 14 (3) (b) and has submitted to the Council a
operation that is economically justified was                             proposal with regard to the provisions to be adopted ;
performed, haying been carried out in an undertaking
equipped for the purpose, and resulting in the manu­                     Whereas, at the end of the period of three months
facture of a new product or representing an important                    after the Council had been informed, the Council had
stage of manufacture ;                                                   not adopted the proposition,
Whereas a slide fastener consists essentially of two
parallel tapes, scoops or other interlocking elements,
slider and end pieces ; whereas the operation of assem­                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
bling a slide fastener from its constituent parts neither
constitutes a substantial process Or operation nor
results in the manufacture of a new product or repre­                                                      Article 1
sents an important stage of manufacture within the
meaning of Article 5 ;                                                   The products listed under the second column of the
                                                                         table below originate in the country in which the oper­
Whereas the processes or operations which may                            ations listed in the third column took place or in the
together be considered as the last substantial process                   Community if they took place there.                          1
                            Products obtained
                                                         Working or processing that confers the status of originating products when
                   CCT                                                       the following conditions are met
                                       Description
                heading No                                                    1
                     I                      2                                                3
              ex 98.02         Slide fasteners          Assembly including placing of the scoops or other inter­
                                                        locking elements onto the tapes accompanied by the manu­
                                                        facture of the slider and the forming of the scoops or other
                                                        interlocking elements
                                                               Article 2
              This Regulation shall enter into force on the 45th day following its publication in the
              Official Journal of the European Communities.
(•) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 20 September 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  fitienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission