CELEX: 31978R0062
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 62/78 of 12 January 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc., of stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A, originating in South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 62/78
                                                    of 12 January 1978
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters,
                etc ., of stainless steel , falling within subheading 82.14 A, originating in South
                Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                               tion ( EEC) No 2705 /77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  countries or territories — with the exception of those
COMMUNITIES,                                                    listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
                                                                relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                             Whereas, in respect of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc.,
                                                                of stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A,
                                                                the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                4 437 000 units of account, and therefore the
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              maximum amount is 665 550 units of account ;
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      whereas on 11 January 1978 the amounts of imports
developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2)     into the Community of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc.,
thereof ;                                                       of stainless, steel falling within subheading 82.14 A,
                                                                originating in South Korea, a country covered by pref­
                                                                erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           duies should be re-established in respect of the
equal — with the exception of certain products the              products in question in relation to South Korea,
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by
adding together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif                                        Article 1
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­          As from 16 January 1978 , the levying of customs
 ments ; whereas the ceiling resulting from the sum of          duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref­          (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
erential ceiling open for 1976 ;                                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             82.14            Spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives,
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to                              ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware :
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                             A. Of stainless steel
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
 reduced percentage will be 15 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                          Article 2
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­
 established at any time in respect of imports of the
 products in question originating in any of the said             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
 (') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, 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, 12 January 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission