CELEX: 31978R0922
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 922/78 of 28 April 1978 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 ex 82.09 and originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 119/22                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                 3 . 5. 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 922/78
                                                    of 28 April 1978
               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 ex 82.09 and originating in Hong
               Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC)
                                                   No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades,
COMMUNITIES,                                                   serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than
                                                               knives falling within heading No 82.06, falling within
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          heading No ex 82.09 the ceiling, calculated as indi­
Economic Community,                                            cated above, should be 3 473 000 units of account, and
                                                               therefore the maximum amount is 520 950 units of
                                                               account ; whereas, on 24 April 1978 , the amounts of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   imports into the Community of knives with cutting
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives),
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     other than knives falling within heading No 82.06,
developing countries (l), and in particular Article 4 (2)      falling within heading No ex 82.09 and originating in
thereof ;
                                                               Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
                                                               arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —           should be re-established in respect of the products in
with the exception of certain products the value of the        question in relation to Hong Kong,
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
products coming from countries and territories already         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of
 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and
from countries and territories already covered by such
arrangements : whereas however, the ceiling resulting                                  Article 1
from the sum of this additon may in no case exceed
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;
                                                               As from 6 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts            suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
for products originating in any one of the countries or        2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
territories listed in Annex B to the afore-said Regula­        following products, imported into the Community
tion should be within a maximum Community                      and originating in Hong Kong :
amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the
exception of certain products for which the maximum                  CCT
amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated                 heading                     Description
                                                                      No
in Annex A thereto ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 1 5 % ;
                                                               ex 82.09        Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not
                                                                               (including pruning knives), other than
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                knives falling within heading No 82.06
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                                    Article 2
countries or territories with the exception of those
listed in Annex C thereto — once the relevant
Community amount has been reached ;                            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, 28 April 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission