CELEX: 31977R2144
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2144/77 of 28 September 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 developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

30 . 9 . 77                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 249/ 1 1
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2144/77
                                                 of 28 September 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 developing
               countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­
                                            lation (EEC) No 3021 /76 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, the ceiling,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           calculated as indicated above, should be 3 473 000
Economic Community,                                             units of account ; whereas on 23 September 1977 the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    amounts of imports into the Community of the
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­             products in question, originating in countries and terri­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the
thereof,                                                        objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
                                                                provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that          customs duties should be re-established in respect of
the customs duties may, for each category of products,          the products in question,
be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed
in units of account, which will be equal — with the
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings       , HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                            7^^-
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together                                        Article 1
the value of the products in question imported cif              As from 3 October 1977, customs duties, suspended
into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­                in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,            3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
but not including products coming from countries                following products, imported into the Community :
and territories already covered by various preferential
tariff arrangements established by the Community,
and 5% of the value of 1974 cif imports coming                        CCT
                                                                     heading                    Description of goods
from other countries and from countries and territo­                   No
ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,
however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this             82.09              Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not
addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that                                     (including pruning knives), other than
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for                               knives falling within heading No 82.06
the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of
the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of
the addition ;                                                                             Article 2
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
the customs duties may be re-established at any time            following its publication in the Official Journal of
once the Community ceiling has been reached ;                   the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 28 September 1977.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                           Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
                                                                               Vice-President
(') OJ No L 349, 20. 12. 1976, p . 23 .