CELEX: 31978R0464
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 464/78 of 6 March 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on plaints and similar products of plaiting materials, for all uses, etc., falling within heading No ex 46.02 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 464/78
                                                    of 6 March 1978
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on plaits and similar products
               of plaiting materials, for all uses, etc ., falling within heading No ex 46.02 origi­
               nating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                    Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705 /77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in respect of plaits and similar products of
COMMUNITIES,                                                    plaiting materials, for all uses, etc ., falling within
                                                                heading No ex 46.02, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           cated above, should be 6 511 000 units of account, and
                                                                therefore the maximum amount is 1 953 300 units of
Economic Community,
                                                                account ; whereas on 28 February 1978 , the amounts
                                                                of imports into the Community of plaits and similar
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    products of plaiting materials, for all uses, etc., falling
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              within heading No ex 46.02, originating in South
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       ments , reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
thereof,
                                                                bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation ( EEC)
                                                                No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re­
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            established in respect of the products in question in
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                relation to South Korea ,
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
equal — with the exception of certain products the
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           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered                                     Article 1
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­              As from 10 March 1978 , the levying of customs
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­          duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from            ( EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  of the following products, imported into the Commu­
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;               nity and originating in South Korea :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   CCT
                                                                     heading
for products originating in any one of the countries or                No
                                                                                                   Description
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
                                                                ex 46.02        Plaits and similar products of plaiting mate­
                                                                                rials, for all uses, whether or not assembled
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             into strips, other than those of unspun
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                            vegetable materials ; plaiting materials
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                             bound together in parallel strands or
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                               woven in sheet form, including matting,
                                                                                mats and screens ; straw envelopes for
                                                                                bottles (')
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
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 to the same Regulation — 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, 6 March 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission