CELEX: 31977R2727
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2727/77 of 7 December 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes falling within heading No 69.11, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 315/20                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    9 . 12. 77
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2727/77
                                                  of 7 December 1977
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a
               kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes falling within heading No
               69.11 , originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrange­
                          ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas, in respect of tableware and other articles of
COMMUNITIES,                                                   a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet
                                                               purposes, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          should be 1 291 000 units of account ; whereas on 30
Economic Community,
                                                               November 1977 the amounts of imports into the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Community of the products in question, originating
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­            in countries and territories covered by preferential
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas,
developing countries ( J ), and in particular Article 4 (2)    bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
thereof,                                                       No 3021 /76 which provides that the ceiling should
                                                               not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that         established in respect of the products in question,
customs duties may, for each category of products, be
suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in
units of account, which will be equal — with the               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in                                          Article 1
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together
the value of the products in question imported cif             As     from       12   December      1977      customs   duties,
into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­               suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,           No 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,                     CCT
and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming                      heading                        Description
                                                                       No
from other countries and from countries and territo­
ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,
however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this            69.11                 Tableware and other articles of a kind
addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that                                       commonly used for domestic or toilet
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for                                 purposes
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, 7 December 1977 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             fStienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 .