CELEX: 31978R1898
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1898/78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on knives with cutting blades, excluding blades therefor and falling within heading No ex 82.09, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

5 . 8 . 78                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 216/39
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1898 /78
                                                   of 2 August 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on knives with cutting blades,
               excluding blades therefor and falling within heading No ex 82.09, originating in
                developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                    Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 indicated       above,    should    be    3 473 000   units   of
COMMUNITIES,                                                   account ; whereas on 24 July 1978 the amounts of
                                                               imports into the Community of the products in ques­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                               tion, originating in countries and territories covered
Economic Community,
                                                               by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      be re-established in respect of the products in ques­
thereof,                                                       tion ,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
the customs duties may, for each category of products,         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed
in units of account, which will be equal — with the
                                                                                            Article 1
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in             As from 8 August 1978 , customs duties, suspended in
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together            pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
the value of the products in question imported cif             shall be re-established in respect of the following
into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­               products, imported into the Community, coming
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,           from any beneficiary country or territory, with the
but not including products coming from countries               exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation
and territories already covered by various preferential        (EEC) No 2705/77 :
tariff arrangements established by the Community,
and 5% of the value of 1975 cif imports coming
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from other countries and from countries and territo­
                                                                     heading                         Description
ries already covered by such arrangements ; however                    No
the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition
may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;           ex 82.09             Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                  (including pruning knives) other than
provides that the customs duties may be re-established                              knives falling within heading No 82.06
at any time on imports of the products in question
coming from any country or territory, with the excep­
                                                                                            Article 2
tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation
once the Community ceiling has been reached ;                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades,             following its publication in the Official Journal of
excluding blades therefor, the ceiling, calculated as          the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 2 August 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .