CELEX: 31977R1863
Language: en
Date: 1977-08-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1863/77 of 12 August 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on locks, etc., of base metal, falling within heading No 83.01, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

13 . 8 . 77                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 207/39
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1863/77
                                                   of 12 August 1977
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on locks, etc ., of base metal , falling
                within heading No 83.01 , originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential
                  tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
                                                               to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
                                                               nity amount has been reached ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                               Whereas, in respect of locks, etc ., of base metal, the
                                                               ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  3 011 000 units of account, and therefore the
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­            maximum amount is 451 650 units of account ;
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     whereas on 10 August 1977 the amounts of imports
developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2)      into the Community of locks, etc ., of base metal, origi­
thereof,                                                       nating in Hong Kong, a country covered by preferen­
                                                               tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
                                                               amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that
 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­          maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               duties should be re-established in respect of the
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          products in question in relation to Hong Kong,
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
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established                                 Article 1
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         As from 16 August 1977 the levying of customs
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from           duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the        of the following products, imported into the Commu­
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the           nity and originating in Hong Kong :
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the
second term of the addition ;                                        CCT
                                                                    heading                  Description of goods
                                                                      No
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or        83.01            Locks and padlocks (key, combination or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                        electrically operated), and parts thereof, of
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                    base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                             handbags, trunks or the like, and parts of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             such frames, of base metal ; keys for any of
                                                                                the foregoing articles, of base metal
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas , for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 15% ;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas Article 2 ( 2) 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 ques­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') O ) No L 349 , 20 . 12 . 1   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, 12 August 1977.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Etienne DAVIGNON
                                                             Member of the Commission