CELEX: 31977R0074
Language: en
Date: 1977-01-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 74/77 of 14 January 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles falling within heading No 69.08, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

15 . 1 . 77                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 12/27
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 74/77
                                                  of 14 January 1977
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on glazed setts, flags and
                paving , hearth and wall tiles falling within heading No 69.08 , originating in
                South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council
                                         Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
COMMUNITIES,                                                  tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
                                                              ries, with the exception of those listed in Annex C to
                                                              the same Regulation, once the relevant Community
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         amount has been reached ;
Economic Community,
                                                              Whereas, in respect of glazed setts, flags and paving,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   hearth and wall tiles, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­           cated above, should be 3 581 000 units of account, and
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in    therefore the maximum amount is 716 200 units of
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)     account ; whereas on 10 January 1977, the amounts of
thereof,                                                      imports into the Community of glazed setts, flags and
                                                              paving, hearth and wall tiles originating in South
                                                              Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­          bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               No 3021 /76 which provides that maximum amounts
ceiling expressed in units of account which will be           should not be exceeded, customs duties should be
equal, with the exception of certain products the value       re-established in respect of the products in question
of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the          in relation to South Korea,
abovementioned Regulation, to the sum arrived at by
adding together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                                     Article 1
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of
this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that           As from 18 January 1977, the levying of customs
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for          duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of        (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of         of the following products, imported into the Commu­
the addition ;                                                 nity and originating in South Korea :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                 CCT
                                                                   heading                  Description of goods
for products originating in any one of the countries or              No
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                   69.08            Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                            wall tiles
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
                                                                                       Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                              following its publication in the Official Journal of
(!) OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, 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, 14 January 1977.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission