CELEX: 31977R2726
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2726/77 of 7 December 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on basketwork, wickerwork and other articles of playing materials falling within heading No 46.03, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

9 . 12. 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 315/ 19
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2726/77
                                                   of 7 December 1977
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on basketwork, wickerwork and
                 other articles of playing materials falling within heading No 46.03 , originating
                 in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                      Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in respect of basketwork, wickerwork and
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   other articles of playing materials, the ceiling, calcu­
                                                                lated as indicated above , should be 14 824 000 units of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          account ; whereas on 30 November 1977 the amounts
 Economic Community,
                                                                of imports into the Community of the products in
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   question , originating in countries and territories
 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­            covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that
thereof,                                                        the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties
                                                                should be re-established in respect of the products in
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that          question,
customs duties may, for each category of products, be
suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
units of account, which will be equal — with the
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings                                     Article 1
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together             As    from       12   December       1977       customs duties ,
the value of the products in question imported cif              suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­                No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,            following products, imported into the Community :
but not including products coming from countries
and territories already covered by various preferential               CCT
tariff arrangements established by the Community,                    heading                          Description
                                                                       No
and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming
from other countries and from countries and territo­
ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,            46.03               Basketwork , wickerwork and other articles
however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this                                 of playing materials, made directly to
                                                                                    shape ; articles made up from goods falling
addition may in no case exceed 172 5% of that                                       within heading No 46.01 or 46.02 ; articles
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for                                of loofah
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
                                                                             £tienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 349 , 20 . 12 . 1976, p. 23 .