CELEX: 31978R0061
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 61/78 of 12 January 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives falling within heading No 82.06, falling within heading No ex 82.09, originating in South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 61 /78
                                                  of 12 January 1978
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on knives with cutting blades,
                serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives falling within
                heading No 82.06, falling within heading No ex 82.09, originating in South
                Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                             tion ( EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
COMMUNITIES,                                                   relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, in respect of knives with cutting blades,
Economic Community,                                            serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than
                                                               knives falling within heading No 82.06, the ceiling,
                                                               calculated as indicated above, should be 3 473 000
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   units of account, and therefore the maximum amount
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             is 520 950 units of account ; whereas on 1 1 January
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of
developing countries (•), and in particular Article 4 (2)      knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including
thereof,                                                       pruning knives), other than knives falling within
                                                               heading No 82.06, originating in South Korea, a
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          which provides that maximum amounts should not be
equal — with the exception of certain products the             exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to         respect of the products in question in relation to
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          South Korea,
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 1975 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                                     Article 1
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ; whereas the ceiling resulting from the sum of          As from 16 January 1978, the levying of customs
this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref­
                                                               duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
erential ceiling open for 1976 ;                               (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
                                                               of the following products, imported into the Commu­
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts            nity and originating in South Korea :
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should              CCT
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                         heading                 Description of goods
                                                                      No
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to           ex 82.09        Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                            (including pruning knives), other than
reduced percentages will be 1 5 % ;                                            knives falling within heading No 82.06
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­
                                                                                       Article 2
established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said
countries or territories — with the exception of those         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(!) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, 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 January 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission