CELEX: 31977R0995
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 995/77 of 10 May 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), falling within heading No 82.09, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

12 . 5 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 119 / 13
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 995/77
                                                       of 10 May 1977
                 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on knives with cutting blades,
                 serrated or not ( including pruning knives), falling within heading No 82.09, origi­
                 nating in Hong Kong 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 of
                                                                 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 knives with cutting blades,
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                   serrated or not (including pruning knives), the ceiling,
 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­             calculated as indicated above, should be 3 473 000
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      units of account, and therefore the maximum amount
 developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       is 520 950 units of account ; whereas on 5 May 1977,
 thereof,                                                        the amounts of imports into the Community of
                                                                 knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including
                                                                 pruning knives), originating in Hong Kong, a country
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                 objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
 ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           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 of          respect of the products in question in relation to
 the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by           Hong Kong,
 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
 coming from countries and territories already covered           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 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 15 May 1977, the levying of customs duties,
 resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for            suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC)
 the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of          No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
 the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of           following products, imported into the Community
 the addition ;                                                  and originating in Hong Kong :
                                                                       CCT
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   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                     82.09            Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                               (including pruning knives), other than
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                               knives falling within heading No 82.06
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           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, 10 May 1977.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission