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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 435/82

of 24 February 1982

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of stoneware, falling within subheading 69.12 B and originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3601/81 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3601/81 of 7 December 1981 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1982 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries (1), and in particular Article 12 thereof,

Whereas, in pursuance of Articles 1 and 9 of that Regulation, suspension of customs duties shall be accorded to each of the countries or territories listed in Annex C, other than those listed in column 4 of Annex A, within the framework of the preferential tariff ceiling fixed in column 9 of Annex A;

Whereas, as provided for in Article 10 of that Regulation, as soon as the individual ceilings in question are reached at Community level, the levying of customs duties on imports of the products in question originating in each of the countries and territories concerned may at any time be re-established;

Whereas, in the case of tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of stoneware, falling within subheading 69.12 B, the individual ceiling was fixed at 1 298 000 ECU; whereas, on 17 February 1982, imports of these products into the Community originating in South Korea reached that ceiling; whereas the customs duties in respect of the products in question must therefore be re-established against South Korea,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 1 March 1982, the levying of customs duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3601/81 shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the following products originating in South Korea:

1.2 // // // CCT heading No // Description // // // 69.12 // Tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, or other kinds of pottery: // // B. Stoneware // //

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 February 1982.

For the Commission

Karl-Heinz NARJES

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 365, 21. 12. 1981, p. 1.