31987R3454

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3454/87

of 18 November 1987

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on entertainment and festivities articles falling within heading No 97.05, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/86 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/86 of 16 December 1986 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1987 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries (1), and in particular Article 15 thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Articles 1 and 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 3924/86, suspension of customs duties shall be accorded to each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III other than those listed in column 4 of Annex I, within the framework of the preferential tariff ceiling fixed in column 9 of Annex I;

Whereas, as provided for in Article 13 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 the entertainment and festivities articles, falling within heading No 97.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea, the individual ceiling was fixed at 3 000 000 ECU; whereas, on Community originating in South Korea reached the ceiling in question after being charged thereagainst; whereas it is appropriate to re-establish the levying of customs duties in respect of the products in question against South Korea,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 22 November 1987, the levying of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3924/86, shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the following products originating in South Korea:

1.2.3 // // // // Order No // CCT heading No and NIMEXE code // Description // // // // 10.1320 // 97.05 (97.05-all numbers) // Carnival articles; entertainment articles (for example, conjuring tricks and novelty jokes); Christmas tree decorations and similar articles for Christmas festivities (for example, artificial Christmas trees, Christmas stockings, imitation Yule-logs, Nativity scences and figures therefor) // // //

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, 18 November 1987.

For the Commission

COCKFIELD

Vice-President

(1) OJ No L 373, 31. 12. 1986, p. 1.