CELEX: 31978R1958
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1958/78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on iron or steel wire, whether or not coated, but not insulated, falling within heading No 73.14, originating in Romania to which, the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 224/ 10                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                15 . 8 . 78
                                COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1958/78
                                                    of 10 August 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on iron or steel wire, whether or
                not coated, but not insulated, falling within heading No 73.14, originating in
                Romania to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                             tion ( EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 countries or territories — with the exception of those
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
                                                               relevant Community amount has been reached ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         Whereas, in respect of iron or steel wire, whether or
 Economic Community,
                                                               not coated, but not insulated, the ceiling, calculated as
                                                               indicated above, should be 2 516 741 units of account,
                                                               and    therefore the  maximum       amount is    1 258 370
 Having regard to Council Regulation            (EEC) No       units of account ; whereas on 27 July 1978 the
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening           preferential    amounts of imports into the Community of iron or
tariffs for certain products originating in     developing     steel wire, whether or not coated, but not insulated,
countries ('), and in particular Article 4     (2) thereof,    originating in Romania, a country covered by preferen­
                                                               tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
                                                               amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              duties should be re-established in respect of the
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —           products in question in relation to Romania,
with the exception of certain products the value of the
ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regula­
tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding
together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif                                     Article 1
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ; whereas however, the ceiling resulting from            As from 18 August 1978 , the levying of customs
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;              (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
                                                               of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                               nity and originating in Romania :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or              CCT
                                                                    heading                     Description
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of            73.14            Iron or steel wire, whether or not coated,
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             but not insulated
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A
thereto ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                       Article 2
provides that the levying of customs duties may be
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said           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, 10 August 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  fitienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission