CELEX: 31978R1959
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1959/78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nails, tacks, etc., falling within heading No 73.31, originating in Romania to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1959/78
                                                    of 10 August 1978
                  re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nails, tacks, etc., falling within
                  heading No 73.31 , originating in Romania to which the preferential tariff arran­
                          gements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of nails, tacks, etc ., but not
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   including such articles with heads of copper, the
                                                                ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                2 386 165 units of account, and therefore the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          maximum amount is 1 193 083 units of account ;
 Economic Community,                                            whereas on 27 July 1978 the amounts of imports into
                                                                the Community of nails, tacks, etc ., but not including
                                                                such articles with heads of copper, originating in
 Having regard to Council Regulation            (EEC) No        Romania, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening           preferential    gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
 tariffs for certain products originating in    developing      bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
 countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4  (2) thereof,     No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
                                                               should not be exceeded, customs duties should be
                                                                re-established in respect of the products in question
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               in relation to Romania,
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of
 products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
 expressed in units of account, which will be equal —
 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             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 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                                   Article 1
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            As from 18 August 1978, the levying of customs
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from          (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 of the following products, imported into the Commu­
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;              nity and originating in Romania :
                                                                      CCT
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                  heading                     Description
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                    73.31            Nails, tacks, staples, hook-nails, corrugated
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                             nails, spiked cramps, studs, spikes and
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             drawing pins, of iron or steel , whether or
                                                                                not with heads of other materials, but not
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A
thereto ;                                                                       including such articles with heads of
                                                                                copper
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
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                                     Article 2
countries or territories — with the exception of those
listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
relevant Community amount has been reached ;                   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
                                                                   Etienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission