CELEX: 31976R2168
Language: en
Date: 1976-09-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2168/76 of 2 September 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on petroleum medium oils, for other purposes, falling within subheading 27.10 B III, originating in Venezuela to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

3 . 9 . 76                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 242/ 13
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2168/76
                                                     of 2 September 1976
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on petroleum medium oils, for
               other purposes, falling within subheading 27.10 B III , originating in Venezuela
               to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation
                                     (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas, in respect of petroleum medium oils, for
COMMUNITIES,                                                     other purposes, falling within subheading 27.10 B III,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            originating in Venezuela, a country covered by prefer­
Economic Community,                                              ential tariff arrangements, charges in the Community
                                                                  reached on 31 August 1976 the maximum amount of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­
                                                                  38 000 metric tons, whereas, bearing in mind the
                                                                  objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
                                                                  provides that maximum amounts shall not be
developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2)      exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
thereof,
                                                                  respect of the products in question in relation to Vene­
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                  zuela,
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding                                                 Article 1
together the value of the products in question                    As from 6 September 1976, the levying of customs
imported cif into the Community in 1971 and                       duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
coming from countries and territories covered by                  (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
those arrangements, but not including products                    re-established in respect of the following products,
coming from countries and territories already covered             imported into the Community and originating in
by various preferential tariff arrangements established           Venezuela,
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                      CCT
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                 heading                     Description of goods
                                                                         No
ments ;
Whereas, however, for products falling within subhead­
ings 27.10 A III, B III, C I c), C II c) and C III c) and         27.10              Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bitu­
d) the Community ceiling as defined in Article 1 (3) is                              minous minerals, other than crude ; prepa­
respectively set at 670 000, 190 000 and 1 700 000                                   rations not elsewhere specified or included,
                                                                                     containing not less than 70 % by weight
metric tons ;
                                                                                     of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling and for the                                   bituminous minerals, these oils being the
same subheadings, the maximum Community amount                                       basic constituents of the preparations :
referred to in Article 1 (4) of the Regulation in ques­                              B. Medium oils :
tion is reconduced to 20 % (2) ;                                                         III . For other purposes
Whereas Article 2 (2) of the Regulation in question
provides that the levying of customs duties may be
                                                                                               Article 2
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
countries or territories once the relevant Community              following its publication in the Official Journal of
amount has been reached :                                          the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 2 September 1976.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(•) OJ No L 310 , 29 . 11 . 1975, p . 70 .
(2) OJ No L 310, 29. 11 . 1975, p. 73, footnote (').