CELEX: 31978R0841
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 841/78 of 26 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on carbonate of sodium anhydrous, falling within subheading 28.42 A ex II and originating in Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

27 . 4. 78                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 115/ 35
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 841 /78
                                                      of 26 April 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on carbonate of sodium anhydrous,
               falling within subheading 28.42 A ex II and originating in Romania, to which
               the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
                                                             apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas, in respect of carbonate of sodium anhy­
COMMUNITIES,                                                       drous, falling within subheading 28.42 A ex II, the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                   350 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum
Economic Community,                                                amount is 175 000 units of account ; whereas on 19
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       April 1978 the amounts of imports into the Commu­
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­                 nity of carbonate of sodium anhydrous, falling within
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in         subheading 28.42 A ex II and originating in Romania,
developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2)          a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
thereof,                                                           reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                   mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
provides that customs duties may, for each category of             which provides that maximum amounts should not be
                                                                   exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —               respect of the 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 thereto — to
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the
products in question imported cif into the Commu­                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including                                         Article 1
products coming from countries and territories already
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­          As from 30 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of                  suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and                  2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
from countries and territories already covered by such             following products, imported into the Community
arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting             and originating in Romania :
from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;
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Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                     heading
                                                                          No
                                                                                                        Description
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                        28.42               Carbonates and percarbonates ; commer­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                                    cial ammonium carbonate containing
                                                                                       ammonium carbamate :
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A                                      A. Carbonates :
thereto ;                                                                                  ex II . Of sodium anhydrous
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                                          Article 2
products in question originating in any of the said
countries or territories, with the exception of those              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 listed in Annex C thereto, once the relevant Commu­               following its publication in the Official Journal of
 nity 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, 26 April 1978 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                         Member of the Commission
 (') O J No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, p . 23 .