CELEX: 31978R0661
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 661/78 of 3 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on medium oils, for other purposes, falling within subheading 27.10 B III and originating in Libya, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

4. 4. 78                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 89 / 15
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 661 /78
                                                      of 3 April 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on medium oils, for other
                 purposes, falling within subheading 27.10 B III and originating in Libya, to
                which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No
                                                       2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  listed   in   Annex     C     thereto — once      the  relevant
COMMUNITIES ,                                                   Community amount has been reached ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, in respect of medium oils, for other
 Economic Community,                                            purposes, falling within subheading 27.10 B III and
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   originating in Libya, a country covered by preferential
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             tariff arrangements, charges in the Community
                                                                reached on 17 March 1978 the maximum amount of
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
 developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      55 000 tonnes ; whereas, bearing in mind the objec­
thereof,                                                        tives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides
                                                                that maximum amounts should not be exceeded,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
                                                                customs duties should be re-established in respect of
provides that customs duties may, for each category of          the products in question in relation to Libya,
 products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
with the exception of certain products the value of the
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to                                           Article 1
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the          As from 7 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
 products in question imported cif into the Commu­              suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
 nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­            No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
 ries covered by those arrangements, but not including          following products, imported into the Community
 products coming from countries and territories already         and originating in Libya :
 covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of
                                                                       CCT
 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and                    heading                          Description
 from countries and territories already covered by such                 No
arrangements ;
Whereas, however, for products falling within subhead­          27.10               Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bitu­
 ings 27.10 A III, B III , C I c), C II c) and C III c) and                         minous minerals, other than crude ; prepa­
d) the Community ceilings as defined in Article 1 (3)                               rations not elsewhere specified or included ,
 is set at 703 500, 275 000 and 1 700 000 tonnes respec­                            containing not less than 70 % by weight
                                                                                    of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
 tively ;                                                                           bituminous minerals, these oils being the
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling and for the                                  basic constituents of the preparations :
same subheadings, the maximum Community amount                                      B. Medium oils :
 refered to in Article 1 (4) of the afore-said Regulation                               III . For other purposes
is reconduced to 20 % (2) ;
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            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
products in question originating in any of the said             following its publication in the Official Journal of
countries or territories — with the exception of those           the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 3 April 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, p. 23 .
(2) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 26, footnote (').