CELEX: 31977R2347
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2347/77 of 25 October 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on angles, shapes and sections, of iron and steel, falling within subheadings 73.11 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), originating in Romania to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

27. 10 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No L 275/21
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2347/77
                                                   of 25 October 1977
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on angles, shapes and sections,
                of iron or steel, falling within subheadings 73.11 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), origi­
                nating in Romania to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                    Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  73.1 1 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), the ceiling, calculated
COMMUNITIES,                                                   as indicated above, should be 543 000 units of
                                                               account, and therefore the maximum amount is
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                               271 500 units of account ; whereas on 19 October
Economic Community,
                                                                1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, failing
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­            within subheadings 73.1 1 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b),
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     originating in Romania, a country covered by preferen­
developing countries (!), and in particular Article 4 (2)      tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
thereof,                                                       amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               duties should be re-established in respect of the
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           products in question in relation to Romania,
equal — with the exception of certain products the
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by
adding together the value of the products in question
                                                                                             Article 1
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by               As from 30 October 1977, the levying of customs
those arrangements, but not including products                 duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
coming from countries and territories already covered          (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
by various preferential tariff arrangements established        of the following products, imported into the Commu­
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif             nity and originating in Romania :
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange-,
                                                                    . CCT
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from                 heading                      Description of goods
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                         No
 1 72*5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the           73.11               Angles, shapes and sections, of iron or
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the                             steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded, cold­
second term of the addition ;                                                      formed or cold-finished ; sheet piling of
                                                                                   iron or steel, whether or not drilled,
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                                punched       or     made       from   assembled
for products originating in any one of the countries or                            elements :
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                        A. Angles, shapes and sections :
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                                    II. Not further worked than forged
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                    III . Not further worked than           cold­
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                         formed or cold-finished
that Regulation :                                                                      IV. Clad or surface-worked (for
                                                                                             example, polished, coated) :
Whereas Article 2(2) of that Regulation provides that
                                                                                             (a) Not further worked than clad :
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
                                                                                                 2. Cold-formed         or     cold­
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                             finished
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C                                         (b) Other
to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
nity amount has been reached ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas, in respect of angles, shapes and sections, of
iron      or steel,      falling within        subheadings     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, 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, 25 October 1977.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                 Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                             Member of the Commission