CELEX: 31978R1309
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1309/78 of 15 June 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on heavy petroleum oils falling within subheadings 27.10 C I c), II c), III c) and d), originating in Kuwait to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

16 . 6 . 78                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 158 / 19
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1309/78
                                                      of 15 June 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on heavy petroleum oils falling
                 within subheadings 27.10 C I c), II c), III c) and d), originating in Kuwait to
                 which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                      No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  originating in Kuwait a country covered by preferen­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   tial tariff arrangements, charges in the Community
                                                                reached on 9 June 1978 the maximum amount of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          340 000 tonnes ; whereas, bearing in mind the objec­
 Economic Community,                                            tives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides
                                                                that maximum        amounts shall           not be exceeded,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   customs duties should be re-established in respect of
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             the products in question in relation to Kuwait,
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
developing countries ( 1 ), and in particular Article 4 (2)
 thereof,
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be                                      Article 1
equal — with the exception of certain products the
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of          As from 19 June 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
 the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
adding together the value of the products in question           No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and                    following products, imported into the Community
coming from countries and territories covered by                and originating in Kuwait :
 those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered                 CCT
by various preferential tariff arrangements established              heading                        Description
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif                     No
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­          27.10            Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bitu­
ments ;                                                                          minous minerals, other than crude ; prepa­
                                                                                 rations not elsewhere specified or included,
Whereas, however for products falling within subhead­                            containing not less than 70 % by weight
ings 27.10 A III, B III, C I c), C II c) and C III c) and                        of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
d) the Community ceilings as defined in Article 1 (3)                            bituminous minerals, these oils being the
is respectively set at 703 500, 275 000 and 1 700 000                            basic constituents of the preparations :
tonnes ;                                                                         C. Heavy oils :
                                                                                       I. Gas oil :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling and for the
                                                                                           c) For other purposes
same subheadings, the maximum Community amount
referred to in Article 1 (4) of the Regulation in ques­                               II . Fuel oil :
tion is reconduced to 20 % (2) ;                                                           c) For other purposes
                                                                                     III. Lubricating oils ; other oils :
Whereas Article 2 (2) (3) of that Regulation provides
                                                                                           c) To be mixed in accordance with
that the levying of customs duties may be re-                                                 the terms of Additional Note 7
established at any time in respect of imports of the                                          to Chapter 27
products in question originating in any of the said                                        d) For other purposes
countries or territories — with the exception of those
listed in Annex C of the same Regulation — once the
relevant Community amount has been reached ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas, in respect of heavy petroleum oils, falling
within subheadings 27.10 C I c), II c), III c) and d),
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .                         following its publication in the Official Journal of
(2) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 26, footnote ( l).           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, 15 June 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Lorenzo NATALI
                                                                      Vice-President