CELEX: 31978R2088
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2088/78 of 1 September 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on methylamine and di- and trimethylamine, and their salts, falling within subheading 29.22 A I and originating in Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

2. 9 . 78                           Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 241 /7
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2088/78
                                                 of 1 September 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on methylamine and di- and trime­
               thylamine, and their salts, falling within subheading 29.22 A I 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 methylamine and di - and trime­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   thylamine, and their salts, falling within subheading
                                                               29.22 A I, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                               should be 145 000 units of account, and therefore the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          maximum amount is 72 500 units of account ;
Economic Community,                                           whereas on 18 August 1978 , the amounts of imports
                                                               into the Community of methylamine and di - and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   trimethylamine, and their salts, falling within
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             subheading 29.22 A I and originating in Romania, a
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
thereof,                                                       mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
                                                               which provides that maximum amounts should not be
                                                               exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               respect of the products in question in relation to
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         Romania,
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —
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
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
products coming from countries and territories already
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­                             Article 1
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of
 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and
from countries and territories already covered by such         From 5 September 1978 , the levying of customs
arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting         duties, suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC)
from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed            No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;              following products, imported into the Community
                                                               and originating in Romania :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                  CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or             heading                   Description
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of            29.22           Amine-function compounds :
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
                                                                               A. Acyclic monoamines :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A
thereto ;                                                                         I. Methylamine and di - and trimethy­
                                                                                     lamine, and their salts
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
products in question originating in any of the said                                   Article 2
countries or territories, with the exception of those
listed in Annex C thereto, once the relevant Commu­
nity amount has been reached ;                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(•) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, 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, 1 September 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission