CELEX: 31978R1339
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1339/78 of 20 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 Romania and Venezuela, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

21 . 6. 78                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 164/ 5
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1339/78
                                                     of 20 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 Romania and
               Venezuela, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­
                                            lation ( EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 originating in Romania and Venezuela, countries
COMMUNITIES,                                                   covered by preferential tariff arrangements, charges in
                                                               the Community reached on 10 June 1978 the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          maximum       amount      of   340 000       tonnes ; whereas,
Economic Community,                                            bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
                                                               No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   shall not be exceeded , customs duties should be re­
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             established in respect of the products in question in
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     relation to Romania and Venezuela,
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)
thereof,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               HAS ADOPTED THIS 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 to         As from 24 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 Romania and Venezuela :
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established               CCT
                                                                     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
are respectively set at 703 500, 275 000 and 1 700 000                          basic constituents of the preparations :
tonnes ;
                                                                                C. Heavy oils :
Whereas, having regard to those ceilings and for the                                  I. Gas oil :
same subheadings, the maximum Community amount                                            c) For other purposes
 referred to in Article 1 (4) of the Regulation in ques­                             II . Fuel oil :
 tion is reduced to 20 % (2) ;                                                            c) For other purposes
 Whereas Article 2 (2) (3) of that Regulation provides                              III . Lubricating oils ; other oils :
 that the levying of customs duties may be re­                                            c) To be mixed in accordance with
                                                                                             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
 countries or territories — with the exception of those                                   d) For other purposes
 listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Whereas, in respect of heavy petroleum oils, falling                                      Article 2
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. 6 footnote (')•              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, 20 June 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission