CELEX: 31974R2571
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2571/74 of the Commission of 9 October 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on articles of asphalt or of similar material, falling within heading No 68.08, originating in Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

No L 275/ 8                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                     10 . 10 . 74
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2571 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 9 October 1974
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on articles of asphalt or of
               similar material, falling within heading No 68.08 , originating in Romania, to
               which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                         No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in respect of articles of asphalt or of similar
COMMUNITIES,                                                      material, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                                  should be 626 000 units of account, and therefore the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                  maximum amount 313 000 units of account ; whereas
Economic Community ;
                                                                  on 7 October 1974, the amounts of imports into the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Community of articles of asphalt or of similar
3501 /73 (x) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­             material, originating in Romania, a country covered by
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating         preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)          maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
thereof ;                                                         objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73, which
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                  provides that maximum amounts should not be
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­              exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                  respect of the products in question in relation to
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be             Romania,
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not                                        Article 1
including products coming from countries and terri­
tories already covered by various preferential tariff             As from 13 October 1974, the levying of customs
arrangements established by the Community, and                    duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from                   (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be
other countries and from countries and territories                re-established in respect of the following products,
already covered by such arrangements ;                            imported into the Community and originating in
                                                                  Romania :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
                                                                        CCT
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                heading                     Description of goods
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                              No
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to              68.08              Articles of asphalt or of similar material (for
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                example, of petroleum bitumen or coal tar
 that Regulation ;                                                                   pitch)
 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                       Article 2
 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
 tion originating in any of the said countries or terri­          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 tories once the relevant Community maximum                        following its publication in the Official Journal of
 amount has been reached ;                                         the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels , 9 October 1974 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (!) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 15 .