CELEX: 31976R0597
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 597/76 of 16 March 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on medium petroleum oils, for other purposes falling within subheading 27.10 B III originating in Libya to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

17. 3 . 76                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 71 / 11
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 597176
                                                    of 16 March 1976
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on medium petroleum oils, for
                other purposes falling within subheading 27.10 B III originating in Libya to
                which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                        No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  1 90 000 metric tons, and therefore the maximum
COMMUNITIES,                                                   38 000 metric tons ; whereas on 1 2 March 1 976, the
                                                               amounts of imports into the Community of medium
                                                               petroleum oils, for other purposes, falling within
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         subheading 27.10 B III originating in Libya a country
 Economic Community,
                                                               covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
                                                               that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­             provides that maximum amounts should not be
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
developing countries ( !), and in particular Article 4 (2)     respect of the products in question in relation to
thereof,                                                       Libya,
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
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ceiling which will be equal to 115 % of the sum
arrived at by adding together imports in metric tons
of the products in question imported into the Commu­
nity in 1971 and coming from countries and territo­
                                                                                         Article 1
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
products coming from countries and territories already
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­      As from 20 March 1976, the levying of customs
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the metric                duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
tonnage of 1972 imports coming from other countries            (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
and from countries and territories already covered by          re-established in respect of the following products,
such arrangements ;                                            imported into the Community and originating in
                                                               Libya :
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
                                                                       No    '
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
                                                               27.10           Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bitu­
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
                                                                               minous minerals, other than crude ; prepa­
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                           rations not elsewhere specified or included,
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                            containing not less than 70 % by weight
reduced percentage will be 20 % .                                              of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
                                                                               bituminous minerals, these oils being the
                                                                               basic constituents of the preparations :
Whereas Article 2(2) of that Regulation provides that
                                                                               B. Medium oils :
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                            III . For other purposes
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
ries once the relevant Community amount has been
reached ;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas, in respect of medium petroleum oils, for
other purposes, falling within subheading 27.10 B III
the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
   OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 .                        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, 16 March 1976.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                Member of the Commission