CELEX: 31978R2194
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2194/78 of 20 September 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, etc., falling within subheadings 73.11 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), originating in Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2194/78
                                                  of 20 September 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on angles, shapes and sections, of
                 iron or steel , etc., falling within subheadings 73.11 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b),
                 originating in Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                      Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), the ceiling, calculated as indi­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   cated above, should be 543 000 units of account, and
                                                                therefore the maximum amount is 271 500 units of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          account ; whereas on 12 September 1978, the amounts
 Economic Community,                                            of imports into the Community of angles, shapes and
                                                                sections, of iron or steel, etc., falling within subhead­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   ings 73.11 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), originating in
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             Romania, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
 developing countries (1 ), and in particular Article 4 (2)     bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
 thereof,                                                       No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
                                                                should not be exceeded, customs duties should be
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               re-established in respect of the products in question
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of         in relation to 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 to the Regula­          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding
 together the value of the products in question
 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and                                                Article 1
 coming from countries and territories covered by
 those arrangements, but not including products                 As from 24 September 1978 , the levying of customs
 coming from countries and territories already covered          duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 by various preferential tariff arrangements established        (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif             of the following products, imported into the Commu­
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­             nity and originating in Romania :
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
 ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from                 CCT
 the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                      heading                        Description
                                                                       No
 225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ;
                                                                73.11             Angles, shapes and sections, of iron or
 Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                              steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded, cold­
 for products originating in any one of the countries or                          formed or cold-finished ; sheet piling of
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                          iron or steel , whether or not drilled,
 be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                      punched       or   made       from assembled
                                                                                  elements :
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to                              A. Angles, shapes and sections :
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                  II. Not further worked than forged
                                                                                      III . Not further worked than        cold­
 that Regulation ;                                                                          formed or cold-finished
                                                                                      IV. Clad or surface-worked (for
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                            example, polished, coated) :
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be                                         a) Not further worked than clad :
 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the                                       2. Cold-formed or cold-finished
 products in question originating in any of the said                                        b) Other
countries or territories — with the exception of those
listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
 relevant Community amount has been reached ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas, in respect of angles, shapes and sections, of
iron or steel, etc., falling within subheadings 73.1 1 A        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
( i ) 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, 20 September 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission