CELEX: 31975R2996
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2996/75 of the Commission of 17 November 1975 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 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply

18 . 11 . 75                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 298 /5
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2996/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                 of 17 November 1975
               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 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 should be 716 000 units of account, and therefore the
COMMUNITIES,                                                   maximum amount 358 000 units of account ; whereas
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          on 13 November 1975 the amounts of imports into
Economic Community ;                                           the Community of articles of asphalt or of similar
                                                               material originating in Romania, a country covered by
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   preferential tariff arrangements, , reached that
3054/74 (*) of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­          maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 which
developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)          provides that maximum amounts should not be
thereof ;                                                      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 the customs duties may, for each cate­           Romania,
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries                                           Article 1
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and territo­          As from 21 November 1975, the levying of customs
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­     duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of               (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974, shall be
the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­          re-established in respect of the following products,
tries and from countries and territories already covered       imported into the Community and originating in
                                                               Romania :
by such arrangements ;
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                  CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or             heading                   Description of goods
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling ;                                 68.08              Articles of asphalt or of similar material
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                            (for example, of petroleum bitumen or coal
                                                                                  tar pitch)
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
                                                                                          Article 2
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount
has been reached ;
                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of articles of asphalt or of similar       following its publication in the Official Journal of
material the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,           the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 17 November 1975.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 329, 9. 12. 1974, p. 70.