CELEX: 31977R2454
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/77 of 8 November 1977 re-establishing the levying, of customs duties on light petroleum oils, falling within subheading 27.10 A III, originating in Romania to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 285/ 16                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                      9 . 11 . 77
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2454/77
                                                        of 8 November 1977
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on light petroleum oils, falling
                within subheading 27.10 A III , originating in Romania to which the preferential
                  tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
COMMUNITIES,                                                       nity amount has been reached ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas, in respect of light petroleum oils falling
 Economic Community,                                               within subheading 27.10 A III, originating in
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Romania, a country covered by preferential tariff
 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­               arrangements, charges in the Community reached on
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in         26 October 1977 the maximum amount of 140 700
developing countries (J ), and in particular Article 4 (2)         tonnes ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
 thereof,                                                          Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that
                                                                   maximum amounts shall not be exceeded, customs
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
                                                                   duties should be re-established in respect of the
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­
                                                                   products in question in relation to Romania,
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
equal — with the exception of certain products the
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to                                          Article 1
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by
adding together the value of the products in question              As from 12 November 1977, the levying of customs
 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and                       duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
coming from countries and territories covered by                   (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
those arrangements, but not including products                     of the following products, imported into the Commu­
coming from countries and territories already covered              nity and originating in Romania :
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif                       CCT
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                      heading
                                                                          No
                                                                                                    Description of goods
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
 ments ;
                                                                   27.10              Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bitu­
Whereas, however, for products falling within subhead­                                minous minerals, other than crude ; prepa­
ings 27.10 A III, B III, C I c), C II c) and C III c) and                             rations not elsewhere specified or included,
d) the Community ceilings as defined in Article 1 (3)                                 containing not less than 70 % by weight
are respectively set at 703 500 , 275 000 and 1 700 000                               of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
tonnes ;                                                                              bituminous minerals, these oils being the
                                                                                      basic constituents of the preparations :
Whereas, having regard to those ceilings and for the
same subheadings, the maximum Community amount                                        A. Light oils :
referred to in Article 1 (4) of the Regulation in ques­                                   III . For other purposes
tion is reduced to 20 % (2) ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                          Article 2
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­          following its publication in the Official Journal of
ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C               the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 8 November 1977 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 Richard BURKE
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 349 , 20 . 12 . 1976, p. 23 .
 2 OJ No L 349 , 20 . 1 2 . 1 976, p. 27, footnote (2).