CELEX: 31978R0840
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 840/78 of 26 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on light petroleum oils, falling within subheading 27.10 A III and originating in Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 115/34                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                       27 . 4 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 840/78
                                                       of 26 April 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on light petroleum oils, falling
               within subheading 27.10 A III and originating in Romania, to which the prefer­
                   ential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    listed in Annex C thereto, 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 and originating in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Romania, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­                gements, charges in the Community reached on 20
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in        April 1978 the maximum amount of 140 700 tonnes ;
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)         whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
thereof,                                                          (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
                                                                  amounts shall not be exceeded, customs duties should
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                  be re-established in respect of the products in ques­
provides that customs duties may, for each category of            tion in relation to Romania,
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
with the exception of certain products the value of the
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to                                             Article 1
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the            As from 30 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
products in question imported cif into the Commu­                 suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­               2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including             following products, imported into the Community
products coming from countries and territories already            and originating in Romania :
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of
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 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and                      heading                          Description
from countries and territories already covered by such                   No
arrangements ;
Whereas, however, for products falling within subhead­            27.10               Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bitu­
ings 27.10 A III, B III, C I c), C II c) and C III c) and                             minous minerals, other than crude ; prepa
d) the Community ceilings as defined in Article 1 (3)                                 rations not elsewhere specified or included,
are set at 703 500 , 275 000 and 1 700 000 tonnes                                     containing not less than 70 % by weight
                                                                                      of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
respectively ;
                                                                                      bituminous minerals, these oils being the
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, and for the                                   basic constituents of the preparations :
same subheadings, the maximum Community amount                                        A. Light oils :
referred to in Article 1 (4) of the aforesaid Regulation                                  III . For other purposes
is reconduced to 20 % (2) ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
                                                                                                Article 2
provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­
established at any time in respect of imports of the              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
products in question originating in any of the said               following its publication in the Official Journal of the
countries or territories, with the exception of those             European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 26 April 1 978 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                               Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                          Member ofthe Commission
(•) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .
(2 ) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977 , p. 26, footnote (').