CELEX: 31978R1547
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1547/78 of 4 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on light oils for other purposes, falling within subheading 27.10 A III, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 182/ 14                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                       5 . 7. 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1547/78
                                                      of 4 July 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on light oils for other purposes,
               falling within subheading 27.10 A III, originating in developing countries to
               which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                     No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  countries and territories covered by preferential tariff
COMMUNITIES,                                                    arrangements, imports into the Community reached
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           on 28 June 1977 the ceiling of 703 500 tonnes ;
Economic Community,                                             whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
                                                                (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the ceiling
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re-
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              established in respect of the products in question,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
developing countries (1), and in particular Article 4 (2)
thereof,                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
                                                                                             Article 1
the customs duties may, for each category of products,
be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed               As from 8 July 1978, customs duties, suspended in
in units of account, which will be equal — with the             pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings         shall be re-established in respect of the following
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in              products, imported into the Community, coming
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together             from any beneficiary country or territory, with the
the value of the products in question imported cif              exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation
into the Community in 1975 and coming from coun­                (EEC) No 2705/77 :
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,
but not including products coming from countries
                                                                       CCT
and territories already covered by various preferential               heading                        Description
tariff arrangements established by the Community,                       No
and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming
 from other countries and from countries and territo­            27.10              Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bitu­
 ries already covered by such arrangements ;                                        minous minerals, other than crude ; prepa­
Whereas, however, for products falling within subhead­                              rations not elsewhere specified or included,
 ings 27.10 A III, Bill, C I c), C II c) and d), the                                containing not less than 70 % by weight of
 Community ceilings, as defined in Article 1 (3), are                               petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
                                                                                    bituminous minerals, these oils being the
 respectively set at 703 500, 275 000 and 1 700 000                                 basic constituents of the preparations :
 tonnes (2) ;
                                                                                    A. Light oils :
 Whereas Article 2(1 ) and (3) of that Regulation
 provides that the customs duties may be re-established                                 III. For other purposes
 at any time on imports of the products in question
 coming from any country or territory, with the excep­
                                                                                             Article 2
 tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation,
 once the Community ceiling has been reached ;                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 Whereas, in respect of light oils, for other purposes,          following its publication in the Official Journal of the
 falling within subheading 27.10 A III, originating in           European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 4 July 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Richard BURKE
                                                                         Member of the Commission
 (!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .
 (2) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 26, footnote (').