31974R2571

No L 275 / 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 10 . 10 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 2571 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 9 October 1974 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 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of articles of asphalt or of similar COMMUNITIES, material, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 626 000 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European maximum amount 313 000 units of account ; whereas Economic Community ; on 7 October 1974, the amounts of imports into the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Community of articles of asphalt or of similar 3501 /73 (x) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ material, originating in Romania, a country covered by ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating preferential tariff arrangements, reached that in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the thereof ; objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73, which Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ gory of products, be suspended up to a Community respect of the products in question in relation to Romania, ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not Article 1 including products coming from countries and terri­ tories already covered by various preferential tariff As from 13 October 1974, the levying of customs arrangements established by the Community, and duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation 5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be other countries and from countries and territories re-established in respect of the following products, already covered by such arrangements ; imported into the Community and originating in Romania : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description of goods be within a maximum Community amount repre­ No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 68.08 Articles of asphalt or of similar material (for be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to example, of petroleum bitumen or coal tar that Regulation ; pitch) Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at Article 2 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or terri­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day tories once the relevant Community maximum following its publication in the Official Journal of amount has been reached ; the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 9 October 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(!) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 15 .