31975R2996

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 on 13 November 1975 the amounts of imports into Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the Community of articles of asphalt or of similar Economic Community ; 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 respect of the products in question in relation to Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation Romania, provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ 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 Article 1 the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not As from 21 November 1975, the levying of customs including products coming from countries and territo­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974, shall be gements established by the Community, and 5 % of re-established in respect of the following products, the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­ imported into the Community and originating in tries and from countries and territories already covered 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 No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling ; 68.08 Articles of asphalt or of similar material (for example, of petroleum bitumen or coal Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that 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 .