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COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 2756/77 of 5 December 1977 opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community supervision of imports thereof

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the application of the ceiling requires that COMMUNITIES, the Community should be regularly informed of the trend of imports of these products refined in Turkey ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European whereas imports of these products should therefore be Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 subject to a system of supervision ; thereof, Whereas this objective may be attained by means of Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, an administrative procedure based on setting off Whereas, pending the entry into force of the Supple­ imports of the products in question against the mentary Protocol signed in Ankara on 30 June 1973 ceiling, at Community level, as and when these containing the adjustments to be made to the Agree­ products are submitted to the customs authorities ment establishing an association between the Euro­ under cover of declarations that they have been made pean Economic Community and Turkey and to the available for home use ; whereas this administrative Additional Protocol (') consequent on the accession of procedure must make provision for the reintroduction new Member States, the Community has undertaken , of the Common Customs Tariff duty as soon as the in an Interim Agreement (2) which runs only for a said ceiling has been reached at Community level ; limited period prior to the entry into force of this Whereas this administrative procedure requires close Supplementary Protocol , which is applicable until 31 December 1974 but which has been extended for and very rapid cooperation between the Member 1978 in accordance with the terms laid down in States and the Commission , which must be able to monitor the amounts set off against the ceiling and Article 13 thereof, to implement certain provisions of keep the Member States informed thereof ; whereas the Supplementary Protocol relating to trade in this cooperation must be all the closer to enable the goods ; whereas under Article 6 of the Interim Agree­ Commission to take adequate measures to reintroduce ment amending the first paragraph of the Sole Article of Annex 1 to the Additional Protocol , the Commu­ the Common Customs Tariff duty whenever the ceiling is reached , nity must totally suspend the customs duties appli­ cable to certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff, refined in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Turkey, within the limit of an annual Community tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes ; whereas, for the products concerned, a provisional adjustment should Article 1 be made to these tariff preferences, consisting essen­ tially of substituting for the Community tariff quota a 1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1978 , the Community ceiling which amounts, after successive Common Customs Tariff duties shall, subject to increases, to 391 000 tonnes, above which the customs Article 2, be totally suspended for the petroleum duties applicable to third countries may be reintro­ products, refined in Turkey, specified below, within a duced ; limit of a Community ceiling of 391 000 tonnes :

(•) OJ No L 293, 29 . 12. 1972, p. 4 (*) OJ No L 277, 3 . 10 . 1973, p. 2.

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27.10 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals other than crude ; prepa­ rations not elsewhere specified or included, containing not less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oil or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations : A. Light oils : III . For other purposes B. Medium oils : III . For other purposes C. Heavy oils : I. Gas oils : c) For other purposes II . Fuel oils : c) For other purposes III . Lubricating oils, other oils : c) To be mixed in accordance with the terms of Additional Note 7 to Chapter 27 (a) d) For other purposes

27.11 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons : B. Other : I. Commerical propane and commercial butane : c) For other purposes

27.12 Petroleum jelly : A. Crude : III . For other purposes B. Other

27.13 Paraffin wax, micro-crystalline wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax, peat wax and other mineral waxes, whether or not coloured : B. Other : I. Crude : c) For other purposes II . Other

27.14 Petroleum bitumen , petroleum coke and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals : C. Other

(a) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities.

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2. Imports of the petroleum products referred to in may issue a Regulation re-introducing the Common paragraph 1 shall be subject to Community supervi­ Customs Tariff duties applicable to third countries sion . until the end of the calendar year. 3 . Imports of the products shall be set off against Article J the ceiling as and when they are submitted to the customs authorities under cover of a declaration that Member States shall forward to the Commission not they have been made available for home use. later than the 15th day of each month a statement of the imports effected during the preceding month. If 4. The extent to which the ceiling has been used the Commission so requests, they shall forward this shall be determined at Community level on the basis statement, in respect of 10-day periods, within five of the imports set off against it in the manner defined clear days of the expiry of each such 10-day period. in paragraph 3 . 5. Member States shall inform the Commission at Article 4 the intervals and within the time limits specified in The Commission shall take all necessary measures for Article 3 of any imports effected in accordance with the implementation of this Regulation in close cooper­ the above rules . ation with the Member States .

Article 2 Article 5 As soon as the ceiling referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) has This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January been reached at Community level , the Commission 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 5 December 1977. For the Council

The President A. HUMBLET