31978R0841

27 . 4. 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 115/ 35

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 841 /78 of 26 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on carbonate of sodium anhydrous, falling within subheading 28.42 A ex II and originating in Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705 /77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of carbonate of sodium anhy­ COMMUNITIES, drous, falling within subheading 28.42 A ex II, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 350 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum Economic Community, amount is 175 000 units of account ; whereas on 19 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No April 1978 the amounts of imports into the Commu­ 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ nity of carbonate of sodium anhydrous, falling within tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in subheading 28.42 A ex II and originating in Romania, developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, thereof, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation which provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that customs duties may, for each category of exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, respect of the products in question in relation to expressed in units of account, which will be equal — Romania : with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­ ries covered by those arrangements, but not including Article 1 products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ As from 30 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties, blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the from countries and territories already covered by such following products, imported into the Community arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting and originating in Romania : from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; CCT heading Description Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should 28.42 Carbonates and percarbonates ; commer­ be within a maximum Community amount repre­ cial ammonium carbonate containing senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of ammonium carbamate : certain products for which the maximum amount is to A. Carbonates : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A thereto ; ex II . Of sodium anhydrous Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­ established at any time in respect of imports of the Article 2 products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories, with the exception of those This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day listed in Annex C thereto, once the relevant Commu­ following its publication in the Official Journal of nity 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, 26 April 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

(') O J No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, p . 23 .