31978R1958

No L 224/ 10 Official Journal of the European Communities 15 . 8 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1958 /78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on iron or steel wire, whether or not coated, but not insulated, falling within heading No 73.14, originating in Romania to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN countries or territories — with the exception of those COMMUNITIES, listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of iron or steel wire, whether or Economic Community, not coated, but not insulated, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 2 516 741 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 1 258 370 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No units of account ; whereas on 27 July 1978 the 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening preferential amounts of imports into the Community of iron or tariffs for certain products originating in developing steel wire, whether or not coated, but not insulated, countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, originating in Romania, a country covered by preferen­ tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs provides that customs duties may, for each category of duties should be re-established in respect of the products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, products in question in relation to Romania, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regula­ tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas however, the ceiling resulting from As from 18 August 1978 , the levying of customs duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation the sum of this addition may in no case exceed (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; of the following products, imported into the Commu­ nity and originating in Romania : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT for products originating in any one of the countries or heading Description territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 73.14 Iron or steel wire , whether or not coated , certain products for which the maximum amount is to but not insulated be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A thereto ;

Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation Article 2 provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 . the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 10 August 1978 . For the Commission fitienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission