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No L 224/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 15 . 8 . 78
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1959/ 78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nails, tacks, etc., falling within heading No 73.31 , originating in Romania to which the preferential tariff arran gements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of nails, tacks, etc ., but not COMMUNITIES, including such articles with heads of copper, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 2 386 165 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European maximum amount is 1 193 083 units of account ; Economic Community, whereas on 27 July 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of nails, tacks, etc ., but not including such articles with heads of copper, originating in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Romania, a country covered by preferential tariff arran 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening preferential gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, tariffs for certain products originating in developing bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation in relation to Romania, provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered Article 1 by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun As from 18 August 1978, the levying of customs tries and territories already covered by such arrange duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect the sum of this addition may in no case exceed of the following products, imported into the Commu 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; nity and originating in Romania :
CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre 73.31 Nails, tacks, staples, hook-nails, corrugated senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of nails, spiked cramps, studs, spikes and drawing pins, of iron or steel , whether or certain products for which the maximum amount is to not with heads of other materials, but not be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A including such articles with heads of thereto ; copper
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 products in question originating in any of the said Article 2 countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; 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 Etienne DAVIGNON
Member of the Commission