31978R2194

No L 258/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 21 . 9 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2194/78 of 20 September 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel , etc., falling within subheadings 73.11 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), originating in Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), the ceiling, calculated as indi­ COMMUNITIES, cated above, should be 543 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 271 500 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European account ; whereas on 12 September 1978, the amounts Economic Community, of imports into the Community of angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, etc., falling within subhead­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ings 73.11 A II, III, IV a) 2 and IV b), originating in 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ Romania, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­ tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, developing countries (1 ), and in particular Article 4 (2) bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) thereof, No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties should be Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation re-established in respect of the products in question provides that customs duties may, for each category of in relation to Romania, 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question Article 1 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products As from 24 September 1978 , the levying of customs coming from countries and territories already covered duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation by various preferential tariff arrangements established (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif of the following products, imported into the Commu­ imports coming from other countries and from coun­ nity and originating in Romania : tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from CCT heading Description the sum of this addition may in no case exceed No 225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ; 73.11 Angles, shapes and sections, of iron or Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded, cold­ for products originating in any one of the countries or formed or cold-finished ; sheet piling of iron or steel , whether or not drilled, territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should punched or made from assembled be within a maximum Community amount repre­ elements : senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of A. Angles, shapes and sections : certain products for which the maximum amount is to II . Not further worked than forged be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to III . Not further worked than cold­ that Regulation ; formed or cold-finished IV. Clad or surface-worked (for Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation example, polished, coated) : provides that the levying of customs duties may be a) Not further worked than clad : re-established at any time in respect of imports of the 2. Cold-formed or cold-finished products in question originating in any of the said b) Other countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, etc., falling within subheadings 73.1 1 A This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of ( i ) 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, 20 September 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission