CELEX: 31978D0396
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 April 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's and boys' underpants and briefs, women's, girls' and infants' knickers and briefs, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of cotton or synthetic textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 60.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 114/ 12                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                   26 . 4 . 78
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                                      (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                               COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 11 April 1978
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's
              and boys' underpants and briefs, women 's, girls' and infants' knickers and briefs,
              knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of cotton or synthetic textile
              fibres , falling within heading No ex 60.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
                 nating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                           (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                       (78 /396/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
COMMUNITIES,                                                     cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
                                                                 individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
                                                                 persist between the import conditions in the various
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            only progressively ;
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                                 Whereas according to the application submitted there
                                                                 are   serious  difficulties     in   the industrial   sector
Having regard to the application under the first para­           concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 4 April              tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
 1978 by the French Government to the Commission                 market share ;
of the European Communities, for authorization not
to apply Community treatment to men's and boys'                  Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
underpants and briefs, women's, girls' and infants'              already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
 knickers and briefs, knitted or crocheted , not elastic or      difficulties ;
 rubberized, of cotton or synthetic textile fibres, falling
within heading No ex 60.04 of the Common                         Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
 Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free            machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
 circulation in the other Member States,                         tion from the other Member States ;
                                                                 Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
 Whereas the importation into the Community of the               for the application of protective measures under the
 products in question originating in Hong Kong is                first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
 covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                  tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
 Community and that country ;                                    May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
                                                                 Whereas, however, the request for a licence which
 Whereas under that Agreement Hong Kong has                      gave rise to the application in question does not need
 undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its              to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
 exports of the products in question to the Community            small amount involved ,
 to certain ceilings allocated among the Member
 States ;                                                        (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                            Article 2
                         Article 1                             This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                               arise for the importation of these products from Hong
The French Republic is authorized not to apply                 Kong or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
Community treatment to the products indicated                  earlier.
below, where they originate in Hong Kong and are in
free circulation in the other Member States, and in
                                                                                       Article J
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after the date of this Decision :
                                                               This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
     CCT
    heading                       Description
      No
                                                               Done at Brussels, 11 April 1978 .
ex 60.04         Men's and boys' underpants and briefs,
                 women's, girls' and infants' knickers and                               For the Com mission
                 briefs, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or
                 rubberized, of cotton or synthetic textile                                 Lorenzo NATALI
                 fibres
                                                                                             Vice-President