CELEX: 31978D0698
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 July 1978 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to tents, falling within heading No ex 62.04 of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 62.04-23, 73), originating in South Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 237 / 18                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                   29 . 8 . 78
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                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                             COMMISSION
                   t
                                           COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 19 July 1978
              authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to tents ,
              falling within heading No ex 62.04 of the Common Customs Tariff ( NIMEXE
              codes 62.04-23 , 73), originiating in South Korea and in free circulation in the
                                               other Member States
                                         (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                    (78/698/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas according to the application submitted there
COMMUNITIES ,                                                 are   serious  difficulties      in   the industrial   sector
                                                              concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         tion and employment ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                 Whereas although the imports which gave rise to the
                                                              application submitted would appear to be an isolated
Having regard to the application under the first para­        operation, they are nevertheless likely, owing to the
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 12 July           appreciable amount of the imports, to aggravate these
1978 by the United Kingdom Government to the                  difficulties ;
Commission of the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to             Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
tents, falling within heading No ex 62.04 of the              machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 62.04-23,                 tion from the other Member States ;
73), originating in South Korea and in free circulation
in the other Member States,                                   Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                              for the application of protective measures under the
Whereas the importation into the Community of the             first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
products in question originating in South Korea is            tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Community and that country ;
Whereas under that Agreement South Korea has                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its
exports of the products in question to the Community
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member                                           Article 1
States ;
                                                              The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­         Community treatment to the products indicated
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the          below, where they originate in South Korea and are in
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities      free circulation in the other Member States and in
persist between the import conditions in the various          respect of which applications for import licences were
Member States ; whereas uniformity can only be
achieved progressively ;                                      (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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lodged after 2 July 1978 and are, on the date of this                           Article 2
Decision, pending with the United Kingdom authori­
ties :                                                    This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom .
           CCT
          heading                Description               Done at Brussels, 19 July 1978 .
            No
                                                                                   For the Commission
ex 62.04              Tents
(NIMEXE codes                                                                     Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
62.04-23, 73)
                                                                                      Vice-President