CELEX: 31977D0460
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29 June 1977 prolonging the duty-free importation of goods for free distribution to the earthquake victims in the Friuli region

19 . 7 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 179 / 33
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 29 June 1977
                 prolonging the duty-free importation of goods for free distribution to the earth­
                                             quake victims in the Friuli region
                                                (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                          (77/460/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                        Article 1
Economic Community,
                                                                     1 . The provision for admission free of import
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         duties, under Article 1 ( 1 ) of the Commission Deci­
 1410/74 of 4 June 1974 on the tariff treatment appli­               sion of 14 May 1976, shall be extended until 31
cable to goods imported for free circulation in the                  December 1977 for all goods imported for free circula­
event of disasters occurring in the territory of one or              tion by State organizations or by organizations
more Member States ('), and in particular Article 2                  approved by the competent Italian authorities for the
thereof,                                                             purpose of being distributed by them free to the earth­
                                                                     quake victims in the Friuli region, or made available
Having regard to the request made by the Govern­                     free of charge whilst remaining the property of the
ment of the Italian Republic dated 12 May 1976,                      organizations in question .
Whereas, by the Decision of 14 May 1976 (2) in                       2.     The provision for admission free of import
response to this request, the Commission authorized                  duties, under Article 1 (2) of the Commission Deci­
the duty-free importation of goods for free distribu­                sion of 14 May 1976 for goods imported for free circu­
tion to the earthquake victims in the Friuli region ;                lation by the relief units to cover their own require­
whereas this duty-free admission was extended until                  ments during the period of their operations, shall also
30 June 1977 by the Commission Decision of 1 April                   be extended until 31 December 1977.
 1977 (3) ;
Whereas the Commission 's consultation with the                                              Article 2
Italian Government under Article 3 of the said Deci­
sion has     revealed that because of the delay in imple­
menting      tfre plan for provisional rehousing of those            1.    The Government of the Italian Republic shall
                                                                     communicate     to  the  Commission    all  information
affected    by the disaster it is appropriate to extend
until 31     December 1977 the duty-free admission for               regarding the nature and quantities of the various
all goods imported for free circulation under the                    goods admitted free of duty under Article 1 .
conditions laid down in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
No 1410 /74 ;                                                        2. The communication required under paragraph 1
                                                                     must reach the Commission on the following dates :
Whereas in order to allow the Commission to follow
the development of the situation , there is reason for
                                                                     (a) for the period 11 June 1977 to 11 September
                                                                          1977, 20 September 1977 at the latest ;
providing for the transmission to the Commission by
the Italian Government, in accordance with a suitable                (b) for the period 12 September 1977 to 12 December
time table, all information on the scope and nature of                    1977, 20 December 1977 at the latest.
importations carried out with the benefit of duty-free
admission ;
                                                                                             Article 3
Whereas        the   other  Member       States   have   been
consulted in accordance with Article 2 of Regulation                 After consultation with the Government of the Italian
(EEC) No 1410/74,
                                                                     Republic, the Commission shall consider within six
                                                                     months from the date of the notification of this Deci­
(•) OJ No L 150 , 7 . 6 . 1974, p. 4.
(2 ) OJ No L 131 , 20 . 5. 1976, p. 19 .                             sion , whether this Decision should be maintained,
(3) OJ No L 87, 5. 4 . 1977, p. 36 .                                 modified or repealed .
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                     Article 4                            Done at Brussels, 29 June 1977.
This Decision shall come into effect from 1 July
1977 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                     Article 5                                                    Etienne DAVIGNON
This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.                           Member of the Commission