CELEX: 31978D0353
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 27 February 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to coats, raincoats and jackets for women, girls and infants, of wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

15. 4. 78                        Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 103 /25
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                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 27 February 1978
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to coats ,
              raincoats and jackets for women, girls and infants, of wool , cotton or man-made
              textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common Customs
              Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member
                                                         States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                    (78 /353/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 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                               Whereas according to the application submitted there
Having regard to the application under the first para­         are    serious  difficulties     in   the industrial sector
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 22                  concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­
February 1978 by the French Government to the                   tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
Commission of the European Communities, for                     market share ;
authorization not to apply Community treatment to
coats, raincoats and jackets for women, girls and
infants, of wool , cotton or man-made textile fibres,          Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
falling within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common               already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free           difficulties ;
circulation in the other Member States :
                                                               Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
products in question originating in Hong Kong is               tion from the other Member States ;
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the
Community and Hong Kong ;
                                                               Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                               for the application of protective measures under the
Whereas under that Agreement Hong Kong has                     first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its            tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
exports of the products in question to the Community           May 1971 (') and in particular Article 1 thereof,
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 31 December 1978 .
The French Republic is authorized not to apply
Community treatment to the products indicated                                        Article 3
below, where they originate in Hong Kong and are in
free circulation in the other Member States, and in             This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 9 February 1978 :
                                                                Done at Brussels, 27 February 1978 .
     CCT
    heading                       Description
      No
                                                                                       For the Commission
ex 61.02         Coats, raincoats and jackets for women,
                 girls and infants, of wool , cotton or of man­                        Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
                 made textile fibres
                                                                                           Vice-President