CELEX: 31978D0403
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 March 1978 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, coated with vinyl, falling within heading No ex 60.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

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                                    (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                           COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 17 March 1978
             authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to gloves,
             mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, coated with
             vinyl, falling within heading No ex 60.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
               nating in South Korea and in friee circulation in the other Member States
                                         (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                     (78/403/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                persist between the import conditions in the various
COMMUNITIES,                                                  Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
                                                              only progressively ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­         Whereas according to the application submitted there
                                                              are   serious  difficulties     in  the industrial   sector
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                              concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­
                                                              tion and employment ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 9 March           Whereas, although the imports which gave rise to the
1978 by the United Kingdom Government to the                  application submitted would appear to be an isolated
Commission of the European Communities, for                   operation, they are nevertheless likely, owing to the
authorization not to apply Community treatment to             appreciable amount of the imports, to aggravate these
gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not          difficulties ;
elastic or rubberized, coated with vinyl, falling within
heading No ex 60.02 of the Common Customs Tariff,             Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
originating in South Korea and in free circulation in         machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
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 South Korea 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 this third country ;                            May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Whereas under that Agreement South Korea has
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its           HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
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
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities      (!) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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below, where they originate in South Korea and are in                              Article 2
free circulation in the other Member States, and in
respect of which applications for import licences were        This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom .
lodged after 27 February 1978 and are, on the date of
this Decision, pending with the British authorities :
      CCT                                                     Done at Brussels, 17 March 1978 .
     heading                    Description
       No
                                                                                     For the Commission
ex 60.02        Gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or
                crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, coated                          Étienne DAVIGNON
                with vinyl
                                                                                  Member of the Commission