CELEX: 31979D0624
Language: en
Date: 1979-06-06 00:00:00
Title: 79/624/EEC: Commission Decision of 6 June 1979 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to women' s, girls' and infants' woven overcoats, raincoats and other coats, cloaks and capes, jackets and blazers, other than garments of category 15 A, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 61.02-31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40) (category 15 B), originating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

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                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 6 June 1979
              authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to
              women's, girls' and infants' woven overcoats, raincoats and other coats, cloaks
              and capes, jackets and blazers, other than garments of category 15 A, of wool , of
              cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 61.02 B of the
              Common Customs Tariff ( NIMEXE codes 61.02-31 , 32 , 33 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 39, 40) (cate­
              gory 15 B), originating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member
                                                         States
                                          (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                     (79/624/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  the products in question to the Community up to the
COMMUNITIES,                                                    amount of certain ceilings allocated among the
                                                                Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           cate those ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                 individual markets ; whereas there are therefore dispar­
                                                                ities existing between the import conditions in the
Having regard to the application under the first para­          various Member States ; whereas uniformity can only
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 23 May              be achieved progressively ;
1979 by the United Kingdom Government to the
Commission of the European Communities, for                     Whereas it appears from the application submitted
                                                                that there are serious difficulties in    the industrial
authorization not to apply Community treatment to
women's, girls' and infants' woven overcoats, raincoats         sector concerned involving a considerable drop in
and other coats, cloaks and capes, jackets and blazers,         production and employment ;
other than garments of category 15 A, of wool , of              Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within            already made or proposed, would be likely to aggra­
subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs                     vate these difficulties ;
Tariff (NIMEXE codes 61.02-31 , 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39,
40) (category 15 B), originating in Romania and in              Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
free circulation in the other Member States ,                   machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                tion from the other Member States ;
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
                                                                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
products in question originating in Romania is
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                  for the application of protective measures under the
Community and that country ;                                    first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
                                                                tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 / 202/ EEC
                                                                of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
Whereas under that Agreement Romania has under­
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of       (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26 .
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Whereas, however, the application for a licence which                               Article 2
gave rise to the application in question does not need
to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
small amount involved,                                        This Decision shall apply until 30 June 1979 .
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                    Article 3
                       Article 1
The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
Community treatment to the products indicated                 This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom .
below, where they originate in Romania and are in
free circulation in the other Member States, and in
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 18 May 1979 :
           CCT                                                Done at Brussels, 6 June 1979 .
          heading                    Description
            No
ex 61.02 B             Women's, girls' and infants' woven
(NIMEXE codes          overcoats, raincoats and other coats,
61.02-31 , 32, 33, 35, cloaks    and capes, jackets and                               For the Commission
36, 37, 39 , 40)       blazers, other than garments of cate­
(category 15 B)        gory 15 A, of wool , of cotton or of                          Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
                       man-made textile fibres
                                                                                          Vice-President