CELEX: 31973D0061
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28 March 1973 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), except knives with handle in ivory or in gilded or silvered base metal falling within heading No ex 82.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and in free circulation in the other Member States

3 . 4. 73                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 87/ 17
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 28 March 1973
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to knives
              with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), except knives
              with handle in ivory or in gilded or silvered base metal falling within heading
              No ex 82.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and in free
                                     circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                      (73/61 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof ;                                                          Article 1
Having regard to the application under Article 115 of            The French Government is authorized not to apply
the Treaty, made on 22 March 1973 by the French                  Community treatment to imports of the following
Government to the Commission by telex from the                   products, where they originate in Japan and are in
office of its Permanent Representative to the Euro­              free circulation in the other Member States, and in *
pean Communities, for authorization not to apply                 respect of which applications for import licences were
Community treatment to knives with cutting blades,               lodged after 11 March 1973 .
serrated or not (including pruning knives), except
knives with handle in ivory or in gilded or silvered
base metal falling within heading No ex 82.09 of the              CCT heading
                                                                      No
                                                                                                   Description
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and in
free circulation in the other Member States ;                    ex 82.09         knives with cutting blades, serrated or
Whereas differences in the measures of commercial
                                                                                  not (including pruning knives), except
                                                                                  knives with handle in ivory or in gilded
policy taken in connection with these products by                                 or silvered base metal
 France and by the other Member States, as regards
Japan are giving rise to deflection of trade ;
Whereas this deflection of trade is preventing the                                        Article 2
execution of measures of commercial policy taken by
 France as regards Japan ;                                       The period of validity of this Decision shall expire
                                                                 upon the introduction of a uniform system of imports
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in         as part of the common commercial policy as regards
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­               Japan and in any event not later than 31 December
sary cooperation from the other Member States ;                  1973 .
Whereas authorization should be given, for a limited
                                                                                          Article J
period, for the application of protective measures,
under the first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the         This Decision is addressed to the French Govern­
conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of               ment .
 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular in Article 1 thereof ;
Whereas a uniform system of imports could be                     Done at Brussels, 28 March 1973 .
adopted for the products in question as part of a
common commercial policy as regards Japan ;                                                 For the Commission
whereas the period of validity of these protective                                              The President
measures should expire upon the introduction of such
a system ;                                                                                 François-Xavier ORTOLI
(>) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 .