CELEX: 31977D0761
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 March 1977 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to toys of wood and other (except motors and movement mechanisms for toys and working models used for recreational purposes, and parts thereof) falling within subheadings 97.03 A and ex B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and in free circulation in the other Member States

8 . 12. 77                        Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 314/31
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                                      (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                               COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 17 March 1977
             authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to toys of
             wood and other (except motors and movement mechanisms for toys and
             working models used for recreational purposes, and parts thereof) falling within
             subheadings 97.03 A and ex B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in
                          Japan and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                           (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                      (77/761 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   France and by the other Member States as regards
COMMUNITIES,                                                    Japan are giving rise to deflection of trade in parti­
                                                                cular to protect the concerned industry where recon­
                                                                struction in currently in progress ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           Whereas this deflection of trade is preventing the
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                 execution   of    the     abovementioned  measures     of
                                                                commercial policy currently being taken by France as
                                                                regards Japan ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty made on 9 March
1977 by the French Government to the Commission                 Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
by telex from the office of its Permanent Representa­           motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
tive to the European Communities, for authorization             sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
not to apply Community treatment to toys of wood
and other (except motors and movement mechanisms                Whereas authorization should be given, for a limited
for toys and working models used for recreational               period, for the application of protective measures,
purposes, and parts thereof) falling within subheadings         under the first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the
97.03 A and ex B of the Common Customs Tariff,
                                                                conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
originating in Japan and in free circulation in the              12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
other Member States ,
                                                                Whereas a uniform system of imports could be
Whereas since the application of Article 115 the                adopted for the products in question as part of a
importation into France of the product in question              common commercial policy as regards Japan ;
originating in Japan is subject to an annual quota
which for 1977 is $ 620 000 ;                                   Whereas the period of validity of the protective
                                                                measures should expire upon the introduction of such
                                                                a system ,
Whereas differences in the measures of commercial
policy taken in connection with these products by               (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                             Article 2
                         Article 1                               The period of validity of this Decision shall expire
                                                                  upon the introduction of a uniform system of imports
The French Republic is authorized not to apply                    as part of the common commercial policy as regards
Community treatment to imports of the following                  Japan and in any event not later than 31 December
products, where they originate in Japan and are in                1977 .
free circulation in the other Member States, and in
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 1 March 1977.                                                              Article 3
      CCT                                                         This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
     heading                  Description of goods
       No
                                                                                                  0
97.03            Other toys, models of a kind used for            Done at Brussels , 17 March 1977 .
                 recreational purposes :
            A    — Of wood
        ex B     — Other (except motors and movement                                      For the Commission
                     mechanisms for toys and working
                     models of a kind used for recreational                                Étienne DAVIGNON
                     purposes, and parts thereof)
                                                                                       Member of the Commission