CELEX: 31975D0702
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30 October 1975 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to bananas falling within subheading 08.01 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Columbia, Costa Rica and Ecuador, and in free circulation in the other Member States

20 . 11 . 75                        Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 300 / 13
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 30 October 1975
               authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to bananas
               falling within subheading 08.01 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating
               in Columbia, Costa Rica and Ecuador, and in free circulation in the other
                                                      Member States
                                           (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                        (75/702/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Community will take all necessary measures to realize
COMMUNITIES,                                                       this objective ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas the United Kingdom granted, for the period
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­              1 October 1975 to 23 November 1975, supplementary
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof ;                                   licences for the importation of 15 000 metric tons of
                                                                  bananas originating from the 'dollar zone' countries
                                                                  over and above the 4 000 metric tons of the basic
Having regard to the application under the first para­            quota, of which 10 000 metric tons have already been
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty made on 24                     entered and 5 000 are intended to supply the needs of
October 1975 by the United Kingdom Government to                  the market from 23 October 1975 to 23 November
the Commission by telex from the office of its Perma­              1975 ;
nent Representative to the European Communities,
for authorization not to apply Community treatment
to bananas falling within subheading 08.01 B of the               Whereas according to the information supplied in the
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Columbia,                   appeal, the result is a lowering of the retail price of
Costa Rica and Ecuador, and in free circulation in the            bananas at present on the United Kingdom market ;
Netherlands ;
                                                                  Whereas bananas, as perishable produce, require
Whereas the importation of bananas to the Nether­                 immediate sale, and having regard to the licences
lands is liberalized while in the United Kingdom                  already issued, the indirect imports envisaged threaten
imports of bananas originating in Columbia, Costa                 to cause an excess of supply for the period 23 October
Rica and Ecuador, and other countries comprising the               1975 to 23 November 1975 and consequently an
dollar zone ( !) are subject to quantitative restrictions         aggravation of the tendency towards lower prices ;
and in this context a comprehensive, annual basic
quota of 4 000 metric tons has been opened ;
                                                                  Whereas the anticipated indirect imports are likely to
                                                                  endanger the objectives of Protocol 6 on bananas of
Whereas it appears from such recourse that the objec­             the Lome convention and to impede the commercial
tive of this commercial policy is to assure a priority of         policy measures that the United Kingdom has taken
entry to the United Kingdom market of bananas origi­              with respect to the 'dollar zone' countries ;
nating from the Carribean , which countries, because
of their less favourable production factors as compared
with other exporting countries, would be unable to                Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
withstand free competition ;                                      motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                                  sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Whereas by virtue of Protocol 6 of the Lome conven­
tion signed 28 February 1975, the Community and                   Whereas, in order to ensure that the implementation
the ACP countries agreed on the objective that for                of the abovementioned commercial policy measures is
their banana exports to the Community no one ACP                  not obstructed, authorization should be given, for a
country will be placed in a less favourable position              limited period, for the application of protective
than previously or currently with respect to market               measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
access and to advantages in the market, and that the              subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
                                                                  sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (2), and in particular
                                                                  Article 1 thereof,
(') Bolivia, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador,
    Guatemala, Haiti, Republic of Honduras, Liberia, Mexico,
    Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, USA and Venezuela .           (2 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                 United Kingdom from Columbia, Costa Rica and
                                                            Ecuador, and in any case not later than 23 November
                       Article 1                            1975 .
The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
                                                                                 Article 3
Community treatment to imports of bananas falling
within subheading 08.01 B of the Common Customs
Tariff, where they originate in Columbia, Costa Rica       This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom .
and Ecuador and are in free circulation in the other
Member States, and in respect of which applications
for import licences were lodged after 13 October            Done at Brussels, 30 October 1975 .
1975 .
                                                                                    For the Commission
                       Article 2
                                                                                     The Vice-President
This Decision shall apply until the opening of new
import possibilities of the product in question into                                Christopher SOAMES