CELEX: 31978R2686
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2686/78 of 15 November 1978 making the importation into the United Kingdom of trousers originating in India subject to authorization

17 . 11 . 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 323/7
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2686/78
                                                      of 15 November 1978
               making the importation into the United Kingdom of trousers originating in
                                               India subject to authorization
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, in view of the market disruption referred to
COMMUNITIES,                                                         above, the Community has applied the procedures
                                                                     provided for in the said Agreement, which allow
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               appropriate safeguard measures to be taken in order to
 Economic Community,                                                 limit imports into the United Kingdom of the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         product in question, account being taken of import
 1439/74 of 4 June 1974 on common rules for                          trends, and these procedures have led to a mutually
 imports (*), and in particular Article 1 2 thereof,                 agreed solution ;
After consultation within the Advisory Committee                     Whereas, in particular, under the Agreement negoti­
established by Article 5 of that Regulation,                         ated by the Community with India, compliance with
Whereas imports of trousers falling within heading                   the quantitative export limits established or to be esta­
 Nos 61.01 and 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff                    blished by virtue of the said Agreement is ensured by
(NIMEXE codes 61.01-62, 64, 66, 72, 74, 76 ;                         a double-checking system, whose effectiveness
 61.02-66, 68 and 72, from all third countries, already              depends on the establishment of a system of control
accounted in 1977 for a considerable share of the                    by the Community ; whereas in order to establish
 Community market ; whereas, in the case of the                      such a system it is necessary to make import of the
United Kingdom, that share has since increased still                 goods in question from India subject to authorization ;
further ;
                                                                     Whereas, in order to ensure that the import authoriza­
Whereas quantitative limits have already been esta­                  tion arrangements referred to above are not evaded by
blished for the products in question in accordance                   anticipatory exports or indirect imports liable to cause
with the provisions of the Multifibre Agreement                      injury to Community producers which would be diffi­
(MFA) and of bilateral Agreements negotiated between                 cult to remedy, it is necessary to establish the said
the Community and certain supplying countries ;                      arrangements as soon as possible,
Whereas imports into the United Kingdom of the
product concerned originating in India have increased
sharply and substantially in the past few months ;                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas all these factors have given rise to disruption
of the United Kingdom market and are causing                                                   Article 1
serious damage to Community producers ;
Whereas, in pursuance of the Arrangement regarding                   The importation into the United Kingdom of the
international trade in textiles, the Community has                   goods indicated below, originating in India and
negotiated an Agreement on trade in textile products                 exported from that country in 1978, is hereby made
with India ; whereas this Agreement contains specific                subject to the production of an import authorization
provision for recourse to safeguard measures ;                       issued by the United Kingdom authorities :
                                CCT
                                                NIMEXE code
                                                                                                   Quantitative limit
                 Category     heading                                      Description               from 1 . 1 . to
                                 No
                                                   ( 1978)                                           31 . 12. 1978
               6          ex 61.01            61.01-62, 64,     Men's    and     boys'   woven     110 000 pieces
                                              66, 72, 74, 76    breeches, shorts and trousers
                          ex 61.02           61.02-66,     68 , Women's, girls' and infants'
                                              72                woven trousers
(») OJ No L 159, 15. 6. 1974, p. 1 .
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                       Article 2                             and without delay upon presentation of a bill of
                                                             lading proving that the goods in question were placed
1.    Import authorizations shall be issued automati­        on board in India for export to the United Kingdom
cally and without delay, within the limits of the quan­      before the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
tity specified above, upon presentation of the export
documents agreed under the Agreement on trade in
textile products negotiated with India and reproduced                                Article 3
in Annex C to Regulation (EEC) No 3019/77 (1).
                                                              1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the
Imports effected between 1 January 1978 and the date          second day following its publication in the Official
of entry into force of this Regulation shall be              Journal of the European Communities.
deducted from this quantity where the goods in ques­
tion were exported from India during this period.             2. It shall apply until 31 December 1978, subject to
                                                              the adoption of a Council Regulation in accordance
2. Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph           with Articles 12 (6) and 13 of Regulation (EEC) No
1 , import authorizations shall be issued automatically       1439/74.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 15 November 1978 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                         Lorenzo NATALI
                                                                           Vice-President
(») OJ No L 357, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 1 .