CELEX: 31976D0448
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 2 April 1976 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's and boy's shirts of cotton and of mixed textile fibres falling within heading No ex 60.04, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany

12. 5. 76                         Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 124/ 13
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                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 2 April 1976
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's
              and boys' shirts of cotton and of mixed textile fibres falling within heading No
              ex 60.04 , originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the
                                           Federal Republic of Germany
                                          (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                    (76/448 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 of the Federal Republic of Germany for the same
COMMUNITIES,                                                   products is 2 838 000 items ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas this allocation of the quota in question still
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          involves certain disparities in the quota shares fixed
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                for the various Member States ' by reference to the
                                                               supply requirements of the markets concerned ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­         Whereas these disparities are likely to create an in­
graph of Article 1 15 of the Treaty, made on 25 March          direct trade flow which could aggravate the persistent
1976 by the Italian Government to the Commission               difficulties in the textile trade ;
by telex from the Office of its Permanent Representa­
                                                               Whereas according to information supplied in the
tive to the European Communities, for authorization
                                                               application it does not appear that there is at present
to apply protective measures in respect of the importa­        an indirect trade flow of the products in question
tion of men's and boys' shirts of cotton and mixed             towards Italy ;
textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 60.04 of
the Common Customs Tariff originating in the Repu­             Whereas the indirect importation envisaged, although
blic of Korea and in free circulation in the Federal           it appears to be an isolated operation, would if under­
Republic of Germany,                                           taken be liable to aggravate further the difficult situa­
                                                               tion of the national production concerned because of
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              its considerable volume (8-2% of the quota share allo­
products in question originating in the Republic of            cated to Italy) ;
Korea was the subject of an Agreement negotiated
                                                               Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
between the Community and that country and ini­
tialled on 28 November 1975 ;
                                                               motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                               sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
                                                               Germany and the other Member States ;
Whereas, under the Agreement, the Republic of
Korea has undertaken to take all necessary steps to            Whereas authorization should be given for the applica­
limit its exports of certain textile products to the           tion of protective measures, under the first paragraph
Community to certain ceilings allocated among the              of Article 1 1 5, subject to the conditions laid down by
Member States ;                                                the Commission Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in
                                                               particular Article 1 thereof,
Whereas the 1976 quota share allocated to Italy for
the products in question is 437 000 items, while that          ( i ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                     Germany and in respect of which applications for
                                                                import licences were lodged after 17 March 1976 and
                        Article 1                               are, on the date of this Decision, pending before the
                                                                 Italian authorities .
The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
Community treatment to the following products :
                                                                                       Article 2
     CCT
    heading                  Description of goods               This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic .
      No
ex 60.04        Undergarments, knitted or crocheted, not
                elastic nor rubberized                           Done at Brussels, 2 April 1976.
                — men's and boys' shirts of cotton and of
                    mixed textile fibres .                                               For the Commission
                                                                                         Christopher SOAMES
where they originate in the Republic of Korea and are
in free circulation in the Federal Republic of                                               Vice-President