CELEX: 31978D0005
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 October 1977 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to cotton yarn, falling within heading No 55.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Arab Republic of Egypt and in free circulation in the other Member States

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                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 21 October 1977
             authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to cotton
             yarn , falling within heading No 55.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
             nating in the Arab Republic of Egypt and in free circulation in the other
                                                       Member States
                                              (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                           (78/5/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas there are serious economic difficulties in the
COMMUNITIES,                                                       sector of the textile industry in question , as shown by
                                                                   a decline in production and a growing rate of unem­
                                                                   ployment ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­              Whereas those imports currently put into free circula­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                    tion, added to those already effected, are likely to
                                                                   worsen these difficulties ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 12                     Whereas it is not possible to set in motion quickly the
October 1977 by the United Kingdom Government to                   machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                   tion from the other Member States ;
the Commission by telex from the Office of its Perma­
nent Representative to the European Communities,
for authorization not to apply Community treatment                 Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
to cotton yarn, falling within heading No 55.05 of the             for the application of protective measures as laid down
Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Arab                     in the Commission Decision of 12 May 1971 (3 ), and
Republic of Egypt and in free circulation in the other             in particular Article 1 thereof ;
Member States,
                                                                   Whereas, however, those requests for import licences
                                                                   made prior to 5 October 1977 should not be covered
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 1566/77 of 12 July                  by such authorization because of the fact that in rela­
1977 (') the Commission for the period 1 July to 31                tion to these requests the action which lead to the
December 1977 made imports to the Community of                     present Decision was introduced outside the time
cotton yarn originating in Egypt subject to the presen­            limit laid down by the Decision of 12 May 1977,
tation of an import document issued by the authori­
ties of the Member States up to certain amounts ;
whereas this was confirmed by Council Regulation of
5 August 1977 (2);                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas    the  abovementioned         amounts were     fixed                                 Article 1
after taking account of the rules of application of the
so-called binding consultation clause of the Agree­                The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
ment negotiated by the Community and the Arab                      Community treatment to cotton yarn falling within
Republic of Egypt with the terms of Article 4 of the               heading No 55.05 of the Common Customs Tariff,
Arrangement regarding international trade in textiles              originating in the Arab Republic of Egypt, in free
initialled on 13 May 1976 ; whereas because of this                circulation in the other Member States and for which
there are disparities in the rules of imports concerned            the date of application of requests for import licences
among the import conditions in the various Member                  is later than 4 October 1977 .
States ;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas in this context the import documents issued
by the United Kingdom authorities for cotton yarn
originating in Egypt have reached the full amount laid             This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
down for the United Kingdom ;                                      arise in the United Kingdom for the importation of
                                                                   the products in question from the Arab Republic of
(>) OJ No L 174, 14. 7 . 1977, p . 9 .
(2) OJ No L 202, 5 . 8 . 1977, p . 2 .                             (3 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.
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Egypt and in any case not later than 31 December          Done at Brussels, 21 October 1977.
1977.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                     Article 3                                                     Guido BRUNNER
This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom .                            Member of the Commission