CELEX: 31975D0467
Language: en
Date: 1975-04-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 10 April 1975 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to cotton shirts falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany

9 . 8 . 75                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 212/ 1
                                                           II
                                      (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                             COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 10 April 1975
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to cotton shirts
              falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in
                      Hong Kong and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany
                                        (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                     (75/467/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, however, this voluntary restraint ceiling
COMMUNITIES,                                                    was allocated among the various Member States in
                                                                accordance with a scale communicated to Hong
                                                                Kong by the Community;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular
the first paragraph of Article 115 thereof;                     Whereas that Agreement expired in 1973 ; whereas,
                                                                however, imports of cotton textiles originating in
Having regard to the application to the Commission              and coming from Hong Kong continue to be
under the first paragraph of Article 115 of the                 governed by the voluntary restraint arrangements
Treaty, made on 28 March 1975 by the Italian                    laid down in the Agreement and remain within the
Government by telex from that country's permanent               limits of the ceilings provided for therein increased
representative to the European Communities, for                 autonomously by the Hong Kong Government;
authorization to apply protective measures in respect
of the importation of certain cotton products falling           Whereas the request for indirect importation which
within heading No ex 61.03, originating in Hong                 prompted the application relates to an amount
Kong and in free circulation in the Federal Republic            corresponding to more than 80 °/o of the quota
of Germany;                                                     allocated to Italy for the period 1 January 1975 to 30
                                                                September 1975 ; whereas in those circumstances the
Whereas the importation into the Community of the               carrying out of the proposed operation would render
products in question originating in Hong Kong was               ineffective the allocation of the ceiling among the
the subject of the Agreement (*) on trade in cotton             Member States and would be likely to aggravate the
textiles between the Community and Hong Kong                    current economic difficulties in the sector concerned;
signed on 22 July 1971 ;
Whereas for the duration of that Agreement the                  Whereas authorization should be given, for a limited
Community suspended all quantitative restrictions               period, for the application of protective measures
on imports of cotton textiles originating in Hong               under the first paragraph of Article 115, subject to
Kong on condition that Hong Kong limited its                    the conditions laid down by the Commission
exports of those products to a certain ceiling fixed in          Decision of 12 May 1971 (2), and in particular
the Agreement;                                                  Article 1 thereof,
H OJ No L 220, 30. 9. 1971, p. 23.                               (2) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                        Article 3
                       Article 1
The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply             This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
Community treatment to imports of cotton shirts
falling within heading No 61.03 of the Common
Customs Tariff, where they originate in Hong Kong
and are in free circulation in the Federal Republic of      Done at Brussels, 10 April 1975 .
Germany and in respect of which applications for
import licences were lodged after 21 March 1975 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
                       Article 2                                                         The President
This Decision shall apply until 30 September 1975 .                                François-Xavier ORTOLI