CELEX: 31976D0923
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 26 October 1976 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to half-boots with uppers of rubber falling within heading No ex 64.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 364/4                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   31 . 12 . 76
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                                            (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                     COMMISSION
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 26 October 1976
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to half-boots with
              uppers of rubber falling within heading No ex 64.01 of the Common Customs Tariff,
                   originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                                 (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                           ( 76/923 /EEC )
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        to the difficulties they are at present experiencing in
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                         marketing their products ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 Whereas indirect imports of the products in question,
 Economic Community, and in particular the first                       which would be in addition to those already effected,
 paragraph of Article 115 thereof,                                     would be likely to aggravate the above economic
                                                                       difficulties in view of the fact that the prices of these
 Having regard to the application under the first                      imports are approximately 50 °/o below those charged
 paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on                       by national producers ;
 21 October 1976 by the Italian Government to the
 Commission by telex from the Office of its Permanent                 Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly
 Representative to the European Communities, for                       the machinery for bringing about the necessary
 authorization not to apply Community treatment                        cooperation from the other Member States ;
 to half-boots falling within heading No ex 64.01 of
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in                             Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
 Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the other                  for the application of protective measures, under the
 Member States,                                                       first paragraph of Article 115 , subject to the conditions
                                                                      laid down by the Commission Decision of
Whereas, for the products falling within heading                      12 May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
No ex 64.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, the
Italian Republic, in accordance with the Council
Decision of 18 December 1975 ( J ), has opened in                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
respect of Czechoslovakia a quota for 1976 of Lit
376 million, which is now exhausted ;
Whereas according to information supplied by the                                               Article 1
Italian Government many footwear firms located
in certain less-developed areas in southern Italy are                 The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
facing a serious crisis attributable in large measure                 Community treatment to the following products :
(!) OJ No L 332 , 29 . 12 . 1975 , p . 1 .                            (2 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p . 26.
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                                                              the products in question from Czechoslovakia and
      CCT
  heading No                Description of goods              in any case not later than 31 December 1976.
ex 64.01        Footwear with outer soles and uppers
                of rubber or artificial plastic material:
                — Half-boots with uppers of rubber                                  Article 3
                                                              This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
where they originate in Czechoslovakia and are in
free circulation in the other Member States, and in           Done at Brussels, 26 October 1976.
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 14 October 1976.
                       Article 2                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise in the Italian Republic for the importation of                              Member of the Commission