CELEX: 31976D0528
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 14 April 1976 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to certain pullovers of synthetic textile fibres falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 154/ 18                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                   15 . 6 . 76
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                                    (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                             COMMISSION
                                           COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 14 April 1976
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to certain
              pullovers of synthetic textile fibres falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the
              Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circu­
                                       lation in the other Member States
                                         (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                   (76/ 528 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas the allocation of tne voluntary restraint
COMMUNITIES ,                                                  ceiling in question still involves certain disparities in
                                                               the quota shares fixed for the various Member States
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          in relation to the supply requirements of the markets
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          concerned ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                Whereas these disparities are likely to create a flow of
                                                               indirect trade which could aggravate the difficult situa­
Having regard to the application under the first para­         tion of the textile industry ;
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 5 April
1976 by the Italian Government to the Commission               Whereas the quantity covered by the licence applica­
by telex from the office of its Permanent Representa­          tion on which the Italian Government's application is
tive to the European Communities, for authorization            based ( 129 950 items equivalent to 17% of the
to apply protective measures in respect of imports of          French quota share) is such as to justify operations of
                                                               this kind ;
certain pullovers of synthetic , textile fibres falling
within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs               Whereas, according to information supplied by the
Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in            Italian Government, there are serious economic diffi­
free circulation in France ,                                   culties in the sector that manufactures the products in
                                                               question resulting in a progressive decline of produc­
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              tion   and  a constant     reduction    of the number of
products in question originating in the Republic of            workers employed in that sector ;
Korea is the subject of an Agreement negotiated                Whereas the indirect imports in question are likely to
between the Community and that country initialled              aggravate these economic difficulties ;
on 28 November 1975 ;
                                                               Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
Whereas, under the Agreement, the Republic of                  motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
Korea has undertaken to take all necessary steps to            sary cooperation from France and the other Member
limit its exports of certain textile products to the           States ;
Community to certain ceilings allocated among the              Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,
Member States ;                                                for a limited period, for the application of protective
                                                               measures, under the first paragraph of Article 115,
Whereas for the products falling within heading No             subject tc> the conditions laid down by the Commis­
ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, the quota               sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular
share allocated for 1976 to Italy is 450 000 items             Article 1 thereof,
while that allocated to the French Republic in respect
of the same products is 740 000 items ;                        (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                             Article 2
                          Article 1                              This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                                 arise in Italy for the importation of the products in
The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply                  question from the Republic of Korea and in any case
Community treatment to imports of the following                  not later than 31 December 1976 .
products :
      CCT
                                                                                        Article 3
     heading                  Description of goods
        No
                                                                 This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
ex 60.05          Outer garments and clothing accessories,
                  knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubber­
                  ized :
                  Pullovers of synthetic textile fibres :        Done at Brussels, 14 April 1976 .
                  — Of polyamide fibres
                                                                                          For the Commission
where they originate in the Republic of Korea and are
in free circulation in the other Member States , and in                                   Christopher SOAMES
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 1 April 1976.                                                                    Vice-President