CELEX: 31977D0167
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 December 1976 authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to footwear other than with uppers of leather falling within subheading 64.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the United Kingdom

No L 52/38                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             24. 2. 77
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 21 December 1976
             authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to footwear other than
             with uppers of leather falling within subheading 64.02 B of the Common
             Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the United
                                                       Kingdom
                                          (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                     (77/ 167/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 subject to the conditions laid down by Commission
COMMUNITIES,                                                   Decision 71 /202/EEC of 12 May 1971 (2), and in parti­
                                                               cular Article 1 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          Whereas it is unappropriate to cover by this Decision
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                the request for the licence with which the application
                                                               in question originated because of its especially low
Having regard to the application under the first para­         amount,
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 7
December 1976 by the Government of Irelafnd by
telex from the office of its Permanent Representative          HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
to the European Community, for authorization not to
apply Community treatment in respect of footwear                                       Article 1
other than with uppers of leather falling within
subheading 64.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff,               Ireland is authorized not to apply Community treat­
originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the           ment to footwear other than with uppers of leather
United Kingdom,                                                falling within subheading 64.02 B of the Common
                                                               Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan, in free circula­
Whereas Ireland, following the procedure referred to           tion in the United Kingdom and in respect of which
in Council Decision 72/455/ EEC of 19 December                 applications for import licences were lodged after 6
1972 laying down certain transitional measures for the         December 1976.
progressive standardization of import terms of
Member States as regards third countries (*), made                                     Article 2
imports of products falling within heading No 64.02
B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in                 This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
Taiwan, subject to quantitative restrictions with effect       arise in Ireland for the importations from Taiwan of
from 12 November 1976 ;                                        the products in question, and in any case not later
                                                               than 31 December 1976.
Whereas in Ireland there are serious economic diffi­
culties in the sector in question, this being shown by                                 Article J
a decrease in production and an increasing rate of
unemployment ;                                                 This Decision is addressed to Ireland.
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion the
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­            Done at Brussels, 21 December 1976.
tion from the United Kingdom and the other Member
States ;                                                                                  For the Commission
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given                                            Guido BRUNNER
for the application of protective measures, under the
first paragraph of Article 115 of the EEC Treaty,                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 299, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 46.                         (') OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.