CELEX: 31977D0637
Language: en
Date: 1977-08-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 August 1977 authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany not to apply Community treatment to men's and boys' outer garments, trousers, breeches and the like, falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States

11 . 10 . 77                     Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 258/9
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 11 August 1977
              authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany not to apply Community treat­
              ment to men's and boys' outer garments, trousers, breeches and the like, falling
              within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the
                People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                         (Only the German text is authentic)
                                                    (77/637/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                               Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
COMMUNITIES,                                                  for the application of protective measures, under the
                                                              first paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty, subject to
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        the conditions specified in the Commission Decision
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­        of 12 May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
graph of Article 115 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 4 August
 1977 the Government of the Federal Republic of
Germany to the Commission by telex from the Office                                     Article 1
of its Permanent Representative to men's and boys'
outer garments, trousers, breeches and the like, falling     The Federal Republic of Germany is hereby autho­
within heading No ex 6 1.01 of the Common Customs             rized not to apply Community treatment to men's and
Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China        boys' outer garments, trousers, breeches and the like,
and in free circulation in the other Member States,           falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common
                                                              Customs Tariff, where they originate in the People's
Whereas for the products falling within heading No            Republic of China and are in free circulation in the
ex 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, the Federal           other Member States, and in respect of which applica­
Republic of Germany, in accordance with the Council          tions for import licences were lodged after 26 July
Decision of 13 December 1976 (*), opened in respect           1977 are, on the date of this Decision, pending with
of the People's Republic of China a quota of DM 1 -82        the German authorities .
million for 1977, which has been used up ;
Whereas, according to information supplied by the                                      Article 2
Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, the
economic difficulties in the textile industry                This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
concerned, which were the reason for the restrictive         Germany.
measure, still persist ;
Whereas indirect imports, which would be in addition          Done at Brussels, 11 August 1977.
to those already effected, would be likely to aggravate
these economic difficulties ;                                                            For the Commission
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in                                  fitienne DAVIGNON
motion rapidly the machinery for bringing about the
necessary cooperation from the other Member States ;                                 Member of the Commission
(») OJ No L 365, 31 . 12. 1976.                              (2) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.