CELEX: 31976D0246
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 December 1975 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to woven fabrics of cotton other than gauze or terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, unbleached, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan and in free circulation in the Benelux countries and the Federal Republic of Germany

26 . 2 . 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 51 /3
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 8 December 1975
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to woven
              fabrics of cotton other than gauze or terry towelling and similar terry fabrics,
              unbleached, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff,
              originating in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan and in free circulation in the
                               Benelux countries and the Federal Republic of Germany
                                                (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                          (76/246/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        tion in the Benelux countries and the Federal Repu­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         blic of Germany, which threatens to continue and to
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                grow ;
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                       Whereas according to information supplied by the
                                                                      Italian Government there are serious economic diffi­
 Having regard to the application under the first para­               culties in the branch of the textile industry in ques­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 28                        tion resulting in a progressive decline of production
 November 1975 by the Italian Government to the                       leading to unemployment in a number of factories ;
Commission by telex from the Office of its Perma­
nent Representative to the European Communities,                      Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
for authorization to apply protective measures to                     would be in addition to those already effected in the
imports of certain cotton products falling within                     current year, would be likely to aggravate these
heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff,                     economic difficulties ;
originating in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan and
in free circulation in the Benelux countries (in parti­               Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
cular the Netherlands) and the Federal Republic of                    motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
Germany,                                                              sary cooperation from the Netherlands and the other
                                                                      Benelux countries and the Federal Republic of
Whereas the products in question originating in the                  Germany ;
Republic of Korea continue to be imported into the
Community under the voluntary restraint arrange­                     Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,
ments defined in the Agreement concluded with that                   for a limited period, for the application of protective
third country on 29 March 1971 (^, which expired in                   measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
 1973, within the limits of the ceilings specified in the
Agreement, increased in accordance with the provi­
sions of the new arrangement concerning interna­
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
tional trade in textiles ;
Whereas imports into the Community of such
products originating in Taiwan are subject to a                                               Article 1
Community quota established by Council Regulation
(EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July 1 975 (2) and allocated                  The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
among the Member States by Commission Regulation                     Community treatment to imports of the following
(EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975 (3) ;                               product :
Whereas, since it was not possible to achieve full align­
ment of the import arrangements previously applied                          CCT
                                                                           heading                Description of goods
in the Member States, there are disparities in the                           No
conditions governing the importation of the products
in question, originating in the abovementioned third                 ex 55.09         Woven fabrics of cotton other than gauze
countries, into the various markets within the Commu­                                 or terry towelling and similar terry fabrics,
nity ;                                                                                unbleached
Whereas these disparities have caused in Italy a flow
of imports of the products in question, originating in
the Republic of Korea and Taiwan and in free circula­                where they originate in the Republic of Korea or
                                                                     Taiwan and are in free circulation in the Benelux
                                                                     countries and the Federal Republic of Germany, and
(>) OJ No L 55, 8 . .3 . 1971 , p . 12.
(2 ) OJ No L 182, 12 . 7. 1975, p . 2 .                              in respect of which applications for import licences
 3) OJ No L 189 , 21 . 7. 1975, p. 24 .                              were lodged after 19 November 1975.
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                     Article 2                            Done at Brussels, 8 December 1975.
This Decision shall apply until 31 December 1975 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                     Article 3                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.                           Member of the Commission