CELEX: 31977D0201
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23 February 1977 modifying its Decision of 22 December 1975 authorizing the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take protective measures in respect of Council Regulation (EEC) No 543/69 of 25 March 1969 on the harmonization of certain social legislation relating to road transport

No L 63/6                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                     9 . 3 . 77
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                                        (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                COMMISSION
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 23 February 1977
              modifying its Decision of 22 December 1975 authorizing the United Kingdom
              of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take protective measures in respect of
              Council Regulation (EEC) No 543/69 of 25 March 1969 on the harmonization of
                               certain social legislation relating to road transport
                                            (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                        (77/201 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     cles 6 to 12, 14 and 15 of Council Regulation (EEC)
COMMUNITIES,                                                       No 543/69 of 25 March 1969 on the harmonization of
                                                                   certain legislation relating to road transport ;
Having regard to the Act concerning the conditions of
accession and the adjustments to the Treaties, and in
                                                                   Whereas in the Decision of 22 December 1975 the
particular Article 135 thereof,
                                                                   Commission also laid down certain conditions as to
                                                                   the maintenance of conditions at least as socially
Whereas by virtue of Article 133 of the Act of Acces­              favourable to transport workers as those already in
sion and paragraph 1 of Table III of Annex VII to the              force in the United Kingdom, as to notification of
Act, the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No                measures taken and as to the Commission's power to
543/ 69 of 25 March 1969 on the harmonization of                   review the authorization ;
certain social legislation relating to national transport
operations in the new Member States is postponed
until 1 January 1976 ;                                             Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom
                                                                   requested by letter dated 10 June 1976 a prolongation
                                                                   of the authorization granted by the Decision of 22
Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom of                    December 1975 up to and including 31 December
Great Britain and Northern Ireland requested by letter             1977 and that the Commission in its Decision of 23
dated 15 December 1975 authorization under Article
                                                                   June 1976 prorogated the authorization to the United
135 of the Act of Accession for the taking of protec­              Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to
tive measures in the road transport sector, and in parti­          take the protective measures mentioned above, until
cular for the suspension until 31 December 1977 of                 28 February 1977 ;
the application of Regulation (EEC) No 543/ 69
(except Article 5) to national traffic ;
                                                                   Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom of
Whereas    the  Commission      in  its   Decision   of  22        Great   Britain    and   Northern   Ireland   has       now
December 1975 authorized the United Kingdom of                     requested, by letter dated 23 December 1 976, a prolon­
Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take national                gation of the authorization granted by the Decision of
measures with respect to national transport operations             23 June 1976 up to and including 31 December
for a period until 30 June 1976 derogating from Arti­              1977 ;
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Whereas the different facts which led the Commis­             In Article 2 (2) the date '1 September 1977 shall be
sion to take its Decision , namely the structure of the      substituted for the date '1 November 1976'.
industry, the economic pressures to which it is
subjected, the adverse impact on costs and on wages          Article 3 is replaced by the following text :
policy which a reduction in hours resulting from , the            'Article 3
application of the Regulation would have and the                 The Commission may modify or revoke the
damaging effects which application of the Regulation             present Decision if it determines that the condi­
would bring about in Northern Ireland and in rural               tions which have led to its adoption have changed
areas, remain unchanged ;                                        or that its effects prove to be more extensive than
Whereas it is appropriate that the same conditions               its purpose requires.'
continue to be attached to the authorization for dero­
                                                                                      Article 2
gation,
                                                             This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of
                                                             Great Britain and Northern Ireland .
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                         Article 1                            Done at Brussels, 23 February 1977.
The Decision of 22 December 1975 is modified as                                         For the Commission
follows :
                                                                                            The President
In Article 1 ( 1 ) the date '31 December 1977' shall be
substituted for the date '28 February 1977'.                                                Roy JENKINS