CELEX: 31977D0480
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 5 May 1977 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to shirts other than of silk, noil or other waste silk, flax or ramie falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 198 /28                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                5 . 8 . 77
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 5 May 1977
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to shirts
              other than of silk, noil or other waste silk, flax or ramie falling within heading
              No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in
                                  free circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                    (77/480/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                would be likely to aggravate these economic diffi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                  culties ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­         motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                               sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­        Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 2 May             for a limited period, for the application of protective
1977 by the French Government to the Commission               measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
by telex from the office of its Permanent Representa­         subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
tive to the European Communities, for authorization           sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular
to apply protective measures in respect of the importa­       Article 1 thereof,
tion of shirts other than of silk, noil or other waste
silk, flax or ramie falling within heading No ex 61.03
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong
Kong and in free circulation in the other Member
States,                                                                                 Article 1
Whereas the importation into the Community of the             The French Republic is authorized not to apply
products in question originating in Hong Kong is the          Community treatment to imports of shirts other than
subject of an Agreement negotiated between the                of silk, noil or other waste silk, flax or ramie falling
Community and Hong Kong and concluded on 8                    within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs
April 1976 ;                                                  Tariff, where they originate in Hong Kong and are in
                                                              free circulation in the other Member States, and in
Whereas, under the Agreement, Hong Kong has                   respect of which applications for import licences were
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its           lodged after 19 April 1977.
exports of certain textile products, including the
products in question, to the Community to certain                                       Article 2
ceilings allocated among the Member States ;
Whereas the allocation of these ceilings still involves       This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
certain disparities in the quota shares fixed for the         arise in France for the importation of the products in
various Member States by reference to the supply              question from Hong Kong and in any case not later
                                                              than 31 December 1977 .
 requirements of the markets concerned ;
Whereas these disparities are likely to cause a flow of                                 Article 3
 indirect trade which could aggravate the situation of
 the clothing industry ;                                      This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
Whereas, according to information supplied by the
 French Government, there are serious economic diffi­          Done at Brussels, 5 May 1977.
 culties in the clothing sector, resulting in a progres­
 sive decline of production and a reduction of the                                         For the Commission
 number of workers employed in that sector ;
                                                                                             Antonio GIOLITTI
 Whereas indirect imports of the products in question ,
 which would be in addition to those already effected,                                 Member of the Commission
                                                               (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.