CELEX: 31978D0186
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 January 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to umbrellas and sunshades falling within heading No 66.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

28 . 2. 78                        Official journal of the European Communities                                  No L 58 / 39
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 18 January 1978
             authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to
             umbrellas and sunshades falling within heading No 66.01 of the Common
             Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other
                                                   Member States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                     (78 / 186/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
COMMUNITIES,                                                     motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                                 sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            Whereas, in order to ensure that the execution of the
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                  above commercial policy measures is not obstructed,
                                                                 authorization should be given , for a limited period, for
Having regard to the application under the first para­           the application of protective measures under the first
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 11                   paragraph of Article 115, subject to the conditions
January 1978 by the French Government to the                     specified in the Commission Decision of 12 May
Commission by telex from the Office of its Perma­                1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
nent Representative to the European Communities,
for authorization not to apply Community treatment
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
to umbrellas and sunshades falling within heading No
66.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in                                        Article 1
Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member
States,                                                          The French Republic is authorized not to apply
                                                                 Community treatment to imports of umbrellas and
Whereas according to this application under Article
115 France is subjecting imports of the products in              sunshades falling within heading No 66.01 of the
question, originating in Taiwan, to quantitative restric­        Common Customs Tariff, where they originate in
                                                                 Taiwan    and  are   in   free   circulation in  the other
tions ;
                                                                 Member States, and in respect of which applications
Whereas according to information supplied by the                 for import licences lodged after 1 January 1978 are,
French Government there are serious economic diffi­              on the date of this Decision, pending with the French
culties in the industrial sector concerned, resulting in         authorities .
particular in a progressive decline of production ;
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Whereas differences in the commercial policy
measures applied in connection with these products               This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
by France and by the other Member States as regards
Taiwan are giving rise to deflection of trade ;                  Done at Brussels, 18 January 1978 .
Whereas this deflection of trade is obstructing the
                                                                                              For the Commission
execution of the commercial policy measures
currently being applied by France as regards Taiwan,                                          fitienne DAVIGNON
and would be likely to aggravate the abovementioned
economic difficulties ;                                                                  Member of the Commission
                                                                 (*) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.