CELEX: 31976R3205
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3205/76 of 21 December 1976 maintaining in effect the rules whereby imports into Italy of electric filament lamps originating in certain European State-trading countries are subject to import authorizations

No L 362/2                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              31 . 12. 76
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3205/76
                                                       of 21 December 1976
             maintaining in effect the rules whereby imports into Italy of electric filament
             lamps originating in certain European State-trading countries are subject to
                                                       import authorizations
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                          of the Protocols of accession of these countries to the
COMMUNITIES,                                                         GATT, and have resulted in mutually acceptable solu­
                                                                     tions, which the countries concerned have been
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                requested to extend ;
Economic Community,
                                                                     Whereas these measures should consequently be main­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         tained in effect until 31     December 1977 for the
 109/70 of 19 December 1969 establishing common                      Italian market in respect of Bulgaria, the German
rules for imports from State-trading countries (!), and              Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and the USSR ;
in particular Article 8 thereof,
                                                                     Whereas the safeguard measures thus maintained in
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   respect of these third countries can be rescinded
                                                                     should those same countries enter into consultations
 Having consulted the Advisory Committee set up                      with the Community and should these consultations
under Article 5 of the said Regulation,                              result in mutually satisfactory solutions,
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 1887/76 of 29 July
 1976 (2) the Commission established rules whereby                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
imports into Italy of electric filament lamps origi­
nating in certain European State-trading countries
were made subject to authorization ;                                                        Article 1
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 21 62/76 (3) the                      The rules whereby imports into Italy of electric fila­
Council maintained these rules in effect until 31                    ment lamps originating in certain European State­
December 1976 ;                                                      trading countries are subject to authorization, which
                                                                     were adopted by Regulation (EEC) No 1887/76 and
Whereas the economic difficulties which justified the                confirmed by Regulation (EEC) No 2162/76, shall
introduction of these protective measures remain                     continue to apply until 31 December 1977.
present on the Italian market ;
                                                                     The total quantity of products for which import
Whereas consultations have been held in the mean­                    authorizations shall be issued during the year 1977
time with Hungary, Poland and Romania, on the basis                  shall not exceed the following amounts :
                                                                                                       Quantity
               NIM EXE code                   Description                         Origin
                                                                                                        (items)
                85.20-15       Electric filament lamps exceeding       Bulgaria                        400 000
                              28 volts                                 German Democratic
                                                                       Republic                      2 000 000
                                                                       Czechoslovakia                4 000 000
                                                                       USSR                          1 300 000
                                                             Article 2
             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1977.
(') OJ No L 19, 26. 1 . 1970, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 206, 31 . 7 . 1976, p. 79 .
(3) OJ No L 242, 3 . 9 . 1976, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 21 December 1976 .
                                                                       For the Council
                                                                         The President
                                                                 A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE