CELEX: 31978D0401
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 12 April 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to parkas, anoraks, windcheaters, and the like, woven, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 114/ 18                        Jfficial Journal of the European Communities                                     26 . 4 . 78
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 12 April 1978
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to parkas,
              anoraks , windcheaters , and the like , woven , of wool , of cotton or of man-made
              textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B of the
              Common Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea and in free circulation in
                                               the other Member States
                                            (Only the French text is authentic )
                                                       (78/401 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
COMMUNITIES,                                                      already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
                                                                  difficulties ;
                                                                  Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­             tion from the other Member States ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                  Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                                  for the application of protective measures under the
Having regard to the application under the first para­            first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 7 April               tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
1978 by the French Government to the Commission                   May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
of the European Communities, for authorization not
to apply Community treatment to parkas, anoraks,
windcheaters, and the like, woven , of wool , of cotton
                                                                  Whereas, however, the request for a licence which
                                                                  gave rise to the application in question does not need
or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading             to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B of the                       small amount involved ,
Common Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea
and in free circulation in the other Member States,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in South Korea is                                          Article 1
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the
Community and that country ;                                      The French Republic is authorized not to apply
                                                                  Community treatment to the products indicated
                                                                  below, where they originate in South Korea and are in
Whereas under that Agreement South Korea has                      free circulation in the other Member States, and in
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its               respect of which applications for import licences were
exports of the products in question to the Community              lodged after 7 April 1978 :
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member
States ;                                                                CCT
                                                                       heading                       Description
                                                                         No
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
cate these quotas/ceilings on the basis of the needs of           ex 61.01 or      Parkas, anoraks, windcheaters, and the like,
                                                                  ex 61.02 B       woven , of wool , of cotton or of man-made
the individual markets ; whereas for that reason dispar­                           textile fibres
ities persist between the import conditions in the
various Member States ; whereas uniformity can be
achieved only progressively ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas according to the application submitted there              This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
are   serious   difficulties in   the   industrial   sector       arise for the importation of these products from South
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­
tion and employment ;                                             (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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Korea or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the       Done at Brussels, 12 April 1978 .
earlier .
                                                                                For the Commission
                     Article 3                                                 Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.                                  Vice-President