CELEX: 31977D0787
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 November 1977 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to garments falling within heading No 61.01, 61.02 or 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the other Member States

21 . 12 . 77                      Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 328 / 9
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 3 November 1977
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to
              garments falling within heading No 61.01 , 61.02 or 61.03 of the Common
              Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the
                                                 other Member States
                                           (Only the French text is authentic )
                                                     (77/787/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  measures, under the first paragraph of Article 115,
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
                                                                sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (2 ), and in particular
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Article 1 thereof,
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                HAS ADOFIED THIS DECISION :
 Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 27
October 1977 by the French Government to the                                               Article ]
Commission by telex from the office of its Permanent
Representative to the European Communities, for                The French Republic is authorized not to apply
authorization not to apply Community treatment to               Community treatment to imports of garments falling
garments falling within heading No 61.01 , 61.02 or            within heading No 61.01 , 61.02 or 61.03 of the
61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in              Common Customs Tariff, where they originate in
Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the other             Czechoslovakia and are in free circulation in the other
Member States ,                                                Member States, and in respect of which applications
                                                                for import licences were lodged after 18 October
Whereas for the garments falling within Chapter 61 of           1977 .
the Common Customs Tariff, France , in accordance
with the Council Decision of 13 December 1 976 ( 1 ),
                                                                                           Article 2
has opened, in respect of Czechoslovakia, an annual
quota of FF 6 016 000 , of which 95-5% has been                This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
used up for direct imports ;                                   arise in the French Republic for the importation of
Whereas according to information supplied by the               the products in question and in any case not later
French Government, the French clothing industry is             than 31 December 1977 .
in an extremely difficult situation , involving a
decrease in production and substantial structural                                          Article 3
unemployment ;
                                                               This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
Whereas the indirect imports of the products in ques­
tion , given those already effected in 1977, would be
likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;              Done at Brussels , 3 November 1977 .
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­                                          For the Commission
tion from the other Member States ;
                                                                                              Etienne DAVIGNON
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given ,
for a limited period , for the application of protective                                 Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 365, 31 . 12 . 1976 .                              (-) O J No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .