CELEX: 31978D0379
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 March 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's and boys' woven breeches, shorts and trousers (including slacks), women's, girls' and infants' woven trousers and slacks, 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 106/ 30                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                     20 . 4 . 78
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 13 March 1978
               authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's
               and boys' woven breeches, shorts and trousers (including slacks), women's, girls'
               and infants' woven trousers and slacks, 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 /379/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
COMMUNITIES,                                                        for the application of protective measures under the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­               tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                     May 1971 (•), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 3 March                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
1978 by the French Government to the Commission
of the European Communities, for authorization not                                             Article 1
to apply Community treatment to men 's and boys'                    The French Republic is authorized not to apply
woven breeches, shorts and trousers (including slacks),             Community treatment to the products indicated
women 's, girls' and infants' woven trousers and slacks,            below, where they originate in South Korea and are in
of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile fibres,
                                                                    free circulation in the other Member States, and in
falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex                 respect of which applications for import licences were
61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating                   lodged after the date of this Decision :
in South Korea and in free circulation in the other
Member States ,
                                                                          CCT
Whereas the importation into the Community of the                        heading                        Description
products in question originating in South Korea is                         No
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the
Community and that country ;                                        ex 61.01 or      Men's and boys' woven breeches, shorts
                                                                    ex 61.02 B       and trousers (including slacks), women's,
Whereas under that Agreement South Korea has                                         girls' and infants' woven trousers and
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its                                  slacks, of wool , of cotton or of man-made
exports of the products in question to the Community                                 textile fibres
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member
States ;
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­                                          Article 2
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
                                                                    This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities            arise for the importation of these products from South
persist between the import conditions in the various                Korea or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved                  earlier.
only progressively ;
Whereas according to the application submitted there                                           Article 3
are   serious    difficulties  in   the   industrial   sector
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­                 This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
tion and employment ;
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those              Done at Brussels , 13 March 1978 .
already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
difficulties ;                                                                                   For the Commission
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the                                              Lorenzo NATALI
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from the other Member States ;                                                                   Vice-President
                                                                    (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.