CELEX: 31979D0273
Language: en
Date: 1979-02-19 00:00:00
Title: 79/273/EEC: Commission Decision of 19 February 1979 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to men' s and boys' woven overcoats, raincoats and other coats, cloaks and capes, other than those of category 14 A, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 61.01-41, 42, 44, 46, 47) (category 14 B), originating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 65/26                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                    15 . 3 . 79
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 19 February 1979
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's
              and boys' woven overcoats, raincoats and other coats, cloaks and capes, other
              than those of category 14 A, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres,
              falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE
              codes 61.01-41 , 42, 44, 46, 47) (category 14 B), originating in Romania and in free
                                    circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                     (79/273/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                dize     the      abovementioned       commercial        policy
COMMUNITIES,                                                  measures ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­         machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                              tion from the other Member States ;
graph of Article 115 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­        Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 8                 for the application of protective measures under the
February 1979 by the French Government to the                 first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Commission of the European Communities, for                   tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 /202/ EEC
authorization not to apply Community treatment to             of 12 May 1971 (*), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
men's and boys' woven overcoats, raincoats and other
coats, cloaks and capes, other than those of category
14 A, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres        Whereas, however, the applications for a licence
falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common              which gave rise to the application in question do not
Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 61.01-41 , 42, 44, 46,           need to be covered by such an authorization in view
47) (category 14 B), originating in Romania and in            of the small amount involved,
free circulation in the other Member States,
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Romania is                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the
Community and that country ;
                                                                                       Article 1
Whereas under that Agreement Romania has under­
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of
the products in question to the Community up to the           The French Republic is authorized not to apply
amount of certain ceilings allocated among the                Community treatment to the products indicated
Member States ;                                               below, where they originate in Romania and are in
                                                              free circulation in the other Member States, and in
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­         respect of which applications for import licences were
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the          lodged after 5 February 1979 :
individual markets ; whereas there are therefore dispar­
ities existing between the import conditions in the
                                                                         CCT
various Member States ; whereas uniformity can only                     heading                       Description
be achieved progressively ;                                               No
Whereas it appears from the application submitted             ex 61.01                 Men's and boys' woven overcoats,
that there are serious difficulties in the industrial         (NIMEXE codes            raincoats and other coats, cloaks
                                                              61.01-41 , 42, 44, 46, and capes, other than those of cate­
sector concerned, involving a considerable drop in
                                                              47) (category 14 B)      gory 14 A, of wool, of cotton or of
production ;                                                                           man-made textile fibres
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
already made or proposed, would be likely to jeopar           (») OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                      Article 2                            Done at Brussels, 19 February 1979.
This Decision shall apply until 30 June 1979.                                     For the Commission
                      Article 3                                                   Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.                                    Vice-President