CELEX: 31977D0494
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 24 May 1977 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to women's woven man-made fibre jackets, suits and costumes, falling within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 205/20                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               11 . 8 . 77
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                                            (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                    COMMISSION
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 24 May 1977
              authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to
              women's woven man-made fibre jackets, suits and costumes, falling within
              heading No ex 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslo­
                              vakia and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                                (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                           (77/494/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       reserved for imports coming direct from the country
COMMUNITIES,                                                         of origin under a Trade Agreement with that country ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­                Whereas the amount of that quota is not likely to be
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                        exceeded in view of the direct or indirect imports
                                                                     already effected or authorized ;
Whereas in a telex from the office of its Permanent
Representative to the European Communities on 12
May 1977, the United Kingdom requested authoriza­                    Whereas the United Kingdom authorities cannot
                                                                     therefore invoke Article 2 of the abovementioned
tion to apply protective measures to imports of                      Commission Decision 73 / 55/ EEC in order to defer
women 's fibre jackets, suits and costumes falling
within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common Customs                     the issue of import authorizations for the goods in
Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circu­             question ;
lation in the other Member States, and to extend such
authorization to goods for which the United Kingdom                  Whereas for that reason no protective measure may be
authorities have deferred the issue of the import                    authorized for goods for which import authorizations
authorization in accordance with Article 2 (2) of                    were requested on a date prior to that of the entry into
Commission Decision 71 /202/ EEC of 12 May                           force of this Decision ;
 1971 ('), as amended by Decision 73/55/ EEC of 9
March 1 973 (2) ;                                                    Whereas, therefore, it merely remains to be deter­
Whereas,     in   accordance        with    Council   Decision       mined whether it is necessary to authorize protective
76/971 / EEC of 13 December 1976 (3), the United                     measures in respect of goods, which it is planned to
Kingdom opened a quota for 1977 of £ 612 850 for                     import from the other Member States after the entry
the products in question originating in Czechoslo­                   into force of this Decision ;
vakia, and including also other textile products, 52 %
of which has been used ;                                             Whereas, however, the autonomous import quotas for
Whereas, the quota opened for the products                           State-trading countries were coordinated by Council
                                                                     Decision 75/21 0/ EEC (4), as last amended by the
concerned originating in Czechoslovakia is not                       abovementioned Council Decision 76/971 / EEC, in
(!) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
                                                                     order to ensure the proper functioning and consolida­
 2 ) OJ No L 80 , 18 . 3 . 1973 , p. 22.
(3 ) OJ No L 365 , 13 . 12 . 1976, p . 75 .                          (4 ) OJ No L 99 , 21 . 4 . 1975, p. 7 .
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tion of the common market and the gradual introduc­          HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
tion of common import arrangements and in order to
safeguard the fundamental interests of the Commu­
nity and of its Member States ;                                                      Article 1
Whereas it may consequently be presumed that,                The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
within the limits of the quota fixed by the abovemen­        Community treatment to imports of women 's woven
tioned Council Decision 76/971 /EEC, imports into            man-made fibre jackets, suits and costumes, falling
the United Kingdom of the goods in question origi­           within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common Customs
nating in Czechoslovakia are not likely to create            Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circu­
economic difficulties in the textile industry                lation in the other Member States and in respect of
concerned ;                                                  which applications for import licences are lodged after
                                                             the date of this Decision .
Whereas, according to information given in the appli­
cation, it appears that the abovementioned quota will
be exhausted rapidly and consequently the total                                      Article 2
amount will be greatly exceeded, taking into considera­
tion the indirect imports already made or authorized         This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
by the date of this Decision ;                               arise in the United Kingdom for the importation of
Whereas, according to information supplied by the            the products in question from Czechoslovakia and in
United Kingdom Government, the realization of other          any case not later than 31 December 1977.
indirect imports in addition to those mentioned
above, is likely to worsen the serious economic diffi­                               Article 3
culties in the textile industry concerned, demonstrated
by falling production and a progressively increasing         This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom .
rate of unemployment ;
Whereas, it is not possible at short notice to set in
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­           Done at Brussels, 24 May 1977 .
sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                                                       For the Commission
for the application of protective measures, under the
first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­                               Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
May 1971 , and in particular Article 1 thereof,                                            Vice-President