CELEX: 31978D0204
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25 January 1978 authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany not to apply Community treatment to special gloves for sports, of leather, falling within heading No ex 42.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 62/38                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                 4. 3 . 78
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 25 January 1978
              authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany not to apply Community treat­
              ment to special gloves for sports, of leather, falling within heading No ex 42.03
              of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China
                               and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the German text is authentic)
                                                     (78/204/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
COMMUNITIES,                                                    motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                                sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                 for the application of protective measures, under the
                                                                first paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty, subject to
Having regard to the application under the first para­          the conditions specified in the Commission Decision
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 18                 of 12 May 1971 (') and in particular Article 1 thereof,
January 1978 by the Government of the Federal Repu­
blic of Germany to the Commission by telex from the
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
office of its Permanent Representative to the Euro­
pean Communities for authorization not to apply
                                                                                         Article 1
Community treatment to imports of special gloves for
sports, of leather, falling within heading No ex 42.03         The Federal Republic of Germany is hereby autho­
of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the               rized not to apply Community treatment to special
People's Republic of China and in free circulation in          gloves for sports, of leather, falling within heading No
the other Member States,                                       ex 42.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, where they
Whereas for the products in question the Federal               originate in the People's Republic of China and are in
Republic of Germany, in accordance with the Council            free circulation in the other Member States, and in
Decision of 20 December 1977, opened in respect of             respect of which applications for import licences were
the People's Republic of China a quota of DM                   lodged after 9 January 1978 and are, on the date of
350 000 which has been used up ;                               this Decision, pending with the German authorities.
Whereas, according to information supplied by the                                        Article 2
Government of the Federal Republic of Germany,
there are serious economic difficulties in the industry        This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
concerned, which reveals itself in a decline in produc­        Germany.
tion ;
Whereas the realization of the applications for import         Done at Brussels, 25 January 1978 .
licences, which have motivated the application under
                                                                                           For the Commission
Article 115, would be likely to hinder the commercial
policy measures applied by the Federal Republic of                                         Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
Germany because of the difficulties in the industry
concerned ;                                                                                     Vice-President
                                                               (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.