CELEX: 31978D0390
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29 March 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to blouses and shirts, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized) or woven, for women, girls and infants, of wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading 60.05 A II or 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

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                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 29 March 1978
                authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to blouses
                and shirts, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized) or woven , for women ,
                girls and infants , of wool , cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling within
                subheading 60.05 A II or 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in
                          Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                            (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                       (78 /390/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
COMMUNITIES,                                                      already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
                                                                  difficulties ;
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
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                   tion from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­            Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 22 March              for the application of protective measures under the
 1978 by the French Government to the Commission                  first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
of the European Communities, for authorization not                tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
to apply Community treatment to blouses and shirts,               May 1971 (>) and in particular Article 1 thereof,
knitted or crocheted ( not elastic or rubberized) or
woven , for women , girls and infants, of wool, cotton or
man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading
60.05 A II or 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in
the other Member States ,
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Hong Kong is
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                    The French Republic is authorized not to apply
Community and this country ;                                      Community treatment to the products indicated
                                                                  below, where they originate in Hong Kong and are in
                                                                  free circulation in the other Member States, and in
Whereas under that Agreement Hong Kong has                        respect of which applications for import licences were
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its               lodged after 22 March 1978 :
exports of the products in question to the Community
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member                          CCT
States ;                                                               heading                        Description
                                                                         No
                                                                  60.05 A II        Blouses and shirts, knitted or crocheted
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­             or                (not elastic or rubberized) or woven , for
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the              61.02 B           women , girls and infants, of wool , cotton
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities                            or man-made textile fibres
persist between the import conditions in the various
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
only progressively ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas according to the application submitted there               This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
are     serious   difficulties in the   industrial   sector       arise for the importation of these products from Hong
concerned , involving a considerable drop in produc­
tion and employment ;                                             (') 0J No 1. 121 , .V 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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Kong or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the         Done at Brussels, 29 March 1978 .
earlier.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                     Article 3                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .                                  Vice-President