CELEX: 31976D0927
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 November 1976 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to unbleached and bleached yarn of synthetic textile fibres (polyester/cotton) falling within subheading 56.07 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the Netherlands

No L 364/ 10                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                    31 . 12 . 76
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 11 November 1976
             authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to unbleached and
             bleached yarn of synthetic textile fibres (polyester/cotton) falling within subheading
             56.07 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and
                                       in free circulation in the Netherlands
                                         (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                    ( 76 / 927 / EEC )
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    for products falling within subheading 56-07 ex A of
COMMUNITIES ,                                                     the Common Customs Tariff ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                      "Whereas the allocation of the quota concerned takes
European Economic Community, and in particular                    account also of certain disparities in the fixing of
the first paragraph of Article 115 thereof,                       the quota shares for the Member States by
                                                                   comparison with the subsidy needs of the markets
                                                                  concerned ;
Having regard to the application under the first
paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on                   Whereas such disparities are likely to create an
3 November 1976 by the United Kingdom to the                      indirect trade flow which could aggravate the
Commission by telex from the Office of its                         persistent difficulties of the textile industry;
Permanent Representative to the European
Communities, for authorization to apply protective
measures in respect of the importation of unbleached               Whereas the information contained in the application
and bleached yarn of synthetic textile fibres                      does not show that an indirect trade flow to the
(polyester/cotton) falling within subheading 56.07                 United Kingdom exists at present for the products
ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in                  concerned ;
the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the
Netherlands,
                                                                   Whereas the carrying out of the indirect import
                                                                   envisaged, while it would appear to be an isolated
                                                                   operation, would be likely to affect the delicate
Whereas the importation into the , Community of the                situation of the national production of the products
products in question originating in the Republic of                in question because of the appreciable amount
Korea is the subject of an Agreement negotiated                    involved and because of the price which is
 between the Community and that country and                        considerably lower than those prevailing among
initialled on 28 November 1975 ;                                   British producers ;
Whereas, under the Agreement, the Republic of                      Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set
 Korea has undertaken to take all necessary steps to               in motion the machinery for bringing about the
limit its exports of ccrtain textile products to the               necessary cooperation from the Netherlands and the
 Community to certain ceilings allocated among the                 other Member States ;
 Member States ;
                                                                   Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                                   for the application of protective measures, under the
Whereas for imports of unbleached and bleached                     first paragraph of Article 115 , subject to the
 cotton yarn and of yarn of synthetic textile fibres               conditions laid down by the Commission Decision
falling within heading No ex 55.09 and subheading                  of 12 May 1971 (x), and in particular Article 1
56.07 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, the quota                 thereof,
share allocated to the United Kingdom is 1 714 metric
tons of which 20 fl/o (342-80 metric tons ) is intended            (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p . 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                       Article 2
                                                             This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom .
                       Article 1
The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
Community treatment to yarn of synthetic textile             Done at Brussels, 11 November 1976 .
fibres (polyester/cotton) falling within subheading
56.07 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff,
originating in the Republic of Korea and in free
circulation in the Netherlands, and in respect of                                   For the Commission
which applications for import licences lodged after                                   Guido BRUNNER
25 October 1976 are before the United Kingdom
authorities on the date of this Decision .                                      Member of the Commission