CELEX: 31976D0411
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 March 1976 concerning the application made by the United Kingdom under Article 115 of the Treaty for authorization to apply protective measures in respect of certain yarn of man-made fibres (discontinuous), falling within subheading 56.05 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 107/ 12                      Official Journal of the European Communities                               24. 4. 76
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                                              COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 3 March 1976
              concerning the application made by the United Kingdom under Article 115 of
              the Treaty for authorization to apply protective measures in respect of certain
              yarn of man-made fibres (discontinuous), falling within subheading 56.05 ex A of
              the Common Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea and in free circulation
                                            in the other Member States
                              m           (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                    (76/411 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas the affected sector of the textile industry is
COMMUNITIES,                                                   experiencing serious economic difficulties which
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          manifest themselves particularly in a high level of
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          unemployment ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                               Whereas the allocation of the quota in question still
Having regard to the application under the first para­         involves certain disparities in the quota shares fixed
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 25                 for the various Member States in relation to the supply
February 1976 by the United Kingdom Government                 requirements of the markets concerned ;
to the Commission by telex from the office of its
Permanent Representative to the European Communi­              Whereas these disparities have caused in the United
ties, for authorization to apply protective measures in        Kingdom a flow of indirect traffics of the products in
respect of the importation of certain yarn of man­             question, originating in the Republic of Korea and in
made fibres (discontinuous) not put up for retail sale,        free circulation in the other Member States , which
falling within subheading 56.05 ex A of the Common             threatens to continue and to grow ;
Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea and in free
circulation in Denmark,                                        Whereas according to information supplied by the
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              Government of the United Kingdom there are serious
products in question originating in South Korea is the         economic difficulties in the branch of the industry
subject of an Agreement negotiated between the                 concerned by the application, resulting in a progres­
Community and South Korea and initialled on, 28                sive decline of production and a constant reduction of
November 1975 ;                                                the number of workers employed in that sector ;
Whereas, under the Agreement, South Korea has                  Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its            by unequal conditions of competition with certain
exports of certain textile products to the Community           countries (including the Republic of Korea), whereby
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member                 such countries are enabled to export at prices lower
States ;
                                                               than those of producers in the United Kingdom ;
Whereas the 1976 quota share allocated to the United
Kingdom for yarn of man-made fibres is 1 295 metric            Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
tons, while 604 metric tons of this product represent          motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
the quota for Denmark ;                                        sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
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Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,                where they originate in the Republic of Korea and are
for a limited period, for the application of protective           in free circulation in the other Member States and in
measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,             respect of which applications for import licences were
subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­                lodged after 24 February 1976.
sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular
Article 1 thereof ;
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas the request for a licence which gave rise to
the application under Article 1 1 5 need not be covered
by this authorization in view of the small amount                 This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
involved,                                                         arise in the United Kingdom for the importation of
                                                                  the products in question from the Republic of Korea
                                                                  and in any case not later than 31 December 1976.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                          Article 1                                                       Article 3
The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply                     This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom.
Community treatment to imports of the following
product :
      CCT
                                                                   Done at Brussels, 3 March 1976 .
     heading                   Description of goods
       No
56.05            Yarn of man-made fibres (discontinuous or
                 waste) not put up for retail sale :                                        For the Commission
                 ex A. Of synthetic textile fibres :                                        Christopher SOAMES
                         — Of acrylic fibres
                                                                                                Vice-President
(') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26 .