CELEX: 31978D0219
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 7 February 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to garments, falling within heading No 61.01, 61.02 or 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Poland and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 67 / 30                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                   9 . 3 . 78
                                           COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 7 February 1978
             authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to
             garments, falling within heading No 61.01 , 61.02 or 61.03 of the Common
             Customs Tariff, originating in Poland and in free circulation in the other
                                                  Member States
                                         (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                    (78/21 9/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 measures, under the first paragraph of Article 115,
COMMUNITIES,                                                   subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
                                                               sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Article 1 thereof,
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 30
January 1978 by the French Government to the                                           Article 1
Commission by telex from the office of its Permanent
Representative to the European Communities, for                The French Republic is authorized not to apply
authorization not to apply Community treatment to              Community treatment to imports of garments, falling
garments, falling within heading No 61.01 , 61.02 or           within heading No 61.01 , 61.02 or 61.03 of the
61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in             Common Customs Tariff, where they originate in
Poland and in free circulation in the other Member             Poland and are      in  free circulation    in the other
States,                                                        Member States, and in respect of which applications
Whereas for the products in question , France, while           for import licences were lodged after 23 January 1978 .
waiting for the opening of the question fixed by
Council Decision of 20 December 1977, does not for                                     Article 2
the moment permit any imports coming directly from
Poland ;                                                       This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                               arise in the French Republic for the importation of
Whereas, according to information supplied by the              the products in question from Poland.
French Government, there are economic difficulties
in the branch of industry concerned ;
                                                                                       Article 3
Whereas the realization of the licence applications
that have motivated this application are likely to             This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
impede the commercial policy measures applied by
France, because of the difficulties in the abovemen­
tioned industry ;                                              Done at Brussels, 7 February 1978 .
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­                                       For the Commission
tion from the other Member States ;
                                                                                         Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,
for a limited period, for the application of protective                                        Vice-President
                                                               (1) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.