CELEX: 31977R0842
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 842/77 of 25 April 1977 subjecting to authorization imports into the United Kingdom of certain knitted or crocheted under garments originating in the Republic of India

No L 103/22                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                27. 4. 77
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 842/77
                                                     of 25 April 1977
                subjecting to authorization imports into the United Kingdom of certain knitted
                        or crocheted under garments originating in the Republic of India
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas under the terms of Article 5 of the said
COMMUNITIES,                                                      Agreement consultations have been held between the
                                                                  parties on the problem caused by the imports of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             T-shirts into the United Kingdom ; whereas these
Economic Community,                                               consultations have been suspended without a mutually
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      satisfactory conclusion having been reached ;
1439/74 of 4 June 1974 on common rules for                        Whereas, in accordance with the provisions of Article
imports (J), and in particular Article 12 thereof,                5 (5) of the said Agreement, the Community has
Having consulted the Advisory Committee set up                    requested India to restrain its exports of the product
under Article 5 of the said Regulation,                           in question at a level as defined in the said paragraph ;
Whereas imports into the United Kingdom of                        Whereas the efficiency of the self-restraint measures
T-shirts originating in India have increased sharply              introduced by India depends on the introduction by
and substantially over the past year, namely from less            the Community of a control system ; whereas the
than 200 000 units in 1975 to approximately 900 000               implementation of such system makes it necessary
units in 1976 and to 785 000 units in the first two               that imports of the products concerned into the
months of 1977 ;                                                  United Kingdom be made subject to authorization ;
Whereas these products are imported at prices substan­            Whereas the abovementioned import authorization
tially below those prevailing for similar goods                   arrangements must be established as soon as possible
produced in the Community and those of goods                      in order to ensure that they are not circumvented by
imported from the majority of other origins ;                     the bringing forward of shipments or by indirect
                                                                  imports, which could cause injury difficult to repair to
Whereas if no protective measures are adopted these               Community procedures,
imports are likely to increase to such an extent that
they risk causing substantial injury to Community
procedures of like or competing products, taking into             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
account that surveillance licences were issued by the
authorities of the United Kingdom in January and
February 1977 for a quantity of 2-2 million T-shirts                                          Article 1
from India ;
                                                                   1 . The importation into the United Kingdom of
Whereas in the context of the Arrangement regarding               Great Britain and Northern Ireland of the products
 International Trade in Textiles, the European                    described below and originating in India shall be
 Economic Community and the Republic of India                     subject to the production of an import authorization
have concluded an Agreement on trade in textile                   issued by the competent authorities in the United
 products (2) ;                                                    Kingdom :
                     CCT           Nimexe code
                    heading            1977
                                                                         Description of goods
                      No
                ex 60.04       60.04-ex 1 3, ex
                               29, ex 41 , ex 59   Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic nor rubber­
                                                   ized :
                                                   — Of cotton :
                                                       — T-shirts
                                                   — Of synthetic textile fibres :
                                                       — T-shirts
(>) OJ No L 159, 15. 6. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 297, 17. 11 . 1975, p. 8 .
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2. Import authorizations shall be issued for quanti­                                          Article 2
ties such that the total volume of the imports referred
to in paragraph 1 does not exceed, in the period 1
February 1977 to 31 December 1977, 710 000 units.                   1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the
                                                                    second day following its publication in the Official
3. Import authorizations shall be issued automati­                 Journal of the European Communities.
cally and without delay on production of a bill of
lading proving that the goods were placed on board in
India for export to the United Kingdom before the                   2. It shall apply until the entry into force of appro­
date of entry into force of this Regulation or, provided            priate measures to be taken by the Council pursuant
the limit indicated in paragraph 2 is not reached, on               to Articles 12 (6) and 13 of Regulation (EEC) No
production of an export licence granted by the rele­                1439/74 or until the expiry of a period of six weeks
vant authority in India and containing the informa­                 following the entry into force of this Regulation,
tion specified in the Annex hereto.                                 whichever is the earlier.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 25 April 1977 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Guido BRUNNER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                           Information referred to in Article 1 (3)
             Export licences issued by the Indian authorities for the products referred to in this Regulation shall
             indicate or contain the following :
             1 . destination ;
             2. serial number ;
             3 . name and address of the importer ;
             4. name and address of the exporter ;
             5. the quantity, in number of pieces, of the products covered by the licence ;
             6. certification that the quantity concerned has been debited against the quantitative limit for expor­
                 tation to the United Kingdom .