CELEX: 31976D0928
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22 November 1976 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to dyed woven fabrics of cotton, other than gauze or terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 364/ 12                      Official Journal of the European Communities                              31 . 12 . 76
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 22 November 1976
             authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to dyed woven
             fabrics of cotton, other than gauze or terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, falling
             within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and
                                   in free circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                     (76/928/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
COMMUNITIES,                                                   for the application of protective measures under the
                                                                first paragraph of Article 115 , subject to the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    conditions specified in the Commission Decision of
European Economic Community, and in particular                  12 May 1971 0 ), and in particular Article 1 thereof;
the first paragraph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                               Whereas the requests for licences which gave rise
Having regard to the application under the first                to the application in question under Article 115 need
paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on                 not be covered by this authorization, in view of the
10 November 1976 by the Government of the Italian               small amount involved,
Republic to the Commission by telex from the
Office of its Permanent Representative to the                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
European Communities, for authorization to apply
protective measures in respect of the importation of
                                                                                       Article 1
dyed woven fabrics of cotton, other than gauze or
terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, falling
                                                                The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
within subheading ex 55.09 of the Common Customs
                                                                Community treatment to dyed woven fabrics of
Tariff, originating in Japan and in free circulation
in the other Member States,
                                                                cotton, other than gauze or terry towelling and
                                                                similar terry fabrics, falling within subheading ex
                                                                55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, where they
Whereas the importation into the Community of the               originate in Japan and are in free circulation in the
products in question originating in Japan is the                other Member States, and in respect of which
subject of an Agreement negotiated between the                  applications to the Italian authorities for import
Community and Japan signed on 9 July 1976 ;                     licences were lodged after the date of this Decision .
Whereas, on the basis of the Agreement, Japan has
undertaken to limit its exports of certain textile                                     Article 2
products to the Community to certain ceilings
allocated among the Member States ;                             This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                                arise in the Italian Republic for the importation of
Whereas for the products in question the quota share            the products in question from Japan and in any case
allocated to Italy for 1976, covering woven fabrics             not later than 31 December 1976 .
of cotton and of man-made fibres, is 1 700 metric
tons ;
                                                                                       Article 3
Whereas there are serious economic difficulties in the
branch of the textile industry concerned, resulting in          This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic .
particular in a decline of production and a high rate
of unemployment ;                                               Done at Brussels, 22 November 1976 .
Whereas indirect imports, which would be in
addition to those already effected, would be likely                                      For the Commission
to aggravate these economic difficulties ;                                                Finn GUNDELACH
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly                                  Member of the Commission
the machinery for bringing about the necessary
cooperation from the other Member States ;                      H OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p . 26.