CELEX: 31976D0664
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 31 May 1976 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to certain under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of synthetic textile fibres, falling within subheading 60.04 ex B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 227/ 18                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                       19 . 8 . 76
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 31 May 1976
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to certain
              under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of synthetic
              textile fibres, falling within subheading 60.04 ex B of the Common Customs
              Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the other
                                                    Member States
                                           (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                      (76/664/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                                Whereas the amount involved in request for a licence
COMMUNITIES,                                                    which gave rise to the application under Article 115
                                                                ( 129 950 pieces) proves that transactions of this kind
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           are clearly worthwhile ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                 Whereas, according to information supplied by the
                                                                Italian Government there are serious economic diffi­
Having regard to the application under the first para­          culties in the sector that manufactures the products in
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 21 May              question , resulting in a progressive decline of produc­
                                                                tion and a constant reduction of the number of
 1976 by the Italian Government to the Commission
by telex from the Office of its Permanent Representa­           workers employed in that sector ;
tive to the European Communities, for authorization
to apply protective measures in respect of the importa­         Whereas the indirect imports in question would be
tion of certain under garments, knitted or crocheted,           likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
not elastic or rubberized, of synthetic textile fibres,
falling within subheading 60.04 ex B of the Common              Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea            motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
and in free circulation in France ,                             sary cooperation from the French Republic and the
                                                                other Member States ; •
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in the Republic of             Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
Korea is the subject of an Agreement negotiated                 for the application of protective measures under the
between the Community and that country, initialled              first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
on 28 November 1975 ;                                           tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
                                                                May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Whereas, under the Agreement, the Republic of
Korea has undertaken to take all necessary steps to
limit its exports of certain textile products to the
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Community to certain ceilings allocated among the
Member States ;
                                                                                           Article 1
Whereas, for the products falling within heading No
ex 60.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, the quota
share allocated to Italy for 1976 is 437 000 pieces,            The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
whereas the quota share allocated to the French                 Community treatment to imports of the following
Republic for the same product is 2 466 000 pieces ;             products :
                                                                      CCT
Whereas the allocation of the voluntary restraint                    heading                     Description of goods
ceiling in question still involves certain disparities in              No
the quota shares fixed for the various Member States
in relation to the supply requirements of the markets           60.04 ex B        Under garments, knitted or crocheted not
concerned ;                                                                       elastic or rubberized :
                                                                                  — Of other textile materials
Whereas these disparities are likely to create an indi­
rect trade flow which could aggravate the difficult situ­
ation in the textile industry ;                                 (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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where they originate in the Republic of Korea and are                            Artiele 3
in free circulation in the other Member States, and in
respect of which applications for import licences were      This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
lodged after 11 May 1976.
                                                            Done at Brussels, 31 May 1976.
                        Article 2
This Decision shall apply until the opening of new                                 For the Commission
import possibilities of the product in question into                                Christopher SOAMES
Italy from the Republic of Korea, and in any case not
later than 31 December 1976 .                                                          Vice-President