CELEX: 31976D0415
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 9 March 1976 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to imports of printed cotton fabrics, other than gauze and terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

24. 4. 76                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 107/ 19
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 9 March 1976
                                    *
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to imports
              of printed cotton fabrics, other than gauze and terry towelling and similar terry
              fabrics, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
                 nating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                      (76/41 5/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas, in these circumstances, it is to be feared that
COMMUNITIES,                                                     an indirect trade flow to Italy may arise and grow ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas, according to information supplied by the
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            Italian Government, there are serious economic diffi­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                  culties in the textile industry resulting in a drop in
                                                                 production and unemployment in a number of facto­
                                                                 ries ;
Having regard to the application to the Commission
under the first paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty,          Whereas indirect imports of the products in question
made on 28 February 1976 by the Italian Government               threaten to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
by telex from the office of its Permanent Representa­
tive to the European Communities, for authorization              Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
to apply protective measures in respect of the importa­          motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
tion of printed cotton fabrics, other than gauze and             sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, falling within        Germany and the other Member States ;
heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff,
originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in              Whereas authorization should be given , for a limited
the Federal Republic of Germany,                                 period, for the application of protective measures,
                                                                 under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the
Whereas the importation into the Community of          the       conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
products in question originating in Hong Kong is       the       12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
subject of an Agreement negotiated between             the
Community and Hong Kong and initialled on               13
August 1975 ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas, pending the completion of the procedures
necessary for the conclusion and entry into force of
that Agreement, the Community and Hong Kong                                                 Article 1
have agreed to recognize the de facto application of its
provisions with effect from 18 July 1975 ;                       The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
                                                                 Community treatment to imports of printed cotton
Whereas, under the Agreement, Hong Kong has                      fabrics, other than gauze and terry towelling and
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its              similar terry fabrics, falling within heading No ex
exports of certain textile products to the Community             55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, where they orig­
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member                   inate in Hong Kong and are in free circulation in the
States ;                                                         other Member States, and in respect of which applica­
                                                                 tions for import licences were lodged after 19
Whereas the fixing of the quota shares allocated to              February 1976 .
the various Member States can be adjusted only
progressively to the supply requirements of the
markets concerned ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas the quota share allocated to Italy for 1976 for
printed cotton fabrics and synthetic textile fibres is           This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
225 metric tons, while the corresponding quota share             arise in Italy for the importation of the products in
allocated to the Federal Republic of Germany is 868
metric tons ;                                                    (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.
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question from Hong Kong and in any case not later         Done at Brussels, 9 March 1976.
than 31 December 1976 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                     Article 3                                                   Christopher SOAMES
This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.                                 Vice-President