CELEX: 31978D0970
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-14 00:00:00
Title: 78/970/EEC: Commission Decision of 14 November 1978 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to cotton tea-towels falling within heading No ex 62.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People' s Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 329/34                        Official Journal of the European Communities                             24. 11 . 78
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 14 November 1978
                authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to cotton
                tea-towels falling within heading No ex 62.02 of the Common Customs Tariff,
                originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the
                                                   other Member States
                                             (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                       (78/970/EEC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
  COMMUNITIES,                                                   tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 /202/EEC
                                                                 of 12 May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          Whereas, however, the application for a licence which
  graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                gave rise to the application in question does not need
                                                                 to be covered by such an authorization,
  Having regard to the application under the first para­
  graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 6
^ November 1978 by the Government of the United                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
  Kingdom to the Commission of the European
  Communities, for authorization not to apply Commu­                                     Article 1
  nity treatment to cotton tea-towels falling within
  heading No ex 62.02 of the Common Customs Tariff,              The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
  originating in the People's Republic of China and in           Community treatment to the products indicated
  free circulation in the other Member States,                   below, where they originate in the People's Republic
                                                                 of China and are in free circulation in the other
  Whereas in the United Kingdom the importation of               Member States, and in respect of which applications
  the products in question originating in the People's           for import licences were lodged after 26 October
  Republic of China is, in accordance with Council                1978 :
  Decision 77/806/EEC of 20 December 1977 (*),
  subject to an annual quota, which has already been                   CCT
  wholly taken up ;                                                   heading                      Description
                                                                        No
  Whereas the disparities which exist in the commercial
  policy measures applied in connection with these               ex 62.02         Cotton tea-towels
  products by the Member States are causing deflection
  of trade, thereby preventing the execution of those                                     Article 2
  commercial policy measures which are in force
  because of the difficult economic situation in the             This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
  sector concerned ;                                             arise in the United Kingdom for the importation of
                                                                  these products from the People's Republic of China or
  Whereas there are serious difficulties in the industrial       until 31 December 1978, whichever is the earlier.
  sector concerned, involving a considerable drop in
  production and employment ;                                                            Article 3
  Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those         This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom.
  proposed, would be likely to aggravate these diffi­
  culties ;
                                                                  Done at Brussels, 14 November 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 ;
                                                                                              Antonio GIOLITTI
  Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
  for the application of protective measures under the                                  Member of the Commission
  (!) OJ No L 360, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 1 .                         (2) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.