CELEX: 31975D0196
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25 February 1975 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or other kinds of pottery, other than common pottery and stoneware, falling within headings No 69.11 and 69.12 C and D of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan, and in free circulation in the other Member States

8 . 4. 75                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                       No L 87/ 27
                                               COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 25 February 1975
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to table­
             ware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet
              purposes, of porcelain or other kinds of pottery, other than common pottery and
             stoneware , falling within headings No 69.11 and 69.12 C and D of the Common
              Customs Tariff, originating in Japan , and in free circulation in the other
                                                    Member States
                                           (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                      (75/ 1 96/ EEC) •
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
COMMUNITIES,                                                       12 May 1971 ('), and in particular in Article 1 thereof ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas a uniform system of imports could be
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­             adopted for the products in question as part of a
graph of Article 115 thereof ;                                    common commercial policy as regards Japan ;
                                                                  whereas the period of validity of these protective
                                                                  measures should expire upon the introduction of such
Having regard to the application under the first para­            a system ,
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty made on 18
February 1975 by the French Government to the
Commission by telex from the office of its Permanent              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Representative to the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                                          Article 1
tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used
for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or other            The French Republic is authorized not to apply
kinds of pottery, other than common pottery and                   Community treatment to imports of the following
stoneware, falling within headings No 69.11 and 69.12             products, where they originate in Japan and are in
C and D of the Common Customs Tariff, originating                 free circulation in the other Member States, and in
in Japan , and in free circulation in the other Member            respect of which applications for import licences were
States ;                                                          lodged after 9 February 1975 :
Whereas differences in the measures of commercial                       CCT
policy taken in connection with these products by                      heading
                                                                          No
                                                                                                 Description of goods
France and by the other Member States as regards
Japan are giving rise to deflection of trade ;
                                                                  69.11 '          Tableware    and    other articles of a  kind
                                                                                   commonly used for domestic or toilet
Whereas this deflection of trade is preventing the                                 purposes, of porcelain or china (including
execution of measures of commercial policy taken by                                biscuit porcelain and parian )
France as regards Japan ;                                         69.12            Tableware    and    other articles  of a kind
                                                                                   commonly used for domestic or toilet
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in                           purposes , of other kinds of pottery
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­                        C        Earthenware or fine pottery
sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
                                                                          D        Other
Whereas authorization should be given , for a limited
period , for the application of protective measures,
under the first paragraph of Article 1 15, subject to the         (') OJ No L 121 i . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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                      Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 25 February 1975.
The period of validity of this Decision shall expire
upon the introduction of a uniform system of imports
as part of the common commercial policy as regards
Japan and in any event not later than 31 December
1975 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                      Article 3                                                      The President
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI