CELEX: 31977D0018
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16 December 1976 prolonging the duty-free importation of goods for free distribution to the earthquake victims in the Friuli region

No L 5 / 18                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                     7 . 1 . 77
                                                      COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 16 December 1976
               prolonging the duty-free importation of goods for free distribution to the earth­
                                                quake victims in the Friuli region
                                                   ( Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                                (77/ 1 8 / EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                                                 Article 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                               1 . The provision for admission free of import
 1410/74 of 4 June 1974 on the tariff treatment appli­                       duties, under Article 1 ( 1 ) of the Commission Deci­
 cable to goods imported for free circulation in the                         sion of 14 May 1976, shall be extended until 31
 event of disasters occurring in the territory of one or                     March 1977 for all goods imported for free circulation
 more Member States ('), and in particular Article 2                         by State organization or by organizations approved by
 thereof,                                                                    the competent Italian authorities for the purpose of
                                                                             being distributed by them free to the earth-quake
                                                                            victims in the Friuli region , or made available free of
 Having regard to the request made by the Govern­
                                                                             charge whilst remaining the property of the organiza­
 ment of the Italian Republic dated 12 May 1976,
                                                                             tions in question .
Whereas, by the Decision of 14 May 1 976 (2 ) in
 response to this request, the Commission authorized                         2 . The provision for admission free of import
 the duty-free importation of goods for free distribu­                       duties, under Article 1 (2) of the Commission Deci­
 tion to the earthquake victims in the Friuli region ;                      sion of 14 May 1976 for goods imported for free circu­
whereas this duty-free admission was extended until                          lation by the relief units to cover their own require­
 31 December 1976 by the Commission Decision of                              ments during the period of their operations, shall also
                                                                            be extended until 31 March 1977 .
 16 September 1 976 (3 ) ;
Whereas     the   Commission 's          consultation    with   the                                  Article 2
 Italian Government under Article 3 of the said Deci­
 sion has revealed that the current situation in the
 region concerned justifies the extension of duty-free                       1.    The Government of the Italian Republic shall
                                                                            communicate      to  the  Commission    all information
 admission for all goods imported for free circulation
 under the conditions laid down in Article 1 of Regula­                      regarding the nature and quantities of the various
 tion ( EEC) No 1410/ 74 ;                                                  goods admitted free of duty under Article 1 .
Whereas such extension should be limited to the                             2.     The communication required under paragraph 1 ,
 period ending 31 March 1977 in order to allow the                          covering the period 8 December 1 976 to 1 1 March
 Commission to re-examine the situation on the basis                         1977 , shall reach the Commission not later than 18
of information communicated by the Government of                            March 1977 .
 the Italian Republic concerning the scale and nature
of importations carried out under the provisions for
duty-free admission ;
                                                                                                     Article 3
Whereas      the    other     Member        States    have    been
consulted in accordance with Article 2 of Regulation
                                                                            After consultation with the Government of the Italian
( EEC) No 1410 / 74,
                                                                            Republic , the Commission shall consider within three
                                                                            months from the date of the notification of this Deci­
(') OJ No I. 1 SO , 7 . 6 . 1974, p . 4 .
(') O ) No L 131 , 20 . S. 1976 , p . 19 .                                  sion , whether this Decision should be maintained,
(■>) OJ No L 254, 17 . 9 . 1976 , p . SI .                                  modified or repealed .
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                      Article 4                            Done at Brussels , 16 December 1976 .
This Decision shall come into effect from 1 January
1977 .
                                                                                   For the Commission
                      Article 5                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.                             Member of the Commission