CELEX: 31977R2898
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2898/77 of 20 December 1977 maintaining in force the rules whereby imports into Italy of electric filament lamps originating in certain European State-trading countries are subject to import authorizations

No L 338 /4                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                               28 . 12. 77
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 2898/77
                                                          of 20 December 1977
               maintaining in force the rules whereby imports into Italy of electric filament
               lamps originating in certain European State-trading countries are subject to
                                                          import authorizations
rHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                              Italian products and these have caused or are likely to
COMMUNITIES,                                                             cause serious injury to the producers in this region of
-laving regard to the Treaty establishing the European                        Community if the measures now in force are not
economic Community,                                                      extended ;
-laving regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            Whereas these measures should consequently be main­
109/70 of 19 December 1969 establishing common                           tained in effect until 31 December 1978 for the
-ules for imports from State-trading countries ('), and                  Italian market in respect of Bulgaria, the German
 n particular Article 8 thereof,                                         Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and the USSR ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                       Whereas the safeguard measures thus maintained in
                                                                         respect of these third countries can be repealed should
        consultation within the Advisory Committee set                   (hose same countries enter int0 consultations with the
jp under Article 5 of that Regulation,                                   Community and should these consultations result in
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 1 887/76 (2) the                          mutually satisfactory solutions,
Commission established rules whereby imports into
Italy of electric filament lamps originating in certain                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
European State-trading countries were made subject to                                             Article 1
authorization ,                                                                rules whereby imports into Italy of electric fila­
Whereas by Regulations (EEC) No 2162/76 (3) and                          ment lamps originating in certain European State­
 EEC) No 3205/76 (4) the Council maintained these                        trading countries are subject to authorization, which
rules in force until 31 December 1977 ;                                  were adopted by Regulation (EEC) No 1887/76 and
Whereas the economic difficulties which justified the                    confirmed by Regulations (EEC) No 2162/76 and
introduction of these protective measures still exist on                 ( EEC) No 3205/76, shall continue to apply until 31
the Italian market ;                                                      December 1978 .
Whereas electric filament lamps originating in certain                   The total quantity of products for which import
State-trading countries continue to be imported into                      authorizations shall be issued during the year 1978
Italy at prices substantially below the price of similar                  shall not exceed the following amounts :
                     NIMEXE
                                                      Description                          Origin            Quantity
                       code                                                                                   ( items)
                85.20-15            Electric filament lamps exceeding 28         Bulgaria                    420 000
                                    volts                                        German Democratic
                                                                                 Republic                  3 350 000
                                                                                 Czechoslovakia           4 100 000
                                                                                 USSR                      1 365 000
                                                                  Article 2
                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1978 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 20 December 1977 .
                                                                                      For the Council
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                         J. CHABERT
(')  OJ  No L   19 , 26 . 1 . 1970 , p. 1 .
(2 ) OJ  No L  206, 31 . 7 . 1976, p. 79 .
(3 ) OJ  No L   242, 3 . 9 . 1976 , p. 1 .
(4)  OJ  No L  362, 31 . 12. 1976, p. 1 .