CELEX: 31976D0747
Language: en
Date: 1976-08-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 August 1976 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to woven fabrics of cotton, other than gauze or terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, unbleached, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in Ireland

23 . 9. 76                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 259/21
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 20 August 1976
              authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to woven
              fabrics of cotton , other than gauze or terry towelling and similar terry fabrics,
              unbleached, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff,
                           originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in Ireland
                                           (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                      (76/747/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
COMMUNITIES,                                                   May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas it is inappropriate to cover by this Decision
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          the request for the licence with which the application
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                in question originated because of its especially low
                                                               amount,
Having regard to the application to the Commission
under the first paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty,
made on 13 August 1976 by the United Kingdom                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Government by telex from the office of its Permanent
Representative to the European Communities, for                                            Article 1
authorization not to apply Community treatment to
woven fabrics of cotton, other than gauze or terry             The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
towelling and similar terry fabrics, unbleached, falling       Community treatment to imports of woven fabrics of
within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs               cotton, other than gauze or terry towelling and similar
Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in       terry fabrics, unbleached, falling within heading No
Ireland,                                                       ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating
                                                               in Taiwan, put into free circulation in Ireland and in
Whereas the importation into the United Kingdom of              respect of which applications for import licences were
the products in question originating in Taiwan is               lodged after 12 August 1976.
subject, under Council Regulation (EEC) No i 783/75
of 10 July 1975 on rules for imports of certain textile                                    A rticle 2
products originating in Taiwan ('), to a global quota
fixed for 1976 at 1 064 metric tons, which is taken up         This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
at 92 % ;                                                      arise in the United Kingdom for the importation of
Whereas, according to information supplied by the              the products in question from Taiwan and in any case
                                                                not later than 31 December 1976 .
United Kingdom Government, there are serious
economic difficulties in the sector in question ;
                                                                                           Article 3
Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
would be in addition to those already effected, would          This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom .
be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion the                 Done at Brussels, 20 August 1976.
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from Ireland ;                                                                          For the Commission
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given                                             Christopher SOAMES
for the application of protective measures, under the
first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­                                           Vice-President
0 OJ No L 182, 12 . 7 . 1975, p. 2.                            (2 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .