CELEX: 31977D0070
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 October 1976 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic of toilet purposes, of porcelain or china (including biscuit porcelain and parian) or of kinds of pottery other than common pottery or stoneware, falling within heading No 69.11 or subheading 69.12 C or D of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States

20 . 1 . 77                        Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 17/ 19
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                                      (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                               COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 8 October 1976
              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 china (including biscuit porcelain and parian) or of
              kinds of pottery other than common pottery or stoneware, falling within
              heading No 69.11 or subheading 69.12 C or D of the Common Customs Tariff,
              originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the
                                                other Member States
                                           (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                      (77/70/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 trading countries, has opened for 1976, in respect of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  the People's Republic China, an annual quota of FF
                                                                575 000 which is wholly taken up ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas the indirect imports in question , which
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­         would be in addition to those already effected, would
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                be likely to prevent the execution of the commercial
                                                               policy measures adopted by France because of the
                                                               economic difficulties in the sector concerned ;
 Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 1 15 of the Treaty, made on 4 October
 1976 by the French Government to the European                 Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Communities for authorization not to apply Commu­              machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
nity treatment to tableware and other articles of a kind       tion from the other Member States ;
commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of
porcelain or china (including biscuit porcelain and
parian) or of kinds of pottery other than common               Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
pottery or stoneware, falling within heading No 69.11          for the application of protective measures under the
or subheading 69.12 C or D of the Common Customs               first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China          tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
and in free circulation in the other Member States,            May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
                                                               Whereas the request for an import licence which gave
Whereas for the products in question France, in accor­         rise to the application under Article 115 need not be
dance with the Council Decision of 18 December                 covered by this authorization in view of the small
1975 (') on import arrangements in respect of State-           amount involved ,
(1) OJ No L 332, 31 . 12 . 1975 .                              (2 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                    States, and in respect of which applications for import
                                                               licences were lodged after the date of this Decision .
                       Article 1
The French Republic is authorized not to apply                                         Article 2
Community treatment to imports of the following
products :                                                     This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                               arise in France for the importation of the products in
       CCT                                                     question from the People's Republic of China, and in
      heading               Description of goods               any case not later than 31 December 1976.
        No
69.1 1         Tableware   and    other articles of a kind                             Article 3
               commonly used for domestic or toilet
               purposes, of porcelain or china (including      This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
               biscuit porcelain and parian)
69.12          Tableware   and    other articles of a kind
               commonly used for domestic and toilet
               purposes, of other kinds of pottery :           Done at Brussels, 8 October 1976 .
               C. Earthenware of fine pottery
               D. Other                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                         Christopher SOAMES
where they originate in the People s Republic of
China and are in free circulation in the other Member                                        Vice-President