CELEX: 31977D0074
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30 November 1976 authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany not to apply Community treatment to certain women's, girls' and infants' outer garments: shirts and blouses, falling within subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

No L 17/ 24                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                         20 . 1 . 77
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                               of 30 November 1976
             authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany not to apply Community treat­
             ment to certain women's, girls' and infants' outer garments : shirts and blouses,
             falling within subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
             nating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the Netherlands and
                                               the United Kingdom
                                         (Only the German text is authentic)
                                                     (77/74/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 subject to the conditions specified in the Commission
COMMUNITIES,                                                   Decision of 12 May 1971 (*), and in particular Article
                                                               1 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 24                                          Article 1
November 1976 by the Government of the Federal                The Federal Republic of Germany is authorized not to
Republic of Germany to the Commission by telex                 apply Community treatment to imports of the
from the office of its permanent representative to the         following products :
European Communities, for authorization not to apply
Community treatment to certain women 's, girls' and
infants' outer garments : shirts and blouses, falling                CCT
                                                                    heading                   Description of goods
within subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common                            No
Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea
and in free circulation in the Netherlands and the            ex 61.02 B       Women's,       girls'     and      infants'   outer
United Kingdom,                                                                garments
Whereas the importation into the Community of the                              — Shirts and blouses
products in question originating in the Republic of
Korea is the subject of an Agreement negotiated
between the Community and that country signed on              where they originate in the Republic of Korea and are
                                                              in free circulation in the Netherlands and the United
28 November 1975 ;
                                                              Kingdom, and in respect of which applications for
Whereas, under that Agreement, the Republic of                import licences were lodged after 10 November 1976.
Korea has undertaken to take all necessary steps to
limit its exports of certain textile products to the                                    Article 2
Community to certain ceilings allocated among the
Member States ;                                               This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                              arise in the Federal Republic of Germany for the
Whereas according to information supplied by the              importation of the products in question from the
Government of the Federal Republic of Germany,                Republic of Korea and in any case not later than 31
there are serious economic difficulties in the ready­          December 1976 .
made clothing sector concerned, resulting in parti­
cular in a progressive decline of production ;                                          Article 3
Whereas indirect imports, which would be in addition
to those already effected, would be likely to aggravate       This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
these economic difficulties ;                                 Germany.
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­             Done at Brussels, 30 November 1976 .
sary cooperation from the Netherlands, the United
Kingdom and the other Member States ;                                                     For the Commission
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,                                         Finn GU.-JDELACH
for a limited period, for the application of protective
measures under the first paragraph of Article 115,                                    Member of the Commission
                                                              (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.