CELEX: 31977D0634
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 6 April 1977 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to woven fabrics of cotton unbleached, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

11 . 10 . 77                      Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 258 /5
                                                           II
                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 6 April 1977
             authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to woven
             fabrics of cotton unbleached, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common
             Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in
                                             the other Member States
                                          (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                    (77/634/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas the allocation of that ceiling still involves
COMMUNITIES,                                                   certain disparities between the quota shares fixed for
                                                               the various Member States and their supply require­
                                                               ments ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          Whereas these disparities have caused an indirect flow
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                  to Italy of the products in question, originating in the
                                                               Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the other
                                                               Member States, which threatens to grow ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 1 April            Whereas according to information supplied by the
 1977 by the Government of the Italian Republic to             Italian Government there are serious economic diffi­
the Commission by telex from the Office of its Perma­          culties in the branch of the industry concerned by the
nent Representative to the European Communities,               application, resulting in a progressive decline of
for authorization not to apply Community treatment             production and a constant reduction of the number of
to imports of woven fabrics of cotton unbleached,              workers employed in that sector ;
falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common
Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea           Whereas indirect imports of the products in question,
and in free circulation in the other Member States,            which would be in addition to those already effected,
                                                               would be likely to aggravate those economic diffi­
                                                               culties ;
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in the Republic of            Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
Korea is the subject of an Agreement negotiated                motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
between the Community and that country and signed              sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
on 22 December 1976 :
                                                               Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                               for the application of protective measures under the
Whereas, under the Agreement, the Republic of                  first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
Korea has undertaken to take all necessary steps to            tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
limit its exports to the Community of woven cotton             May 1971 ( l), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
 fabrics and synthetic textile fibres to a ceiling allo­
cated among the Member States ;                                f 1 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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Whereas the application for a licence which gave rise                              Article 2
to the application under Article 115 should not be
covered by this authorization in view of the small         This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
amount involved,                                           arise in the Italian Republic for the importation of the
                                                           products in question from the Republic of Korea and
                                                           in any case not later than 31 December 1977.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                   Article J
                       Article 1
                                                           This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
Community treatment to woven fabrics of cotton,
                                                           Done at Brussels, 6 April 1977.
unbleached, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the
Common Customs Tariff, where they originate in the
                                                                                     For the Commission
Republic of Korea and are in free circulation in the
other Member States, and in respect of which applica­                               Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
tions for import licences were lodged after 1 April
1977 .                                                                                   Vice-President