CELEX: 31978D0996
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-23 00:00:00
Title: 78/996/EEC: Commission Decision of 23 November 1978 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to tents, falling within heading No ex 62.04 of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 62.04-23, 73), originating in South Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 344/34                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                   8 . 12. 78
                                           COMMISSION DECISION
                                               of 23 November 1978
              authorizing the United Kingdom not . to apply Community treatment to tents,
              falling within heading No ex 62.04 of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE
              codes 62.04-23, 73), originating in South Korea and in free circulation in the
                                               other Member States
                                         (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                    (78/996/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                               first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                 tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 /202/EEC
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        of 12 May 1971 (1), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­        Whereas, however, the application for a licence which
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                gave rise to the application in question does not need
Having regard to the application under the first para­       to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 14               small amount involved,
November 1978 by the United Kingdom Government
to the Commission of the European Communities, for           HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
authorization not to apply Community treatment to
tents, falling within heading No ex 62.04 of the                                      Article 1
Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 62.04-23,
73), originating in South Korea and in free circulation      The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
in the other Member States,                                  Community treatment to the products indicated
                                                             below, where they originate in South Korea and are in
Whereas the importation into the Community of the            free circulation in the other Member States, and in
products in question originating in South Korea is           respect of which applications for import licences were
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the               lodged after 7 November 1978 :
Community and that country ;
Whereas under that Agreement South Korea has                           CCT
                                                                      heading                       Description
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its                     No
exports of the products in question to the Community
up to the amount of certain ceilings allocated among         ex 62.04                 Tents
the Member States ;
                                                             (NIMEXE codes
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­        62.04-23, 73)
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
individual markets ; whereas there are therefore dispar­
ities existing between the import conditions in the                                   Article 2
various Member States ; whereas uniformity can only          This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
be achieved progressively ;                                  arise in the United Kingdom for the importation of
Whereas it appears from the application submitted            these products from South Korea or until 31
that there are serious difficulties in the industrial        December 1978, whichever is the earlier.
sector concerned, involving a considerable drop in
production and employment ;                                                           Article 3
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those       This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom.
already made or proposed, would be likely to aggra­
vate these difficulties ;
                                                             Done at Brussels, 23 November 1978.
Whereas it was not possible to set in motion rapidly
the machinery for bringing about the necessary coop­                                     For the Commission
eration from the other Member States ;
                                                                                        Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
for the application of protective measures under the                                          Vice-President
                                                             (!) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.