CELEX: 31976D0313
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 December 1975 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's, women's and infants' jerseys falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in France

No L 76/ 10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   23 . 3 . 76
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 17 December 1975
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's,
              women's and infants' jerseys falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common
                   Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in France
                                               (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                         (76/313/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      lating that the quota in question be allocated initially
COMMUNITIES,                                                        on the basis of the volumes of imports previously
                                                                    admitted into the various Member States and that it
                                                                    need be adjusted only progressively to the supply
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               requirements of the markets ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                    Whereas for this reason the allocation of the quota in
                                                                    question still involves certain disparities in the quota
                                                                    shares fixed for the various Member States by refer­
Having regard to the application under the first para­              ence to the supply of the markets concerned ;
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 10
December 1975 by the Italian Government to the
Commission by telex from the office of its Permanent
                                                                    Whereas in view of these disparities, there is reason to
Representative to the European Communities, for                     fear that an indirect trade flow might arise and
authorization not to apply Community treatment to
                                                                    develop ;
men's, women's and infants' jerseys falling within
heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff,
originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in                    Whereas the quantity stated in the request for a
France,
                                                                     licence which prompted the application (49 747
                                                                     items, which is 47 % of the French quota share)
                                                                     proves that it is clearly important to carry out opera­
Whereas the importation into the Community of the                    tions of this kind ;
products in question originating in Taiwan is subject
to a Community quantitative quota established by
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July                       Whereas according to information supplied by the
 1975 on rules for imports of certain textile products               Italian Government there are serious economic diffi­
originating in Taiwan (') ;                                          culties in the sector manufacturing the products in
                                                                     question, resulting in a progressive decline of produc­
                                                                     tion and a constant reduction of the number of
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation                     workers employed in that sector ;
among the Member States, as determined by Commis­
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports                 Whereas the indirect imports in question would be
 into the Community of certain textile products origi­               likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
 nating in Taiwan (2) ; whereas the quota shares allo­
 cated for 1975 to Italy and France are 598 000 and
 105 000 items respectively ;                                        Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
                                                                     motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                                     sary cooperation from France ;
 Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­
 nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of
                                                                     Whereas     under      these    circumstances authorization
 the import arrangements previously applied in the
 Member States, the above Regulation (EEC) No                         should be given , for a limited period, for the applica­
  1783/75 provides, as a temporary measure, for a dero­               tion of protective measures, under the first paragraph
 gation from the principle of equal and continuous                    of Article 115, subject to the conditions laid down by
 access for all importers to Community quotas by stipu­               the Commission Decision of 12 May 1971 (3 ), and in
                                                                      particular Article 1 thereof,
 (■) OJ No L 182, 12. 7 . 1975, p . 2.
 (2 ) OJ No L 189 , 21 . 7 . 1975, p. 24.                             (3 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                     for import licences were lodged after 27 November
                                                                1975 .
                       Article 1
                                                                                     Article 2
The Italian Republic is hereby authorized not to apply
Community treatment to imports of the following                 This Decision shall apply until 31 December 1975 .
products :
                                                                                     Article 3
      CCT
     heading
       No
                            Description of goods                This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
ex 60.05        Outer garments and other articles, knitted      Done at Brussels, 17 December 1975 .
                or crocheted , not elastic or rubberized :
                — Men's, women's and infants' jerseys                                  For the Commission
                                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
tion in France, and in respect of which applications                                Member of the Commission