CELEX: 31974D0473
Language: en
Date: 1974-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 September 1974 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to optical microscopes, falling within heading No ex 90.12 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan, and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 254/ 18                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 19 . 9 . 74
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 11 September 1974
             authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to optical
             microscopes, falling within heading No ex 90.12 of the Common Customs
               Tariff, originating in Japan , and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                                 (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                           (74/473/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                        Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 115 thereof ;                                       The French Government is authorized not to apply
                                                                     Community treatment to imports of the following
Having regard to the application under the first para­               products, where they originate in Japan and are in
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty made on 5                         free circulation in the other Member States, and in
September 1974 by the French Government to the                       respect of which applications for import licences were
Commission by telex from the office of its Permanent                 lodged after 1 September 1974 :
Representative to the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                         CCT
optical microscopes, falling within heading No ex                        heading                 Description of goods
                                                                            No
90.12 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in
Japan , and in free circulation in the other Member
States ;                                                             ex 90.12        Optical microscopes
Whereas differences in the measures of commercial
policy taken in connection with these products by
                                                                                             Article 2
France and by the other Member States as regards
Japan are giving rise to deflection of trade ;
                                                                     The period of validity of this Decision shall expire
Whereas this deflection of trade is preventing the                   upon the introduction of a uniform system of imports
execution of measures of commercial policy taken by                  as part of the common commercial policy as regards
France as regards Japan ;                                            Japan and in any event not later than 31 December
                                                                     1974 .
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
sary cooperation from the other Member States ;                                              Article 3
Whereas authorization should be given , for a limited                This Decision is addressed to the French Govern­
period, for the application of protective measures,                  ment .
under the first paragraph of Article 1 15, subject to the
conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
12 May 1971 ('), and in particular in Article 1 thereof ;
                                                                     Done at Brussels, 11 September 1974.
Whereas a uniform system of imports could be
adopted for the products in question as part of a
                                                                                               For the CoitiDiission
common commercial policy as regards Japan ;
whereas the period of validity of these protective                                                 The President
measures should expire upon the introduction of such
a system ,                                                                                    Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .