CELEX: 31977D0166
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 December 1976 authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to footwear with uppers of leather falling within subheading 64.02 A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the United Kingdom

No L 52/36                          Official Journal of the European Communities                             24. 2. 77
                                                            II
                                       (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                               COMMISSION
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 20 December 1976
              authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to footwear with uppers
              of leather falling within subheading 64.02 A of the Common Customs Tariff,
              originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the United Kingdom
                                           (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                      (77/ 166/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  a decrease in production and an increasing rate of
COMMUNITIES,                                                    unemployment ;
                                                                Whereas it is not possible to set in motion the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           tion from the United Kingdom and the other Member
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                   States ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­          Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 8                   for the application of protective measures, under the
December 1976 by the Government of Ireland by                   first paragraph of Article 115 of the EEC Treaty,
telex from the office of its Permanent Representative           subject to the conditions laid down by Commission
to the European Community, for authorization not to             Decision 71 /202/EEC of 12 May 1971 (2), and in parti­
                                                                cular Article 1 thereof ;
apply Community treatment in respect of footwear
with uppers of leather falling within subheading 64.02
A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in                  Whereas it is unappropriate to cover by this Decision
Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the United            the request for the licence with which the application
Kingdom,                                                        in question originated because of its especially low
                                                                amount,
Whereas Ireland, following the procedure referred to
in Council Decision 75/21 0/ EEC of 27 March 1975
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
on unilateral import arrangements in respect of State­
trading countries ('), made imports of products falling
within heading No 64.02 A of the Common Customs
                                                                                         Article 1
Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia, subject to
quantitative restrictions with effect from 12 November
 1976 ;                                                         Ireland is authorized not to apply Community treat­
                                                                ment to footwear with uppers of leather falling within
                                                                subheading 64.02 A of the Common Customs Tariff,
Whereas in Ireland there are serious economic diffi­            originating in Czechoslovakia, in free circulation in
culties in the sector in question, this being shown by          the United Kingdom and in respect of which applica
(1) OJ No L 99, 21 . 4. 1975, p. 7.                             (2) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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tions for import licences were lodged after 7                                    Article 3
December 1976.                                             This Decision is addressed to Ireland.
                       Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 20 December 1976.
                                                                                   For the Commission
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise in Ireland for the importations from Czechoslo­                               Finn GUNDELACH
vakia of the products in question, and in any case not
later than 31 December 1976.                                                   Member of the Commission