CELEX: 31979D0471
Language: en
Date: 1979-04-26 00:00:00
Title: 79/471/EEC: Commission Decision of 26 April 1979 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, falling within heading No 60.02 of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 60.02-40, 50, 60, 70, 80) (categories 10 and 11), originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 121 /26                       Official Journal of the European Communities                               17. 5. 79
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                                       (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                COMMISSION
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 26 April 1979
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to gloves,
              mittens and mitts , knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, falling within
              heading No 60.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, (NIMEXE codes 60.02-40, 50 ,
              60 , 70 , 80) (categories 10 and 11 ), originating in Hong Kong and in free circula­
                                          tion in the other Member States
                                            (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                      (79/471 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           various Member States ; whereas uniformity can only
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           be achieved progressively ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                Whereas it appears from the application submitted
                                                                that there are serious difficulties in the industrial
Having regard to the application under the first para­          sector concerned, involving a considerable drop in
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 17 April            production and employment ;
 1979 by the French Government to the Commission
of the European Communites, for authorization not to            Whereas further direct imports, in addition to those
apply Community treatment to gloves, mittens and                already made or proposed, would be likely to aggra­
mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized,         vate these difficulties ;
falling within heading No 60.02 of the Common
Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 60.02-40, 50, 60, 70,              Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
80) (categories 10 and 11 ), originating in Hong Kong           machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
and in free circulation in the other Member States,             tion from the other Member States ;
                                                                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
Whereas the importation into the Community of the               for the application of protective measures under the
products in question originating in Hong Kong is                first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                  tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 / 202/ EEC
Community and that country ;                                    of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
                                                                Whereas, however, the application for a licence which
Whereas under that Agreement Hong Kong has                      gave rise to the application in question does not need
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its             to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
exports of the products in question to the Community            small amount involved ,
up to the amount of certain ceilings allocated among
the Member States ;                                             O OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                        Article 2
                       Article 1                             This Decision shall apply until 30 June 1979 .
The French Republic is authorized not to apply
Community treatment to the products indicated
below, where they originate in Hong Kong and are in                                Article 3
free circulation in the other Member States , and in
respect of which applications for import licences were       This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
lodged after 12 April 1979 :
            OCT
           heading                   Description
             No                                              Done at Brussels, 26 April 1979 .
60.02                  Gloves , mittens and mitts, knitted
(NIMEXE codes          or crocheted, not elastic or rubber­                          For the Commission
60.02-40, 50, 60, 70, ized
80) (categories 10 and                                                                 Antonio GIOLITTI
11 )
                                                                                 Member of the Commission