CELEX: 31978D0380
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 March 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to tents, falling within heading No 62.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

20 . 4. 78                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 106/31
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 13 March 1978
             authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to tents ,
             falling within heading No 62.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in
                      South Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                     (78 /380/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
COMMUNITIES,                                                    for the application of protective measures under the
                                                               first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 8 March            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
1978 by the French Government to the Commission
of the European Communities, for authorization not
to apply Community treatment to tents, falling within                                     Article 1
heading No 62.04 of the Common Customs Tariff,
originating in South Korea and in free circulation in          The French Republic is authorized not to apply
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 1 March 1978 and are, on the date of this
Community and that country ;                                   Decision , pending with the French authorities :
Whereas under that Agreement South Korea has
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its                  CCT
                                                                    heading
exports of the products in question to the Community                  No
                                                                                                   Description
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member
States ;
                                                               62.04            Tents
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
                                                                                          Article 2
persist between the import conditions in the various
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
only progressively ;                                           This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
Whereas although the imports which gave rise to the
application submitted would appear to be an isolated           Done at Brussels, 13 March 1978 .
operation, they are nevertheless likely, owing to the
appreciable amount of the imports, to prevent the
execution of the measures of the Agreement ;                                                For the Commission
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the                                    Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from the other Member States ;                                                              Vice-President
                                                               (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .