CELEX: 31976D0650
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 24 May 1976 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to woven fabrics of cotton other than gauze or terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, unbleached, falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Brazil and in free circulation in the other Member States

20 . 8 . 76                        Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 229/27
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 24 May 1976
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to woven fabrics of
              cotton other than gauze or terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, unbleached, falling
              within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the
                        Republic of Brazil and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                           (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                     (76/650/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, according to the information supplied by
COMMUNITIES,                                                    the Italian Government, considerable quantities of
                                                                the products in question have already been imported
                                                                into Italy from Brazil during the early part of this
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    year, but, because they were exported prior to the
European Economic Community, and in particular                  entry into force of the provisions of the Agreement,
the first paragraph of Article 115 thereof,                      are not to be counted against the agreed quota share,
                                                                 most of which has in any case already been used;
Having regard to the application under the first
paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 12               Whereas, because of this exceptional and temporary
May 1976 by the Italian Government to the                       situation, it is certain that direct imports into Italy in
Commission by telex from the office of its                       1976 will be greater than the annual amount
Permanent Representative to the European                        provided for in the Agreement ;
Communities, for authorization to apply protective
measures to imports of woven fabrics of cotton other            Whereas, in the light of all these factors, the
than gauze or terry towelling and similar terry                 indirect import transaction which prompted this
fabrics, unbleached, falling within heading No ex               application, although an isolated transaction, is
55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in              likely at the present time to further exacerbate the
the Republic of Brazil and in free circulation in the            above economic difficulties ;
Netherlands,
                                                                Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set
                                                                in motion the machinery for bringing about the
Whereas the importation into the Community of the               necessary cooperation from the Netherlands and the
products in question originating in the Republic of              other Member States ;
Brazil is the subject of an Agreement negotiated
between the Community and the Republic of Brazil
which was initialled on 1 April 1976;                           Whereas authorization should therefore be given for
                                                                the application of protective measures under the first
                                                                paragraph of Article 115, subject to the conditions
Whereas, under the Agreement, the Republic of                   laid down by the Commission Decision of 12 May
Brazil has undertaken to limit as from 1 January                 1971 (1 ), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
1976 its exports of certain textile products to the
Community to certain ceilings allocated among the
Member States ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas the quota share allocated to Italy for the
bleached and unbleached woven cotton fabrics,
falling within heading No ex 55.09 of the Common
 Customs Tariff which are the subject of the                                              Article 1
Agreement is 3 337 metric tons ;
                                                                The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
Whereas there are serious economic difficulties in the          Community treatment to imports of the following
sector of the textile industry in question, which                products :
manifest themselves in a drop in production and a
high rate of unemployment;                                       H OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26 .
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                                                               Italian authorities at the date of adoption of this
     CCT
                                                               Decision .
    heading                  Description of goods
      No
                                                                                      Article 2
ex 55.09        Woven    fabrics   of   cotton    other than
                gauze or terry towelling and similar          This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
                terry fabrics, unbleached
                                                              Done at Brussels, 24 May 1976.
where they originate in the Republic of Brazil and                                     For the Commission
are in free circulation in the Netherlands, and in
respect of which applications for import licences                                      Christopher SOAMES
lodged after 4 May 1976 are being considered by the                                        Vice-President