CELEX: 31978D0537
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 June 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to women's, girls' and infants' outer garments; blouses and shirt blouses, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized), or woven, for women, girls and infants, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheadings ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23, 24, 25 - 61.02-78, 82, 84) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Thailand and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 163/22                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                       20 . 6 . 78
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 8 June 1978
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to
              women's, girls' and infants' outer garments ; blouses and shirt blouses, knitted
              or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized), or woven , for women , girls and infants,
              of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile fibres , falling within subheadings ex
              60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23 , 24, 25 — 61.02-78 , 82 , 84) of
              the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Thailand and in free circulation in
                                              the other Member States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                      (78/537/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  operation, they are nevertheless likely, owing to the
COMMUNITIES,                                                    appreciable amount of the imports, to risk the aims of
                                                                the abovementioned agreement ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                   machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                tion from the other Member States,
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 5 June
 1978 by the French Government to the Commission               Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
of the European Communities, for authorization not              for the application of protective measures under the
to apply Community treatment to women's girls' and              first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
infants' outer garments ; blouses and shirt blouses,            tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized), or            May 1971 (') and in particular Article 1 thereof,
woven, for women , girls and infants, of wool, of cotton
or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subhead­
ings ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes
60.05-22, 23 , 24, 25 — 61.02-78 , 82, 84) of the
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Thailand and
in free circulation in the other Member States ,
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
                                                                                          Article 1
products in question originating in Thailand is
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the
Community and this country ;
                                                               The French Republic is authorized not to apply
Whereas, under that Agreement, Thailand has under­             Community treatment to the products indicated
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of      below, where they originate in Thailand and are in
the products in question to the Community to certain           free circulation in the other Member States, and in
ceilings allocated among the Member States ;                   respect of which applications for import licences were
                                                               lodged after 25 May 1978 and are, on the date of this
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­          Decision , pending with the French authorities :
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities                  CCT
                                                                         heading                        Description
persist between the import conditions in the various                       No
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
only progressively ;
                                                               ex 60.05 A II or          Women's girls' and infants' outer
                                                               ex 61.02 B                garments ;     blouses     and     shirt
Whereas, according to the application submitted,
there are serious difficulties in the industrial sector
                                                               ( NIMEXE codes 60.05 blouses, knitted or crocheted (not
                                                               22, 23 , 24, 25 — elastic or rubberized), or woven , for
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­            61.02-78 , 82, 84)        women , girls and infants, of wool ,
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its                                     of cotton or of man-made textile
market share ;                                                                           fibres
Whereas although the imports which gave rise to the
application submitted would appear to be an isolated           (!) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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                      Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 8 June 1978 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                 Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
This      Decision is  addressed   to    the  French
Republic.                                                                            Vice-President