CELEX: 31978D0565
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 June 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's and boys' woven breeches, shorts and trousers (including slacks); women's, girls' and infants' woven trousers and slacks, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 61.01-62; 64; 66; 72; 74; 76 - 61.02-66; 68; 72) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Thailand and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 189/22                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                    12. 7. 78
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 19 June 1978
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to men's
              and boys' woven breeches, shorts and trousers (including slacks) ; women's, girls'
              and infants' woven trousers and slacks, of wool, of cotton or of man-made
              textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B
              (NIMEXE codes 61.01-62 ; 64 ; 66 ; 72 ; 74 ; 76 — 61.02-66 ; 68 ; 72) of the Common
              Customs Tariff, originating in Thailand and in free circulation in the other
                                                   Member States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                     (78/565/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­
COMMUNITIES,                                                  tion and employment ;
                                                              Whereas futher indirect imports, in addition to those
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­         difficulties ;
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                              Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Having regard to the application under the first para­        machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 15 June           tion from the other Member States ;
1978 by the French Government to the Commission
of the European Communities, for authorization not            Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
to apply Community treatment to men's and boys'               for the application of protective measures under the
woven breeches, shorts and trousers (including slacks) ;      first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
women's girls' and infants' woven trousers and slacks,        tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres,             May 1971 (1), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex
61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 61.01-62 ; 64 ; 66 ; 72 ; 74 ;
76 — 61.02-66 ; 68 ; 72) of the Common Customs
Tariff, originating in Thailand and in free circulation
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
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 that country ;                                  The French Republic is authorized not to apply
                                                              Community treatment to the products indicated
                                                              below, where they originate in Thailand and are in
Whereas under that Agreement Thailand has under­              free circulation in the other Member States, and in
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of     respect of which applications for import licences were
the products in question to the Community to certain          lodged after 15 June 1978 :
ceilings allocated among the Member States ;
                                                                         CCT
                                                                        heading                       Description
                                                                          No
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the          ex 61.01                  Men's and boys' woven breeches,
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities      ex 61.02 B                shorts and trousers (including
persist between the import conditions in the various          (NIMEXE codes 61.01- slacks) ; women's, girls' and infants'
Member States ; whereas uniformity can only be                62 ; 64 ; 66 ; 72 ; 74 ; woven trousers and slacks, of wool,
achieved progressively ;                                      76 — 61.02-66 ; 68 ; of cotton or of man-made textile
                                                              72)                       fibres
Whereas according to the application submitted there
are   serious   difficulties in  the   industrial  sector     (>) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.
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                        Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 19 June 1978 .
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise for the importation of these products from Thai­
land or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
earlier.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                        Article 3                                                   Henk VREDELING
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.                                    Vice-President