CELEX: 31975D0718
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 12 June 1975 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to bed linen, table linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen, curtains and other furnishing articles falling within heading No 62.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States

28 . 11 . 75                          Official Journal of the European Communities.                         No L 308 /29
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                                         (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                 COMMISSION
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 12 June 1975
              authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to bed
              linen , table linen , toilet linen and kitchen linen , curtains and other furnishing
              articles falling within heading No 62.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
              nating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other
                                                       Member States
                                              (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                        (75/71 8 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     riencing serious economic difficulties taking the form
COMMUNITIES,                                                       of a considerable drop in production with resultant
                                                                   unemployment in many factories ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­             Whereas indirect imports of the products in question
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof ;                                   are likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
 Having regard to the application under the first para­            Whereas it is not possible at short notice to sei in
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 4 June                 motion the machinery for securing the requisite coop­
 1975 by the Italian Government by telex from the                  eration of the Netherlands ;
Office of the country's Permanent Representative to
 the European Communities, for authorization not to
                                                                   Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
 apply Community treatment to bed linen, table linen,
 toilet linen and kitchen linen , curtains and other
                                                                   for the application of protective measures under the
                                                                   first paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty, subject to
 furnishing articles falling within heading No 62.02 of
                                                                   the conditions laid down by the Commission Deci­
 the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the
                                                                   sion of 12 May 1971 (3), and in particular Article 1
 People's Republic of China and in free circulation in             thereof,
 the other Member States ;
 Whereas Italy, in accordance with the Council Deci­
 sion of 2 December 1974 ('), as amended by the                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 Council Decision of 27 March 1975 (2), has opened in
 respect of the People's Republic of China an annual
 quota of Lit 1 200 million (the whole of which is                                            Article I
 currently being distributed) for the products in ques­
 tion, while the Netherlands places no restrictions on
 imports of these products from the said third country ;           The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
                                                                    Community treatment to imports of of bed linen ,
 Whereas, according to the information supplied by                 table linen , toilet linen and kitchen linen , curtains
 the Italian Government, the sector in question is expe­           and other furnishing articles faHing within heading
                                                                    No 62.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating
 (') OJ No L 358 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 99, 21 . 4. 1975, p. 1 .                              (3) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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in the People s Republic of China and in free circula­                           Article 3
tion in the other Member States and in respect of
which applications for import licences were lodged         This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
after 25 May 1975 .
                      Article 2                             Done at Brussels, 12 June 1975.
This Decision shall apply until such time as there are
                                                                                    For the Commission
new openings in the Italian Republic for imports of
the products in question from the People's Republic                                     The President
of China or until 31 December 1975, whichever is the
earlier.                                                                           Francois-Xavier ORTOLI