CELEX: 31977D0022
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 December 1976 concerning admission free of customs duties of prefabricated components required for the construction of a school offered free of charge by Switzerland to the disaster stricken community of Seveso (Italy)

No L 5/ 24                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 7 . 1 . 77
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 20 December 1976
              concerning admission free of customs duties of prefabricated components
              required for the construction of a school offered free of charge by Switzerland to
                                   the disaster stricken community of Seveso ( Italy)
                                               ( Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                           (77/22/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, therefore, the conditions laid down in Regu­
COMMUNITIES,                                                         lation (EEC) No 1410/74 are fulfilled to allow importa­
                                                                     tion free of customs duties of prefabricated compo­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                nents for the school in question ;
Economic Community,
                                                                     Whereas consultation with the other Member States
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1410/74 of 4 June 1974 on the tariff treatment appli­               laid down in Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No
                                                                     1410/74 has taken place,
cable to goods imported for free circulation in the
event of disasters occurring in the territory of or one
more Member States ('), and in particular Article 2
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
thereof,
Having regard to the application by the Italian Repu­                                       Article 1
blic dated 25 November 1976 ,
Whereas the Government of the Italian Republic has                   The various prefabricated components required for
sought importation free of customs duties of prefabri­               the construction of the school, offered free of charge
cated components required for the construction of a                  by Switzerland to the Seveso community in order to
school offered free of charge by Switzerland to the                  provide schooling for the children of families forced
Seveso community in order to provide schooling for                   to evacuate the zone polluted by dioxyne following
the children of displaced families who have moved to                 the accident which occurred on 10 July 1976, shall be
                                                                     admitted free of customs duties .
a non-polluted area following the contamination of
part of this region by dioxyne caused by the accident
which occurred on 10 July 1976 ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas this contamination , the effects of which
continue to be apparent, render it essential that                    This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic .
persons who lived in the polluted zone at the time of
the accident should remain away from it for an indefi­
nite period ; whereas the school establishments avail­               Done at Brussels, 20 December 1976 .
able in the receiving area are not sufficient to ensure
the schooling of all the children now living there ;
                                                                                              For the Commission
whereas in this respect, the situation resulting from
this contamination has the effect of constituting, for                                            G. BRUNNER
the population concerned , a disaster within the
meaning of Regulation ( EEC) No 1410 / 74 ;                                               Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 150 , 7 . 6 . 1974, p. 4 .