CELEX: 31974D0516
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 October 1974 authorizing the French Government not to apply Community treatment to knitted or crocheted goods of textiles, other than cotton, falling within heading Nos ex 60.02, ex 60.04 and ex 60.05, originating in Hong Kong, and in free circulation in the other Member States

25 . 10 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                       No L 288 /39
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                                           (Acts whose publication is not oh/i^ittory)
                                                    COMMISSION
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 21 October 1974
                 authorizing the French Government not to apply Community treatment to
                 knitted or crocheted goods of textiles , other than cotton , falling within heading
                 Nos ex 60.02 , ex 60.04 and ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating
                           in Hong Kong , and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                                (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                           (74/ 51 6/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES ,
                                                                                                 Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  The French Republic is authorized not to apply
Economic Community , and in particular the first para­                 Community treatment to imports of the following
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof ;                                       products, where they originate in Hong Kong, and are
Having regard to the application under the first para­                 in free circulation in the other Member States , and in
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty made on 11                          respect of which applications for import licences were
October 1974 by the French Government to the                           lodged after 6 October 1974 of textiles other than
Commission by telex from the office of its permanent                   cotton :
representative to the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                           CCT
knitted or crocheted goods of textiles, other than                         he-ailing
                                                                              No
                                                                                                      Description of goods
cotton , falling within heading Nos ex 60.02, ex 60.04
and ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­                      ex 60.02         Gloves , mittens and mitts , knitted          or
nating in Hong Kong, and in free circulation in the                                     crocheted , not clastic or rubberized
other Member States ;
                                                                       ex 60.04         Under garments , knitted or crocheted , not
Whereas differences in the measures of commercial                                       elastic or rubberized
policy taken in connection with these products by                      ex 60.05         Outer garments and other articles , knitted
 France and by the other Member States as regards                                       or crochted . not elastic or rubberized
 Hong Kong are giving rise to deflection of trade ;
Whereas this deflection of trade is preventing the                                               Article 2
execution of measures of commercial policy taken by
France as regards Hong Kong ;                                           This Decision shall apply until 31 March 1975 .
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in                                         Article 3
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­                      This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
                                                                       Done at Brussels , 21 October 1974 .
Whereas authorization should be given , for a limited
                                                                                                    i'or the Commission
period , for the application of protective measures ,
under the first paragraph of Article I 15 , subject to the                                              I hi Pri siilent
conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
 12 Mav I '■•) 7 ] ('), ; ind in particular Article 1 thereof,                                     Francois - Xavier OH I O LI
(!) OJ No 1 . 121 . V (v 1^1 . p. Ih .