CELEX: 31975D0014
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 December 1974 authorizing the French Republic to postpone the application of the Common Customs Tariff to seed potatoes

No L 3/ 18                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                 7 . 1 . 75
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 11 December 1974
              authorizing the French Republic to postpone the application of the Common
                                            Customs Tariff to seed potatoes
                                             (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                        (75/ 14/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    limited period only ; whereas the authorization under
COMMUNITIES,                                                      Article 26 should therefore expire on the date on
                                                                  which the common organization of the market for the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              products concerned is brought into operation or on 31
Economic Community, and in particular Article 26                   December 1975, whichever is the earlier ;
thereof ;
                                                                  Whereas imports of the products concerned into
Whereas the French Republic has applied for the year
                                                                   France from third countries do not represent more
1975 for authorization to postpone the application of              than 5 % in value of total imports into France from
the Common Customs Tariff to seed potatoes ;
                                                                   such countries during the last year for which statistical
Whereas, under Article 23 (3) of the Treaty, the                   data are available,
Common Customs Tariff was from 1 January 1970 to
be applied by the Member States in its entirety for,
inter alia, seed potatoes ;                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas, however, the French Republic was autho­
                                                                                          Article 1
rized by the Decision of the Commission of 21
December 1973 (') to continue during 1974 to apply                 From 1 January 1975 until measures for the common
the customs duties which it was applying on 31                     organization of the market in seed potatoes are
December 1969 ;
                                                                   brought into operation or until 31 December 1975
Whereas if the duties under the Common Customs                     whichever is the earlier, the French Republic is autho­
Tariff were applied from 1 January 1975, the existing              rized to apply in respect of the products specified in
difficulties in France would be aggravated, in the                 the Annex the duties which it applied on 1 January
absence of a common organization of the market for                 1957, aligned in accordance with Article 23(l)(c) of
the product in question, by the risk of a substantial              the Treaty on the duties of the Common Customs
                                                                   Tariff.
increase in imports from third countries ; whereas the
products concerned are sensitive products for which
the provisions of Article 44 of the Treaty have had to                                    Article 2
be applied ; whereas, pending the introduction of a
common organization of the market concerned, the                   This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
French Republic should be authorized to continue to
apply from 1 January 1975 in respect of imports of
the products concerned from third countries, the                   Done at Brussels, 1 1 December 1 974.
duties which were applied on 31 December 1969,
reduced in accordance with the agreement signed at                                            For the Commission
the last GATT ;
                                                                                                  The President
Whereas a measure of derogation such as an authoriza­
tion under Article 26 of the Treaty should apply for a                                       Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 33 , 6. 2. 1974, p. 11 .
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                                                                 ANNEX
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                 heading No                                             Description of goods
                    07.01                   Vegetables, fresh or chilled :
                                            A. Potatoes :
                                                 I. Seed potatoes (a)
          (a) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities.