CELEX: 31976R2162
Language: en
Date: 1976-09-02 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2162/76 of 2 September 1976 maintaining in effect the rules whereby imports into Italy of electric filament lamps originating in certain European State-trading countries are subject to authorization

3 . 9 . 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 242/ 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2162/76
                                                      of 2 September 1976
              maintaining in effect the rules whereby imports into Italy of electric filament
              lamps originating in certain European State-trading countries are subject to
                                                          authorization
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas for the Italian market only these measures
COMMUNITIES,                                                        should therefore be maintained until 31      December
                                                                    1976 in respect of Bulgaria, the German Democratic
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Republic, Czechoslovakia and the USSR ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Whereas the safeguard measures thus maintained in
109/70 of 19 December 1969 establishing common                      respect of these third countries can be rescinded
                                                                    should those same countries enter into consultations
rules for imports from State-trading countries (!), and
in particular Article 7 thereof,                                    with the Community and should these consultations
                                                                    result in mutually satisfactory solutions,
After consulting the Advisory Committee set up
under Article 5 of the said Regulation ,
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 1 887/76 (2), the                                           Article 1
Commission established rules whereby imports into
Italy of electric filament lamps originating in certain             The rules whereby imports into Italy of electric fila­
European State-trading countries were made subject to               ment lamps originating in certain European State­
authorization ;                                                     trading countries are subject to authorization which
                                                                    were adopted by Regulation (EEC) No 1887/76 shall
Whereas the difficulties which justified the establish­             remain applicable until 31 December 1976.
ment of these safeguard measures still prevail on the
Italian market only ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the consultations held in the meantime with
Hungary, Poland and Romania on the basis of the                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
protocols of accession of these countries to GATT                   following its publication in the Official Journal of
have resulted in mutually acceptable solutions ;                    the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 2 September 1976.
                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                 The President
                                                                               M. van der STOEL
(') OJ No L 19, 26 . 1 . 1970 , p . 1 .
(2) OJ No L 206, 31 . 7 . 1976, p . 79 .