CELEX: 31978D0214
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 31 January 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of synthetic and regenerated textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 60.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

7 . 3 . 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 64/ 29
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 31 January 1978
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to gloves,
               mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of synthetic
              and regenerated textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 60.02 of the
               Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the
                                                other Member States
                                           (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                      (78 /21 4/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, according to information supplied by the
COMMUNITIES ,                                                     French Government, there are serious economic diffi­
                                                                  culties in this sector of textile industry, resulting in a
                                                                  progressive decline of production and a constant
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             reduction of the number of workers employed in that
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­             sector ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                  Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
Having regard to the application under the first para­            by unequal conditions of competition with certain
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 26                    countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries
January 1978 by the French Government to the                      are enabled to export at prices lower than those of the
Commission by telex from the office of its Permanent              French producers ;
Representative to the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                 Whereas the indirect imports in question , which
gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not              would be in addition to those already effected, would
elastic or rubberized, of synthetic and regenerated               be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 60.02 of
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan
and in free circulation in the other Member States,
                                                                  Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
                                                                  motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                                  sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Whereas imports into the Community of the products
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,
Community quantitative quota, allocated among the                 for a limited period, for the application of protective
Member States, established by Commission Regula­                  measures under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
tion (EEC) No 3020/77 of 30 December 1977 on rules                subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
for imports of certain textile products originating in            sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (2), and in particular
Taiwan (') ;                                                      Article 1 thereof,
Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­
nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of
the import arrangements previously applied in the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Member States, Regulation (EEC) No 3020/77
provides, as a temporary measure, for a derogation
from the principle of equal and continuous access for                                         Article 1
all Community importers to Community quotas by
stipulating that the allocation of the quota in question
need only progressively be adjusted to the supply                 The French Republic is authorized not to apply
requirements of the markets ;                                     Community treatment to imports of gloves, mittens
                                                                  and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubber­
                                                                  ized, of synthetic and regenerated textile fibres, falling
Whereas for this reason this allocation of the quota in           within heading No ex 60.02 of the Common Customs
question still involves certain disparities in the quota          Tariff, where they originate in Taiwan and are in free
shares fixed for the various Member States by refer­              circulation in the other Member States, and in respect
ence to the supply requirements of the markets                    of which applications for import licences were lodged
concerned ;                                                       after 16 January 1978 .
(') OJ No L 357, 31 . 12. 1977 .                                  (2 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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                      Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 31 January 1978 .
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise in the French Republic for the importation of
the product in question from Taiwan and in any case
not later than 31 December 1978 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                      Article 3                                                  Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .                                  Vice-President