CELEX: 31977D0362
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 March 1977 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to unbleached or bleached woven fabrics of cotton or synthetic textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 55.09 and subheading 56.07 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

4. 6. 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 138 / 2S
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                                      (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                               COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 3 March 1977
             authorizing     the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to un­
             bleached or     bleached woven fabrics of cotton or synthetic fibres, falling within
             heading No      ex 55.09 and subheading 56.07 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff,
             originating     in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in the other
                                                    Member States
                                           (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                     (77/362/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 limit its exports of certain textile products to certain
COMMUNITIES,                                                   ceilings allocated among the Member States ;
                                                               Whereas the quota share allocated to the French Repu­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          blic in respect of unbleached or bleached woven
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          fabrics of cotton or synthetic textile fibres is 1 208
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                tonnes ;
                                                               Whereas according to information supplied by the
Having regard to the application under the first para­         French Government there are serious economic diffi­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 28                 culties in the textile industry concerned, resulting in a
February 1977, by the French Government to the                 progressive decline of production and considerable
Commission by telex from the office of its Permanent           structural unemployment ;
Representative to the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to
unbleached or bleached woven fabrics of cotton or              Whereas indirect imports of the products in question,
synthetic textile fibres, falling within heading No ex         which would be in addition to those already effected,
55.09 and subheading 56.07 ex A of the Common                  would be likely to aggravate these economic diffi­
Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea           culties ;
and in free circulation in the other Member States,
                                                               Whereas it is not possible to set in motion the
                                                               machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
Whereas imports into the Community of the products             tion from the other Member States ;
in question originating in the Republic of Korea were
the subject of an Agreement negotiated between the             Whereas authorization should be given for a limited
Community and the Republic of Korea, signed on 22              period for the application of protective measures
December 1976 :                                                under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the
                                                               conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
                                                               12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Whereas, under the Agreement, the Republic of
Korea has undertaken to take all necessary steps to            (') OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                             Article 2
                         Article 1                               This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                                 arise in France for the importation of the product in
The French Republic is authorized not to apply                   question from the Republic of Korea and in any case
Community treatment to imports of the following :                not later than 31 December 1977 .
      CCT
    heading                   Description of goods
       No                                                                               Article 3
ex 55.09         Woven fabrics of cotton :                       This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
                 — Unbleached or bleached
   56.07 ex A    Woven fabrics of man-made fibres (discon­
                  tinuous or waste) :
                 ex A. Of synthetic textile fibres :             Done at Brussels, 3 March 1977.
                         — Unbleached or bleached
where they originate in the Republic of Korea and are                                     ^or      Commission
in free circulation in the other Member States, and in                                   Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 15 February 1977.                                                                Vice-President