CELEX: 31973D0303
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 24 July 1973 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to matches falling within heading No 36.06 of the Common Customs Tariff originating in third countries and put into free circulation in other Member States

No L 283/ 14                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                10 . 10 . 73
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                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 24 July 1973
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to matches
              falling within heading No 36.06 of the Common Customs Tariff originating in
                    third countries and put into free circulation in other Member States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                     (73/303 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  ments ; whereas these arrangements, which are in
COMMUNITIES,                                                    accordance with the Treaty, include measures of
                                                                commercial policy within the meaning of Article 115
                                                                of the Treaty other than quantitative restrictions as
                                                                referred to in Article 1 of the abovementioned Regula­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           tion ; whereas it appears from the information
                                                                supplied by the French Government that these
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof ;
                                                                measures consist at present in a decision not to autho­
                                                                rize until the end of the current year the importation
                                                                from third countries of matches for resale in France ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty made by the
                                                                Whereas the differences in the measures of commer­
French Government by telex from the office of its
Permanent Representative to the European Communi­               cial policy taken in connection with this product by
ties on 16 July 1973 , for authorization not to apply           France and by the other Member States as regards
Community treatment to matches, falling within                  third countries is causing deflection of trade ;
heading No 36.06 of the Common Customs Tariff
originating in third countries and put into free circula­
tion in other Member States ;
                                                                Whereas this deflection of trade is preventing the
                                                                execution of measures of commercial policy taken by
                                                                France as regards third countries ;
Whereas the product in respect of which the applica­
 tion was submitted is subject to no Community                  Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
 quantitative restrictions when imported from the third          motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
 countries specified in the list annexed to Regulation          sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
 (EEC) No 1025/70 of 25 May 1970 establishing
 common rules for imports from third countries,
                                                                Whereas authorization should be given , for a limited
 whereas as regards other third countries each Member            period, for the application of protective measures,
 State applies its own different rules ;
                                                                 under the first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the
                                                                 conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
                                                                  12 May 1971 ('), and in particular in Article 1 thereof,
 Whereas in France the importation of matches trom
 any third country is subject to monopoly arrange­               (>) 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 31 December 1973.
The French Republic is authorized not to apply
Community treatment to imports for resale in France                                 Article 3
of :
                                                              This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
  CCT heading
      No                    Description of product
36.06                  Matches (excluding Bengal               Done at Brussels, 24 July 1973.
                       matches)
                                                                                       For the Commission
originating in third countries and put into free circula­
tion in other Member States in respect of which appli­                                     The President
cations for import licences were lodged after 8 July
1973 .                                                                                Francois-Xavier ORTOLI