CELEX: 31976D0444
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 2 April 1976 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to radio-receivers, whether or not combined with a sound recorder or reproducer, falling within subheading 85.15 A III of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in South Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 120 / 28                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     7 . 5 . 76
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 2 April 1976
             authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to radio-­
             receivers , whether or not combined with a sound recorder or reproducer, falling
             within subheading 85.15 A III of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in
                      South Korea and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                     (76/444/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
COMMUNITIES,                                                  subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
                                                              sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         Article 1 thereof,
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty made on 26 March                                      Article 1
1976 by the French Government to the Commission
by telex from the office of its Permanent Representa­         The French Republic is authorized not to apply
tive to the European Communities, for authorization           Community treatment to imports of the following
not to apply Community treatment to radio-receivers,          products, where they originate in South Korea and are
whether or not combined with a sound recorder or              in free circulation in the other Member States, and in
reproducer, falling within subheading 85.15 A III of          respect of which applications for import licences were
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in South               lodged after 16 March 1976 :
Korea and in free circulation in the other Member
States,                                                             CCT
                                                                   heading                    Description of goods
Whereas since the application of Article 115, the                    No
importation into France of the product in question
originating in South Korea is subject to an annual            85.15 A III       Radio-receivers, whether or not combined
quota of 60 000 radio-receivers which is heavily allo­                         with a sound recorder or reproducer
cated between importers who have already submitted
requests ;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas differences in the measures of commercial
policy taken in connection with these products by             This Decision shall apply until the opening of new
France and by the other Member States as regards              import possibilities of the product in question into
South Korea are giving rise to deflection of trade ;          France from South Korea and in any case not later
                                                              than 31 December 1976 .
Whereas this deflection of trade is preventing the
execution   of   the   abovementioned      measures    of
                                                                                         Article 3
commercial policy currently being taken by France as
regards South Korea ;                                         This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­            Done at Brussels, 2 April 1976.
sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
                                                                                           For the Commission
Whereas, in order to ensure that the implementation
of the abovementioned commercial policy measures is                                         Christopher SOAMES
not obstructed, authorization should be given, for a
limited period, for the application of protective                                               Vice-President
                                                              (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.