CELEX: 31976D0838
Language: en
Date: 1976-09-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 September 1976 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to natural honey falling within heading No 04.06 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

6. 11 . 76                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 304/27
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                                       (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                COMMISSION
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 8 September 1976
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to natural
              honey falling within heading No 04.06 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
                   nating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                            (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                        (76/838/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas indirect imports of the product in question,
COMMUNITIES,                                                     which would be in addition to those already effected,
                                                                 would be likely to aggravate these economic diffi­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            culties ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                    Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
                                                                 machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
Having regard to the application under the first para­           tion from the other Member States ;
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 1                    Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
September 1976 by the French Government to the                   for the application of protective measures, under the
Commission by telex from the office of its Permanent             first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Representative to the European Communities, for                  tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
natural honey falling within heading No 04.06 of the
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and
in free circulation in the other Member States,                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas, pursuant to the Council Decision of 18                                          Article 1
December 1975 on unilateral import arrangements in
respect of State-trading countries (1), France has               The French Republic is authorized not to apply
opened in respect of Roumania for the product in                 Community treatment to imports of natural honey
question an annual quota of FF 1 300 000, which is               falling within heading No 04.06 of the Common
wholly taken up ;                                                Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free
                                                                 circulation in the other Member States, and in respect
Whereas according to information supplied by the                 of which applications for import licences were lodged
French Government, the honey production sector,                  after 22 August 1976.
which is characteristic of certain economically less-
favoured mountain regions (Alps, Pyrenees, Massif                                         A rticle 2
Central), is faced with a serious crisis largely as a result
of the difficulty of disposing of this year's exception­         This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
ally abundant crop ;                                             arise in the French Republic for the importation of
(•) OJ No L 332, 31 . 12. 1975, p. 1 .                           (2) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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the product in question from Romania or until the        Done at Brussels, 8 September 1976.
date on which common import arrangements are
introduced and in any case not later than 31
December 1976.
                                                                                For the Commission
                     Article 3                                                   Christopher SOAMES
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.                                  Vice-President