CELEX: 31977D0763
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 6 April 1977 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or china (including biscuit porcelain and parian) or of other kinds of pottery other than common pottery or stoneware falling within heading No 69.11 and subheadings 69.12 C and D of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 314/34                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                  8 . 12. 77
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 6 April 1977
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to table­
              ware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet
              purposes , of porcelain or china (including biscuit porcelain and parian) or of
              other kinds of pottery other than common pottery or stoneware falling within
              heading No 69.11 and subheadings 69.12 C and D of the Common Customs
              Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in
                                                the other Member States
                                             (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                        (77/763/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
COMMUNITIES,                                                     May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                                                            Article 1
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 31 March             The French Republic is authorized not to apply
1977 by the French Government to the European                    Community treatment to imports of tableware and
Communities, for authorization not to apply Commu­               other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic
nity treatment to tableware and other articles of a kind         or toilet purposes, of porcelain or china (including
commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of                biscuit porcelain and parian) falling within heading
porcelain or china (including biscuit porcelain and              No 69.1 1 of the Common Customs Tariff, and of
parian) or of other kinds of pottery or stoneware                tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used
falling within heading No 69.1 1 and subheadings                 for domestic or toilet purposes, of other kinds of
69.12 C and D of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­               pottery :
nating in the People's Republic of China and in free             — earthenware or fine pottery,
circulation in the other Member States,
                                                                 — other,
Whereas for the products in question France, in accor­
dance with the Council Decision of 13 December                   falling within subheadings 69.12 C and D of the
 1976 (') on import arrangements in respect of State­            Common Customs Tariff, where they originate in the
trading countries has opened for 1977, in respect of             People's Republic of China and are in free circulation
the People's Republic of China, an annual quota of FF            in the other Member States and in respect of which
605 000, which is being in its entirety allocated                applications for import licences were lodged after 21
                                                                 March 1977 .
among the importers who have lodged applications ;
Whereas, according to information supplied by the                                           Article 2
French Government, the domestic industry manufac­
turing the products in question is facing serious                This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
economic difficulties resulting in a drop in production           arise in France for the importation of the products in
and consequently the closure of certain firms ;                   question from the People's Republic of China or until
                                                                  31 December 1977, whichever is the earlier.
Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
would be in addition to those already effected, would                                       Article 3
be likely to obstruct the commercial policy measures
 adopted by France because of the abovementioned                  This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
difficulties in the sector concerned ;
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the           Done at Brussels, 6 April 1977.
 machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
 tion from the other Member States ;                                                           For the Commission
 Whereas authorization should accordingly be given                                            Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
 for the application of protective measures under the
 first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­                                            Vice-President
 (>) OJ No L 365, 31 . 12 . 1976, p. 1 .                          (2) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.