CELEX: 31977D0723
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 March 1977 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to woven fabrics of synthetic textile fibres (polyester/cotton), falling within subheading 56.07 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Socialist Republic of Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 300 / 18                     Official Journal of the European Communities                              24 . 11 . 77
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                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 11 March 1977
             authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to woven
              fabrics of synthetic textile fibres (polyester/cotton ), falling within subheading
              56.07 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Socialist Republic
                      of Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                     (77/723/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 synthetic textile fibres falling within heading No
COMMUNITIES,                                                   56.07 of the Common Customs Tariff, the quota share
                                                               allocated to the United Kingdom is 315 tonnes for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          1977 ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                Whereas the allocation of the quota concerned takes
                                                               account also of certain disparities in the fixing of the
Having regard to the application under the first para­         quota shares for the Member States by comparison
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 7 March            with the supply needs of the markets concerned ;
1977 by the United Kingdom to the Commission by
telex from the office of its Permanent Representative          Whereas such disparities are likely to create an indi­
to the European Communities, for authorization to              rect trade flow which could aggravate the persistent
apply protective measures in respect of the importa­           difficulties of the textile industry ;
tion of woven fabrics of synthetic textile fibres (poly­
ester/cotton) falling within subheading 56.07 ex A of          Whereas the carrying out of the indirect import envis­
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the                  aged, while it would appear to be an isolated opera­
Socialist Republic of Romania and in free circulation          tion, would be likely to affect the delicate situation of
in the other Member States,                                    the national production of the products in question
                                                               because of the appreciable amount involved and
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              because of the price which is considerably lower than
products in question originating in the Socialist Repu­        those prevailing among British producers ;
blic of Romania is the subject of an Agreement negoti­
ated between the Community and that country and                Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
initialled on 10 November 1976 ;                               motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                               sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Whereas, under the Agreement, the Socialist Republic
of Romania has undertaken to take all necessary steps          Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
to limit its exports of certain textile products to the        for the application of protective measures, under the
Community to certain ceilings allocated among the              first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Member States ;                                                tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
                                                               May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Whereas, for imports of woven fabrics of cotton , un­
bleached and bleached , and of woven fabrics of                (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                       Article 2
                        Article 1                           This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom .
The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
Community treatment to woven fabrics of synthetic
textile fibres (polyester/cotton) falling within             Done at Brussels, 11 March 1977 .
subheading 56.07 ex A of the Common Customs
Tariff, originating in the Socialist Republic of
Romania and in free circulation in the other Member
                                                                                    For the Commission
States, and in respect of which applications for import
licences lodged after 23 February 1977 are before the                              Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
United Kingdom authorities on the date of this Deci­
sion .                                                                                  Vice-President