CELEX: 31978D0325
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 27 February 1978 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to shirts for men and boys, of wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 92/ 20                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                     6 . 4 . 78
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 27 February 1978
               authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to shirts
               for men and boys, of wool , cotton or man-made textile fibres , falling within
               heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong
                               and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                           (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                      (78 /325/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
COMMUNITIES,                                                     machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                 tion from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                  for the application of protective measures under , the
                                                                 first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
Having regard to the application under the first para­           tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 22                   May 1971 (') and in particular Article 1 thereof,
February 1978 by the French Government to the
Commission of the European Communities, for
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
authorization not to apply Community treatment to
shirts for men and boys, of wool , cotton or man-made
                                                                                           Article 1
textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.03 of
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong                   The French Republic is authorized not to apply
Kong and in free circulation in the other Member                 Community treatment to the products indicated
States,                                                          below, where they originate in Hong Kong and are in
                                                                 free circulation in the other Member States , and in
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Hong Kong is                 respect of which applications for import licences were
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                   lodged after 13 February 1978 :
Community and Hong Kong ;
                                                                        CCT
Whereas ^ under that Agreement Hong Kong has                          heading                        Description
                                                                         No
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its
exports of the products in question to the Community
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member                   ex 61.03         Shirts for men and boys, of wool , cotton or
States ;                                                                          man-made ■ textile fibres
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the                                       Article 2
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
persist between the import conditions in the various             This Decision shall apply until 31 December 1978 .
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
                                                                                           Article 3
only progressively ;
Whereas according to the application submitted there             This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
are    serious   difficulties in  the   industrial  sector
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­              Done at Brussels, 27 February 1978 .
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
market share ;                                                                                For the Commission
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those                                       Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
difficulties ;                                                                                     Vice-President
                                                                 (') Ol No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 . p. 26 .