CELEX: 31979D0256
Language: en
Date: 1979-02-21 00:00:00
Title: 79/256/EEC: Commission Decision of 21 February 1979 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to electrical measuring, checking, analyzing or automatically controlling instruments and apparatus, falling within heading No 90.28 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and in free circulation in the other Member States

8 . 3 . 79                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 57/39
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 21 February 1979
              authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to elec­
              trical measuring, checking, analysing or automatically controlling instruments
              and apparatus, falling within heading No 90.28 of the Common Customs Tariff,
                  originating in Japan and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                                (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                          (79/256/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas, however, the application for a licence which
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       gave rise to the application in question does not need
                                                                    to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              small amount involved,
 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 8
                                                                                             Article 1
 February 1979 by the French Government to the
 Commission of the European Communities, for                        The French Republic is authorized not to apply
 authorization not to apply Community treatment to                  Community treatment to the products indicated
electrical measuring, checking, analyzing or automati­              below, where they originate in Japan and are in free
cally controlling instruments and apparatus, falling                circulation in the other Member States, and in respect
within heading No 90.28 of the Common Customs                       of which applications for import licences were lodged
Tariff, originating in Japan and in free circulation in             after 5 February 1979 :
 the other Member States,
Whereas in France the importation of the products in                      CCT
question originating in Japan is subject to an annual                    heading                     Description
                                                                           No
quota, which is currently being distributed ;
Whereas the disparities which exist in the commercial               90.28            Electrical measuring, checking, analyzing
policy measures applied in connection with these                                     or automatically controlling instruments
products by the Member States are causing deflection                                 and apparatus
of trade, thereby preventing the execution of those
commercial policy measures which are in force
because of the difficult economic situation in the                                           Article 2
sector concerned ;
                                                                    This Decision shall apply until 30 June 1979 .
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
already made or proposed, would be likely to aggra­                                          Article 3
vate these difficulties ;
                                                                    This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from the other Member States ;                                 Done at Brussels, 21 February 1 979.
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                                                                For the Commission
for the application of protective measures under the
first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­                                        Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 /202/ EEC
of 12 May 1971 (*), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;                                          Vice-President
(') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.