CELEX: 31977D0429
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 May 1977 authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to essential oil of oranges, not terpeneless, falling  within subheading 33.01 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Federative Republic of Brazil and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 170/26                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                   8 . 7. 77
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 17 May 1977
               authorizing the Italian Republic not to apply Community treatment to essential
               oil of oranges, not terpeneless, falling within subheading 33.01 ex A of the
               Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Federative Republic of Brazil and
                                 in free circulation in the other Member States
                                           (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                      (77/429/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
COMMUNITIES,                                                    motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                                sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           Whereas, in order to ensure that the execution of the
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                   above commercial policy measures is not obstructed,
Having regard to the application under the first para­          authorization should be given, for a limited period, for
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 10 March            the application of protective measures under the first
1977 by the Italian Government to the Commission                paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the conditions laid
by telex from the Office of its Permanent Representa­           down by the Commission Decision of 12 May
tive to the European Communities, for authorization             1971 (*), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
not to apply Community treatment to essential oil of
oranges, not terpeneless, falling within subheading
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
33.01 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
nating in the Federative Republic of Brazil and in free
circulation in the other Member States,                                                 Article 1
Whereas, according to this application, Italy has               The Italian Republic is authorized not to apply
placed quantitative restrictions on imports of the              Community treatment to imports of essential oil of
products in question originating in the Federative              oranges, not terpeneless, falling within subheading
Republic of Brazil ; whereas there are no restrictions          33.01 ex A of the Common Customs Tariff, where
on imports of such products into the other Member               they originate in the Federative Republic of Brazil and
States ;                                                        are in free circulation in the other Member States, and
Whereas differences in the commercial policy                    in respect of which applications for import licences
measures applied in connection with these products              lodged after 28 April 1 977 are, at the date of this Deci­
by Italy and by the other Member States as regards the          sion, still pending with the Italian authorities.
Federative Republic of Brazil are giving rise to deflec­
tion of trade ;                                                                         Article 2
Whereas this deflection of trade is preventing the
execution     of   the  abovementioned      measures    of      This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
commercial policy currently being applied by Italy as
regards the Federative Republic of Brazil, in particular
to protect the industry in question ;
                                                                Done at Brussels, 17 May 1977.
Whereas, according to information supplied by the
                                                                                           For the Commission
Italian Government, this industry, which is characte­
ristic of certain economically underprivileged areas of                                 Christopher TUGENDHAT
Southern Italy, is facing a serious crisis which is both
structural and economic ;                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                                0) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.