31973R2631

No L 272 / 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 9 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 2631 /73 OF THE COUNCIL of 27 September 1973

providing for licences for the import of cotton yarn into the United Kingdom from non-member countries

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas to remove the threat of injury, protective COMMUNITIES, measures should be adopted for a period extending up to 31 December 1973 ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas given that the threat of substantial injury originated in imports intended for United Kingdom markets, it appears justified at present, having regard Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No to existing trade flows, to restrict the application of 1025/70 (*) of 25 May 1970 establishing common protective measures to imports into the United rules for imports from non-member countries, and Kingdom; in particular Article 11 ( 1 ) thereof;

Whereas these imports should be restricted to the After consultation with the Advisory Committee set relevant level in the United Kingdom before 1 April up by Article 5 of that Regulation ; 1973 ;

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; Whereas these protective measures may be amended or repealed in the light of the trend in imports into Whereas in response to a request from the British other regions of the Community, Government the Commission, by Regulation (EEC) No 1831 /73 (2 ) of 4 July 1973 providing for licences for the import of cotton yarn into the United Kingdom originating in and coming from non-member countries, took interim protective measures limiting the importation into the United Kingdom of cotton HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : yarn ;

Whereas it appears from the information supplied Article 1 by the British Government, in particular during the consultation in the abovementioned Committee, and also from other information, that until 1 April 1973 , 1 . The importation into the United Kingdom of the date on which Regulation (EEC) No 1025/70 Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the came into operation in the United Kingdom, non-member countries listed in Annex II to Council importation into the United Kingdom of the Regulation (EEC) No 1025/70, excepting those products in question was subject to quantitative countries set out in the Annex hereto, of the products restrictions in relation to the countries concerned ; shown below shall be subject to production of an whereas the increase in such imports which would import licence, and the total tonnage so imported follow the liberalization thereof would be likely during the period 1 April 1973 to 31 December 1973 to cause substantial injury, which it would be difficult inclusive shall not exceed the number of metric tons to repair, to the cotton spinning industry in the indicated against the names of those products : United Kingdom and to affect the employment situation by jeopardizing the reconversion process in that industry; CCT heading No Whereas interim protective measures must therefore be taken and should consist in a limitation on the 55.05 Cotton yarn, not put importation of cotton yarn ; up for retail sale 12 750 metric tons 55.06 Cotton yarn, put up for retail sale H OJ No L 124, 8 . 6. 1970, p. 6. (2) OJ No L 185 , 7. 7. 1973, p. 13 .

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Article 2 2. The imports licences referred to in paragraph 1 shall be issued by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland . This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 September 1973 .

For the Council

The President

I. N0RGAARD

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