31977R0842

No L 103 /22 27 . 4. 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 842/77 of 25 April 1977 subjecting to authorization imports into the United Kingdom of certain knitted or crocheted under garments originating in the Republic of India

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas under the terms of Article 5 of the said COMMUNITIES, Agreement consultations have been held between the parties on the problem caused by the imports of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European T-shirts into the United Kingdom ; whereas these Economic Community, consultations have been suspended without a mutually satisfactory conclusion having been reached ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1439/74 of 4 June 1974 on common rules for Whereas, in accordance with the provisions of Article imports (J), and in particular Article 12 thereof, 5 (5) of the said Agreement, the Community has Having consulted the Advisory Committee set up requested India to restrain its exports of the product under Article 5 of the said Regulation, in question at a level as defined in the said paragraph ;

Whereas imports into the United Kingdom of Whereas the efficiency of the self-restraint measures T-shirts originating in India have increased sharply introduced by India depends on the introduction by and substantially over the past year, namely from less the Community of a control system ; whereas the than 200 000 units in 1975 to approximately 900 000 implementation of such system makes it necessary units in 1976 and to 785 000 units in the first two that imports of the products concerned into the months of 1977 ; United Kingdom be made subject to authorization ;

Whereas these products are imported at prices substan­ Whereas the abovementioned import authorization tially below those prevailing for similar goods arrangements must be established as soon as possible produced in the Community and those of goods in order to ensure that they are not circumvented by imported from the majority of other origins ; the bringing forward of shipments or by indirect imports, which could cause injury difficult to repair to Whereas if no protective measures are adopted these Community procedures, imports are likely to increase to such an extent that they risk causing substantial injury to Community procedures of like or competing products, taking into HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : account that surveillance licences were issued by the authorities of the United Kingdom in January and Article 1 February 1977 for a quantity of 2-2 million T-shirts from India ; 1 . The importation into the United Kingdom of Whereas in the context of the Arrangement regarding Great Britain and Northern Ireland of the products International Trade in Textiles, the European described below and originating in India shall be Economic Community and the Republic of India subject to the production of an import authorization have concluded an Agreement on trade in textile issued by the competent authorities in the United products (2) ; Kingdom :

CCT Nimexe code heading Description of goods 1977 No

ex 60.04 60.04-ex 1 3 , ex 29, ex 41 , ex 59 Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic nor rubber­ ized : — Of cotton : — T-shirts — Of synthetic textile fibres : — T-shirts

(>) OJ No L 159, 15. 6. 1974, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 297, 17. 11 . 1975, p. 8 .

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2. Import authorizations shall be issued for quanti­ Article 2 ties such that the total volume of the imports referred to in paragraph 1 does not exceed, in the period 1 February 1977 to 31 December 1977, 710 000 units. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the second day following its publication in the Official 3. Import authorizations shall be issued automati­ Journal of the European Communities. cally and without delay on production of a bill of lading proving that the goods were placed on board in India for export to the United Kingdom before the 2. It shall apply until the entry into force of appro­ date of entry into force of this Regulation or, provided priate measures to be taken by the Council pursuant the limit indicated in paragraph 2 is not reached, on to Articles 12 (6) and 13 of Regulation (EEC) No production of an export licence granted by the rele­ 1439/74 or until the expiry of a period of six weeks vant authority in India and containing the informa­ following the entry into force of this Regulation, whichever is the earlier. tion specified in the Annex hereto.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 April 1977 .

For the Commission Guido BRUNNER Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Information referred to in Article 1 (3 )

Export licences issued by the Indian authorities for the products referred to in this Regulation shall indicate or contain the following : 1 . destination ; 2 . serial number ; 3 . name and address of the importer ; 4. name and address of the exporter ; 5 . the quantity, in number of pieces, of the products covered by the licence ; 6. certification that the quantity concerned has been debited against the quantitative limit for expor­ tation to the United Kingdom .