91/18/EEC: Commission Decision of 19 December 1990 authorizing certain Member States to apply intra- Community surveillance to imports originating in third countries which have been put into free circulation in the Community and which may be the subject of protective measures under Article 115 of the Treaty (only the Spanish, Danish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese texts are authentic)
Date: 1990-12-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import policy, market supervision, third country













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91/18/EEC: Commission Decision of 19 December 1990 authorizing certain Member States to apply intra- Community surveillance to imports originating in third countries which have been put into free circulation in the Community and which may be the subject of protective measures under Article 115 of the Treaty (only the Spanish, Danish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese texts are authentic)  


Official Journal L 012 , 17/01/1991 P. 0029 - 0038 





COMMISSION DECISION  of 19 December 1990  authorizing certain Member States to apply intra-Community surveillance to imports originating in third countries which have been put into free circulation in the Community and which may be the subject of  protective measures under Article 115 of the Treaty  (Only the Spanish, Danish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese texts are authentic)  (91/18/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular the first paragraph of Article 115 thereof,  Having regard to Commission Decision 87/433/EEC of 22 July 1987, on surveillance and protective measures which Member States may be authorized to take pursuant to Article 115 of the EEC Treaty (1), and in particular Articles 1 and 2 thereof,  Whereas the abovementioned Decision requires Member States to have prior authorization from the Commission before introducing intra-Community surveillance of the imports concerned;  Whereas the Commission, by Decision of 21 December 1989 (2) and other relevant Decisions, authorized the Member States to introduce such surveillance;  Whereas almost all those Decisions are due to expire on 31 December 1990;  Whereas certain Member States have submitted applications to the Commission for authorization to extend the application of some of these surveillance measures and to introduce new surveillance for products not covered by the abovementioned Decisions;  Whereas the Commission has closely studied, on a case by case basis, these applications in accordance with the criteria laid down by Decision 87/433/EEC taking into account the plan of action established by the Community for the completion of the  internal market;  Whereas the Commission examined, in particular whether information was given as regards the economic difficulties alleged and whether, during the reference years set out in Decision 87/433/EEC, significant imports have been realized in the Member  States, originating in other Member States;  Whereas this examination has shown that the conditions for the application of surveillance measures in respect of the products listed in the Annexes hereto do exist;  Whereas, therefore, the Member States should be authorized to make them subject to intra-Community surveillance until 31 December 1991;  Whereas, for those imports not listed in the Annexes, Member States remain entitled to submit applications for surveillance, at a later date, depending on the economic situation,  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:     Article 1   The Member States named in the annex are authorized, insofar as each is concerned, to apply, until 31 December 1991 and in accordance with Decision 87/433/EEC, intra-Community surveillance of the products listed in the said Annex.   Article 2   This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Portuguese Republic, the United Kingdom.    Done at Brussels, 19 December 1990.  For the Commission   Frans ANDRIESSEN   Vice-President   (1) OJ No L 238, 21. 8. 1987, p. 26. (2)  Decision C (89) 2303 final.    ANNEX  DENMARK   A. Textile products for which categories have been established    Category  Country of origin      6  Hong Kong SPAIN   A. Textile products for which categories have been established    Category  Country of origin      2  China, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand     3  China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand     4  China, South Korea, Philippines, Hong Kong, India, Thailand     5  South Korea     6  Hong Kong, India     7  South Korea, Hong  Kong     8  China, Hong Kong, India     9  Brazil, China     20  China     22  Taiwan     27  India     29  India     35  South Korea, Taiwan     37  South Korea, Taiwan     100  South Korea     B. Other products    CN code  (1990)   Description of product   Origin          6401  waterproof footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or of plastics, the uppers of which are neither fixed to the sole nor assembled by stitching, riveting, nailing, screwing, plugging, or similar processes  Brazil, China, Hong Kong,  Thailand  6402  other footwear with outer soles and upper of rubber of plastics       6404  footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers of textile materials  Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Thailand   other  footwear:   ex 6405 10 90  with uppers of leather or composition leather, with outer soles of materials other than wood or cork   ex 6405 90 10  other footwear, with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather, with uppers of rubber  or plastics       7117 19  imitation jewellery: of base metal, whether or not plated with precious metal, other than cuff-links and studs  China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan  ex 7117 90 00  imitation jewellery of other materials: other than that of  headings 9601 and 9602       8203  files, rasps, pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, metal-cutting shears, pipe cutters, bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools  China, Taiwan  8204  hand-operated spanners and  wrenches (including torque meter wrenches but not including tap wrenches); interchangeable spanner sockets, with or without handles   8205  hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds), not elsewhere specified or included; blowlamps; vices, clamps and the  like, other than accessories for and parts of, machine tools; anvils; portable forges; hand- or pedal-operated grinding wheels with frameworks   8206 00 00  tools of two or more of heading Nos 8202 to 8205, put up in sets for retail sale       8452 10  11  8452 10 19  8452 10 90  sewing machines of the household type  Brazil, Japan, Taiwan      ex 8456 10 00  ex 8456 20 00  ex 8456 30 00  ex 8456 90 00  machine-tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electrodischarge, electro-chemical, electron beam, ionic beam or plasma arc processes, numerically controlled, for working  metals or metal carbides  Japan  8458 11 10  centre lathes, multi-tool lathes and copying lathes, numerically controlled, for removing metal   ex 8458 11 91  automatic lathes and capstan and turret lathes, numerically controlled, for removing metal,  other than those specially designed for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels   ex 8458 11 99  other horizontal lathes, numerically controlled, for removing metal, other than those specially designed for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels    ex 8458 91 10  vertical lathes, numerically controlled, for removing metal, other than those specially designed for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels   ex 8458 91 90  other lathes, numerically controlled, for removing metal, other than those  specially designed for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels       ex 8459 10 00  way-type unit head machines, numerically controlled, other those for threading or tapping  Japan  8459 21 10  8459 21 91  8459 21 99  other drilling machines, numerically controlled   8459 31 00  other boring-milling machines, numerically controlled   8459 40 10  other boring machines, numerically controlled   ex 8459 51 00  milling machines, knee-type, numerically  controlled, other than those specially designed for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels   8459 61 10  8459 61 91  ex 8459 61 99  other milling machines, numerically controlled, other than those specially designed for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels   ex 8459 70 00  other threading or tapping machines, numerically controlled       8460 11 00  8460 19 00  8460 21 10  8460 21 90  8460 29 10  8460 29 90  8460 31 00  8460 39 00  8460 40 00  8460 90 10  machine-tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products, other than gear cutting, gear  grinding or gear finishing machines of heading No 8461  Japan      ex 8461 10 00  ex 8461 20 00  ex 8461 30 00  machine-tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, numerically controlled  Japan  8461 40 11  8461 40 31  gear-cutting machines, numerically controlled   8461 40 71  gear-finishing machines, numerically controlled   ex 8461 40 79  gear-finishing machines, other than numerically controlled, for working metals and metal carbides   ex 8461 50 11  ex 8461 50 19  ex 8461 50 90  sawing or cutting-off machines, numerically controlled, other than those specially designed for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels       8462 10 10  forging or die-stamping machines (including presses) and hammers, numerically  controlled  Japan  8462 21 10  8462 21 90  bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including presses), numerically controlled   8462 31 10  ex 8462 31 90  shearing machines (including presses), other than combined punching and shearing machines, numerically controlled, other than those specially designed for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels   8462 41 10  8462 41 90  punching or notching machines (including presses), including combined punching and shearing machines, numerically controlled   8462 91 50  ex 8462 99 50  other presses for working metal or metal carbides, other than those for moulding metallic powders by sintering or presses for compressing scrap metal into bales, numerically controlled, excluding those specially designed for the recycling  of irradiated nuclear fuels       8702  motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, including the driver  South Korea, Japan, Poland, Romania (1), USSR  8703  motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of  persons (other than those of heading No 8702), including station wagons and racing cars   8704  motor vehicles for the transport of goods       8711 10 00  8711 20 10  8711 20 91  8711 20 99  ex 8711 30 00  motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 380 cm3, with or without side-cars; side-cars  Japan  ex 8711 90 00  other motorcycles and cycles fitted with an auxiliary  positive ignition engine, with or without side-cars; side-cars       9503  other toys; reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds  China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Singapore,  Taiwan     (1) (1) Until the date of entry into force of the Agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation between the Community and Romania.    FRANCE   A. Textile products for which categories have been established    Category  Country of origin      1  India     2  South Korea, India, Pakistan, Peru     3  Pakistan     2 + 3  Thailand     4  China Hong Kong, India     6  Hong Kong, Thailand     7  India     8  South Korea, Hong Kong, India     9  Brazil     10  Hong Kong, Pakistan (1)     13   China, Hong Kong, Macao     15  China     16  China     20  Pakistan     21  China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand     26  Hong Kong, Thailand     32  South Korea     33  China     68  China, Hong Kong, Macao     73  Philippines     87  China      91  China    (1) Pakistan: products of CN codes 6111 10 10, 6111 20 10, 6111 30 10 and ex 6111 90 10, and CN codes 6116 91 00, 6116 92 00, 6116 93 00 and 6116 99 00 only.     B. Other products    CN code  (1990)   Description of product   Origin          3104 10 00  3104 20 50  3104 20 90  potassium salts and potassium chloride  USSR      8527 21 10  8527 21 90  8527 29 00  radio-broadcast receivers not capable of operating without an external source of power, of a kind used in motor vehicles, including apparatus capable of receiving also radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy  China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan       8528 10 40  8528 10 50  8528 10 61  8528 10 69  8528 10 71  8528 10 73  8528 10 75  8528 10 78  8528 10 80  8528 10 91  8528 10 98  colour television receivers (including video monitors and video projectors), whether or not combined, in the same housing, with radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus  South Korea, Japan, Taiwan  IRELAND   A. Textile products for which categories have been established    Category  Country of origin      7  China, Hong Kong, India, Macao, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Yugoslavia     8  China, Hong Kong, India, Macao, Malaysia, Pakistan, Romania, Taiwan, Thailand, Yugoslavia     13  China, Hong Kong     24  Hong Kong, Poland     26  China, Hong  Kong, India, Macao, Philippines, Romania, Taiwan, Thailand     27  Hong Kong, India, South Korea     29  Hong Kong, India, South Korea     73  Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan ITALY   A. Textile products for which categories have been established    Category  Country of origin      1  Brazil, China, Pakistan, Hungary     2  Brazil, Czechoslovakia, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Pakistan     ex 3  Pakistan (1)     20 + 39  China    (1) Products of CN codes 5513 11 10, 5513 11 30, and 5513 11 90 only.     B. Other products    CN code  (1990)   Description of product   Origin          5007 20  5007 90  5803 90 10  5905 00 90  woven fabrics of silk or of silk waste  China      8452 21 00  8452 29 00  industrial sewing machines  Japan      ex 8703 21  ex 8703 22  ex 8703 23  ex 8703 24  ex 8703 31  ex 8703 32  ex 8703 33  ex 8703 90  motor cars and other motor vehicles, other than all-terrain vehicles, principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading No 8702), including station wagons and racing cars  Japan      ex 8704 21 31  ex 8704 21 39  ex 8704 21 91  ex 8704 21 99  ex 8704 22 91  ex 8704 22 99  ex 8704 31 31  ex 8704 31 39  ex 8704 31 91  ex 8704 31 99  ex 8704 32 91  ex 8704 32 99  motor vehicles, other than all-terrain vehicles, for the transport of goods  Japan      8711 10 00  8711 20 00  ex 8711 30 00  motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars: with reciprocating internal combustion piston engine of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 380 cm3  Japan PORTUGAL   B. Other product    CN code  (1990)   Description of product   Country of origin       8711 10 00  motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars; with reciprocating internal combustion engine of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 50 cm3  Japan, Taiwan UNITED  KINGDOM   A. Textile products    Category  Country of origin      1  Pakistan     13  China