CELEX: 31975D0662
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29 July 1975 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to electric motors falling within heading No ex 85.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Bulgaria and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 289/34                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               7. 11 . 75
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 29 July 1975
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to electric
             motors falling within heading No ex 85.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
                   nating in Bulgaria and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                        (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                          (75/662/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas it is not possible at short notice to set in
COMMUNITIES,                                                       motion the machinery for securing the requisite coop­
                                                                   eration of the Federal Republic of Germany ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­              Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof ;                                   for the application of protective measures under the
                                                                   first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Having regard to the application under the first para­             tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 23 July                May 1971 (3), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
1975 by the Governments of the Benelux countries by
telex from the Office of the Permanent Representative
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European
Communities, for authorization not to apply Commu­
nity treatment to electric motors falling within                                             Article 1
heading No ex 85.01 of the Common Customs Tariff,                  The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
originating in Bulgaria, and in free circulation in the            Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
other Member States ;
                                                                   authorized not to apply Community treatment to
Whereas the Benelux countries, in accordance with                  imports of electric motors falling within heading No
the Council Decision of 2 December 1974 ( 1), as                   ex 85.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating
amended by the Decision of 27 March 1975 (2), have                 in Bulgaria and in respect of which applications for
opened in respect of Bulgaria an annual quota of F1                import licences were lodged after 13 July 1975.
548 550 for the products in question, while the
Federal Republic of Germany places no restrictions                                           Article 2
on imports of these products from the said third                   This Decision shall apply until such time as there are
country ;                                                          new openings in the Benelux countries for imports of
Whereas, according to the information supplied by                  the products in question from Bulgaria until 31
the Governments of the Benelux countries, the sector               December 1975, whichever is the earlier.
in question is experiencing serious economic diffi­
                                                                                             Article 3
culties due largely to unequal conditions of competi­
tion vis-a-vis certain countries (inter alia Bulgaria)             This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
which enable the latter to export at lower prices than             Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
those of Benelux producers ;                                       Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Whereas these economic difficulties are causing
production to drop considerably, resulting in unem­                Done at Brussels, 29 July 1975.
ployment in many factories and a stready decrease in
the number of workers employed in the sector ;                                                  For the Commission
Whereas the indirect imports in question are likely,                                                 The President
when added to those already carried out, to aggravate
these economic difficulties :                                                                  Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 358 , 31 . 12 . 1974, p . 1 .
I2 ) OJ No L 99 , 21 . 4. 1975, p . 1 .                            (3) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.