CELEX: 31976D0050
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 26 November 1975 authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets and jumpers falling within heading No 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the Benelux countries.

16 . 1 . 76                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 9/ 33
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 26 November 1975
               authorizing the French Republic not to apply Community treatment to jerseys,
               pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets , cardigans, bed-jackets and jumpers falling within
               heading No 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in
                                           free circulation in the Benelux countries
                                                (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                           (76/50/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       allocated initially on the basis of the volumes of
COMMUNITIES,                                                         imports previously admitted into the various Member
                                                                     States and need by adjusted only progressively to the
                                                                     supply requirements of the markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                     Whereas for this reason the allocation of the quota in
                                                                     question still involves certain disparities in the quota
                                                                     shares fixed for the various Member States in relation
Having regard to the application under the first para­               to the supply requirements of the markets concerned ;
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 19
November 1975 by the French Government to the
Commission by telex from the Office of its Perma­                    Whereas these disparities have caused in France a
nent Representative to the European Communities,                     flow of imports of the products in question , origi­
for authorization not to apply Community treatment                   nating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the
                                                                     Benelux countries, which threatens to continue and to
to jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardigans,
                                                                    grow ;
bed-jackets and jumpers falling within heading No
60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff originating in
Taiwan and in free circulation in the Benelux coun­                  Whereas according to information supplied by the
tries, specifically Belgium ,                                        French Government there are serious economic diffi­
                                                                     culties in the sector that manufactures the products in
                                                                     question resulting in a progressive decline of produc­
Whereas imports into the Community of the products                   tion  and   a constant     reduction    of the number of
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a                   workers employed in that sector ;
Community quantitative quota established by Council
Regulation ( EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July 1975 on
rules for imports of certain textile products originating            Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
in Taiwan (') ;                                                      by unequal conditions of competition with certain
                                                                     countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries
                                                                     are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation                     French producers ;
among the Member States, as determined by Commis­
sion Regulation ( EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports                 Whereas the indirect imports in question , which
into the Community of certain textile products origi­                would be in addition to those already effected, would
nating in Taiwan (-') ; whereas the quota shares allo­               be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
cated for 1975 to France and the Benelux countries
are 105 000 and 7 640 000 items respectively ;                       Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
                                                                     motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                                     sary cooperation from Belgium and the other Benelux
Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­                   countries ;
nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of
the import arrangements previously applied in the
Member States, the above Regulation ( EEC) No                        Whereas authorization should accordingly be given ,
 1783/ 75 provides, as a temporary measure, for a                    for a limited period, for the application of protective
derogation from the principle of equal and continuous                measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
access for all Community importers to Community                      subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
quotas by stipulating that the quota in question be                  sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (3), and in particular
                                                                     Article 1 thereof,
(') OJ No L 182, 12 . 7. 1975, p . 2.
(-) OJ No L 189 , 21 . 7 . 1975 , p . 24 .                           P) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                      applications for import licences were lodged after 9
                                                                  November 1975 .
                        Article 1
                                                                                        Article 2
The French Republic is authorized not to apply
Community treatment to imports of the following                  This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
product :                                                        arise in France for the importation of the products in
                                                                 question from Taiwan and in any case not later than
                                                                 31 December 1975 .
      CCT
     heading                  Description of goods
       No
                                                                                        Article 3
60.05           Outer garments and clothing accessories,         This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
                knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubber­
                ized :
                                                                  Done at Brussels , 26 November 1975 .
                pullovers, jerseys, slip-overs, twinsets, cardi­
                gans, bed-jackets and jumpers
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                           Finn GUNDELACH
where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
tion in the Benelux countries, and in respect of which                                 Member of the Commission