CELEX: 31978D0397
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 April 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's and boys' woven suits of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Poland and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 114/ 14                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                    26 . 4. 78
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 11 April 1978
               authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
               Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's and
               boys' woven suits of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01
               of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Poland and in free circulation in
                                              the other Member States
                                   (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                     (78 /397/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
COMMUNITIES,                                                     May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                                         Article 1
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 3 April             The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
 1978 by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­                  Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
sion of the European Communities, for authorization             authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
not to apply Community treatment to men's and                    products indicated below, where they originate in
boys' woven suits of man-made textile fibres, falling           Poland and are in         free circulation     in the other
within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common Customs                Member States, and in respect of which applications
Tariff, originating in Poland and in free circulation in        for import licences were lodged after 22 March 1978 :
the other Member States,
Whereas in the Benelux countries the importation of                   CCT
                                                                     heading                       Description
the products in question originating in Poland is, in                  No
accordance     with    the   Council  Decision    of   20
December 1977 (') and until the entry into force of             ex 61.01         Men's and boys' woven suits of man-made
the definitive arrangements, subject to quantitative                             textile fibres
restriction which has been taken up ;
Whereas according to the application submitted there
are   serious   difficulties  in the   industrial  sector                                Article 2
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­             This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
market share ;
                                                                arise for the importation of these products from
                                                                Poland or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
                                                                earlier.
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
by unequal conditions of competition, whereby
exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower                                      Article 3
than those of the Community products in question ;
                                                                This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those          Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
already effected, would be likely to aggravate these            Kingdom of the Netherlands.
difficulties ;
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the         Done at Brussels, 11 April 1978 .
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from the other Member States ;                                                          For the Commission
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given                                               Lorenzo NATALI
for the application of protective measures under the
first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­                                          Vice-President
(') OJ No L 357, 31 . 12. 1977 .                                (2) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.