CELEX: 31978D0580
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 July 1978 authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to shirts, T-shirts, lightweight fine knit roll, polo or turtle necked jumpers and pullovers, undervests and the like, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, other than babies' garments, of cotton or synthetic textile fibres; T-shirts and lightweight fine knit roll, polo or turtle necked jumpers and pullovers of regenerated textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 60.04 (NIMEXE code 60.04-01, 05, 13, 18, 28, 29, 30, 41, 50, 58) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Thailand and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 193/28                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                       18 . 7 . 78
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 3 July 1978
              authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to shirts, T-shirts, light­
              weight fine knit roll, polo or turtle necked jumpers and pullovers, undervests
              and the like, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, other than babies'
              garments, of cotton or synthetic textile fibres ; T-shirts and lightweight fine knit
              roll, polo or turtle necked jumpers and pullovers of regenerated textile fibres,
              falling within heading No ex 60.04 (NIMEXE code 60.04-01 , 05 , 13 , 18 , 28 , 29, 30 ,
              41 , 50, 58) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Thailand and in free
                                     circulation in the other Member States
                                         (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                      (78/580/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
COMMUNITIES,                                                   already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
                                                               difficulties ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                  tion from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­         Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 27 June            for the application of protective measures under the
1978 by the Irish Government to the Commission of              first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
the European Communities for authorization not to              tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
apply Community treatment to shirts, T-shirts, light­          May 1971 (l ), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
weight fine knit roll, polo or turtle necked jumpers           Whereas, however, the request for a licence which
and pullovers, undervests and the like, knitted or             gave rise to the application in question does not need
crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, other than babies'
                                                               to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
garments, of cotton or synthetic textile fibres ; T-shirts     small amount involved,
and lightweight fine knit roll, polo or turtle necked
jumpers and pullovers of regenerated textile fibres,
falling within heading No ex 60.04 (NIMEXE code                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
60.04-01 , 05, 13, 18, 28, 29, 30, 41 , 50, 58) of the
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Thailand and                                       Article 1
in free circulation in the other Member States,
                                                               Ireland is authorized not to apply Community treat­
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              ment to the products indicated below, where they orig­
                                                               inate in Thailand and are in free circulation in the
products in question originating in Thailand is
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                 other Member States, and in respect of which applica­
Community and that country ;                                   tions for import licences were lodged after the date of
                                                               this Decision :
Whereas under that Agreement Thailand has under­
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of                 CCT
                                                                         heading                       Description
the products in question to the Community to certain                       No
ceilings allocated among the Member States ;
                                                               ex 60.04                  Shirts, T-shirts, lightweight fine
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­          (NIMEXE code              knit roll, polo or turtle necked
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the           60.04-01 , 05, 13, 18 , jumpers and pullovers, undervests
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities       28 , 29, 30, 41 , 50, 58) and the like, knitted or crocheted,
persist between the import conditions in the various                                     not elastic or rubberized, other than
Member States ; whereas uniformity can only be                                           babies' garments, of cotton or
achieved progressively ;                                                                 synthetic textile fibres ; T-shirts and
                                                                                         lightweight fine knit roll, polo or
                                                                                         turtle necked jumpers and pullovers
Whereas according to the application submitted there                                     of regenerated textile fibres
are   serious   difficulties  in the   industrial   sector
concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­
tion and employment ;                                          (•) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                        Article 2                            Done at Brussels, 3 July 1978 .
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise for the importation of these products from Thai­
land or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
earlier.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                        Article 3                                                      Lorenzo NATALI
This Decision is addressed to Ireland .                                                 Vice-President