CELEX: 31976D0665
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 4 June 1976 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain men's, boys', women's, girls' and infants' outer garments, falling within heading Nos ex 61.01 and ex 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 227/20                      Official Journal of the European Communities                              19 . 8 . 76
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 4 June 1976
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain
              men 's, boys', women's, girls' and infants' outer garments , falling within heading
              Nos ex 61.01 and ex 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong
                          Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                  (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                    (76/665/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                              Whereas disparities in the import terms of the
COMMUNITIES,                                                  products in question have created an indirect trade
                                                              flow in the Benelux countries which threatens to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         continue and to grow ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                 Whereas according to information supplied by the
                                                              Governments of the Benelux countries there are
Having regard to the application under the first para­        serious economic difficulties in the sector that manu­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 28 May            factures the products in question resulting in a
 1976, by the Governments of the Benelux countries to         progressive decline of production and a constant
the Commission by telex from the Office of the                reduction of the number of workers employed in that
Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the                sector ;
Netherlands to the European Communities, for author­
ization not to apply Community treatment to certain           Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
men 's, boys', women's, girls' and infants' outer             by unequal conditions of competition with certain
garments (trousers) falling within heading Nos ex             countries (including Hong Kong), whereby such coun­
61.01 and ex 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff,              tries are enabled to export at prices lower than those
originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in           of producers in the Benelux countries ;
the Federal Republic of Germany and the United
Kingdom ,                                                     Whereas indirect imports of the products in question ,
                                                              which would be in addition to those already effected,
Whereas the importation into the Community of the             would be likely to aggravate these economic diffi­
products in question originating in Hong Kong is the          culties ;
subject of an Agreement negotiated between the
Community and Hong Kong concluded on 8 April                  Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
1976 ;                                                        motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                              sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
Whereas pending the completion of the procedures              Germany, the United Kingdom and the other
                                                              Member States ;
necessary for the conclusion and entry into force of
that Agreement, the Community and Hong Kong
have agreed to recognize the de facto application of its      Whereas authorization should accordingly be given ,
provisions with effect from 18 July 1975 ;                    for a limited period, for the application of protective
                                                              measures under the first paragraph of Article 115,
                                                              subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
Whereas, under the Agreement, Hong Kong has                   sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its           Article 1 thereof,
exports of certain textile products to the Community
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member
States ;
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas for trousers, jeans, and the like (other than
knitted and crocheted goods) for men , boys, women ,
girls and infants, the quota share allocated to the                                       Art ich I
Benelux countries is 2 239 000 pieces ( 1976 annual
quota) whereas the quota shares allocated to the              The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
Federal Republic of Germany and the United King­              Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
dom for these products from the same third country
are 21 610 000 and 25 953 000 pieces respectively ;           (') OJ No L 121 , .3 . 6 . 1971 , p . 26 .
 ---pagebreak--- 19 . 8 . 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                       No L 227/ 21
authorized not to apply Community treatment to                                          Article 2
imports of the following products :
                                                                 This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                                 arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
      CCT
     heading                 Description of goods
                                                                 the products in question from Hong Kong and in any
        No                                                       case not later than 31 December 1976 .
ex 61.01         Men's and 'boys' outer garments (other                                 Article 3
                 than knitted or crocheted goods) :
                 — Trousers                                      This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
                                                                 Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
ex 61.02         Women's,    girls'     and      infants' outer  Kingdom of the Netherlands.
                 garments (other than knitted or crocheted
                 goods) :
                 — Trousers                                      Done at Brussels, 4 June 1976.
                                                                                          For the Commission
where they originate in Hong Kong and are in free
circulation in the other Member States, and in respect                                    Christopher SOAMES
of which applications for import licences were lodged
after 17 May 1976 .                                                                           Vice-President