CELEX: 31978D0916
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-19 00:00:00
Title: 78/916/EEC: Commission Decision of 19 October 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to under garments falling within heading Nos 61.03 and 61.04 of the Common Customs Tariff originating in Hungary and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 320/28                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             14 . 11 . 78
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 19 October 1978
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to under
             garments falling within heading Nos 61.03 and 61.04 of the Common Customs
              Tariff originating in Hungary and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                    (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                      (78/916/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
COMMUNITIES,                                                   for the application of protective measures under the
                                                               first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 /202/ EEC
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          of 12 May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 5 October
                                                                                       Article 1
1978 by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­
sion of the European Communities, for authorization
                                                               The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
not to apply Community treatment to under garments
                                                               Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
falling within heading Nos 61.03 and 61.04 of the
                                                               authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
Common Customs Tariff originating in Hungary and
in free circulation in the other Member States ;               products indicated below, where they originate in
                                                               Hungary and are in free circulation in the other
Whereas in the Benelux countries the importation of            Member States, and in respect of which applications
the products in question originating in Hungary is, in         for import licences were lodged after 2 October 1978
accordance with Council Decision 77/806/ EEC of 20             and are, at the date of this Decision, pending with the
December 1977 (!), subject to an annual quota, which           Benelux authorities :
has already been almost wholly taken up ;
                                                                     CCT
Whereas the disparities which exist in the commercial               heading                      Description
policy measures applied in connection with these                      No
products by the Member States are causing deflection
of trade, thereby preventing the execution of those            61.03            Under garments
commercial policy measures which are in force                  or 61.04
because of the difficult economic situation in the
sector concerned ;
Whereas there are serious difficulties in the industrial                               Article 2
sector concerned, involving a considerable drop in             This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
production and employment ;                                    Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Whereas, although the imports which gave rise to the           Kingdom of the Netherlands.
application submitted would appear to be an isolated
operation, they are nevertheless likely, in view of the
substantial volume of the imports, to call into ques­          Done at Brussels, 19 October 1978 .
tion the efficacity of the commercial policy measure
concerned ;                                                                               For the Commission
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the                                    Etienne DAVIGNON
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from the other Member States ;                                                   Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 360, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 1 .                         (2) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.