CELEX: 31976D0042
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 November 1975 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to infants' jackets of woven fabrics of mixed synthetic textile fibres falling within subheading 61.02 ex B, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany

No L 8 /32                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               15 . 1 . 76
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 17 November 1975
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to infants'
              jackets of woven fabrics of mixed synthetic textile fibres falling within
              subheading 61.02 ex B , originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the
                                                  Federal Republic of Germany
                                     (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                            (76/42/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       access for all importers to Community quotas by stipu­
COMMUNITIES,                                                         lating that the quota in question be allocated initially
                                                                     on the basis of the volume of imports previously
                                                                     admitted into the various Member States and need be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­                adjusted only progressively to the supply requirements
                                                                     of the markets ;
graph of Article 115 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­               Whereas for this reason the allocation of the quota in
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 11                       question still involves certain disparities in the quota
                                                                     shares fixed for the various Member States in relation
November 1975 by the Governments of the Benelux
countries to the Commission by telex from the Office                 to the supply requirements of the markets concerned ;
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for                     Whereas these disparities have caused in the Benelux
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                    countries a flow of imports of the products in ques­
infant's jackets of woven fabrics of mixed synthetic                 tion, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in
textile fibres falling within subheading 61.02 ex B of               the Federal Republic of Germany, which threatens to
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan                     continue and to grow ;
and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of
Germany,
                                                                     Whereas according to information supplied by the
                                                                     Governments of the Benelux countries there are
Whereas imports into the Community of the products                   serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
in question originating in Taiwan are authorized                     industry concerned by the application, resulting in a
under a Community quantitative quota established by                  progressive decline of production and a constant
Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July                       reduction of the number of workers employed in that
 1975 on rules for imports of certain textile products                sector ;
originating in Taiwan (') ;
                                                                     Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation                      by unequal conditions of competition with certain
 among the Member States, as determined by Commis­                    countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975                      are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports                  producers in the Benelux countries ;
 into the Community of certain textile products origi­
 nating in Taiwan (2 ) ; whereas the quota shares allo­
 cated   for 1975 to the        Benelux countries and the             Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
 Federal Republic of Germany are 56 000 kg and                        motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
 125 000 kg respectively ;                                            sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
                                                                      Germany ;
 Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­
 nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of                   Whereas authorization should accordingely be given ,
 the import arrangements previously applied in the                    for a limited period, for the application of protective
 Member States, the above Regulation (EEC) No                         measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
 1783 / 75 provides, as a temporary measure , for a dero­             subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
 gation from the principle of equal and continuous                    sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (3), and in particular
                                                                      Article 1 thereof ;
 (>) OJ No L 182 , 12 . 7 . 197.5 , p . 2 .
 (2 ) OJ No L 189 , 21 . 7 . 1975 , p . 24 .                          (3 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p . 26.
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Whereas the request for a licence which gave rise to              respect of which applications for import licences were
the application under Article 1 1 5 need not be covered           lodged after 10 November 1975.
by this authorization in view of the small amount
involved,                                                                                Article 2
                                                                 This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                  arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
                                                                  the products in question from Taiwan and in any case
                         Article 1                                not later than 31 December 1975 .
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are                                        Article 3
authorized not to apply Community treatment to
imports of the following product :                                This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
                                                                  Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                                                                  Kingdom of the Netherlands.
        car
     heading                  Description of goods
         No
                                                                  Done at Brussels, 17 November 1975.
 61.02 ex B      Infants' jackets of woven fabrics of mixed
                 synthetic textile fibres                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
 where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
 tion in the Federal Republic of Germany, and in                                       Member of the Commission