CELEX: 31978D0828
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-22 00:00:00
Title: 78/828/EEC: Commission Decision of 22 September 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' shirts, woven, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 61.03-11, 15, 19), originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 288 /38                         Official Journal of the European Communities                            14. 10 . 78
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                                        (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                COMMISSION
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 22 September 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' shirts, woven , of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling
             within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes
             61.03-11 , 15 , 19), originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other
                                                      Member States
                                     (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                       (78/828/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   cate these quotas on the basis of the needs of the indi­
                                                                vidual markets ; whereas there are therefore disparities
                                                                existing between the import conditions in the various
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Member States ; whereas uniformity can only be
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          achieved progressively ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                Whereas it appears from the application submitted
 Having regard to the application under the first para­         that there are serious difficulties in the industrial
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 15                  sector concerned, involving a considerable drop in
September 1978 by the Governments of the Benelux                production and employment ;
countries to the Commission of the European
Communities, for authorization not to apply Commu­
nity treatment to men's and boys' shirts, woven, of
                                                                Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling
within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs                already made or proposed, would be likely to aggra­
                                                                vate these difficulties :
Tariff (NIMEXE codes 61.03-11 , 15, 19), originating in
Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member
States,
                                                                Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
                                                                machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                tion from the other Member States :
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Taiwan is subject
to a Community quantitative quota allocated among
the Member States by Commission Regulation (EEC)                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
No 3020/77 of 30 December 1977 ( 1), confirmed by               for the application of protective measures under the
Council Regulation (EEC) No 255/78 of 7 February                first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
 1978                                                           tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 /202/EEC
                                                                of 12 May 1971 (3), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
(>) OJ No L 357, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 51 .
(2) OJ No L 39, 9 . 2. 1978 , p. 1 .                            (3) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                           Article 2
                       Article 1                              This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                              arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of                    these products from Taiwan or until 31 December
 Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are             1978 , whichever is the earlier.
hereby authorized not to apply Community treatment
to the products indicated below, where they originate                                 Article 3
in Taiwan and are in free' circulation in the other
Member States, and in respect of which applications           This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
for import licences were lodged after 14 September            Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
 1978 :                                                       Kingdom of the Netherlands.
           CCT
          heading                    Description              Done at Brussels, 22 September 1978 .
            No
                                                                                        For the Commission
ex 61.03              Men's and boys' shirts, woven, of
(NIMEXE codes         wool, of cotton or of man-made                                   Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
61.03-11 , 15, 19)    textile fibres
                                                                                            Vice-President