CELEX: 31975D0663
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30 July 1975 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to imports of printed woven fabrics of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste) and printed woven fabrics of cotton of a weight not exceeding 130g/m2 falling within subheading 56.07 ex A II or 55.09 ex A II of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States

7. 11 . 75                           Official Journal of the European Communities                       No L 289/35
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 30 July 1975
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to imports of
             printed woven fabrics of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste) and printed
             woven fabrics of cotton of a weight not exceeding 130 g/m2 falling within
             subheading 56.07 ex A II or 55.09 ex A II of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
             nating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other
                                                     Member States
                                     (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                       (75/663/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  ployment in many factories and a steady decrease in
COMMUNITIES,                                                    the number of workers employed in the industry ;
                                                                Whereas it is not possible at short notice to set in
Hiving regard to the Treaty establishing the European           motion the machinery for securing the requisite coop­
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           eration of the other Member States ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof ;
                                                                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                                for the application of protective measures under the
Having regard to the application under the first para­          first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 24 July             tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
by the Governments of the Benelux countries by telex            May 1971 (3) and in particular Article 1 thereof,
from the Office of the Permanent Representative of
the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European
Communities, for authorization not to apply Commu­
nity treatment to printed woven fabrics of man-made
fibres (discontinuous or waste) and printed woven               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
fabrics of cotton of a weight not exceeding 130 g/m2
falling within subheading 56.07 ex A II or 55.09 ex A
II of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the
People's Republic of China and in free circulation in
the other Member States :                                                               Article 1
                                                                The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Whereas there is no provision for the importation of            Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
the products in question from the People's Republic             authorized not to apply Community treatment to
of China into the Benelux countries in the context of
                                                                imports of printed woven fabrics of man-made fibres
the import arrangements established by the Council              (discontinuous or waste) and printed woven fabrics of
Decision of 2 December 1974 ('), as amended by the              cotton of a weight not exceeding 130 g/m2 falling
Decision of 27 March 1975 (2);                                  within subheading 56.07 ex A II or 55.09 ex A II, orig­
                                                                inating in the People's Republic of China, for which
                                                                applications for import licences were lodged after 13
Whereas, according to the information supplied by               July 1975.
the Governments of the Benelux countries, the textile
industry is experiencing serious economic difficulties
due largely to unequal conditions of competition vis­
a-vis certain countries { inter alia the People's Repu­                                  Article 2
blic of China) which enable the latter to export at
lower prices than those of Benelux producers ;
                                                                This Decision shall apply until such time as there are
                                                                new openings in the Benelux countries for imports of
Whereas these economic difficulties are causing                 the products in question from the People's Republic
production to drop considerably, resulting in unem­             of China or until 31 December 1975, whichever is the
                                                                earlier.
(') OJ No L 358 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 99, 21 . 4. 1975, p. 1 .                            (3) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                   Article 3                            Done at Brussels, 30 July 1975.
                                                                                For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                        The President
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                    Francois-Xavier ORTOLI