CELEX: 31978D0744
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 August 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to bed linen, woven, falling within subheading ex 62.02 B (NIMEXE codes 62.02-11, 19) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 247/28                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                    7 . 9 . 78
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 11 August 1978
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to bed linen ,
              woven , falling within subheading ex 62.02 B (NIMEXE codes 62.02-11 , 19) of the
              Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free circulation in the
                                                other Member States
                                  (Only the Dutch and French- texts are authentic)
                                                      (78/744/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
COMMUNITIES,                                                   for the application of protective measures under the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi- ,
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 7 August           HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
1978 by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­
sion of the European Communities, for authorization                                     Article 1
not to apply Community treatment to bed linen,
woven, falling within subheading ex 62.02 B                    The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
(NIMEXE codes 62.02-11 , 19) of the Common                     Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free             authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
circulation in the other Member States,                        products indicated below, where they originate in
                                                               Romania and are in free circulation in the other
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Romania is                 Member States, and in respect of which applications
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the              -  for import licences were lodged after 26 July 1978
Community and that country ;                                   and are, on the date of this Decision, pending with
                                                               the Benelux authorities :
Whereas under that Agreement Romania has under­
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of
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the products in question to the Community to certain                     heading                      Description
ceilings allocated among the Member States ;                               No
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the           ex 62.02 B               Bed linen , woven
                                                               (NIMEXE codes
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
                                                               62.02-11 , 19)
persist between the import conditions in the various
Member States ; whereas uniformity can only be
achieved progressively ;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas according to the application submitted there
are   serious   difficulties in  the   industrial   sector     This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­              Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
tion and employment ;                                          Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Whereas although the imports which gave rise to the
application submitted would appear to be an isolated
operation, they are nevertheless likely, owing to the           Done at Brussels, 11 August 1978 .
appreciable amount of the imports, to jeopardize the
aims of the Agreement ;                                                                    For the Commission
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the                                     Étienne DAVIGNON
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from the other Member States ;                                                    Member of the Commission
                                                               (•) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.