CELEX: 31978D0394
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 10 April 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to blouses, knitted, crocheted or woven, for women, girls and infants, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

25 . 4. 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 112/31
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 10 April 1978
               authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
               Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to blouses,
               knitted, crocheted or woven , for women , girls and infants, falling within
               subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
                   nating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                   (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                     (78 /394/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
COMMUNITIES,                                                     machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                tion from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                  for the application of protective measures under the
                                                                first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Having regard to the application under the first para­           tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 3 April             May 1971 (•) and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
 1978 by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­
sion of the European Communities, for authorization             Whereas, however, the requests for licences which
not to apply Community treatment to blouses,                    gave rise to the application in question do not need to
knitted, crocheted or woven, for women, girls and               be covered by such an authorization in view of the
infants, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex          small amount involved ,
61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating
in Romania and in free circulation         in the other
Member States,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Romania is
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                                             Article 1
Community and this country ;
                                                                The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
Whereas under that Agreement Romania has under­                  Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of       authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
the products in question to the Community to certain            products indicated below, where they originate in
ceilings allocated among the Member States ;                    Romania and are in          free circulation    in the other
                                                                Member States, and in respect of which applications
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­           for import licences were lodged after the date of this
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the            Decision :
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
persist between the import conditions in the various                  CCT
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved                   heading                        Description
                                                                       No
only progressively ;
Whereas according to the application submitted there            ex 60.05 A II    Blouses, knitted , crocheted or woven , for
are   serious   difficulties in  the   industrial  sector       or               women , girls and infants
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­             ex 61.02 B
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
market share ;
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely                                     Article 2
by unequal conditions of competition , whereby
exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower             This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
than those of the Community products in question ;              arise for the importation of these products from
                                                                Romania or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those          earlier .
already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
difficulties ;                                                  (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.
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                   Article 3                            Done at Brussels, 10 April 1978 .
                                                                               For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                     Guido BRUNNER
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                 Member of the Commission