CELEX: 31978D0722
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 3 August 1978 authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to women's, girls' and infants' woven pyjamas and night dresses, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.04 (NIMEXE codes 61.04-11, 13, 18) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

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                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 3 August 1978
             authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to women 's, girls' and
             infants' woven pyjamas and night dresses, of wool , of cotton or of man-made
             textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.04 (NIMEXE codes 61.04-11 , 13 , 18)
             of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circula­
                                         tion in the other Member States
                                          (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                     (78/722/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
                                                               individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
                                                               persist 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 according to the application submitted there
                                                               are   serious  difficulties     in  the industrial sector
Having regard to the application under the first para­         concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 12 July            tion and employment ;
1978 by the Irish Government to the Commission of
the European Communities, for authorization not to             Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
apply Community treatment to women's, girls' and               already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
inflants' woven pyjamas and night dresses, of wool, of         difficulties ;
cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within
heading No ex 61.04 (NIMEXE codes 61.04-11 , 13,
18) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in               Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other                 machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                               tion from the other Member States ;
Member States,
                                                               Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              for the application of protective measures under the
products in question originating in Hong Kong is               first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                 tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
Community and that country ;                                   May 1971 (•), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
                                                               Whereas, however, the request for a licence which
Whereas under that Agreement Hong Kong has                     gave rise to the application in question does not need
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its            to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
exports of the products in question to the Community           small amount involved,
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member
States ;                                                       (!) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                         Article 2
                       Article I                            This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                            arise for the importation of these products from Hong
Ireland is authorized not to apply Community treat­         Kong or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
ment to the products indicated below, where they orig­      earlier.
inate in Hong Kong and are in free circulation in the
other Member States, and in respect of which applica­       This Decision is addressed to Ireland .
tions for import licences were lodged after the date of
this Decision :
           CCT
          heading                  Description               Done at Brussels, 3 August 1978 .
            No
ex 61.04               Women's, girls' and infants' woven                             For the Commission
(NIMEXE codes          pyjamas and night dresses, of wool ,
61.04-11 , 13 , 18 )   of cotton or of man-made textile                               Étienne DAVIGNON
                       fibres
                                                                                  Member of the Commission