CELEX: 31975D0446
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 14 February 1975 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to tea towels and glass cloths of a mixture of cotton and flax, falling within subheading ex 62.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 196/24                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                26 . 7 . 75
                                                COMMISSION
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 14 February 1975
               authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
               Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to tea towels and
               glass cloths of a mixture of cotton and flax, falling within subheading ex 62.02 B of the
               Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free circulation in the oth^r
                                                        Member States
                                        (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                         (75/446/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Romania is FF 238 000 (that is to say Bfrs 1 980 000
COMMUNITIES,                                                      at the present rate of exchange);
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                      Whereas, according to information supplied by the
European Economic Community, and in particular                    Benelux Governments, there are serious economic
 the first paragraph of Article 115 thereof;                      difficulties in the weaving and clothes manufacturing
                                                                  industries which are evidenced by a reduction in
                                                                  orders, an increase in stocks and a considerable fall
Having regard to the application under the first                  in production resulting in unemployment in several
paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on                   factories ;
6 February 1975 by the Governments of the Benelux
countries to the Commission by telex from the office
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of                 Whereas, in view of the large number of applications
Belgium to the European Communities, for                          for import licences lodged with the Benelux
 authorization not to apply Community treatment to                authorities, imports of the products concerned
tea towels and glass cloths of a mixture of cotton                originating in Romania and in free circulation in
and flax, falling within subheading ex 62.02 B of                 France are likely to aggravate these difficulties ;
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania
and in free circulation in the other Member States ;              Whereas the machinery for bringing about the necess­
                                                                  ary cooperation from the French Republic cannot be
                                                                  set in motion with sufficient £peed ;
Whereas, this application is based on an application
for authorization to import tea towels and glass
                                                                  Whereas, in these circumstances, authorization should
cloths of a mixture of cotton and flax, originating
in Romania and in free circulation in France ;                    be given for the application of protective measures
whereas these products are imported into all Member               as provided in the first paragraph of Article 115
                                                                  subject to the conditions laid down in the
States subject to the quantitative quotas provided
for in the Council Decision of 2 December 1974 (*)                Commission Decision of 12 May 1971 (2), and in
laying down the import arrangements applicable to                 particular Article 1 thereof,
imports from State-trading countries, including
Romania ;                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas the quota of the products concerned opened                                          Article 1
by the Benelux countries in respect of Romania is
valued at Bfrs 750 000 and is already exhausted ;                 The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
whereas the quota opened by France in respect of                  Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands
(^ OJ No L 358 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                            (2) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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are authorized not to apply Community treatment                                     Article 3
to imports of tea towels and glass cloths of a mixture
of cotton and flax, falling within subheading ex              This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
62.02 B of the Common Custom Tariff, originating              Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
in Romania and in free circulation in other Member            Kingdom of the Netherlands .
States in respect of which applications for import
licences were lodged after 30 January 1975 .
                                                              Done at Brussels, 14 February 1975.
                                                                                             For the Commission
                      Article 2
                                                                                                The President
This Decision shall apply until 31 December 1975 .                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI