CELEX: 31979D0274
Language: en
Date: 1979-02-19 00:00:00
Title: 79/274/EEC: Commission Decision of 19 February 1979 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to women' s, girls' and infants' woven overcoats, raincoats and other coats, cloaks and capes, jackets and blazers, other than those of category 15 A, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 61.02-31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40) (category 15 B), originating in Yugoslavia and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 65/28                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                   15 . 3 . 79
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 19 February 1979
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to women's,
              girls' and infants' woven overcoats, raincoats and other coats, cloaks and capes,
              jackets and blazers, other than those of category 15 A, of wool, of cotton or of
              man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common
              Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 61.02-31 , 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40) (category 15 B),
               originating in Yugoslavia and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                  (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                     (79/274/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
COMMUNITIES,                                                  already made or proposed, would be likely to jeopar­
                                                              dize the abovementioned commercial policy
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         measures ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­         Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                              machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                              tion from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 12                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
February 1979 by the Governments of the Benelux               for the application of protective measures under the
countries to the Commission of the European                   first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Communities, for authorization not to apply Commu­            tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 /202/ EEC
nity treatment to women's, girls' and infants' woven          of 12 May 1971 (*), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
overcoats, raincoats and other coats, cloaks and capes,
jackets and blazers, other than those of category 15 A,       Whereas, however, the applications for a licence
of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres,             which gave rise to the application in question do not
falling within subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common            need to be covered by such an authorization in view
                                                              of the small amount involved,
Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 61.02-31 , 32, 33, 35,
36, 37, 39, 40) (category 15 B), originating in Yugo­
slavia and in free circulation in the other Member
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
States,
Whereas the importation into the Community of the                                      Article 1
products in question originating in Yugoslavia is
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Community and that country ;                                  Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
                                                              authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
                                                              products indicated below, Where they originate in
Whereas under that Agreement Yugoslavia has under­            Yugoslavia and are in free circulation in the other
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of     Member States, and in respect of which applications
the products in question to the Community up to the           for import licences were lodged after 8 February
amount of certain ceilings allocated among the                 1979 :
Member States ;
                                                                         CCT
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­                   heading                      Description
                                                                          No
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
individual markets ; whereas there are therefore dispar­
ities existing between the import conditions in the           ex 61.02 B               Women's, girls' and infants' woven
various Member States ; whereas uniformity can only           (NIMEXE codes            overcoats, raincoats and other coats,
                                                              61.02-31 , 32, 33, 35, cloaks      and capes, jackets and
be achieved progressively ;
                                                              36, 37, 39, 40) (cate­ blazers, other than those of cate­
                                                              gory 15 B)               gory 15 A, of wool, of cotton or of
Whereas it appears from the application submitted                                      man-made textile fibres
that there are serious difficulties in the industrial
sector concerned, involving a considerable drop in
production and employment ;                                   (i) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                      Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 19 February 1979.
This Decision shall apply until 30 June 1979 .
                      Article 3                                                  For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                     Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                          Vice-President