CELEX: 31978D0404
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 March 1978 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 and knitted or crocheted dresses, of wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 116/44                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                 28 . 4. 78
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 20 March 1978
             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 and knitted or crocheted dresses, of wool , cotton or
             man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common
             Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other
                                                  Member States
                                  (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                    (78/404/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                               Whereas according to the application submitted there
COMMUNITIES,                                                 are   serious  difficulties      in  the  industrial   sector
                                                             concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­
                                                             tion and employment ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­        Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                by unequal conditions of competition, whereby
                                                             exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
                                                             than those of the Community products in question ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 14 March
1978 by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­               Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
sion of the European Communities, for authorization          already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
                                                             difficulties ;
not to apply Community treatment to women 's, girls'
and infants' woven and knitted or crocheted dresses of
wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling within      Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff,            machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the         tion from the other Member States ;
other Member States,
                                                             Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                             for the application of protective measures under the
Whereas the importation into the Community of the            first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
products in question originating in Taiwan is subject        tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
to a Community quantitative quota allocated among            May 1971 (3) and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
the Member States by Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 302.0/77 of 30 December 1977 ( ! ) confirmed by           Whereas, however, the request for a licence which
Council Regulation (EEC) No 255/78 of 7 February             gave rise to the application in question does not need
1978 (2);                                                    to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
                                                             small amount involved,
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
cate these quotas on the basis of the needs of the indi­
vidual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
persist between the import conditions in the various         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Member States, and whereas uniformity can be
achieved only progressively ;
                                                                                        Article 1
Whereas disparities in the commercial policy
measures applied in connection with these products           The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
by the Member States are giving rise to deflection of        Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
trade, thus preventing the execution of those commer­        authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
cial policy measures, which are in force because of the      products indicated below, where they originate in
difficult economic situation in the sector concerned :       Taiwan     and are    in   free circulation  in   the other
                                                             Member States, and in respect of which applications
(') OJ No L 357, 31 . 12. 1977 .
 2) OJ No L 39 , 9 . 2. 1978 .                               (3) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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for import licences were lodged after the date of this       Taiwan or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
Decision :                                                   earlier.
                                                                                  Article 3
      CCT
     heading
       No
                               Description                   This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
                                                             Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                                                             Kingdom of the Netherlands.
ex 60.05        Women's, girls' and infants' woven and
                knitted or crocheted dresses, of wool,
                                                             Done at Brussels, 20 March 1978 .
                cotton or man-made textile fibres
                                                                                   For the Commission
                       Article 2
                                                                                     Antonio GIOLITTI
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise for the importation of these products from                                 Member of the Commission