CELEX: 31976D0245
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 5 December 1975 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to imports of socks of synthetic fibres falling within heading No ex 60.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany

26. 2. 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 51 / 1
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                                         (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                 COMMISSION
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 5 December 1975
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to imports of
              socks of synthetic fibres falling within heading No ex 60.03 of the Common
              Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in
                                      Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany
                                      (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                       (76/245/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas these disparities in import opportunities
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   have caused in the Benelux countries a flow of indi­
                                                                 rect trade in socks of synthetic fibres originating in
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          the Republic of Korea and in free circulation in Italy
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          and the Federal Republic of Germany ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
 Having regard to the application under the first para­         Whereas this flow of indirect trade threatens to grow
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 1                   as a consequence of the expiry of the existing import
 December 1975 by the Governments of the Benelux                arrangements and the implementation from 1 January
countries to the Commission by telex from the Office             1976 of the agreement between the Community and
                                                                the third country in question, laying down all neces­
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for                sary provisions for avoiding distortions of the market ;
authorization not to apply Community treatment to
imports of socks of synthetic fibres falling within             Whereas according to information supplied by the
heading No ex 60.03 of the Common Customs Tariff,               Governments of the Benelux countries there are
originating in the Republic of Korea and in free circu­         serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
lation in Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany,            textile industry concerned, resulting in a progressive
                                                                decline of production and a constant reduction of the
Whereas in certain areas of the Community, particu­             number of workers employed in that sector ;
larly the Benelux countries and Germany, imports of
the product in question originating in the Republic of
Korea may not exceed 6 500 000 and 22 000 000 pairs             Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
respectively for the period from 24 May 1975 to 31              by unequal conditions of competition with certain
December 1975, as laid down by Commission Regula­               countries (including the Republic of Korea), whereby
tions (EEC) No 1295/75 ( 1 ), (EEC) No 1466/75 (2) and          such countries are enabled to export at prices lower
(EEC) No 3045/75 (3), while no restrictive measures             than those of producers in the Benelux countries ;
have been adopted for the rest of the Communitv ;
C ) OJ No L 132, 23 . 5. 1975, p . 32.                          Whereas the indirect imports in question , which
(2) OJ No L 146, 7. 6 . 1975, p . 14.                           would be in addition to those already effected, would
(3) OJ No L 302, 22. 11 . 1 975, p. 26.                         be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
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Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in         Germany, and in respect of which applications for
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­               import licences were lodged after 18 November 1975.
sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
Germany ;
Whereas authorization should be given, for a limited                                   Article 2
period, for the application of protective measures,
under the first paragraph of Article 115,                        This Decision shall apply until 31 December 1975.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                       Article 3
                         Article 1
                                                                 This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of                      Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are                Kingdom of the Netherlands.
authorized not to apply Community treatment to
imports of the following product :
      CCT
     heading
                                                                 Done at Brussels, 5 December 1975 .
                             Description of goods
       No
ex 60.03          Socks of synthetic textile fibres                                      For the Commission
                                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
where they originate in the Republic of Korea and are
in free circulation in Italy and the Federal Republic of                             Member of the Commission