CELEX: 31978D0221
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 February 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 outer garments, falling within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Poland and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 67/32                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 9 . 3 . 78
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 8 February 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
             outer garments, falling within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common Customs
              Tariff, originating in Poland and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                    (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                      (78/ 221 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the application for a licence which gave rise
COMMUNITIES,                                                      to the application under Article 115 should not be
                                                                  covered by this authorization in view of the small
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             amount involved ,
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 1
February 1978 by the Governments of the Benelux                                         A rtic/e 1
countries by telex from the office of the Permanent
Representative of the Kingdom of Belgium to the                   The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
European Communities, for authorization not to apply              Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
Community treatment to women's outer garments,                    authorized not to apply Community treatment " to
falling within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common                  women 's outer garments, falling within heading No ex
Customs Tariff, originating in Poland and in free circu­          61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, where they orig­
lation in the other Member States,                                inate in Poland and are in free circulation in the other
Whereas the Benelux countries, in accordance with                 Member States, and in respect of which applications
the Council Decision of 20 December 1977 ('), have                for import licences were lodged after the date of this
                                                                   Decision .
opened provisionally, while awaiting the coming into
force of a definitive regime, a quota which has already
been used up ;                                                                           Article 2
Whereas, according to information supplied by the                 This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
application, there are economic difficulties in the               arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
Benelux branch of the industry in question , resulting            the products in question from Poland and in any case
in a progressive decline of production and a constant              not later than 30 June 1978 .
reduction of the number of workers employed in that
sector ;
                                                                                         Article 3
Whereas further indirect imports of the products in
question, because of their prices, would be likely to             This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
aggravate those economic difficulties ;                            Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                                                                   Kingdom of the Netherlands .
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
                                                                   Done at Brussels, 8 February 1978 .
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given ,
for a limited period, for the application of protective
                                                                                           For the Commission
measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
subject to the conditions laid down in the Commis­                                         Wilhdm HAFERKAMP
sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (2) and in particular
Article 1 thereof ;                                                                            Vice-President
(') OJ No L 360, 31 . 12. 1977.
(2) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.