CELEX: 31978D0207
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16 January 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's woven shirts of mixed synthetic textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 64/20                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                 7 . 3 . 78
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                                    (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                            COMMISSION
                                          COMMISSION DECISION
                                              of 16 January 1978
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men 's
             woven shirts of mixed synthetic textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.03
             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 /207/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                               the import arrangements previously applied in the
COMMUNITIES,                                                 Member States, the above Regulation provides, as a
                                                             temporary measure, for a derogation from the prin­
                                                             ciple of equal and continuous access for all importers
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        to Community quotas by stipulating that the quota in
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­        question need be adjusted only progressively to the
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                              supply requirements of the markets ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­       Whereas for this reason the allocation of the quota in
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 10               question still involves certain disparities in the quota
January 1978 by the Governments of the Benelux               shares fixed for the various Member States in relation
countries to the Commission by telex from the office         to the supply requirements of the markets concerned ;
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to            Whereas, according to information supplied by the
men's woven shirts of mixed synthetic textile fibres,        Governments of the Benelux countries, there are
falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common             serious economic difficulties in the sector in question ,
Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free            resulting in a progressive decline of production and a
circulation in the other Member States,                      constant    reduction   of  the   number     of  workers
                                                             employed ;
Whereas imports into the Community of the products
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a           Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
Community quantitative quota, allocated among the            by unequal conditions of competition with certain
Member States, established by Commission Regula­             countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries
tion (EEC) No 3020/77 of 30 December 1977 on the             are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
arrangements for imports of certain textile products         producers in the Benelux countries ;
originating in Taiwan ;
                                                             Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­           motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of           sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
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Whereas authorization should accordingly be given ,                are in free circulation in the other Member States, and
for a limited period, for the application of protective            in respect of which applications for import licences
measures under the first paragraph of Article 115,                 lodged after 1 January 1978 are, on the date of this
subject to the conditions specified in the Commission               Decision , pending with the Benelux authorities.
Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article
1 thereof,                                                                                  Article 2
                                                                   This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                         Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                                                                   Kingdom of the Netherlands.
                           Article 1
The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of                         Done at Brussels, 16 January 1978 .
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
                                                                                              For the Commission
authorized not to apply Community treatment to
men 's woven shirts of mixed synthetic textile fibres,                                       Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common
Customs Tariff where they originate in Taiwan and                                                 Vice-President
(!) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .