CELEX: 31978D0389
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 March 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the  Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets and jumpers, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Yugoslavia and in free circulation in the other Member States

25 . 4. 78                        Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 112/ 23
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                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 21 March 1978
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to jerseys,
              pullovers , slip-overs, twinsets, cardigans , bed-jackets and jumpers , knitted or
              crocheted , not elastic or rubberized , of wool , cotton or man-made textile fibres ,
              falling within subheading ex 60.05 A of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
                  nating in Yugoslavia and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                  (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                     (78 /389/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
                                                               individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
                                                               persist between the import conditions in the various
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          only progressively ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­         Whereas according to the application submitted there
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 17 March           are   serious  difficulties in  the   industrial sector
 1978 by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­                concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­
sion of the European Communities, for authorization            tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
not to apply Community treatment to jerseys,                   market share ;
pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets
 and jumpers, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or
 rubberized, of wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres,
                                                               Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
falling within subheading ex 60.05 A of the Common             by unequal conditions of competition , whereby
Customs Tariff, originating in Yugoslavia and in free          exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
circulation in the other Member States,
                                                               than those of the Community products in question ;
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Yugoslavia is              Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                 already effected , would be likely to aggravate these
Community and this country ;                                   difficulties ;
Whereas under that Agreement Yugoslavia has under­
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of      Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
the products in question to the Community to certain           machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
ceilings allocated among the Member States ;                   tion from the other Member States ;
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Whereas authorization should accordingly be given                                         Article 2
for the application of protective measures under the
first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­           This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12                  arise for the importation of these products from Yugo­
May 1971 (') and in particular Article 1 thereof,                 slavia or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
                                                                  earlier.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                          Article 1
                                                                                          Article 3
The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are                 This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
authorized not to apply Community treatment to the                Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
products indicated below, where they originate in                 Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Yugoslavia and are in free circulation in the other
Member States, and in respect of which applications
for import licences were lodged after 12 March 1978 :
       CCT                                                        Done at Brussels, 21 March 1978 .
      heading                       Description
        No
ex 60.05 A       Jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardi­                           For the Commission
                 gans, bed-jackets and jumpers, knitted or
                  crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of                                Christopher TUGENDHAT
                  wool , cotton or man-made textile fibres
                                                                                        Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.