CELEX: 31977D0001
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 14 October 1976 authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany not to apply Community treatment to women's, girls' and infants' shirts and blouses, falling within subheading 61.02 ex B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the Netherlands

5 . 1 . 77                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 3 /9
                                                                 II
                                           (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                   COMMISSION
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 14 October 1976
              authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany not to apply Community treat­
              ment to women's, girls' and infants' shirts and blouses, falling within
              subheading 61.02 ex B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan
                                        and in free circulation in the Netherlands
                                               (Only the German text is authentic)
                                                           (77/ 1 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        nating in Taiwan (2) ; whereas the quota shares allo­
COMMUNITIES,                                                          cated for   1976 to the        Benelux countries and the
                                                                      Federal Republic of Germany are 696 000 and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 576 000 items respectively ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                      Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­
                                                                      nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of
Having regard to the application under the first para­                the import arrangements previously applied in the
graph of Article 1 15 of the Treaty, made on 7 October                Member States, the above Regulation (EEC) No
 1976 by the Government of the Federal Republic of                    1783/75 provides, as a temporary measure, for a dero­
Germany to the Commission by telex from the Office                    gation from the principle of equal and continuous
of its Permanent Representative to the European                       access for all Community importers to Community
 Communities for authorization not to apply Commu­                    quotas by stipulating that the quota in question be
nity treatment to women's, girls' and infants' shirts                 allocated initially on the basis of the volume of
and blouses, falling within subheading 61.02 ex B of                  imports previously admitted into the various Member
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan                      States and that it need be adjusted only progressively
and in free circulation in the Netherlands,                           to the supply requirements of the markets ;
Whereas imports into the Community of the products
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a                    Whereas for this reason this allocation of the quota in
Community quantitative quota established by Council                   question still involves certain disparities in the quota
Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July 1975 on                        shares fixed for the various Member States by refer­
rules for imports of certain textile products originating             ence to the supply requirements of the markets
                                                                      concerned ;
 in Taiwan (') ;
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation                      Whereas these disparities have caused in the Federal
among the Member States, as determined by Commis­                     Republic of Germany a flow of imports of the
sion Regulation ( EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975                     products in question , originating in Taiwan and in
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports                  free circulation in the Netherlands , which threatens to
into the Community of certain textile products origi­                 continue and to grow ;
(■) OJ No L 182, 12 . 7 . 1975 , p. 2 .                               (2 ) OJ No L 189 , 21 . 7 . 1975 , p. 24 .
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Whereas there are serious economic difficulties in the
branch of the textile industry concerned, resulting in a                 CCT
                                                                        heading                Description of goods
progressive decline of production and a constant                          No
reduction of the number of workers employed in that
sector ;
                                                                   61.02 ex B      Women's,     girls'    and      infants'    outer
Whereas the indirect imports in question , which                                   garments, shirts and blouses
would be in addition to those already effected, would
be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;               where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
                                                                   tion in the Netherlands, and in respect of which appli­
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in           cations for import licences were lodged after 27
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­                 September 1976.
sary cooperation from the Netherlands ;                                                   Article 2
Whereas authorization should be given , for a limited              This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
period, for the application of protective measures                 arise in the Federal Republic of Germany for the
under the first paragraph of Article 115 subject to the            importation of the products in question from Taiwan
conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of                 and in any case not later than 31 December 1976.
12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,                                     Article 3
                                                                   This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                        Germany.
                                                                    Done at Brussels, 14 October 1976 .
                           Article 1
                                                                                             For the Commission
The Federal Republic of Germany is authorized not to                                         Christopher SOAMES
apply Community treatment to imports of the
following products :                                                                             Vice-President
(') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .