CELEX: 31978D0006
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25 October 1977 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or china (including biscuit porcelain and parian) falling within heading No ex 69.11 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People's Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 8 / 14                        Official Journal of the European Communities                              11 . 1 . 78
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 25 October 1977
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to tableware
              and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of
              porcelain or china (including biscuit porcelain and parian) falling within
              heading No ex 69.11 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the People's
                   Republic of China and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                   (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                      (78 /6/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas the request for a licence which gave rise to
COMMUNITIES,                                                   the application under Article 1 1 5 should not be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                               covered by this authorization in view of the relatively
                                                               small 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 17
October 1977 by the Governments of the Benelux                                         Article 1
countries to the Commission by telex from the Office
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of              The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for               Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
authorization not to apply Community treatment to              authorized not to apply Community treatment to
tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used           tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used
for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or china         for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or china
(including biscuit porcelain and parian) falling within        (including biscuit porcelain and parian) falling within
heading No ex 69.1 1 of the Common Customs Tariff,             heading No ex 69.1 1 of the Common Customs Tariff
originating in the People's Republic of China and in           where they originate in the People's Republic of
free circulation in the other Member States,                   China and are in free circulation in the other Member
                                                               States, and in respect of which applications for import
Whereas for the products in question, the Benelux              licences were lodged after the date of this Decision.
countries, in accordance with the Council Decision of
 13 December 1976 (') opened, in respect of the
                                                                                       Article 2
People's Republic of China, an annual quota of
 161 000 kilograms which is wholly taken up ;                  This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
Whereas in the Benelux countries there are serious             arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
difficulties in the industrial sector in question, which       the products in question from the People's Republic
are caused largely by unequal conditions of competi­           of China or until 31 December 1977, whichever is the
tion with certain countries, whereby such countries            earlier.
are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
producers in the Benelux countries ;                                                   Article 3
Whereas indirect imports, which would be in addition           This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
to those already effected, would be likely to aggravate        Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
these economic difficulties ;
                                                               Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from the other Member States ;                             Done at Brussels, 25 October 1977.
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                                                         For the Commission
 for the application of protective measures under the
 first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­                                       L. NATALI
tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
May 1971 ;                                                                                   Vice-President
(») OJ No L 365, 31 . 12. 1976, p. 1 .