CELEX: 31978D0760
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 4 September 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's, boys', women's, girls' and infants' woven breeches, shorts and trousers (including slacks) of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 and subheading ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 61.01-62, 64, 66, 72, 74, 76; 61.02-66, 68, 72) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Macao and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 251 /20                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                   14. 9 . 78
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 4 September 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,
               boys', women's, girls' and infants' woven breeches, shorts and trousers (including
               slacks) of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading
               No ex 61.01 and subheading ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 61.01-62, 64, 66, 72 , 74,
               76 ; 61.02-66, 68 , 72) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Macao and in
                                     free circulation in the other Member States
                                     (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                      (78/760/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   because of the difficult economic situation in the
COMMUNITIES,                                                     sector concerned ;
                                                                 Whereas it appears from the application submitted
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            that there are serious difficulties in the industrial
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            sector concerned ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                 Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
Having regard to the application under the first para­           already made, would be likely to aggravate these diffi­
graph of Article 1 15 of the Treaty, made on 25 August           culties ;
 1978 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to
the Commission of the European Communities, for                 Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
men's, boys', women's, girls' and infants' woven                 tion from the other Member States ;
breeches, shorts and trousers (including slacks) of
                                                                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling           for the application of protective measures under the
within heading No ex 61.01 and subheading ex 61.02
B (NIMEXE codes 61.01-62, 64, 66, 72, 74, 76 ;                   first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
                                                                tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 / 202/ EEC
61.02-66, 68 , 72) of the Common Customs Tariff, orig­          of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
inating in Macao and in free circulation in the other
Member States^
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Macao is covered
by an Agreement negotiated between the Community                                          Article 1
and that country ;
                                                                The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
                                                                 Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
Whereas under that Agreement Macao has undertaken               authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of the         products indicated below, where they originate in
products in question to the Community up to the                 Macao and are in free circulation in the other Member
amount of certain ceilings allocated among the                  States, and in respect of which applications for import
Member States ;                                                 licences were lodged after 16 August 1978 :
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­                       CCT
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the                       heading                     Description
                                                                             No
individual markets ; whereas there are therefore dispar­
ities existing between the import conditions in the
various Member States ; whereas uniformity can only             ex 61.01 and             Men's, boys', women's, girls' and
be achieved progressively ;                                     ex 61.02 B               infants' woven breeches, shorts and
                                                                NIMEXE codes             trousers (including slacks) of wool,
                                                                61.01-02, 64, 66, 72, of cotton or of man-made textile
Whereas the disparities which exist in the commercial           74, 76 ; 61.02-66, 68 , fibres
policy measures applied in connection with these                72)
products by the Member States are causing deflection
of trade, thereby preventing the execution of those
commercial policy measures which are in force                   (•) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                      Article 2                            Done at Brussels, 4 September 1978 .
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
these products from Macao or until 31 December
1978, whichever is the earlier.
                      Article 3                                                   For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                       Etienne DAVIGNON
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                    Member of the Commission