CELEX: 31976D0232
Language: en
Date: 1976-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 January 1976 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain men's and boys' under garments other than shirts falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany

24. 2. 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 48/ 13
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 20 January 1976
               authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
               Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain
               men's and boys' under garments other than shirts falling within heading No ex
              61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circula­
                                      tion in the Federal Republic of Germany
                                     (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                       (76/232/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  lating that the quota in question be allocated initially
COMMUNITIES,                                                    on the basis of the volumes of imports previously
                                                                admitted into the various Member States and need be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           adjusted only progressively to the supply requirements
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           of the markets ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                Whereas for this reason the allocation of the quota in
Having regard to the application under the first para­          question still involves certain disparities in the quota
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 14                  shares fixed for the various Member States in relation
January 1976 by the Governments of the Benelux                  to the supply requirements of the markets concerned ;
countries to the Commission by telex from the Office
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of               Whereas these disparities have caused in the Benelux
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for                countries a flow of imports of the products in ques­
authorization not to apply Community treatment to               tion, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in
certain men's and boys' under garments other than               the Federal Republic of Germany, which threatens to
shirts falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the                continue and to grow ;
 Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and
 in free circulation in the Federal Republic of                 Whereas according to information supplied by the
Germany,                                                        Governments of the Benelux countries there are
                                                                serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
Whereas imports into the Community of the products              textile industry concerned resulting in a progressive
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a              decline of production and a constant reduction of the
Community quantitative quota established by Council             number of workers employed in that sector ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July 1975 on
 rules for imports of certain textile products originating      Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
in Taiwan (! ) ;                                                by unequal conditions of competition with certain
                                                                countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation                are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
among the Member States, as determined by Commis­               producers in the Benelux countries ;
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports
                                                                Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
 into the Community of certain textile products origi­          would be in addition to those already effected, would
 nating in Taiwan (2), and whereas the quota shares allo­       be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
cated for    1976 to the Benelux countries and the
 Federal Republic of Germany are 196 metric tons and
339 metric tons respectively ;                                  Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
                                                                motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­              sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
                                                                Germany ;
 nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of
 the import arrangements previously applied in the
 Member States, the above Regulation ( EEC) No                  Whereas authorization should be given, for a limited
 1783/75 provides, as a temporary measure, for a dero­          period, for the application of protective measures,
gation from the principle of equal and continuous               under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the
access for all importers to Community quotas by stipu­          conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
                                                                12 May 1971 (3), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
(') OJ No L 182, 12. 7. 1975, p . 2.
Ì2) OJ No L 189, 21 . 7. 1975, p. 24.                           (3) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26 .
 ---pagebreak--- No L 48/ 14                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           24. 2. 76
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                           Article 2
                       Article 1                               This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                               arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of                     the products in question from Taiwan and in any tase
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are               not later than 31 December 1976.
authorized not to apply Community treatment to
imports of the following products :                                                   Article 3
     CCT
                                                               This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
    heading                 Description of goods                Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
      No                                                        Kingdom of the Netherlands.
ex 61.03        Men's and boys' under garments other
                than shirts                                     Done at Brussels, 20 January 1976.
                                                                                        For the Commission
where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
tion in the Federal Republic of Germany, and in                                          Christopher SOAMES
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 1 January 1976.                                                                Vice-President