CELEX: 31978D0366
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23 February 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to parkas, anoraks, windcheaters and the like, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 105 / 14                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                 19 . 4 . 78
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                                        (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                               COMMISSION
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 23 February 1978
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to parkas,
              anoraks , windcheaters and the like , of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile
              fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B of the
              Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the
                                                 other Member States
                                    (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                      (78 /366/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   persist between the import conditions in the various
COMMUNITIES,                                                     Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
                                                                 only progressively ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            Whereas according to the application submitted there
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                  are   serious  difficulties    in  the industrial    sector
                                                                 concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­
Having regard to the application under the first para­           tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
                                                                 market share ;
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 15
February 1978 by the Governments of the Benelux
countries to the Commission of the European                      Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
Communities, for authorization not to apply Commu­               by unequal conditions of competition , whereby
nity treatment to parkas, anoraks, windcheaters and              exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
the like , of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile            than those of the Community products in question ;
fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or
subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs                      Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in         already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
the other Member States,                                         difficulties ;
Whereas the importation into the Community of the                Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
products in question originating in Taiwan is subject            machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
to a Community quantitative quota allocated among                tion from the other Member States ;
the Member States by Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 3020/77 of 30 December 1 977 ( J ) ;                          Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                                 for the application of protective measures under the
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­            first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
cate these quotas on the basis of the needs of the indi­         tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
vidual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities             May 1971 (2) and in particular Article 1 thereof,
(') OJ No L 357, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 51 .                          (2) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                      Taiwan or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
                                                                 earlier.
                          Article 1
The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
                                                                                       Article J
authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
products indicated below, where they originate in
Taiwan      and are   in  free  circulation    in the  other
Member States, and in respect of which applications
                                                                 This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
for import licences were lodged after 9 February
                                                                  Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
1978 :
                                                                  Kingdom of the Netherlands.
      CCT
     heading                       Description
       No
ex 61.01 or       Parkas, anoraks, windcheaters and the like,     Done at Brussels, 23 February 1978 .
ex 61.02 B        of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile
                  fibres
                                                                                         For the Commission
                          Article 2
                                                                                       Christopher TUGENDHAT
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise for the importation of these products from                                      Member of the Commission