CELEX: 31977D0700
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 April 1977 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to knitted or crocheted jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets cardigans, bed-jackets and jumpers, other than of silk, of noil or of other waste silk or of flax or ramie, falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common  Customs Tariff, originating in the Socialist Republic of Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

12. 11 . 77                        Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 288 / 19
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                                      (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 21 April 1977
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to knitted or
              crocheted jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets and
              jumpers, other than of silk, of noil or of other waste silk or of flax or ramie,
              falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating
              in the Socialist Republic of Romania and in free circulation in the other
                                                     Member States
                                    (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                      (77/700/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Republic of Romania has undertaken to limit its
COMMUNITIES,                                                   exports to the Community of the products in question
                                                               to a ceiling allocated among the Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, according to information supplied by the
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          Governments of the Benelux countries, there are
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                  serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
                                                               textile industry in question resulting in a progressive
                                                               decline of production and a constant reduction of the
                                                               number of workers employed in that sector ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 14 April
1977 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to            Whereas further indirect imports of the products in
the Commission by telex from the office of the Perma­          question, which would be in addition to those already
nent Representative of the Kingdom of the Nether­              effected, would be likely to aggravate those economic
                                                               difficulties ;
lands to the European Communities, for authorization
not to apply Community treatment to knitted or
crocheted jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardi­     Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
gans, bed-jackets and jumpers, other than of silk, of          motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
noil or of other waste silk or of flax or ramie, falling       sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs
Tarif, originating in the Socialist Republic of Romania
and in free circulation in the other Member States,            Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,
                                                               for a limited period, for the application of protective
                                                               measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
                                                               subject to the conditions laid down in the Commis­
Whereas under the Agreement between the Commu­                 sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (! ), and in particular
nity and the Socialist Republic of Romania, concluded          Article 1 thereof,
in accordance with Article 4 of the Arrangement
regarding international trade in textiles, the Socialist       (') OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                  the products in question from the Socialist Republic
                                                             of Romania and in any case not later than 31
                        Article 1                            December 1977.
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are                                  Article 3
authorized not to apply Community treatment to
knitted or crocheted jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twin­   This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
sets, cardigans, bed-jackets and jumpers, other than of       Belgium, the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and the
silk, of noil or of other waste silk or of flax ramie,       Kingdom of the Netherlands.
falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common
Customs Tariff, where they originate in the Socialist
Republic of Romania and are in free circulation in the
other Member States, and in respect of which applica­         Done at Brussels, 21 April 1977.
tions for import licences were lodged after 31 March
1977.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                        Article 2
                                                                                    Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of                                    Vice-President