CELEX: 31978D0734
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16 August 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to blouses and shirt blouses, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized), or woven, for women, girls and infants, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23, 24, 25; 61.02-78, 82, 84) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Yugoslavia and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 245/26                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                   7. 9 . 78
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 16 August 1978
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to blouses and
             shirt blouses, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized), or woven, for
             women , girls and infants, of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile fibres,
              falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22 ,
             23 , 24, 25 ; 61.02-78 , 82, 84) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Yugo­
                          slavia and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                   (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                      (78/734/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas according to the application submitted there
COMMUNITIES,                                                   are   serious  difficulties    in   the industrial   sector
                                                               concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­
                                                               tion and employment ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                               Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                by unequal conditions of competition, whereby
                                                               exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
                                                               than those of the Community products in question ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­         Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
graph of Article 119 of the Treaty, made on 9 August           already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
1978 by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­                 difficulties ;
sion of the European Communities, for authorization
not to apply Community treatment to blouses and                Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
shirt blouses, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or            machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
rubberized), or woven, for women, girls and infants, of        tion from the other Member States ;
wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling
within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B
(NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23, 24, 25 ; 61.02-78 , 82,            Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
84) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in               for the application of protective measures under the
Yugoslavia and in free circulation in the other                first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Member States,                                                 tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
                                                               May 1971 (l), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
                                                               Whereas, however, the request for a licence which
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              gave rise to the application in question does not need
products in question originating in Yugoslavia is              to be covered by such an authorization in view of the
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                 small amount involved,
Community and that country ;
Whereas under that Agreement Yugoslavia has under­             HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of
the products in question to the Community to certain
ceilings allocated among the Member States ;                                             Article 1
                                                               The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­          Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the           authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities       products indicated below, where they originate in
persist between the import conditions in the various           Yugoslavia and are in free circulation in the other
Member States ; whereas uniformity can only be
achieved progressively ;                                       (») OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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Member States, and in respect of which applications           slavia or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
for import licences were lodged after 8 August 1978 :         earlier.
           CCT                                                                     Article 3
          heading                     Description
            No
                                                              This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
                                                              Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
ex 60.05 A II or        Blouses and shirt blouses, knitted or Kingdom of the Netherlands.
ex 61.02 B              crocheted (not elastic or rubber­
(NIMEXE codes           ized), or woven, for women, girls
60.05-22, 23, 24, 25 ;  and infants, of wool, of cotton or of
61.02-78,82,84)         man-made textile fibres               Done at Brussels, 16 August 1978 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
                        Article 2
                                                                                     Etienne DAVIGNON
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise for the importation of these products from Yugo                             Member of the Commission