CELEX: 31976D0413
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 4 March 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' outer garments, falling within heading No ex 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 107/ 16                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                      24. 4. 76
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 4 March 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' outer garments, falling within heading No ex 61.01 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)
                                                       (76/41 3/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
COMMUNITIES,                                                      producers in the Benelux countries ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­             would be in addition to those already effected, would
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                   be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
                                                                  Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
 Having regard to the application to the Commission               motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
under the first paragraph of Article 115 of the Treaty,           sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
 made on 27 February 1976 by the Governments of                   Germany and the other Member States ;
the Benelux countries by telex from the office of the
Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the                    Whereas authorization should be given , for a limited
 Netherlands to the European Communities, for author­             period, for the application of protective measures,
 ization not to apply Community treatment to certain              under the first paragraph of Article 1 15, subject to the
 men's and boys' outer garments (suits, jackets, blazers          conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
 and the like), falling within heading No ex 61.01 of             12 May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
 the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan
 aqd in free circulation in the Federal Republic of
 Germany,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas the importation into the Benelux countries
 of the products in question originating in Taiwan is                                       Article 1
 subject, under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75
 of 10 July 1975 on rules for imports of certain textile          The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
 products originating in Taiwan ('), to a quota fixed for         Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
 1976 at seven metric tons, while in the Federal Repu­            authorized not to apply Community treatment to
 blic of Germany, the importation of these same                   imports of the following products :
 products originating in Taiwan is not subject to any
 quota ;                                                                CCT
                                                                       heading                    Description of goods
                                                                         No
 Whereas the differences in the conditions governing
 the importation of the products in question have
 created an indirect trade flow in the Benelux countries          ex 61.01         Men's and boys' outer garments :
 which threatens to continue and to grow ;                                         — Suits, jackets, blazers and the like
 Whereas, according to information supplied by the
 Governments of the Benelux countries, there are                  where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
 serious economic difficulties in the industry manufac­           tion in the other Member States, and in respect of
 turing the products in question resulting in a progres­          which applications for import licences were lodged
 sive decline of production and a constant reduction of           after 16 February 1976 .
 the number of workers employed in that sector ;
                                                                                             Article 2
 Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
 by unequal conditions of competition with certain                This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
 countries (including Taiwan) whereby such countries              arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
 (') OJ No L 182, 12. 7. 1975, p. 2.                              (-) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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the products in question from Taiwan and in any case       Done at Brussels, 4 March 1976 .
not later than 31 December 1976 .
                       Article 3
                                                                                  For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                      Christopher SOAMES
Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                          Vice-President