CELEX: 31979D0012
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-27 00:00:00
Title: 79/12/EEC: Commission Decision of 27 November 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg not to apply Community treatment to tomatoes and table grapes falling within subheading 07.01 M I or 08.04 A I of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Spain (including the Canary Islands) and in free circulation in the other Member States

11 . 1 . 79                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 7/ 23
                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                               of 27 November 1978
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg not
             to apply Community treatment to tomatoes and table grapes, falling within
             subheading 07.01 M I or 08.04 A I of the Common Customs Tariff, originating
             in Spain (including the Canary Islands) and in free circulation in the other
                                                   Member States
                                  (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                      (79/ 12/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
COMMUNITIES,                                                    already made would be likely to aggravate these diffi­
                                                                culties ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                 tion from the other Member States ;
                                                               Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
Having regaid to the application under the first para­          for the application of protective measures under the
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 17                  first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
November 1978 by the Governments of the BLEU                    tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 /202/ EEC
countries to the Commission of the European                     of 12 May 1971 (*), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Communities, for authorization not to apply Commu­
nity treatment to tomatoes and table grapes, falling
within subheading 07.01 M I or 08.04 A I of the
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Spain                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
(including the Canary Islands) and in free circulation
in the other Member States,
                                                                                         Article 1
Whereas in the BLEU countries the import of the
                                                               The Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of
products in question originating in Spain (including
the Canary Islands) is subject to a quantitative restric­       Luxembourg are authorized not to apply Community
tion for the period 15 May to 31 December for toma­             treatment to imports of the following products :
toes and 1 July to 31 December for table grapes ;
                                                                       CCT
                                                                      heading        Description              Origin
                                                                        No
Whereas the disparities which exist in the commercial
policy measures applied in connection with these                07.01 M I        Tomatoes           Spain (including    the
products by the Member States are causing deflection                                                Canary Islands)
of trade, thereby preventing the execution of those
commercial policy measures which are in force                   08.04 A I        Table grapes       Spain
because of the difficult economic situation in the
sector concerned ;
                                                                in free circulation in the other Member States and in
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely          respect of which applications for import licences were
by unequal conditions of competition, which allow               lodged after 8 November 1978 .
exports to be made at prices appreciably lower than
those of the Community products in question ;                  (») OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                     Article 2                            Done at Brussels, 27 November 1978 .
This Decision shall apply until 31 December 1978 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                     Article 3
                                                                                 Étienne DAVIGNON
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.                                    Member of the Commission
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