CELEX: 31978D0830
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-22 00:00:00
Title: 78/830/EEC: Commission Decision of 22 September 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to bed linen, woven, falling within subheading ex 62.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 62.02-11, 19), originating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 288 /42                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                   14. 10 . 78
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 22 September 1978
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to bed linen ,
              woven , falling within subheading ex 62.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff
              (NIMEXE codes 62.02-11 , 19), originating in Romania and in free circulation in
                                              the other Member States
                                  (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                     (78/830/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                  tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 / 202/ EEC
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 18                                          Article 1
September 1978 by the Governments of the Benelux
countries to the Commission of the European                   The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Communities, for authorization not to apply Commu­            Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
nity treatment to bed linen, woven, falling within            hereby authorized not to apply Community treatment
                                                              to the products indicated below, where they originate
subheading ex 62.02 B of the Common Customs                   in Romania and are in free circulation in the other
Tariff (NIMEXE codes 62.02-11 , 19), originating in
Romania and in free circulation in the other Member           Member States, and in respect of which applications
States,
                                                              for import licences were lodged after 5 September
                                                              1978 :
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Romania is                           CCT
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                          heading                      Description
Community and that country ;                                              No
Whereas under that Agreement Romania has under­
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of     ex 62.02 B                Bed linen, woven
                                                              (NIMEXE codes
the products in question to the Community up to the           62.02-11 , 19)
amount of certain ceilings allocated among the
Member States ;
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­                                   Article 2
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
individual markets ; whereas there are therefore dispar­      This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
ities existing between the import conditions in the           arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
various Member States ; whereas uniformity can only           these products from Romania or until 30 November
be achieved progressively ;                                   1978 , whichever is the earlier.
Whereas it appears from the application submitted                                       Article 3
that there are serious difficulties in the industrial
sector concerned, involving a considerable drop in            This ■ Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
production and employment ;                                   Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those        Kingdom of the Netherlands.
already made or proposed, would be likely to aggra­
vate these difficulties ;                                     Done at Brussels, 22 September 1978 .
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­                                       For the Commission
tion from the other Member States ;
                                                                                         Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
for the application of protective measures under the                                           Vice-President
                                                              (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.