CELEX: 31978D0003
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28 July 1977 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to cartridges for smooth-base sporting guns falling within heading No ex 93.07 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 8/ 10                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                  11 . 1 . 78
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 28 July 1977
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to cartridges
             for smooth-base sporting guns falling within heading No ex 93.07 of the
             Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation
                                               in the other Member States
                                    (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                         (78 /3/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
COMMUNITIES,                                                       for the application of protective measures under the
                                                                   first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­              May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­             HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 22 July
1977 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to
                                                                                              Article 1
the Commission of the European Communities by
telex from the Office of the Permanent Representative              The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European                  Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
Communities for authorization not to apply Commu­                  authorized not to apply Community treatment to
nity treatment to cartridges for smooth-base sporting              cartridges for smooth-base sporting guns falling
guns falling within heading No ex 93.07 of the                     within heading No ex 93.07 of the Common Customs
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslo­                   Tariff where they originate in Czechoslovakia and are
vakia and in free circulation in the other Member                  in free circulation in the other Member States and in
States,
                                                                   respect of which applications for import licences were
Whereas for the products in question the Benelux                   lodged after 11 July 1977.
countries in accordance with the Council Decision of
13 December 1976 ('), have opened in respect of                                               Article 2
Czechoslovakia an annual quota of 95 500 items ;
                                                                   This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
Whereas according to information supplied by the                   arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
Governments     of  the    Benelux     countries  there  are       the products in question from Czechoslovakia or until
serious economic difficulties in the sector in question,           31 December 1977, whichever is the earlier.
caused largely by unequal conditions of competition
with certain countries (including Czechoslovakia),                                            Article 3
whereby such countries are enabled to export at prices
lower than those of producers in the Benelux coun­                 This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
tries ;                                                             Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                                                                   Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Whereas indirect imports of the products in question,
which would be in addition to those already effected
(which already exceed substantially the quota that has              Done at Brussels, 28 July 1977.
been opened), would be likely to aggravate these
economic difficulties ;                                                                          For the Commission
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the                                             Guido BRUNNER
 machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
 tion from the other Member States .                                                         Member of the Commission
 (>) OJ No L 365, 31 . 12. 1976, p. 1 .                             (2) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26.