CELEX: 31978D0729
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 August 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets and jumpers, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A (NIMEXE codes 60.05-01, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 36, 37, 38) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 241 /22                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                      2. 9 . 78
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 11 August 1978
               authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
               Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to jerseys,
               pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets and jumpers, knitted or
               crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile
               fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A (NIMEXE codes 60.05-01 , 27 , 28 , 29,
               30 , 33 , 36, 37 , 38 ) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia
                                   and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                         (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                           (78 /729/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        operation, they are nevertheless likely, owing to the
COMMUNITIES,                                                          appreciable amount of the imports, to jeopardize the
                                                                      efficiency of the abovementioned commercial
                                                                      measures ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                       Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
                                                                      machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                      tion from the other Member States ;
 Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 7 August                  Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
 1978, by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­
                                                                      for the application of protective measures under the
sion of the European Communities, for authorization
                                                                      first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
not to apply Community treatment to jerseys,
                                                                      tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
pullovers, slip-overs, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets               May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
and jumpers, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or
rubberized, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile
fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A (NIMEXE
codes 60.05-01 , 27, 28 , 29, 30, 33, 36, 37, 38) of the
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslo­                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
vakia and in free circulation in the other Member
States,
                                                                                                Article 1
Whereas in Benelux the importation of the products
in question originating in Czechoslovakia is, in accor­               The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
dance with the Council Decision of 12 June 1978 (•),                  Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
subject to quantitative restriction ;                                 authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
                                                                      products indicated below, where they originate in
                                                                      Czechoslovakia and are in free circulation in the other
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
cate these quotas on the basis of the needs of the indi­              Member States, and in respect of which applications
vidual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities                  for import licences were lodged after 27 July 1978
persist between the import conditions in the various                  and are, on the date of this Decision, pending with
                                                                      the Benelux authorities :
Member States ; whereas uniformity can only be
achieved progressively ;
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                                                                                heading                      Description
Whereas according to the application submitted there                              No
are   serious    difficulties    in    the   industrial  sector
concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­                    ex 60.05 A               Jerseys, pullovers, slip-overs, twin­
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its                  (NIMEXE codes            sets, cardigans, bed-jackets and
market share ;                                                        60.05-01 , 27, 28 , 29   jumpers, Knitted or crocheted, not
                                                                      30, 33 , 36, 37, 38)     elastic or rubberized, of wool, of
                                                                                               cotton    or  of   man-made    textile
Whereas although the imports which gave rise to the                                            fibres
application submitted would appear to be an isolated
(») OJ No L 168 , 26 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 .                               (2) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                   Article 2                            Done at Brussels, 11 August 1978 .
                                                                               For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the                                 Étienne DAVIGNON
Kingdom elastic or rubberized, of wool, of
the Netherlands.                                                            Member of the Commission