CELEX: 31978D0425
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 April 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to blouses and shirt-blouses, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized) or woven, for women, girls and infants, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Philippines and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 123/32                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                  11 . 5. 78
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 21 April 1978
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to blouses and
              shirt-blouses, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized) or woven, for
              women, girls and infants, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres,
              falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs
              Tariff, originating in the Philippines and in free circulation in the other
                                                  Member States
                                  (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                    (78/425/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                               Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
COMMUNITIES,                                                 by unequal conditions of competition, whereby
                                                             exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         than those of the Community products in question ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­        Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                 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 17 April         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 115, subject to the condi­
not to apply Community treatment to blouses and              tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
shirt-blouses, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or          May 1971 (J), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
rubberized) or woven, for women, girls and infants, of
wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling
within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B of the         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Philip­
pines and in free circulation in the other Member                                      Article 1
States,
                                                             The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Whereas the importation into the Community of the            Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
products in question originating in the Philippines is       authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the               products indicated below, where they originate in the
Community and that country ;                                 Philippines and are in free circulation in the other
                                                             Member States, and in respect of which applications
                                                             for import licences were lodged after 4 April 1978 :
Whereas under that Agreement the Philippines has
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its                CCT
exports of the products in question to the Community              heading                       Description
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member                      No
States ;
                                                             ex 60.05 A II    Blouses    and    shirt-blouses, knitted  or
                                                             or               crocheted (not elastic or rubberized) or
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­        ex 61.02 B       woven, for women, girls and infants, of
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the                          wool, of cotton or of man-made textile
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities                      fibres
persist between the import conditions in the various
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
only progressively ;
                                                                                       Article 2
Whereas according to the application submitted there
are   serious  difficulties in  the   industrial sector      This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­          arise for the importation of these products from the
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
market share ;                                               (•) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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Philippines or until 31 December 1978, whichever is        Done at Brussels, 21 April 1978 .
the earlier.
                       Article 3
                                                                                  For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                        Antonio GIOLITTI
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                    Member of the Commission