CELEX: 31979D0224
Language: en
Date: 1979-02-07 00:00:00
Title: 79/224/EEC: Commission Decision of 7 February 1979 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to drawn or blown glass, falling within heading No ex 70.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the USSR and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 46/44                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               23 . 2 . 79
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 7 February 1979
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to drawn or
             blown glass, falling within heading No ex 70.05 of the Common Customs Tariff,
               originating in the USSR and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                  (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                    (79/224/ 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
                                                               of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 1                                           Article 1
February 1979 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 drawn or blown glass, falling within        hereby authorized not to apply Community treatment
heading No ex 70.05 of the Common Customs Tariff,             to the products indicated below, where they originate
originating in the USSR and in free circulation in the        in the USSR and are in free circulation in the other
other Member States,                                          Member States, and in respect of which applications
                                                              for import licences were lodged after 25 January
Whereas in the Benelux countries the importation of            1979 :
the products in question originating in the USSR is,
in accordance with Council Decision 77/ 806/ EEC of
                                                                     CCT
21 December 1978 prohibited ;                                       heading                      Description
                                                                      No
Whereas the disparities which exist in the commercial
policy measures applied in connection with these              ex 70.05         Drawn or blown glass
products by the Member States are causing deflection
of trade, thereby preventing the execution of those
commercial policy measures which are in force
because of the difficult economic situation in the                                      Article 2
sector concerned ;
                                                              This Decision shall apply until 30 June 1979 .
Whereas it appears from information given by the
Benelux authorities, that there are serious difficulties                                Article 3
in the industrial sector concerned , which is in the
process of being restructured and that these diffi­           This Decision is addressed to the . Kingdom of
culties are made worse by low-priced imports from             Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
third countries ;                                             Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Whereas further indirect imports, would be likely to
aggravate these difficulties ;                                Done at Brussels, 7 February 1979 .
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.