CELEX: 31976D0668
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 June 1976 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, falling within heading No ex 60.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

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    No L 227/24                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                           19 . 8 . 76
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 17 June 1976
                  authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                  Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain
                  under garments , knitted or crocheted , not elastic or rubberized , falling within
                  heading No ex 60.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong
                                  and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                     (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                         (76/668 / EEC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                                    Whereas according to information supplied by the
• COMMUNITIES,                                                      Governments     of    the   Benelux        countries    there     are
                                                                    serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             textile industry in question resulting in a progressive
   Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            decline of production and a constant reduction of the
  graph of Article 115 thereof,                                     number of workers employed in that sector ;
  Having regard to the application under the first para­            Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
  graph of Article 1 15 of the Treaty, made on 1 1 and 14           by unequal conditions for competition with certain
  June 1976 by the Governments of the Benelux coun­                 countries (including Hong Kong), whereby such coun­
  tries to the Commission by telex from the Office of               tries are enabled to export at prices lower than those
  the Permanent Representatives of the Kingdom of the               of producers in the Benelux countries ;
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  Netherlands and the Kingdom of Belgium to the
  European Communities, for authorization not to apply              Whereas the indirect imports in question , which
  Community treatment to certain under garments,                    would be in addition to those already effected, would
  knitted or crpcheted , not elastic or rubberized : shirts,        be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
  T-shirts, undervests, singlets and the like, falling
  within heading No ex 60.04 of the Common Customs                  Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
  Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circula­             motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
  tion in the Federal Republic of Germany,                          sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
                                                                    Germany and the other Member States ;
  Whereas the importation into the Community of the
  products in question originating in Hong Kong is the              Whereas authorization should be given , for a limited
  subject of . an Agreement negotiated between the                  period, for the application of protective measures,
  Community and Hong Kong concluded on 8 April                      under the first paragraph of Article 1 15, subject to the
   1976 ;                                                           conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
                                                                    12 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
  Whereas, under the Agreement, Hong Kong has
  undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its
  exports of certain textile products to the Community              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION
  to certain ceilings allocated among the Member
  States ;
                                                                                               Artide 1
  Whereas, for certain under garments, knitted or
  crocheted, not elastic or rubberized the quota share              The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
  allocated    for  1976  to   the  Benelux    countries   in       Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
   1 288 000 items ;                       '                        authorized not to apply Community treatment to
                                                                    imports of the following products :
  Whereas the allocation of the ceiling in question still
  involves certain disparities in the quota shares fixed                   CCT
                                                                         Inaili                     Description of goods
  for the various Member States in relation to the supply                   No
  requirements of the markets concerned ;
                                                                    ex 60.04         Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not
  Whereas these disparities have caused in the Benelux                               elasic    or    rubberized : 1 shirts,    T-shirts,
  countries a flow of imports of the products in ques­                               undervests, singlets and the like
  tion , originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation
  in   the   other   Member States , which      theatens   to
  continue and to grow ;                                             ') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p . 26 .
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where they originate in Hong Kong and are in . free                             Article 3
circulation in the other Member States, and in respect     This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
of which applications for import licences were lodged      Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
after 31 May 1976 .                                        Kingdom of the Netherlands.
                       Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 17 June 1976.
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities                                 For the Commission
arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of                              Christopher SOAMES
the products in question from Hong Kong and in any
case not later than 31 December 1976 .                                                Vice-President