CELEX: 31978D0607
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 5 July 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 (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23, 24, 25; 61.02-78, 82, 84) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Bulgaria and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 196/26                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                  21 . 7. 78
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 5 July 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 (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22,
               23 , 24, 25 ; 61.02-78 , 82, 84) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in
                            Bulgaria and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                     (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                        (78/607/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas although the imports which gave rise to the
COMMUNITIES,                                                     application submitted would appear to be an isolated
                                                                 operation, they are nevertheless likely, owing to the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            appreciable amount of the imports, to aggravate these
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            difficulties ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
Having regard to the application under the first para­           Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 28 June              machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                 tion from the other Member States ;
1978 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to
the Commission of the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
blouses and shirt-blouses, knitted or crocheted (not             for the application of protective measures under the
elastic or rubberized) or woven, for women, girls and            first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
infants, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile               tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex            May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23, 24, 25 ;
61.02-78, 82, 84) of the Common Customs Tariff, orig­
inating in Bulgaria and in free circulation in the other
Member States,                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas in the Benelux countries the importation of
the products in question originating in Bulgaria is, in
accordance      with     the   Council   Decision    of   20                             Article 1
December 1977 (^ and until the entry into force of
the definitive arrangements, subject to quantitative             The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
restriction ;   -                                                Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
                                                                 authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
Whereas disparities in the commercial policy                     products indicated below, where they originate in
measures applied in connection with these products               Bulgaria and are in free circulation in the other
by the Member States are giving rise to deflection of            Member States, and in respect of which applications
trade, thus preventing the execution of those commer­            for import licences were lodged after 15 June 1978
cial policy measures which are in force because of the           and are, on the date of this Decision, pending with
difficult economic situation in the sector concerned ;           the Benelux authorities :
Whereas according to the application submitted there
are    serious    difficulties  in  the   industrial  sector                CCT
                                                                           heading                     Description
concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­                           No
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
market share ;                                                   ex 60.05 A II or        Blouses and shirt-blouses, knitted
                                                                 ex 61.02 B              or crocheted (not elastic or rubber­
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely           (NIMEXE codes           ized) or woven, for women, girls
by unequal conditions of competition, whereby                    60.05-22, 23, 24, 25 ; and infants, of wool, of cotton or of
exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower              61.02-78 , 82, 84)      man-made textile fibres
than those of the Community products in question ;
(!) OJ No L 360, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 1 .                           (2) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                   Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 5 July 1978 .
                                                                               For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                    Henk VREDELING
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                       Vice-President