CELEX: 31977D0542
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16 June 1977 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to knitted or crocheted jerseys, pullovers, slipovers, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets and jumpers falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Macao and in free circulation in the other Member States

23 . 8 . 77                       Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 215/9
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                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                             COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 16 June 1977
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to knitted or
              crocheted jerseys, pullovers, slipovers, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets and
              jumpers falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, orig­
                   inating in Macao and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                  (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                     (77/542/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
                                                              textile industry in question, resulting in a progressive
                                                              decline of production and a constant reduction of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         number of workers employed in that sector ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                              Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
                                                              by unequal conditions of competition with certain
                                                              countries (including Macao), whereby such countries
Having regard to the application under the first para­        are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 8 June            producers in the Benelux countries ;
 1977 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to
the Commission by telex from the office of the Perma­
                                                              Whereas indirect imports of the products in question,
nent Representative of the Kingdom of the Nether­
                                                              which would be in addition to those already effected,
lands to the European Communities, for authorization
not to apply Community treatment to knitted or
                                                              would be likely to aggravate these economic diffi­
                                                              culties ;
crocheted jerseys, pullovers, slipovers, twinsets, cardi­
gans, bed-jackets and jumpers falling within heading
No ex 60.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­              Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
nating in Macao and in free circulation in the other          motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
Member States,                                                sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
                                                              Whereas authorization should be given for a limited
Whereas, under the Agreement between the Commu­               period for the application of protective measures
 nity and Macao negotiated under Article 4 of the             under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the
Arrangement regarding international trade in textiles,        conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
Macao has undertaken to limit its exports of the               12 May 1971 (1), and in particular Article 1 thereof
 products concerned to the Benelux countries to a
 certain ceiling ;                                            (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                 the products in question from Macao and in any case
                                                            not later than 31 December 1977.
                        Article 1
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of                                        Article 3
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
authorized not to apply Community treatment to              This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
imports of knitted or crocheted jerseys, pullovers, slip­   Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
overs, twinsets, cardigans, bed-jackets and jumpers         Kingdom of the Netherlands.
falling within heading No ex 60.05 of the Common
Customs Tariff, where they originate in Macao and are
in free circulation in the other Member States, and in
respect of which applications for import licences were      Done at Brussels, 16 June 1977.
lodged after 31 May 1977.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                        Article 2
                                                                                    Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of                                   Vice-President