CELEX: 31977D0765
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 June 1977 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's pyjamas of mixed synthetic fibres falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 314/ 36                          Official Journal of the European Communities                               8 . 12 . 77
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 20 June 1977
               authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
               Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's
               pyjamas of mixed synthetic textile fibres falling within heading No ex 61.03 orig­
                   inating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                      (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                        (77/765/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    quotas by stipulating that the quota in question be
COMMUNITIES,                                                      allocated initially on the basis of the volume of
                                                                  imports previously admitted into the various Member
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             States and that if need be adjusted only progressively
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­             to the supply requirements of the markets ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                  Whereas for this reason this allocation of the quota in
                                                                  question still involves certain disparities in the quota
Having regard to the application under the first para­
                                                                  shares fixed for the various Member States by refer­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 13 June
                                                                  ence to the supply requirements of the markets
1977 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to               concerned ;
the Commission by telex from the office of the Perma­
nent Representative of the Kingdom of the Nether­
lands to the European Communities, for authorization              Whereas these disparities have caused in the Benelux
not to apply Community treatment to men's pyjamas                 countries a flow of imports of the products in ques­
of mixed synthetic textile fibres falling within heading          tion, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in
No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­                  the other Member States , which threatens to continue
nating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other             and to grow ;
Member States,
                                                                  Whereas, according to information supplied by the
Whereas imports into the Community of the products                Governments of the Benelux countries, there are
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a                serious economic difficulties in this sector, resulting
Community quantitative quota established by Council               in a progressive decline of production and a constant
Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July 1975 on                    reduction of the number of workers employed in that
rules for imports of certain textile products originating         sector ;
in Taiwan ( ! ) ;
                                                                  Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation                  by unequal conditions of competition with certain
among the Member States, as determined by Commis­                 countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975                  are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports              producers in the Benelux countries ;
into the Community of certain textile products origi­
nating in Taiwan (2) ;                                            Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
                                                                  would be in addition to those already effected, would
Whereas the quota share allocated for 1977 to the                 be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
Benelux countries is 197 tonnes, which has been
almost completely used up ;                                       Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
                                                                  motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                                  sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­
nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of
the import arrangements previously applied in the                 Wheres authorization should accordingly be given , for
Member States, the above Regulation (EEC) No                      a limited period, for the application of protective
 1783/75 provides, as temporary measure, for a deroga­            measures, under the first paragraph of Article 115,
tion from the principle of equal and continuous                   subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
access for all Community importers to Community                   sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (3), and in particular
                                                                  Article 1 thereof,
(') OJ No L 182, 12 . 7. 1975, p. 2.
(2) OJ No L 189 , 21 . 7 . 1975, p. 24.                           (3 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                  the product in question from Taiwan 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 pyjamas of mixed synthetic textile fibres         Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common             Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Customs Tariff, where they originate in Taiwan and
are in free circulation in the other Member States, and
in respect of which applications for import licences         Done at Brussels, 20 June 1977.
were lodged after 1 June 1977.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                         Article 2
                                                                                       Raymond VOUEL
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of                             Member of the Commission