CELEX: 31978D0393
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 10 April 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to women's girls' and infants' woven and knitted or crocheted dresses, of wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

25 . 4 . 78                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                        No L 112/ 29
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 10 April 1978
               authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
               Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to women 's ,
               girls' and infants' woven and knitted or crocheted dresses, of wool , cotton or
               man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B 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)
                                                    (78 /393 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
COMMUNITIES,                                                     than those of the Community products in question ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
                                                                difficulties ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Having regard to the application under the first para­           machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 3 April              tion from the other Member States ;
 1978 by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­
sion of the European Communities, for authorization             Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
not to apply Community treatment to women's, girls'              for the application of protective measures under the
and infants' woven and knitted or crocheted dresses,
                                                                 first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
of wool , cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling            tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B of the            May 1971 (') and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong
and in free circulation in the other Member States,
                                                                Whereas, however, the request for licences which gave
                                                                 rise to the application in question do not need to be
Whereas the importation into the Community of the               covered by such an authorization in view of the small
products in question originating in Hong Kong is                amounts involved ,
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the
Community and this third country ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas under that Agreement Hong Kong has
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its
exports of the products in question to the Community                                        Article 1
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member
States ;
                                                                The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
                                                                 Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­           authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the            products indicated below, where they originate in
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities        Hong Kong and are in free circulation in the other
persist between the import conditions in the various            Member States, and in respect of which applications
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved              for import licences were lodged after 3 April 1978 :
only progressively ;
                                                                       ccr
Whereas according to the application submitted there                  heading                         Description
                                                                         No
are    serious  difficulties in the   industrial sector
concerned , involving a considerable drop in produc­
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its            ex 60.05 A II      Women's, girls' and infants' waven and
                                                                or                 knitted   or   crocheted       dresses, of wool ,
market share ;                                                  ex 6 1 . 02 B      cotton or man-made textile fibres
Whereas these economic difficulties arc caused largely
by unequal conditions of competition , whereby                  (') 0 | No L 121 ,     6 . 1971 , n . 26 .
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                        Article 2                            Done at Brussels, 10 April 1978 .
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise for the importation of these products from Hong
Kong or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
earlier.
                        Article 3                                                   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