CELEX: 31976D0040
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 November 1975 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's and boys' shirts falling within heading No ex 61.03, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany

No L 8 /28                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               15 . 1 . 76
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 13 November 1975
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's and
             boys' shirts falling within heading No ex 61.03 , originating in Taiwan and in free
                                     circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany
                                         (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                           (76/40/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      imports previously admitted into the various Member
COMMUNITIES,                                                        States and that it need be adjusted only progressively
                                                                    to the supply requirements of the markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­               Whereas for this reason this allocation of the quota in
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                     question still involves certain disparities in the quota
                                                                    shares fixed for the various Member States by refer­
Having regard to the application under the first para­              ence to the supply requirements of the markets
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 6                       concerned ;
November 1975 by the Governments of the Benelux
countries to the Commission by telex from the Office                Whereas these disparities have caused in the Benelux
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of                   countries a flow of imports of the products in ques­
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for                    tion , originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                   the Federal Republic of Germany, which threatens to
men's and boys' shirts falling within heading No ex                 continue and to grow ;
61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in
Taiwan and in free ciruclation in the Federal Republic              Whereas, according to information supplied by the
of Germany,                                                         Governments of the Benelux countries, there are
                                                                    serious economic difficulties in the shirt-making
Whereas imports into the Community of the products                  sector, resulting in a progressive decline of production
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a                  and a constant reduction of the number of workers
Community quantitative quota established by Council                 employed in that sector ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July 1975 on
rules for imports of certain textile products originating           Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
in Taiwan (') ;                                                     by unequal conditions of competition with certain
                                                                    countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation                    are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
among the Member States, as determined by Commis­                   producers in the Benelux countries ;
sion Regulation ( EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports
                                                                    Whereas the indirect imports in question , which
into the Community of certain textile products origi­
                                                                    would be in addition to those already effected, would
nating in Taiwan (2 ) ; whereas the quota shares allo­
cated   for 1975   to the . Benelux countries and the
                                                                    be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
Federal Republic of Germany are 1 149 000 and
7 803 000 items respectively ;                                      Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
                                                                    motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­                  sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of                  Germany ;
the import arrangements previously applied in the
Member States, the above Regulation (EEC) No                        Whereas , in order to ensure that the> execution of the
1783 / 75 provides, as a temporary measure, for a dero­             above commercial policy measures is not obstructed,
gation from the principle of equal and continuous                   authorization should be given , for a limited period, for
access for all Community importers to Community                     the application of protective measures, under the first
quotas by stipulating that the quota in question be                 paragraph of Article 1 15, subject to the conditions laid
allocated initially on the basis of the volume of                   down by the Commission Decision of 12 May
                                                                    1971 (3 ), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
C ) OJ No L 182, 12 . 7 . 1975 , p . 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 :                                                          Article 2
                       Article 1
                                                              This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                               arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of                     the product in question from Taiwan and in any case
                                                               not later than 31 December 1975 .
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
authorized not to apply Community treatment to
imports of the following product :                                                   Article 3
                                                              This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
       CCT                                                     Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
     heading               Description of goods
        No                                                     Kingdom of the Netherlands.
ex 61.03        Men's and boys' shirts                         Done at Brussels, 13 November 1975 .
                                                                                       For the Commission
where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
tion in the Federal Republic of Germany, and in                                         Finn GUNDELACH
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 27 October 1975.                                                       Member of the Commission