CELEX: 31978D0426
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 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, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Philippines and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 123/34                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                11 . 5. 78
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 21 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, of cotton or
               of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B
               of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Philippines and in free circu­
                                        lation in the other Member States
                                   (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                     (78/426/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
                                                               difficulties ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­         Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
 graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                               machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                               tion from the other Member States ;
 Having regard to the application under the first para­
 graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 14 April          Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
 1978 by the Benelux Governments to the Commis­                for the application of protective measures under the
 sion of the European Communities, for authorization           first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
 not to apply Community treatment to women's, girls'           tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
 and infants' woven and knitted or crocheted dresses,          May 1971 ( !), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
 of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres,
 falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II or ex 61.02 B
 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 Philippines and in free circulation in the other
 Member States,
                                                                                       Article 1
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
 products in question originating in the Philippines is
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
 Community and that country ;                                  Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
                                                               authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
Whereas under that Agreement the Philippines has               products indicated below, where they originate in the
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its            Philippines and are in free circulation in the other
exports of the products in question to the Community          Member States, and in respect of which applications
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member                 for import licences were lodged after 4 April 1978 :
States ;
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                                                                    heading                     Description
Whereas it was not possible on thait occasion to allo­                No
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities      ex 60.05 A II    Women's, girls' and infants' woven and
persist between the import conditions in the various          or               knitted or crocheted or crocheted dresses,
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved            ex 61.02 B       of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile
only progressively ;                                                           fibres
Whereas according to the application submitted there
are    serious  difficulties in  the  industrial  sector
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­                                    Article 2
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
market share ;                                               This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                              arise for the importation of these products from the
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely        Philippines or until 31 December 1978 whichever is
by unequal conditions of competition, whereby                 the earlier.
exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
than those of the Community products in question ;           (!) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                   Article 3                           Done at Brussels, 18 April 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                   Antonio GIOLITTI
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                Member of the Commission