CELEX: 31978D0218
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 2 February 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to coats and jackets of woven man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Yugoslavia and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 67/28                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                           9 . 3 . 78
                                                            II
                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                              COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 2 February 1978
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to coats and
             jackets of' woven man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.02 of
              the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Yugoslavia and in free circulation
                                           in the other Member States
                                  (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic )
                                                     (78 /21 8 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    certain textile products to the Community to certain
COMMUNITIES,                                                      ceilings allocated among the Member States ;
                                                                  Whereas     there  are     economic      difficulties   in    the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             clothing sector, and these difficulties are worsened by
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­             low-priced imports coming from third countries ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                  Whereas the realization of other indirect imports
Having regard to the application under the first para­            would be likely to hinder the aims of the abovemen­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 27                    tioned Agreement ;
January 1978 by the Benelux Governments to the
Commission by telex from the office of the Perma­
                                                                  Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
nent Representative of the Kingdom of the Nether­                 motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
lands to the European Communities, for authorization              sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
to apply protective measures in respect of the importa­
tion of coats and jackets of woven man-made textile
fibres falling within heading No ex 61.02 of the                  Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Yugoslavia                  for a limited period, for the application of protective
and in free circulation in the other Member States,               measures, under the first paragraph of Article 115,
                                                                  subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
                                                                  sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular
Whereas the importation into the Community of the                 Article 1 thereof ;
products in question originating in Yugoslavia is the
subject of an Agreement negotiated between the
Community and this third country ;                                Whereas the application for a licence which gave rise
                                                                  to the application under Article 115 should not be
                                                                  covered by this authorization in view of the relatively
                                                                  small amount involved ,
Whereas, under the Agreement, Yugoslavia has under­
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of         (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                  the products in question from Yugoslavia and in any
                                                             case not later than 31 December 1978 .
                         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 coats and jackets of woven man-made                Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.02 of        Kingdom of the Netherlands.
the Common Customs Tariff, where they originate in
Yugoslavia and are in free circulation in the other
Member States, and in respect of which applications           Done at Brussels, 2 February 1978 .
for import licences were lodged after the date of this
Decision .
                                                                                     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