CELEX: 31976D0061
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 December 1975 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' undergarments falling within heading No 61.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in France

20 . 1 . 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 11 / 17
                                                      COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 17 December 1975
                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' undergarments falling within heading No 61.04 of the
                Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in
                                                                  France
                                            (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                              (76/61 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           lating that the quota in question be allocated initially
 COMMUNITIES,                                                            on the basis of the volumes of imports previously
                                                                         admitted into the various Member States and need be
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   adjusted only progressively to the supply requirements
                                                                         of the markets ;
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                         Whereas for this reason the allocation of the quota in
 Having regard to the application under the first para­                  question still involves certain disparities in the quota
                                                                         shares fixed for the various Member States in relation
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 12
 December 1975 by the Governments of the Benelux                         to the supply requirements of the markets concerned ;
countries to the Commission by telex from the Office
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of                        Whereas these disparities have caused in the Benelux
 the Netherlands to the European Communities, for                        countries a flow of imports of the products in ques­
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                        tion , originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in
women 's, girls' and infants' undergarments falling                      France, which threatens to continue and to grow ;
within heading No 61.04 of the Common Customs
Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in                 Whereas according to information supplied by the
 France,                                                                 Governments of the Benelux countries there are
                                                                         serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
Whereas imports into the Community of the products                       textile industry in question resulting in a progressive
 in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a                      decline of production and a constant reduction of the
Community quantitative quota established by Council                      number of workers 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                  be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
cated     for 1975 to the        Benelux      countries and   the
French Republic are 27 000 kg and 9 000 kg respec­
tively ;                                                                Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
                                                                        motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
                                                                        sary cooperation from the French Republic ;
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                       Whereas authorizing should accordingly be given , for
Member States, the above Regulation ( EEC) No                           a limited period, for the application of protective
 1783/75 provides, as a temporary measure, for a dero­                  measures, under the first paragraph of Article 115,
gation from the principle of equal and continuous                       subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
access for all importers to Community quotas by stipu­                  sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ("'), and in particular
                                                                        Article 1 thereof,
(') O ) No L 1 82 , 12 . 7 . | 97 \ p . 2 .
(-') O I No L 1X9 , 21 . 7 . | 97 \ p . 24 .                            (') OJ No L 121 , V 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 products in question from Taiwan and in any case
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are              not later than 31 December 1975 .
authorized not to apply Community treatment to
imports of the following product :                                                    Article 3
       CCT
                                                              This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
     licnding              Description of goods
                                                               Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
        No                                                     Kingdom of the Netherlands .
61.04           Women's, girls' and infants' undergar­
                ments                                          Done at Brussels, 17 December 1975 .
                                                                                        For the Commission
where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
tion in France, and in respect of which applications                                     Finn GUNDELACH
for import licences were lodged after 1 December
1 975 .                                                                             Member of the Commission