CELEX: 31977D0427
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 14 April 1977 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain men's, boys', women's, girl's and infants' outer garments falling within heading Nos ex 61.01 and ex 61.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

8 . 7 . 77                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No L 170/23
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 14 April 1977
                authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain
                men's, boys', women's, girls' and infants' outer garments falling within heading
                ex 61.01 and ex 61.02 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)
                                                      (77/427/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 clothing industry concerned resulting in a progressive
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   decline of production and a constant reduction of the
                                                                number of workers employed in that sector ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
 graph of Article 115 thereof,                                  by unequal conditions of competition with certain
                                                                counries (including Hong Kong), whereby such coun­
 Having regard to the application under the first para­         tries are enabled to export at prices lower than those
 graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 6 April            of producers in the Benelux countries ;
 1977 by the Governments , of the Benelux countries to          Whereas indirect imports of the products in question,
 the Commission by telex from the Office of the                 which would be in addition to these already effected,
 Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the                 would be likely to aggravate these economic diffi­
 Netherlands to the European Communities, for author­           culties ;
 ization not to apply Community treatment to certain
 men's, boys', women's, girls' and infants' outer               Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
garments (trousers and shorts) falling within heading           motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
 Nos ex 61.01 and ex 61.02 of the Common Customs                sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circula­           Germany, the United Kingdom and the other
 tion in the Federal Republic of Germany and the                Member States ;
 United Kingdom,                                                Whereas authorization should therefore be given, for a
                                                                limited period, for the application of protective
Whereas imports into the Community of the products              measures, under the first paragraph of Article 115,
in question originating in Hong Kong are the subject            subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
of an Agreement negotiated between the Community                sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (*), and in particular
and Hong Kong concluded on 8 April 1976 ;                      Article 1 thereof,
Whereas under the Agreement Hong Kong has under­
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
certain textile products to the Community to certain
                                                                                         Article 1
ceilings allocated among Member States ;
                                                               The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Whereas the quota share allocated to the Benelux                Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
countries in respect of men's, boys', women's, girls'          authorized not to apply Community treatment to
and infants' trousers, jeans and the like (other than          imports of the following products :
knitted or crocheted articles) is 2 467 000 items ( 1977
annual quota), whereas the quota shares allocated to
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the Federal Republic of Germany and to the United                    heading                   Description of goods
Kingdom for such products originating in the same                      No
non-member country are 21 717 000 and 26 213 000
items respectively ;                                           ex 61.01         Men's and boys' outer garments (other
                                                                                than knitted or crocheted) :
Whereas disparities in the conditions of importation                            — Trousers and shorts
of these products have created in the Benelux coun­
tries     an indirect  trade flow  which   threatens   to      ex 61.02         Women's, girls and infants' outer garments
continue and to grow ;                                                          (other than knitted or crocheted) :
                                                                                — Trousers and shorts
Whereas according to information supplied by the
Governments of the Benelux countries there are
serious economic difficulties in the branch of the             (!) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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where they originate in Hong Kong and are in free                               Article 3
circulation in the other Member States, and in respect     This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
of which applications for import licences were lodged      Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
after 27 March 1977.
                                                           Kingdom of the Netherlands.
                       Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 14 April 1977.
                                                                                  For the Commission
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of                             fitienne DAVIGNON
the products in question from Hong Kong and in any
case not later than 31 December 1977.                                          Member of the Commission