CELEX: 31978D0001
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 July 1977 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 the other Member States

11 . 1 . 78                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 8 /7
                                                             II
                                       (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                               COMMISSION
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 18 July 1977
              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 the
                                                 other Member States
                                    (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                       (78/ 1 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     into the Community of certain textile products origi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                       nating in Taiwan (2) ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­             nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                    the import arrangements previously applied in the
                                                                  Member States, the above Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to the application under the first para­             1783/75 provides, as a temporary measure, for a
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 11 July               derogation from the principles of equal and contin­
 1977 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to              uous access for all importers to Community quotas by
the Commission by telex from the Office of the                    stipulating that the quota in question be allocated
Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the                     initially on the basis of the volumes of imports previ­
Netherlands to the European Communities, for                      ously admitted into the various Member States and
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                 need be adjusted only progressively to the supply
women's, girls' and infants' undergarments falling                requirements of the markets ;
within heading No 61.04 of the Common Customs
Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in          Whereas for this reason the allocation of the quota in
the other Member States,                                          question still involves certain disparities in the quota
                                                                  shares fixed for the various Member States in relation
Whereas imports into the Community of the products                to the supply requirements of the markets concerned ;
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a
Community quantitative quota established by Council               Whereas these disparities have caused in the Benelux
Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July 1975 on                    countries a flow of imports of the products in ques­
rules for imports of certain textile products originating         tion, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in
in Taiwan (') ;                                                   the other Member States which threatens to continue
                                                                  and to grow ;
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation
among the Member States, as determined by Commis­                 Whereas according to information supplied by the
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975                  Governments of the Benelux countries there are
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports              serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
(•) OJ No L 182, 12. 7. 1975, p. 2.                               (2) OJ No L 189 , 21 . 7. 1975, p. 24.
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textile industry in question resulting in a progressive              authorized not to apply Community treatment to
decline of production and a constant reduction of the                imports of women's, girls' and infants' undergarments
number of workers employed in that sector ;                          falling within heading No ex 61.04 of the Common
                                                                     Customs Tariff where they originate in Taiwan and
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely               are in free circulation in the other Member States and
by unequal conditions of competition with certain                    in respect of which applications for import licences
countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries                 were lodged after the date of this Decision .
are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
producers in the Benelux countries ;
Whereas the indirect imports in question, which                                              Article 2
would be in addition to those already effected this
year, would be likely to aggravate these economic diffi­
culties ;                                                            This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                                     arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in             the products in question from Taiwan and in any case
motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­                   not later than 31 December 1977 .
sary cooperation from the other Member States ;
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,
for a limited period, for the application of protective                                      Article 3
measures, under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5
subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­                   This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ( 1 ), and in particular                Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Article 1 thereof ;
                                                                     Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Whereas it is nevertheless inappropriate to cover by
such a decision the request for the licence which moti­
vated the application in question because of its espe­
cially low amount,
                                                                     Done at Brussels, 18 July 1977.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                                                For the Commission
                           Article 1
                                                                                               Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
 Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are                                                 Vice-President
 (!) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .