CELEX: 31976D0295
Language: en
Date: 1976-01-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30 January 1976 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to electric motors falling within heading No ex 85.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czechoslovakia and put into free circulation in the other Member States

No L 64/ 28                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               12. 3 . 76
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                                       (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                               COMMISSION
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 30 January 1976
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to electric
             motors falling within heading No ex 85.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
             nating in Czechoslovakia and put into free circulation in the other Member
                                                          States
                                    (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                      (76/295/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   serious economic difficulties in the sector in question,
COMMUNITIES,                                                     caused largely by unequal conditions of competition
                                                                 with certain countries (including Czechoslovakia),
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            which enables such countries to export at prices lower
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            than those of producers in the Benelux countries ;
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                                 Whereas these economic difficulties have lead to a
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty made on 26                    considerable drop in production involving unemploy­
January 1976 by the Governments of the Benelux                   ment in a number of factories, and a continual reduc­
countries to the Commission by telex from the Office             tion in the number of workers employed in the rele­
                                                                 vant sector ;
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                Whereas the indirect imports in question (which
electric motors falling within heading No ex 85.01 of            exceed 90 % of the quota established for direct
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Czecho­                imports) would be additional to those already effected,
slovakia and put into free circulation in the Federal            and so would be likely to aggravate these economic
Republic of Germany,                                             difficulties ;
Whereas, in accordance with the Council Decision of
27 March 1975 (*), as amended by the Decision of                 Whereas the machinery for bringing about the neces­
 18 December 1975 (2), the Benelux countries have                sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
opened an annual quota in the said products for                  Germany cannot be set up at once ;
Czechoslovakia of F1 552 000 ; whereas imports
thereof into the Federal Republic of Germany from
the same third country are liberalized ;                         Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
                                                                 for the application of protective measures, under the
Whereas, according to the information supplied by                first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
the Governments of the Benelux countries, there are              tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
                                                                 May 1971 (3), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
(!) OJ No L 99, 21 . 4. 1975, p. 7.
(2) OJ No L 332, 29. 12. 1975, p. 1 .                             3) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                the products in question from Czechoslovakia and in
                                                           any case not later than 31 December 1976.
                      Article 1
                                                                                 Article 3
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
hereby authorized not to apply Community treatment         This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
to imports of electric motors falling within heading       Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
No ex 85.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­           Kingdom of the Netherlands.
nating in Czechoslovakia and put into free circulation
in the other Member States, in respect of which appli­
cations for import licences were lodged after 13           Done at Brussels, 30 January 1976.
January 1976.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                      Article 2
                                                                                    Christopher SOAMES
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of                                  Vice-President