CELEX: 31977D0789
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22 November 1977 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's shirts of mixed synthetic textile fibres falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Malaysia and in free circulation in the other Member States

21 . 12 . 77                      Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 328/ 1 1
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 22 November 1977
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's shirts
              of mixed synthetic textile fibres falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the
              Common Customs Tariff, originating in Malaysia and in free circulation in the
                                                other Member States
                                  (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                     (77/789/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
                                                               May 1971 (•), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 17                                           Article 1
November 1977 by the Governments of the Benelux                The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
countries to the Commission by telex from the office           Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of              authorized not to apply Community treatment to
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for               imports of men 's shirts of mixed synthetic textile
authorization not to apply Community treatment to              fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.03 of the
men 's shirts of mixed synthetic textile fibres falling        Common Customs Tariff, where they originate in
within heading No ex 61.03 of the Common Customs               Malaysia and are in free circulation in the other
Tariff, originating in Malaysia and in free circulation        Member States, and in respect of which applications
in the other Member States,
                                                               for import licences were lodged after 7 November
                                                               1977 .
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Malaysia is the
subject of an Agreement negotiated between the                                           Article 2
Community and Malaysia ;
                                                               This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
Whereas under the Agreement, Malaysia has under­               arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of      the products in question from Malaysia and in any
these textile products to the Community to ceilings            case not later than 31 December 1977.
allocated among the Member States ;
Whereas there are serious economic difficulties in the                                   Article 3
sector in question resulting in a drop in production           This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
and considerable unemployment ;                                Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Whereas further imports of the products in question ,          Kingdom of the Netherlands.
which would be in addition to those already effected,
would be likely to aggravate those difficulties ;
                                                               Done at Brussels, 22 November 1 977.
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­                                        For the Commission
tion from the other Member States ;
                                                                                          Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
for the application of protective measures, under the                                           Vice-President
                                                               (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.