CELEX: 31978D0532
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 5 June 1978 authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to shirts, T-shirts, lightweight fine knit roll, polo or turtle necked jumpers and pullovers, undervests and the like, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, other than babies' garments, of cotton or synthetic textile fibres; T-shirts and lightweight fine knit roll, polo or turtle necked jumpers and pullovers of regenerated textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 60.04 (NIMEXE codes 60.04-01, 05, 13, 18, 28, 29, 30, 41, 50, 58) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

20 . 6. 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                         No L 163 / 13
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 5 June 1978
             authorizing Ireland not to apply Community treatment to shirts, T-shirts, light­
             weight fine knit roll , polo or turtle necked jumpers and pullovers , undervests
             and the like , knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, other than babies'
             garments , of cotton or synthetic textile fibres ; T-shirts and lightweight fine knit
              roll , polo or turtle necked jumpers and pullovers of regenerated textile fibres,
              falling within heading No ex 60.04 (NIMEXE codes 60.04-01 , 05 , 13 , 18 , 28 , 29, 30 ,
              41 , 50 , 58) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in
                                   free circulation in the other Member States
                                          (Only the English text is authentic )
                                                      (78 /532/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­
COMMUNITIES,                                                      tion and employment ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
                                                                 already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­            difficulties ;
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                                 Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
Having regard to the application under the first para­            machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 26 May               tion from the other Member States ;
 1978 by the Irish Government to the Commission of
the European Communities, for authorization not to               Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
apply Community treatment to shirts, T-shirts, light­             for the application of protective measures under the
weight fine knit roll , polo or turtle necked jumpers             first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
and pullovers, undervests and the like, knitted or               tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, other than babies'         May 1971 (') and in particular Article 1 thereof,
garments, of cotton or synthetic textile fibres ; T-shirts
and lightweight fine knit roll , polo or turtle necked
jumpers and pullovers of regenerated textile fibres,              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
falling within heading No ex 60.04 (NIMEXE codes
60.04-01 , 05, 13, 18 , 28 , 29, 30, 41 , 50, 58) of the                                        Article 1
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong
and in free circulation in the other Member States ,
                                                                  Ireland is authorized not to apply Community treat­
                                                                 ment to the products indicated below, where they orig­
Whereas the importation into the Community of the                inate in Hong Kong and are in free circulation in the
products in question originating in Hong Kong is                 other Member States, and in respect of which applica­
covered by an agreement negotiated between the                   tions for import licences were lodged after 26 May
Community and this country ;                                      1978 :
Whereas, under that agreement, Hong Kong has                                 CCT
                                                                           heading                            Description
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its                           No
exports of the products in question to the Community
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member
States ;                                                         ex 60.04                      Shirts , T-shirts, lightweight fine
                                                                 ( NIMEXE codes 60.04          knit roll , polo or turtle necked
                                                                 01 , 05 , 13 , 18 , 28 , 29 , jumpers and pullovers, undervests
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­            30, 41 , 50 , 58 )            and the like, knitted or crocheted ,
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the                                           not elastic or rubberized , other than
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities                                       babies' garments, of cotton or
persist between the import conditions in the various                                           synthetic textile fibres ; T-shirts and
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved                                             lightweight fine knit roll , polo or
                                                                                               turtle necked jumpers and pullovers
only progressively ;                                                                           of regenerated textile fibres
Whereas, according to the application submitted,
there are serious difficulties in the industrial sector          (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
 ---pagebreak--- No L 163 / 14                     Official Journal of the European Communities                         20 . 6 . 78
                        Article 2                            Done at Brussels, 5 June 1978 .
This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
arise for the importation of these products from Hong
Kong or until 31 December 1978 whichever is the
earlier.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                        Article 3                                                   Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
This Decision is addressed to Ireland .                                                 Vice-President