CELEX: 31976D0745
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 26 December 1975 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to drawn or blown glass, falling within heading No ex 70.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the USSR and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany

No L 259/ 18                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                23 . 9 . 76
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                                      (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                COMMISSION
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 26 December 1975
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to drawn or
             blown glass, falling within heading No ex 70.05 of the Common Customs Tariff,
             originating in the USSR and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of
                                                        Germany
                                   (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                      (76/745/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  of the industry in question , resulting in unemploy­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    ment in a number of factories and a constant reduc­
                                                                tion 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 according to the Commission's information
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                 the indirect imports in question would be likely to
                                                                aggravate these economic difficulties ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 19                  Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
December 1975 by the Governments of the Benelux                 machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
countries to the Commission by telex from the office            tion from the Federal Republic of Germany ;
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
authorization not to apply Community treatment to               for the application of protective measures under the
drawn or blown glass, falling within heading No ex              first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
70.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in              tions laid down by the Commission Decision of 12
the USSR and in free circulation in the Federal Repu­           May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
blic of Germany,
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas imports into the Benelux countries of the
product in question originating in the USSR are
subject to a quantitative restriction, while imports of                                    Article 1
this product from the same third country into the
Federal Republic of Germany are liberalized ;                   The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
                                                                Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
                                                                authorized not to apply Community treatment to
Whereas there are currently serious economic diffi­             imports of drawn or blown glass, falling within
culties in the Benelux glass industry ;                         heading No ex 70.05 of the Common Customs Tariff,
                                                                where they originate in the USSR and are in free circu­
Whereas    these economic     difficulties  are  reflected
mainly in under-utilization of the production capacity          (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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lation in the Federal Republic of Germany, and in          Done at Brussels, 26 December 1975 .
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged on 11 and 12 December 1975.
                      Article 2
                                                                                  For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                       Finn GUNDELACH
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                    Member of the Commission