CELEX: 31978R2120
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2120/78 of 5 September 1978 making the importation into the United Kingdom of certain garments originating in Singapore subject to authorization

8 . 9 . 78                           Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 246/ 13
                               COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2120/78
                                                  of 5 September 1978
              making the importation into the United Kingdom of certain garments origi­
                                   nating in Singapore subject to authorization
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in view of the market disruption referred to
COMMUNITIES,                                                    above, the Community has initiated the procedures
                                                                provided for in the said Agreement, which allow
                                                                appropriate safeguard measures to be taken in order to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           limit imports of the products in question into the
Economic Community,                                             United Kingdom, account being taken of the trend of
                                                                imports ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1439/74 of 4 June 1974 on common rules for
imports ('), and in particular Article 12 thereof,              whereas, in particular, under the Agreement negoti­
                                                                ated by the Community with Singapore, compliance
After consultation within the Advisory Committee set            with the quantitative export limits set or to be set by
up under Article 5 of the said Regulation ,                     virtue of the said Agreement is ensured by an agreed
                                                                system of double checking the effectiveness of which
                                                                depends on the establishment of a system of control
Whereas imports of men's and women's trousers                   by the Community ; whereas in order to establish
falling within subheading ex 60.05 A II of the                  such a system, therefore, it is necessary to make
Common Customs Tariff from all third countries                  imports of the goods in question from Singapore
accounted in 1977 for a considerable share of the               subject to authorization ;
Community market ; whereas the United Kingdom's
share has since increased further ;
                                                                Whereas, in order to ensure that the import authoriza­
                                                                tion arrangements referred to above are not evaded by
Whereas quantitative limits have already been set for           anticipatory exports or indirect imports liable to cause
the products in question in accordance with the pro­            injury to Community manufacturers which would be
visions of the Arrangement regarding international              difficult to remedy, it is necessary to set up the said
trade in textiles and of bilateral Agreements negoti­           arrangements as soon as possible,
ated between the Community and certain supplier
countries ;
Whereas imports into the United Kingdom of the
textile products concerned (knitted trousers) origi­
nating in Singapore increased sharply and substan­              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tially in the past few months ;
Whereas all these factors have given rise to disruption
                                                                                        Article 1
of the United Kingdom market and are causing
serious injury to Community manufacturers ;
                                                                The importation into the United Kingdom of the
Whereas, in pursuance of the Arrangement regarding              goods indicated below, originating in the Republic of
international trade in textiles, the Community has              Singapore and exported from that country in 1978 , is
negotiated an Agreement on trade in textiles with               hereby made subject to the production of an import
Singapore ; whereas the said Agreement contains                 authorization issued by the United Kingdom authori­
specific provision for recourse to safeguard measures ;         ties :
(>) OJ No L 159, 15. 6. 1974, p. 1 .
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                                     NIMEXE code                                                            Quantitative limit
    Category     heading                                                    Description                         from 1 . 1 .
                                          ( 1978 )
                    No                                                                                       to 31 . 12 . 1978
 28          ex 60.05 A II    60.05-6 ! ; 62 ; 64        Men's     and    women's       knitted trousers   300 000 pieces
                                                         (excluding shorts), other than for infants,
                                                         of wool , cotton or synthetic or artificial
                                                         textile fibres
                           Article 2                                 and without delay upon presentation of a bill of
                                                                     lading proving that the goods in question were placed
 1.      Import authorizations shall be issued automati­             on board in the Republic of Singapore for export to
 cally and without delay, subject to the maximum speci­              the United Kingdom before the date of entry into
 fied above, upon presentation of the export docu­                   force of this Regulation .
 ments agreed under the Agreement on trade in
 textiles negotiated with the Republic of Singapore and
 reproduced in Annex C to Regulation (EEC) No                                                    Article 3
 3019/77 (»).
 Imports effected between 1 January 1978 and the date                 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the
 of entry into force of this Regulation shall be                     second day following its publication in the Official
 deducted from the said quantity where the goods in                  Journal of the European Communities.
 question were exported from the third country
 concerned during that period.                                       2.    It shall apply until 31 December 1978 , subject to
                                                                     the adoption of a Council Regulation in accordance
 2.      Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 ,             with Articles 12 (6) and 13 of Regulation (EEC) No
 import authorizations shall be issued automatically                  1439/74.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 5 September 1978 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(•) OJ No L 357, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 1 .