CELEX: 31978R2157
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2157/78 of 13 September 1978 making the importation of certain textile products originating in Turkey subject to quantitative limitation

No L 253/ 16                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                              15. 9 . 78
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2157/78
                                                        of 13 September 1978
               making the importation of certain textile products originating in Turkey subject
                                                      to quantitative limitation
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                 nity market ; whereas these imports have given rise to
COMMUNITIES,                                                                   market disturbance and are causing serious damage to
                                                                               Community producers resulting in the closure of
                                                                               mills and considerable loss of employment ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                   Whereas in consequence of this situation imports of
1842/71 of 21 June 1971 ('), and in particular Article                         certain textile products originating in the majority of
1 thereof,                                                                     low-cost supplier countries are at present subject to a
                                                                               Community system of authorization and quantitative
                                                                               limitation under either bilateral agreements or auto­
Having regard to the formal request submitted by the                           nomous arrangements ;
United Kingdom after consultation within the Advi­
sory Committee established by Article 3 of that Regu­
lation ,
                                                                               Whereas the extremely rapid increase in recent
                                                                               months of imports into the United Kingdom of
Whereas there has been a substantial increase in                               cotton yarns originating in Turkey have helped to
imports from the supplier countries on the Commu­                              exacerbate the cumulative disturbance of that market :
            United - Kingdom imports                                                                           Growth of imports
                                                        Turkey's share of total UK imports
      1976             1977
                                        1978                    (five months 1978)                 six months 1978/         six months 1978/
                                  (seven months)                                                   six months 1977          six months 1976
 3 240 tonnes 2 232 tonnes 3 772 tonnes                               19-5 %                          + 209 %                  + 241 %
Whereas the volume of this increase makes it neces­                            2. The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall
sary to take immediate action aimed at avoiding                                not apply to products which have been placed on
irreparable damage to United Kingdom producers and                             board and are in the course of shipment to the
a serious deterioration in the economic situation of                           Community before the entry into force of this Regula­
that region of the Community ; whereas it therefore                            tion .
justifies the adoption, pursuant to Article 60 of the
Additional Protocol to the Association Agreement                               3. The entry into free circulation in the other
between the European Economic Community and                                    Member States of the textile products referred to in
Turkey, of the protective measures needed to over­                             paragraph 1 remains subject to the presentation of the
come these difficulties,                                                       import document provided for in Commission Regula­
                                                                               tion (EEC) No 1251 /78 (2).
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                                       Article 2
                             Article 1
                                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
1 . The importation into the United Kingdom of                                 publication in the Official Journal of the European
the Category 1 textile products listed in the Annex,                           Communities.
originating in Turkey, shall be suspended until 31
December 1978 .                                                                It shall be applicable until 31 December 1978 .
(>) OJ No L 192, 26. 8 . 1971 , p. 14.                                         (2) OJ No L 155, 13. 6. 1978, p. 12.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 13 September 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                               Roy JENKINS
                                                          ANNEX
                           CCT
              Category                             NIMEXE code
                                                                                   Description
                                                                                                Member
                No        heading                      ( 1978)                                   State
                            No
          1               55.05        55.05-13  ; 19 ; 21 ; 25 ; 27 ; 29 ;   Cotton yarn, not   UK
                                       33 ; 35 ;  37 ; 41 ; 45 ; 46 ; 48 ;    put up for retail
                                       52 ; 58 ;  61 ; 65 ; 67 ; 69 ; 72 ;    sale
                                       78 ; 92 ; 98