CELEX: 31978D0567
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22 June 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's and boys' leather footwear, including boots, falling within heading No ex 64.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 189/26                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                12. 7. 78
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                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 22 June 1978
                authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's
                leather footwear, including boots, falling within heading No ex 64.02 of the
                Common Customs Tariff, originating in Romania and in free ciruculation in
                                                  the other Member States
                                       (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                         (78/567/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      May 1971 (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof *
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
 graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                                            Article 1
 Having regard to the application under the first para­            The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
 graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 16 June               Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
  1978 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to              authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
 the Commission of the European Communities, for                   products indicated below, where they originate in
 authorization not to apply Community treatment to                 Romania and are in free circulation in the other
 men's leather footwear, including boots, falling within           Member States, and in respect of which applications
 heading No ex 64.02 of the Common Customs Tariff,                 for import licences were lodged after 5 June 1978 :
 originating in Romania and in free circulation in the
 other Member States,
                                                                         CCT
 Whereas in the Benelux countries the importation of                    heading                       Description
                                                                          No
 the products in questin originating in Romania is, in
 accordance     with    the   Council     Decision    of   20
 December 1977 (1), subject to an annual quota, which
                                                                   ex 64.02        Men's leather footwear, including boots
 has already been wholly taken up ;
 Whereas according to the application submitted there                                       Article 2
 are  serious    difficulties  in  the     industrial  sector
 concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­                This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
 tion and employment and a progressive decline in its              arise for the importation of these products from
 market share ;                                                    Romania or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
                                                                   earlier.
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
by unequal conditions of competition, whereby                                               Article 3
exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
than those of the Community products in question ;                This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those             Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
already effected, would be likely to aggravate these               Kingdom of the Netherlands.
difficulties ;
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the            Done at Brussels, 22 June 1978 .
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from the other Member States ;                                                           For the Commission
Whereas authorization should accordingly be given                                                 Lorenzo NATALI
for the application of protective measures under the
first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi                                             Vice-President
(') OJ No L 360, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 1 .                            (2) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.