CELEX: 31978D0564
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 15 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' industrial and occupational clothing; women's, girls' and infants' woven aprons, smock-overalls and other industrial clothing (whether or not also suitable for domestic use), of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 61.01-13; 15; 17; 19 - 61.02-12; 14) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 189/20                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                   12. 7. 78
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 15 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' industrial and occupational clothing ; women's, girls' and infants' woven
              aprons, smock-overalls and other industrial clothing (whether or not also
              suitable for domestic use), of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres,
              falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes
              61.01-13 ; IS ; 17 ; 19 — 61.02-12 ; 14) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating
                      in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                   (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                     (78/564/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   tion and employment ;
                                                               Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          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 s A 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 6 June             tion from the other Member States ;
1978 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to
the Commission of 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
men's and boys' industrial and occupational clothing ;         first paragraph of Article 115*, subject to the condi­
women's, girls' and infants' woven aprons, smock-              tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
overalls and other industrial clothing (whether or not         May 1971 (J), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
also suitable for domestic use) of wool, of cotton or of
man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex
61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
61.01-13 ; 15 ; 17 ; 19 — 61.02-12 ; 14) of the
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong
and in free circulation in the other Member States,                                    Article 1
                                                               The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
products in question originating in Hong Kong is               authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                 products indicated below, where they originate in
Community and that country ;                                   Hong Kong and are in free circulation in the other
                                                               Member States, and in respect of which applications
Whereas under that Agreement Hong Kong has                     for import licences were lodged after 30 May 1978 :
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its
exports of the products in question to the Community                      CCT
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member                          heading
                                                                           No
                                                                                                      Description
States ;
                                                               ex 61.01                Men's and boys' woven industrial
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­          ex 61.02 B              and       occupational      clothing ;
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the           (NIMEXE codes 61.01- women's, girls' and infants' woven
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities       13 ;  15 ;   17 ; 19 — aprons, smock-overalls and other
persist between the import conditions in the various           61.02-12 ; 14)          industrial clothing (whether or not
Member States ; whereas unfiformity can only be                                        also suitable for domestic use), of
achieved progressively ;                                                               wool, of cotton or of man-made
                                                                                       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.
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                        Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 15 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.
                        Article 3                                                  For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                         Lorenzo NATALI
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                           Vice-President