CELEX: 31978D0422
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 April 1978 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 Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 123/28                        Official Journal of the European Communities                              11 . 5. 78
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 20 April 1978
               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 Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania and in free circulation
                                            in the other Member States
                                   (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                     (78/422/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
COMMUNITIES,                                                  for the application of protective measures under the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­         tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                 May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Having regard to the applications under the first para­
graph of Article 1 15 of the Treaty, made on 14 and 17
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
April 1978 by the Benelux Governments to the
Commission of the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                                      Article 1
drawn or blown glass, falling within heading No ex
70.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in            The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania and in free            Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
circulation in the other Member States,                       authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
Whereas for drawn or blown glass, falling within              products indicated below, where they originate in
heading No ex 70.05 of the Common Customs Tariff              Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania and are in
certain quotas were opened for 1978, in accordance            free circulation in the other Member States, and in
with the Council Decision of 20 December 1977, for            respect of which applications for import licences were
Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania respectively while no           lodged after 3 April 1978 are, on the date of this Deci­
import possibilities have been opened for Albania ;           sion, pending with the Benelux authorities :
Whereas according to the application the quotas have
been completely used up ;                                           CCT
                                                                   heading                       Description
                                                                     No
Whereas, according to information supplied by the
Benelux authorities, there are at present serious
economic difficulties in the industry in question,            ex 70.05         Drawn or blown glass
which is involved in a restructuring effort and these
difficulties are being aggravated by low-priced imports
from non-member countries ;
                                                                                       Article 2
Whereas applications for import licences under the
free circulation arrangements involving the products          This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
in question originating in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary         Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
and Romania, where the amount by far exceeds the              Kingdom of the Netherlands.
possibilities for direct imports from these third coun­
tries, are being examined by the Benelux authorities ;
Whereas these imports, because of their volume and            Done at Brussels, 20 April 1978 .
price, are likely, on the basis of the data supplied by
the Benelux authorities, to aggravate the situation in
the industry concerned ;                                                                  For the Commission
Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the                                    fjtienne DAVIGNON
machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
tion from the other Member States :                                                   Member of the Commission
                                                              (■) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.