CELEX: 31978D0745
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11 August 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' shirts, woven, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.03 (NIMEXE codes 61.03-11, 15, 19) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Yugoslavia and in free circulation in the other Member States

9 . 9 . 78                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 247/29
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 11 August 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' shirts, woven , of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling
                within heading No ex 61.03 ( NIMEXE codes 61.03-11 , 15 , 19) of the Common
                Customs Tariff, originating in Yugoslavia and in free circulation in the Other
                                                    Member States
                                   (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                     (78/745/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
COMMUNITIES,                                                    machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                tion from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                 for the application of protective measures under the
                                                                first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
                                                                tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
Having regard to the application under the first para­          May 1971 ('), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 8 August
 1978 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to
the Commission of the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to
men's and boys' shirts, woven , of wool, of cotton or of        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No
ex 61.03 (NIMEXE codes 61.03-11 , 15, 19) of the
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Yugoslavia
and in free circulation in the other Member States,                                     Article 1
Whereas the importation into the Community of the              The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
products in question originating in Yugoslavia is               Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                 authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
Community and that country ;                                    products indicated below, where they originate in
                                                               Yugoslavia and are in free circulation in the other
Whereas under that Agreement Yugoslavia has under­             Member States, and in respect of which applications
taken to take all necessary steps to limit its exports of       for import licences were lodged after 1 August 1978 :
the products in question to the Community to certain
ceilings allocated among the Member States ;                              CCT
                                                                         heading                      Description
                                                                           No       V
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the           ex 61.03                Men's and boys' shirts, woven, of
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities       (NIMEXE codes           wool, of cotton or of man-made
persist between the import conditions in the various           61.03-11 , 15, 19)      textile fibres
Member States ; whereas uniformity can only be
achieved progressively ;
Whereas according to the application submitted there                                    Article 2
are     serious  difficulties in the   industrial  sector
concerned involving a considerable drop in produc­
tion and employment ;                                          This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                               arise for the importation of these products from Yugos­
                                                               lavia or until 31 December 1978 , whichever is the
Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those         earlier.
already effected, would be likely to jeopardize the
aims of the Community Agreement ;                              (») OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                   A rticle 3                            Done at Brussels, 11 August 1978 .
                                                                                For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                  Member of the Commission