CELEX: 31976D0777
Language: en
Date: 1976-08-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25 August 1976 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to imports of bed linen, table linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen falling within heading No ex 62.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of India and in free circulation in the other Member States

2. 10. 76                         Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 270/35
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 25 August 1976
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to imports of
             bed linen , table linen , toilet linen and kitchen linen falling within heading No
             ex 62.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of India
                              and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                  (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                    (76/777/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                               countries (including the Republic of India), whereby
COMMUNITIES,                                                 such countries are enabled to export at prices lower
                                                             than those of producers in the Benelux countries ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
                                                             would be in addition to those already effected, would
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                              be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­       Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
graph of Article 1 15 of the Treaty, made on 19 August       motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
1976 by the Governments of the Benelux countries to          sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
the Commission by telex from the Office of the               Germany and the other Member States ;
Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands to the European Communities, for author­         Whereas authorization should accordingly be given,
ization not to apply Community treatment to bed              for a limited period, for the application of protective
linen, table linen , toilet linen and kitchen linen          measures under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
falling within heading No ex 62.02 of the Common             subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
Customs Tariff, originating in the Republic of India         sion Decision of 12 May 1971 ('), and in particular
and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of           Article 1 thereof ;
Germany,
                                                             Whereas the request for a licence which gave rise to
                                                             the application under Article 115 need not be covered
Whereas the importation of the products in question          by this authorization because of the small amount
originating in the Republic of India is the subject of       involved,
an Agreement negotiated between the Community
and India signed on 10 November 1975 ;
                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas, under the Agreement, the Republic of India
has undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its
exports to the Community of household linen falling                                    Article 1
within heading No ex 62.02 of the Common Customs
Tariff to a certain ceiling allocated among the              The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Member States ;                                              Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
                                                             authorized not to apply Community treatment to
                                                             imports of bed linen, table linen, toilet linen and
Whereas the quota share allocated to the Netherlands,        kitchen linen falling within heading No ex 62.02 of
which amounts to 315 000 kg for 1976, is wholly              the Common Customs Tariff where they originate in
taken up ;                                                   the Republic of India and are in free circulation in
                                                             the other Member States and in respect of which appli­
Whereas according to information supplied by the             cations for import licences were lodged after 18
Governments of the Benelux countries there are               August 1976.
serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
textile industry in question resulting in a decline of                                 Article 2
production and a constant reduction of the number of
workers employed in that sector ;                            This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                             arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
by unequal conditions of competition with certain            (>) OJ No L 126, 3 . 6 . 1971 , p . 26 .
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the products in question from the Republic of India       Done at Brussels, 25 August 1976.
and in any case not later than 31 December 1976.
                      Article 3                                                  por tfje Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                     Christopher SOAMES
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                         Vice-President