CELEX: 31979D0272
Language: en
Date: 1979-02-16 00:00:00
Title: 79/272/EEC: Commission Decision of 16 February 1979 authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to blouses and shirt-blouses, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized), or woven, for women, girls and infants, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within subheadings ex 60.05 A II and ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23, 24, 25; 61.02-78, 82, 84) (category 7), originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 65/24                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                   15 . 3 . 79
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 16 February 1979
               authorizing the United Kingdom not to apply Community treatment to blouses
               and shirt blouses, knitted or crocheted (not elastic or rubberized), or woven , for
               women , girls and infants, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres,
               falling within subheadings ex 60.05 A II and ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs
               Tariff (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23 , 24, 25 ; 61.02-78 , 82, 84) (category 7), origi­
                     nating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the other Member States
                                           (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                      (79/272/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
COMMUNITIES,                                                   already made or proposed, would be likely to aggra­
                                                               vate these difficulties ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­          Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
graph of Article 115 thereof,                                  machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                               tion from the other Member States ;
Having regard to the application under the first para­         Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 7                   for the application of protective measures under the
February 1979 by the United Kingdom Government                  first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
to the Commission of the European Communities for               tions laid down in Commission Decision 71 /202/ EEC
authorization not to apply community treatment to              of 12 May 1971 (3), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
blouses and shirt blouses, knitted or crocheted (not
elastic or rubberized), or woven, for women, girls and         Whereas, however, the application for a licence which
infants, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile             gave rise to the application in question does not need
fibres, falling within subheadings ex 60.05 A II and ex         to be covered by such an authorization,
61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff (NIMEXE
codes 60.05-22, 23, 24, 25 ; 61.02-78 , 82, 84) (category
7), originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the
other Member States,
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Taiwan is subject
                                                                                          Article 1
to a Community quantitative quota allocated among
the Member States by Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 3020/77 of 30 December 1977 ( J ), confirmed by              The United Kingdom is authorized not to apply
Council Regulation (EEC) No 255/78 of 7 February                Community treatment to the products indicated
 1978 (2) ;                                                     below, where they originate in Taiwan and are in free
                                                                circulation in the other Member States, and in respect
                                                                of which applications for import licences were lodged
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­           after 5 February 1979 :
cate these quotas on the basis of the needs of the indi­
vidual markets ; whereas there are therefore disparities
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existing between the import conditions in the various                    heading                       Description
Member States ; whereas uniformity can only be                              No
achieved progressively ;
                                                                ex 60.05 A II and         Blouses and shirt blouses, knitted
                                                                ex 61.02 B                or crocheted (not elastic or rubler­
Whereas it appears from the application submitted               (NIMEXE codes             ized), or woven, for women , girls
that there are serious difficulties in the industrial           60.05-22, 23, 24, 25 ; and infants, of wool , of cotton or of
sector concerned, involving a considerable drop in              61.02-78 , 82, 84) (cate­ man-made textile fibres
production and employment ;                                     gory 7)
(1 ) OJ No L 357, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 51 .
O OJ No L 39, 9 . 2. 1978 , p. 1 .                              (3) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                      Article 2                           Done at Brussels, 16 February 1979 .
This Decision shall apply until 30 June 1979 .                                   For the Commission
                      Article 3                                                  Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom.                                    Vice-President