CELEX: 31976D0041
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 November 1975 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, other than shirts, falling within heading No ex 60.04, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany

No L 8 /30                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                15. 1 . 76
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 17 November 1975
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
               Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to certain
              under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, other than
              shirts, falling within heading No ex 60.04, originating in Taiwan and in free
                                circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany
                                    (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                      (76/41 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  quotas by stipulating that the quota in question be
COMMUNITIES,                                                    allocated initially on the basis of the volumes of
                                                                imports previously admitted into the various Member
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           States and that it need be adjusted only progressively
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           to the supply requirements of the markets ;
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,
                                                                Whereas for this reason the allocation of the quota in
Having regard to the application under the first para­          question still involves certain disparities in the quota
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 11                  shares fixed for the various Member States by refer­
November 1975 by the Governments of the Benelux                 ence to the supply requirements of the markets
countries to the Commission by telex from the Office            concerned ;
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for                Whereas these disparities have caused in the Benelux
authorization not to apply Community treatment to               countries a flow of imports of the products in ques­
certain under garments, knitted or crocheted, not               tion, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in
elastic or rubberized, other than shirts, falling within        the Federal Republic of Germany, which threatens to
heading No ex 60.04 of the Common Customs Tariff,               continue and to grow ;
originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the
Federal Republic of Germany,                                    Whereas according to information supplied by the
                                                                Governments of the Benelux countries there are
                                                                serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
Whereas imports into the Community of the products
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a              textile industry concerned, resulting in a progressive
Community quantitative quota established by Council             decline of production and a constant reduction of the
Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July 1975 on                  number of workers employed in that sector ;
rules for imports of certain textile products originating
in Taiwan ( ! ) ;                                               Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
                                                                by unequal conditions of competition with certain
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation                countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries
among the Member States, as determined by Commis­               are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975                producers in the Benelux countries ;
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports
into the Community of certain textile products origi­           Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
nating in Taiwan (2) ; whereas the quota shares allo­           would be in addition to those already effected, would
cated for   1975   to the Benelux countries and the             be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
Federal Republic of Germany are 252 metric tons and
972 metric tons respectively ;                                  Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
                                                                motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­              sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of              Germany ;
the import arrangements previously applied in the
Member States, the above Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas authorization should be given, for a limited
 1783/75 provides, as a temporary measure, for a dero­          period, for the application of protective measures,
gation from the principle of equal and continuous               under the first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the
access for all Community importers to Community                 conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
                                                                 12 May 1971 (3), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
(») OJ No L 182, 12. 7. 1975, p. 2.
(2) OJ No L 189, 21 . 7. 1975, p. 24.                           P) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
 ---pagebreak--- 15 . 1 . 76                          Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 8 /31
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                            Article 2
                        Article 1                              This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                                arise in the Benelux countries for the importation of
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of                      the products in question from Taiwan and in any case
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are               not later than 31 December 1975 .
authorized not to apply Community treatment to
imports of the following product :
                                                                                       Article 3
       CCT
     heading                Description of goods
                                                               This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
        No                                                      Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                                                                Kingdom of the Netherlands.
ex 60.04        Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not
                elastic or rubberized, other than shirts,
                excluding slips, knickers and panty-hose,       Done at Brussels, 17 November 1975 .
                commonly known as tights
                                                                                         For the Commission
where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
tion in the Federal Republic of Germany, and in                                           Finn GUNDELACH
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 29 October 1975.                                                        Member of the Commission