CELEX: 31978D0534
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 June 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to blouses and shirt blouses, knitted, 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 or ex 61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23, 24, 25 - 61.02-78, 82, 84) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Bulgaria and in free circulation in the other Member States

20 . 6. 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 163/ 17
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 8 June 1978
               authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
               Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to blouses and
               shirt blouses, knitted, 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 or ex 61.02 B ( NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23 , 24, 25 —
               61.02-78 , 82, 84) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Bulgaria and in
                                        free circulation in the other Member States
                                         (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                           (78/534/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, although the imports which gave rise to the
COMMUNITIES,                                                         application submitted would appear to be an isolated
                                                                     operation , they are nevertheless likely, owing to the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                appreciable amount of the imports, to aggravate these
 Economic Community, and in particular the first para­               difficulties,
graph of Article 115 thereof,
 Having regard to the application under the first para­              Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 31 May                   machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                     tion from the other Member States,
 1978 by the governments of the Benelux countries to
the Commission of the European Communities, for
authorization not to apply Community treatment to                    Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
blouses and shirt blouses, knitted, crocheted (not                   for the application of protective measures under the
elastic or rubberized), or woven, for women , girls and              first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
infants, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile                   tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
fibres, falling within subheadings ex 60.05 A II or ex               May 1971 (2) and in particular Article 1 thereof,
61.02 B (NIMEXE codes 60.05-22, 23 , 24, 25 — 61.02
78 , 82, 84) of the Common Customs Tariff, origi­
nating in Bulgaria and in free circulation in the other
Member States,                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas in the Benelux countries the importation of
the products in question originating in Bulgaria is, in
accordance     with     the    Council      Decision   of    20                                  Article 1
December 1977 ( !) and until the entry into force of
the definitive arrangements, subject to quantitative                 The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
restriction ;                                                        Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
                                                                     authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
Whereas disparities in the commercial policy                         products indicated below, where they originate in
measures applied in connection with these products                   Bulgaria and are in free circulation in the other
by the Member States are giving rise to deflection of                Member States, and in respect of which applications
trade, thus preventing the execution of those commer­                for import licences were lodged after 23 May 1978
cial policy measures which are in force because of the               and are , on the date of this Decision pending with the
difficult economic situation in the sector concerned ;               Benelux authorities :
Whereas, according to the application submitted,
there are serious difficulties in the industrial sector                          CCT
                                                                                                               Description
                                                                                heading
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­                               No
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
market share ;                                                       ex 60.05 A II and          Blouses and shirt blouses, knitted ,
                                                                     ex 61 .02 B                crocheted (not elastic or rubber­
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely               (NIMEXE codes 60.05        ized), or woven , for women , girls
by unequal conditions of competition , whereby                       22,    23,   24,   25 — and infants, of wool , of cotton or of
exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower                  61.02-78 , 82, 84)         man-made textile fibres
than those of the Community products in question ;
t1 ) OJ No L 360 , 31 . 12 . 1977 , p. 1 .                           (2 ) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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                       Article 2                            Done at Brussels, 8 June 1978 .
                                                                                   For the Commission
This Decision is adressed to the Kingdom of Belgium ,                              Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom
of the Netherlands .                                                                   Vice-President