CELEX: 31973D0319
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 September 1973 authorizing the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to radio receivers (including car radios and radio recorders), colour television sets and portable black and white television sets falling within subheading No 85.15 A ex III of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and put into free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany

No L 291 / 36                       Official Journal of the European Communities                             18 . 10 . 73
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                of 18 September 1973
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to radio
             receivers (including car radios and radio recorders), colour television sets and
              portable black and white television sets falling within subheading No 85.15 A ex
              III of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and put into free circu­
                                    lation in the Federal Republic of Germany
                                    (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                      (73/319/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, pending a decision by the Council, such
COMMUNITIES,                                                    quantitative restrictions which have been applied by
                                                                the Benelux countries with regard to Japan on
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           imports of the products in question may be retained ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof ;                                Whereas the introduction of such quantitative restric­
                                                                tions has given rise to differences between the
                                                                commercial policy measures applied with regard to
Having regard to the application from the Govern­               Japan in respect of the products in question by the
ments of the Benelux countries under the first para­            Benelux countries and these applied by the Federal
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 13                  Republic of Germany ; whereas such differences are
September 1973 by telex from the Office of the                  causing deflections of trade ;
Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the
European Communities, for authorization not to apply            Whereas such deflections of trade would if allowed to
Community treatment to radio receivers (including car           continue obstruct the implementation of the measures
radios and radio recorders), colour television sets and
                                                                of commercial policy taken by the Benelux countries
portable black and white television sets falling within         with regard to Japan and would, moreover, aggravate
subheading No 85.15 A ex III of the Common                      the economic difficulties that caused the deliberaliza­
Customs Tariff, originating in Japan and put into free          tion measure to be taken ;
circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany ;
                                                                Whereas in those circumstances it is necessary to auth­
Whereas as a result of the mass importation of radio            orize for a limited period the application of protective
and television sets at prices considerably lower than           measures under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5,
those obtaining on the home market and of the                   subject to the conditions laid down by the Commis­
economic difficulties caused by such importation, the           sion Decision of 12 May 1971 (2), and in particular
Benelux countries decided on 25 April 1973 to restore           Article 1 thereof ;
temporarily quantitative restrictions with regard to
Japan on the products in question and to make the               Whereas such measures may be applied until the
importation thereof subject to autonomously opened              entry into force of a decision by the Council on the
quotas covering the period up to 31 December 1973 ;             deliberalization measure taken by the Benelux coun­
                                                                tries, but in any event not beyond the expiry of the
Whereas in accordance with Council Decision of 19               period of validity of the quota,
December 1 972 ( l ) laying down certain transitional
measures for the progressive standardization of the
import terms of Member States as regards third coun­
tries the Commission requested consultation ; whereas           HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
during that consultation the Federal Republic of
Germany raised objections as provided for in Article 5
of the aforementioned Decision to the measures taken                                     Article 1
by the Benelux countries ;
                                                                The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of
Whereas the Commission is accordingly required to               Luxembourg and the Kingdom of Netherlands are
submit a proposal to the Council in accordance with             authorized not to apply Community treatment to
Article 113 of the Treaty ;                                     imports of :
(') OJ No L 299, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 46.                          (2) OJ No L 121 , 3. 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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                                                               measure taken by the Benelux countries with regard
      CCT                                                     to Japan in any event not later than 31 December
     heading              Description of goods
       No                                                      1973 .
85.15 A ex III  Radio receivers (including car radios and
                radio recorders ), colour television sets                           Article 3
                and portable black and white television
                sets
                                                              This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
                                                               Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
                                                               Kingdom of Netherlands .
originating in Japan and put into free circulation in
the Federal Republic of Germany , and in respect of
which application for import authorizations were               Done at Brussels 18 September 1973 .
lodged after 3 September 1973 .
                                                                                      For the Commission
                       Artie e 2
                                                                                          The President
This Decision shall apply until the entry into force of
a decision by the Council on the deliberalization                                    François-Xavier ORTOLI