CELEX: 31978D0362
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 28 February 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to trousers for men, boys, women, girls and infants, of wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

No L 104/ 22                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                 18 . 4. 78
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                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                             COMMISSION
                                            COMMISSION DECISION
                                               of 28 February 1978
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to trousers for
              men , boys, women , girls and infants, of wool, cotton or man-made textile fibres,
              falling within heading No ex 61.01 or subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common
              Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other
                                                  Member States
                                  (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic)
                                                    (78 /362/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
COMMUNITIES,                                                   persist between the import conditions in the various
                                                               Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          only progressively ;
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­
graph of Article 1 1 5 thereof,                                Whereas according to the application submitted there
                                                               are   serious  difficulties    in  the industrial    sector
Having regard to the application under the first para­         concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 22                 tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
February 1978 by the Governments of the Benelux                market share ;
countries to the Commission of the European
Communities for authorization not to apply Commu­              Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
nity treatment to trousers for men, boys, women , girls        by unequal conditions of competition, whereby
and infants, of wool , cotton or man-made textile              exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.01 or                  than those of the Community products in question ;
subheading ex 61.02 B of the Common Customs
Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circula­          Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
tion in the other Member States,                               already effected, would be likely to aggravate these
                                                               difficulties ;
Whereas the importation into the Community of the
products in question originating in Hong Kong is               Whereas it is not possible to set in motion rapidly the
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the                 machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
Community and that country ;                                   tion from the other Member States ;
Whereas under that Agreement Hong Kong has                     Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its            for the application of protective measures under the
exports of the products in question to the Community           first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the condi­
to certain ceilings allocated along the Member States ;        tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
                                                               May 1971 (•) and in particular Article 1 thereof,
Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the           (0 OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6. 1971 , p. 26.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                            Article 2
                         Article 1
                                                               This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                               arise for the importation of these products from Hong
The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of                    Kong or until 31 December 1978 whichever is the
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are              earlier.
hereby authorized not to apply Community treatment
to the products indicated below, where they originate                                  Article 3
in Hong Kong and are in free circulation in the other
Member States, and in respect of which applications            This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
for import licences were lodged after the date of this         Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Decision :                                                     Kingdom of the Netherlands.
      CCT
     heading                    Description                    Done at Brussels, 28 February 1978 .
        No
                                                                                         For the Commission
ex 61.01 or     Trousers for men , boys, women , girls and
ex 61.02 B      infants,   of wool ,  cotton  or man-made                                Étienne DAVIGNON
                textile fibres
                                                                                     Member of the Commission