CELEX: 31978D0533
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 5 June 1978 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men's and boys' shirts, woven, of wool, of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex 61.03 (NIMEXE codes 61.03-11, 15, 19) of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other Member States

20 . 6 . 78                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 163 / 15
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 5 June 1978
             authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
             Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to men 's and
             boys' shirts, woven , of wool , of cotton or of man-made textile fibres, falling
             within heading No ex 61.03 ( NIMEXE codes 61.03-11 , 15 , 19) of the Common
             Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong and in free circulation in the other
                                                    Member States
                                   (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                     (78 / 533/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas further indirect imports, in addition to those
COMMUNITIES,                                                    already effected, would be likely to aggravate 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 1 1 5 thereof,                                 machinery for bringing about the necessary coopera­
                                                                tion from the other Member States,
Having regard to the application under the first para­
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 31 May              Whereas authorization should accordingly be given
1978 by the governments of the Benelux countries to             for the application of protective measures under the
the Commission of the European Communities, for                 first paragraph of Article 115, subject to the condi­
authorization not to apply Community treatment to               tions specified in the Commission Decision of 12
men 's and boys' shirts, woven , of wool, of cotton or of       May 1971 ( ! ) and in particular Article 1 thereof,
man-made textile fibres, falling within heading No ex
61.03 (NIMEXE codes 61.03-11 , 15, 19) of the
Common Customs Tariff, originating in Hong Kong
and in free circulation in the other Member States,             HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas the importation into the Community of the                                          Article 1
products in question originating in Hong Kong is
covered by an Agreement negotiated between the
Community and this country                                      The Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
                                                                Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are
                                                                authorized not to apply Community treatment to the
Whereas, under that Agreement, Hong Kong has
undertaken to take all necessary steps to limit its             products indicated below, where they originate in
                                                                Hong Kong and are in free circulation in the other
exports of the products in question to the Community
to certain ceilings allocated among the Member                  Member States, and in respect of which applications
States ;
                                                                for import licences were lodged after 23 May 1978 :
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Whereas it was not possible on that occasion to allo­                     heading                        Description
cate these ceilings on the basis of the needs of the                        No
individual markets ; whereas for that reason disparities
persist between the import conditions in the various            ex 61.03                  Men's and boys' shirts, woven, of
Member States ; whereas uniformity can be achieved              (NIMEXE codes 61.03­ wool , of cotton or of man-made
only progressively ;                                            11 , 15, 19)              textile fibres
Whereas, according to the application submitted,
there are serious difficulties in the industrial sector
concerned, involving a considerable drop in produc­                                        Article 2
tion and employment and a progressive decline in its
market share ;                                                  This Decision shall apply until new opportunities
                                                                arise for the importation of these products from Hong
Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely          Kong or until 31 December 1978 whichever is the
by unequal conditions of competition , whereby                  earlier.
exports can be effected at prices appreciably lower
than those of the Community products in question ;              (') OJ No L 121 , 3 . 6 . 1971 , p. 26 .
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                   Article 3                            Done at Brussels, 5 June 1978 .
                                                                               For the Commission
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of                                   Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.                                                        Vice-President