CELEX: 51975PC0253
Language: en
Date: 1975-05-30
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) maintaining in effect the rules whereby imports into the Federal Republic of Germany and Benelux countries of synthetic socks originating in Taiwan are subject to import authorisations (submitted by the Commission to the Council)

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                                                  COM(75 ) 253 final
                                             Brussels . 30 May 1975
                              Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
                     maintaining in effect the rules whereby
                   imports into the Federal Republic of Germany
               and Benelux countries of synthetic socks originating
                in Taiwan are subject to import, authorisations
               ( submitted by the Commission to the Council )
 C0M(75 ) 253 final
 ---pagebreak---                      Explanatory Statement
 1.     Since 1971 » the European producers of synthetic socks have been
 subjected to growing pressure , especially in the German and Benelux
 markets , from imports from South East Asia, and principally from Korea
 and Taiwan . This pressure has manifested itself on the quantitative
 level by a sharp and substantial increase in imports which have risen
 from 12 million pairs in 1971 to about 53 million pairs in 1974 in Germany,
 and from 6 million pairs in 1971 to more than 12 million pairs in 1974 •
 in Benelux . Furthermore , the abnormally low prices offered by the
Korean and Taiwanese exporters , less than half the European price , have
 adversely affected the Community producers .                        •      ,
2.     The combination of these two factors , quantity and price , has allowed
the Korean and Taiwanese exporters to capture a large share of the market ,
approximately $0% in Germany and 20% in Benelux. This development has
been at the expense of the knitwear producers in the regions affected,
whose production has decreased considerably during the past four years .
It has also had very serious effects on the already precarious position
of employment in this sector .
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3.     Furthermore , an aggravation of the position of the Community producers
seems to be imminent if regard is had to the number of import licences
issued over the last few months by virtue of the Community surveillance which
has been established over imports of these products^^.
4.     It therefo re seemed legitimate and necessary that the Commission
should take immediate action, that is that it should limit temporarily
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imports originating in Taiwan as it had done for imports of Korean origin         .
(l ) O.J. No . L 316 of 26.11.1974 » page 7
( 2 ) Doo . Com (75 )       - Accelerated written procedure No . C    /75 ot ' •
      22.5.1975
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5.    This measure has been restricted for the moment to those regions
of the Community , which are the most directly affected, that is , to
Germany and the Benelux .
6.    The Commission considers that these measures should be maintained
in effect for six months and, in accordance with the provisions of
Regulation ( EEC ) No . 1439/74 , Article 12, paragraph 6 , is submitting to
the Council the attached proposal for a Regulation regarding measures
appropriate to be taken in this field .
        I
( l ) Accelerated written procedure No . 1557 of 26 . 5*1975
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                         Proposai for a Council Régulation
                     maintaining in effect the rules whereby imports
               into the Federal Republic of Germany and. the Benelux countries
               oi synthetic socks originating in Taiwan are subject to import
                             '   authorisations
   THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES .
         /
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No« 1439/74^^ on common rules
  for imports and in particular article 13 thereof ;      •
  The Committee set up under article 5 of "the said Regulation having been
  consulted ;
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
  Whereas by Regulation ( EEC ) No .      of May       1975 » "the Contaission-
  established rules whereby imports into the Federal Republic of Germany
  and the Benelux countries of synthetic socks originating in Taiwan were
  made subject to authorisation ;
  Whereas the factors which justified the establishment of these rules are
  still present and whereas it is consequently necessary to maintain them
  in effect for a period of' six months ;        . ■ «    '
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION !
. ( 1 ) O.J. No * L 159 of 15*6.1974 , page 1 .
 ---pagebreak---                                 Article 1
1 . The rules whereby imports into the Federal Republic of Germany and
Benelux countries of synthetic socks originating in Taiwan are subject
to authorisation which were adopted by Commission Regulation (EEC )
No .     of        May 1975 shall remain applicable for a period of
6 months from the date of its entry into force .
2.   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at Brussels .                                  For the Council 1
                                                     The Président