CELEX: 31976D0239
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 5 December 1975 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to women's, girls' and infants' shirts and blouses, falling within subheading 61.02 ex B of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany

25. 2. 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 49/23
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 5 December 1975
              authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
              Kingdom of the Netherlands not to apply Community treatment to women's,
              girls' and infants' shirts and blouses, falling within subheading 61.02 ex B of the
              Common Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in the
                                              Federal Republic of Germany
                                     (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                       (76/239/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  lating that the quota in question be allocated initially
COMMUNITIES,                                                    on the basis of the volumes of imports previously
                                                                admitted into the various Member States and need be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           adjusted only progressively to the supply requirements
Economic Community, and in particular the first para­           of the markets ;
graph of Article 115 thereof,
                                                                Whereas for this reason the allocation of the quota in
                                                                question still involves certain disparities in the quota
Having regard to the application under the first para­          shares fixed for the various Member States in relation
graph of Article 115 of the Treaty, made on 28                  to the supply requirements of the markets concerned ;
November 1975 by the Governments of the Benelux
countries to the Commission by telex from the office
of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of               Whereas these disparities have caused in the Benelux
the Netherlands to the European Communities, for                countries a flow of imports of the products in ques­
authorization not to apply Community treatment to               tion, originating in Taiwan and in free circulation in
women's, girls' and infants' shirts and blouses, falling        the Federal Republic of Germany, which threatens to
within subheading 61.02 ex B of the Common                      continue and to grow ;
Customs Tariff, originating in Taiwan and in free
circulation in the Federal Republic of Germany,                 Whereas according to information supplied by the
                                                                Governments of the Benelux countries there are
                                                                serious economic difficulties in the branch of the
Whereas imports into the Community of the products
in question originating in Taiwan are subject to a              textile industry concerned resulting in a progressive
                                                                decline of production and a constant reduction of the
Community quantitative quota established by Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1783/75 of 10 July 1975 on                  number of workers employed in that sector ;
rules for imports of certain textile products originating
in Taiwan ( l) ;                                                Whereas these economic difficulties are caused largely
                                                                by unequal conditions of cofripetition with certain
                                                                countries (including Taiwan), whereby such countries
Whereas this quota is administered by allocation                are enabled to export at prices lower than those of
among the Member States, as determined by Commis­               producers in the Benelux countries ;
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1849/75 of 18 July 1975
allocating quantitative quotas in respect of imports
into the Community of certain textile products origi­           Whereas the indirect imports in question, which
nating in Taiwan (2) ; whereas the quota shares allo­           would be in addition to those already effected, would
cated for 1975 to the Benelux countries and the                 be likely to aggravate these economic difficulties ;
Federal Republic of Germany are 693 000 and
533 000 items respectively ;                                    Whereas it is not possible at the present time to set in
                                                                motion the machinery for bringing about the neces­
Whereas, since it was not possible when the Commu­              sary cooperation from the Federal Republic of
                                                                Germany ;
nity quota was opened to achieve full alignment of
the import arrangements previously applied in the
Member States, the above Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas authorization should be given, for a limited
 1783/75 provides, as a temporary measure, for a dero­          period, for the application of protective measures,
gation from the principle of equal and continuous               under the first paragraph of Article 1 1 5, subject to the
access for all importers to Community quotas by stipu­          conditions laid down by the Commission Decision of
                                                                 12 May 1971 (3), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
 (») OJ No L 182, 12. 7. 1975 p . 2.
 (2) OJ No L 189, 21 . 7. 1975, p . 24 .                        (3) 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 in the Benelux countries for the importation of
The Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of                      the products in question from Taiwan and in any case
Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are               not later than 31 December 1975 .
authorized not to apply Community treatment to
imports of the following products :                                                    Article 3
     CCT
                                                               This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
    heading                 Description of goods                Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
      No                                                        Kingdom of the Netherlands.
61.02 ex B      Women's, girls' and infants'          outer
                garments, shirts and blouses                    Done at Brussels, 5 December 1975 .
                                                                                         For the Commission
where they originate in Taiwan and are in free circula­
tion in the Federal Republic of Germany, and in                                           Finn GUNDELACH
respect of which applications for import licences were
lodged after 19 November 1975.                                                       Member of the Commission