# EUR-Lex - 52014PC0707 - EN

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# 52014PC0707

**Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries /* COM/2014/0707 final - 2014/0334 (COD) */**

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1.           CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on
common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries
applies to imports of textile products originating in third countries, with
which the European Community has concluded bilateral agreements, signed
protocols or made other arrangements.

In recent years, the European Union only
maintained bilateral agreements on trade in textiles with Russia and Serbia. After Russia's accession to the WTO and the entry into force of the Stabilisation
and Association Agreement with Serbia, Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 lost
its main purpose.

Moreover, Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 was
used to impose quantitative limits to certain textiles products originating
from the People's Republic of China during a limited period and to eventually
use the transitional product-specific safeguard mechanism for China. This mechanism expired on 11 December 2013.

The present proposal, therefore, foresees the
repeal Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 in order to promote legal certainty.

2014/0334 (COD)

Proposal for a

REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
AND OF THE COUNCIL

on repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No
3030/93 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third
countries

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE
COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the
Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 207 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the
European Commission,

After transmission of the draft legislative
act to the national Parliaments,

Acting in accordance with the ordinary
legislative procedure,

Whereas:

(1)       Council Regulation (EEC)
No 3030/93[1]
entered into force on 9 November 1993 and was applied as from 1 January 1993.

(2)       On 22 August 2012, the Russian Federation acceded to the World Trade Organization. As
a consequence, the Republic of Serbia remained the last country with which the
European Union had a bilateral agreement on trade in textiles.

(3)       On 29 April 2008, the
Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and
their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other
part[2] was signed. It entered
into force on 1 September 2013. On 1 February 2010, the Interim Agreement on
trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part,
and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part[3]
entered into force. Since then, Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 no longer applied
to the Republic of Serbia.

(4)       Title I of Council
Regulation (EC) No 427/2003[4]
expired on 11 December 2013. Therefore, the possibility to impose safeguard
measures through this mechanism has expired.

(5)       In the circumstances
described in recitals 1-4, Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 should be
repealed in order to promote legal certainty,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Repeal
of Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93

Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 is repealed.

Article 2

Entry
into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on
the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding
in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels,

For the European Parliament                        For
the Council

The President                                                 The
President

[1]               Council Regulation (EEC) No
3030/93 of 12 October 1993 on common rules for imports of certain textile
products from third countries (OJ L 275, 8.11.1993, p. 1).

[2]               Stabilisation and association agreement between the
European Communities and their Member States of the one part, and the Republic
of Serbia, of the other part (OJ L 278, 18.10.2013, p. 16).

[3]               Interim agreement on trade and
trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part (OJ L28, 30.1.2010, p.2).

[4]               Council Regulation (EC) No
427/2003 on a transitional product-specific safeguard mechanism for imports
originating in the People's Republic of China (OJ L 65, 8.3.2003, p. 1).