Commission Regulation (EC) No 1591/2000
of 10 July 2000
amending Annexes II, III, V, VII, VIII and IX to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 of 12 October 1993 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries(1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1072/99(2), and in particular Article 19 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) The Council has decided, by its Decision of 21 December 1999(3), to apply on a provisional basis the Agreements in the form of Exchanges of Letters between the European Community and certain third States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) on trade in textile products.
(2) The Council has decided, by its Decision of 21 December 1999(4), to apply on a provisional basis the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Republic of Belarus amending the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Belarus on trade in textile products.
(3) The Council has decided, by its Decision of 21 December 1999(5), to apply on a provisional basis the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Ukraine amending the Agreement between the European Community and Ukraine on trade in textile products.
(4) The Council has decided, by its Decision of 21 December 1999(6), to apply on a provisional basis the Agreement in the form of en Exchange of Letters amending the Agreements between the European Community and the People's Republic of China on trade in textile products.
(5) The Council has decided, by its Decision of 21 December 1999(7), to apply on a provisional basis the Agreement between the European Community and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on trade in textile products.
(6) The Council has decided, by its Decision of 21 December 1999(8), to apply on a provisional basis the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Community and the Arab Republic of Egypt on trade in textile products.
(7) The Council has decided, by its Decision of 13 September 1999(9), to apply on a provisional basis the Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Nepal on trade in textile products.
(8) The Council has decided, by its Decision of 12 July 1999(10), to apply on a provisional basis the Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Cambodia on trade in textile products.
(9) All the above elements make it necessary to amend the relevant portions of Annexes II, III, V, VII, VIII and IX to Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 to take into account these modifications, which are applicable to the importation into the Community of certain textile products originating in certain third countries within the meaning of Article 19 of the above mentioned Regulation; whereas certain other amendments in order to take account of agreements, protocols or arrangements in the sense of that article are also appropriate.
(10) In order to ensure that the Community complies with its international obligations the measures provided for in this Regulation should apply with effect from 1 January 2000.
(11) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Textile Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 is amended as follows:
1. Annex II is replaced by Annex 1 to this Regulation.
2. In Annex III, Article 28 is replaced by the following text:
"Article 28
1. The export licence referred to in Articles 11 and 19 and the certificate of origin may include additional copies duly indicated as such. They shall be made out in English, French or Spanish.
2. If the documents referred to above are completed by hand, entries must be in ink and in block letters.
3. The export licences or equivalent documents and certificates of origin shall measure 210 × 297 mm(11). The paper shall be white writing paper, sized, not containing mechanical pulp(12) and weighing not less than 25 g/m. Each part shall have a printed guilloche pattern background making any falsification by mechanical or chemical means apparent to the eye(13).
4. Only the original shall be accepted by the competent authorities in the Community as being valid for import purposes in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation.
5. Each export licence or equivalent document and the certificate of origin shall bear a standardised serial number, whether or not printed, by which it can be identified(14).
6. This number shall be composed of the following elements(15):
- two letters identifying the exporting country as follows:
- Argentina= AR
- Bangladesh= BD
- Belarus= BY
- Brazil= BR
- Cambodia= KH
- China= CN
- Egypt= EG
- Estonia= EE
- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia= MK(16)
- Hong Kong= HK
- India= IN
- Indonesia= ID
- Kazakhstan= KZ
- Kyrgyzstan= KG
- Laos= LA
- Latvia= LV
- Lithuania= LT
- Macao= MO
- Malaysia= MY
- Moldova= MD
- Mongolia= MN
- Nepal= NP
- Pakistan= PK
- Peru= PE
- Philippines= PH
- Russian Federation= RU
- Singapore= SG
- South Korea= KR
- Sri Lanka= LK
- Taiwan= TW
- Tajikistan= TJ
- Thailand= TH
- Turkmenistan= TM
- Ukraine= UA
- United Arab Emirates= AE
- Uzbekistan= UZ
- Vietnam= VN
- two letters identifying the intended Member State of destination as follows:
- AT= Austria
- BL= Benelux
- DE= Federal Republic of Germany
- DK= Denmark
- EL= Greece
- ES= Spain
- FI= Finland
- FR= France
- GB= United Kingdom
- IE= Ireland
- IT= Italy
- PT= Portugal
- SE= Sweden
- a one-digit number identifying the quota year or the year under which exports were recorded, in the case of products listed in Table A of this Annex, corresponding to the last figure in the year in question, e.g. '0' for 2000, etc. In the case of products originating in the People's Republic of China listed in Appendix C to Annex V this number should be '6' for the year 2000,
- a two-digit number identifying the issuing office in the exporting country,
- a five-digit number running consecutively from 00001 to 99999 allocated to the specific Member State of destination."
3. Table A to Annex III is replaced by Annex 2 to this Regulation.
4. Annex V is replaced by Annex 3 to this Regulation.
5. Annex VII is replaced by Annex 4 to this Regulation.
6. Annex VIII is replaced by Annex 5 to this Regulation.
7. Annex IX is replaced by Annex 6 to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply with effect from 1 January 2000.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 10 July 2000.