COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
C0M(94) 101 final 
Brussels, 29.03.1994 
94/0097 (ACC) 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL DECISION 
ON THE CONCLUSION OF THE PROTOCOL MAINTAINING IN FrtPrc 
THE ARRANGEMENT REGARDING INTERNATIONAL^^ 
(presented by the Commission) 
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
1. In view of the expiry of the MFA on 31 December 1993 and since the 
Uruguay Round agreement on textiles is not expected to enter into 
force until 1 January 1995, the GATT Textiles Committee decided on 9 
December 1993 to extend the MFA for a period of 12 months from 
1 January to 31 December 1994. This decision is in accordance with 
the negotiating directives that the Commission received from the 
Council on 2 December 1993. 
2. The Commission therefore proposes that the Council approve the 
decision concluding the Protocol maintaining in force the MFA for1994 
on behalf of the Community. 
PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION 
on the conclusion of the Protocol maintaining in force 
the Arrangement regarding international trade in textiles (MFA) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in 
particular Article 113 and Article 228(2), 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Whereas the Commission took part, on behalf of the Community, in the 
negotiations on the maintenance in force of the Arrangement regarding 
international trade in textiles (MFA);1 
Whereas these negotiations led to the establishment of a Protocol 
maintaining in force the MFA for a further period of 12 months until 
31 December 1994; 
Whereas this Protocol should be approved on behalf of the European 
Commun i t y, 
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: 
Art icle 1 
The Protocol maintaining in force the Arrangement regarding internationa 
trade in textiles, which was adopted by the GATT Textiles Committee on 9 
December 1993, is hereby approved on behalf of the European Community. 
The text of the Protocol is attached to this Decision. 
Art icle 2 
The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the person 
empowered to notify acceptance of the Protocol on behalf of the European 
Community, in accordance with paragraph 3 of the Protocol. 
Done at Brussels, 
OJ L 341, 4.12.1986, p. 34 
9 December 1993 
PROTOCOL MAINTAINING IN FORCE THE ARRANGEMENT REGARDING 
INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TEXTILES 
The PARTIES to the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in 
Textiles (hereinafter referred to as "the Arrangement" or "MFA"), 
ACTING pursuant to paragraph 5 of Article 10 of the Arrangement, 
REAFFIRMING that the terms of the Arrangement regarding the competence 
of the Textiles Committee and the Textiles Surveillance Body are 
ma inta ined, and 
FOLLOWING the Decision of the Textiles Committee adopted on 
9 December 199-3 
HEREBY AGREE as follows : 
1- The Arrangement, including the. Conclusions of the Textiles Committee, 
adopted on 31 July 1986, as amended by the 1989 Protocol Amending the 1986 
Protocol Extending the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in 
Textiles, shall be maintained in fc-ce for a further period of 
twelve months until 31 December 1994-
2. This Protocol shall be deposited with the Director-General to the 
CONTRACTING PARTIES - to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. • It ' 
shall be open for acceptance, by signature or otherwise, by the Parties to 
the Arrangement, by other governments accepting or acceding to the 
Arrangement pursuant to the provisions of Article 13 thereof and by the 
European Community. 
3. This Protocol shall enter into force with effect from 1 January 1994 
for the parties which have accepted it by that date and it shall enter into 
force for a party which accepts it on a later date as of the date of such 
acceptance. It shall be applied provisionally, taking into account their 
constitutional and/or legislative procedures for ratification, as from 
1 January 1994, by parties which have signed it subject to completion of 
constitutional procedures, or notified the depositary of their intention to 
apply it provisionally, by that date, and by other parties from the date of 
their signature or notification of provisional application. 
DONE at Geneva this ninth day of December one thousand nine hundred 
and ninety-t.Kr.eein a single copy, in the English, French and Spanish 
languages, each text being authentic. 
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9 December 1993 
DECISION BY THE TEXTILES COMMITTEE TO MAINTAIN IN FORCE 
THE ARRANGEMENT REGARDING INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TEXTILES 
FOR A PERIOD OF TWELVE MONTHS 
1.1.94 TO 31.12.94 
The Textiles Committee met on 9 December 1993 to resume the 
discussion that it had begun at its meeting on 9 December 1992 on 
the future of the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in 
Textiles (MFA), in accordance with the provisions of Article 10.5 
of the Arrangement. 
The Committee decided to maintain in force the existing MFA, as 
extended by the 1986 Protocol, and as maintained in force by the 
1992 Protocol, for a further period of 12 months from 1 January 
1994 to 31 December 1994 in view of the fact that the Uruguay Round 
has not been completed. 
The Committee reaffirmed the Conclusions of the Textiles Committee 
adopted on 31 July 1986 and the obligations contained therein. 
As to the necessary legal steps in this regard, the Textiles 
Committee drew up the attached text of a Protocol Maintaining in 
Force the MFA for a further period of 12 months. The Protocol would 
enter into force on 1 January 1994. 
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