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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(83) 545 final  
Brussels, 19 September 1983
Proposal for a  
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of  
Community tariff quotas for certain textile products falling  
within heading Nos 55.05 and 55.09 and subheading ex 58.01 A  
of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Turkey (1984)
(submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM(83) 545 final

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. As a result of negotiations with Turkey on thè adjustments to be made  
to thè Association Agreement between that country and thè Community and  
thè Additional Protocol, to take accaunt of new Member States, thè  
Community signed in Ankara ón 30 June -1973 a Supplementary Protocol which  
enter into force oncè it has bèen ratified.
In thè meantime, thè Community has concluded an Interim Agreement which  
in theóry runs only for thè period prior to thè entry in force of this  
Supplementary Protocol in order to implement, from 1 January 1974, cei—  
tain provisions of that Protocol relating to trade in goods.
At thè moment it is not possible to know *if thè tariff riieasures laid  
down by these Agreements in Turkey's favour, should be given for 1984  
on thè basis of thè Supplementary Protocol or thè Interim Agreement.
The provisions of thè annexed Regulations 'are based on thè Interim  
Agreement and should thus be 'modified if thè Supplementary Protocol  
enters into force on 1.,January 1984.
2. In thè abovementioned Supplementary Protocol and Interim Agreement,  
provision is made in particular in respect of tentile products
and until 31 December 1984 for thè openinq of thè following annual  
Community tariff quotas, subject to thè conditions laid down for each  
product :
CCT heading  
NoDescriptionAnnual tariff  
■  quotaQuota
duty
55.05
55.09Cotton yarn, not. put up for  
retai l sale
Other woven fabrics of cot­
ton390‘tonnes  
1 390 tonnes75 % re- 
duction
75 % re- 
duction

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They also determine for these products the allocation among the Member
Stans of the annual tariff quotas for text,)Le products. This allocation
is as follows :
Cotton yarn (heeding No 55.05)
Community-as originally constituted 300 to n n es
Denmark * 40 to n n es
Ireland 10 to n n es
United Kingdom. 40 to n n es
Other woven fabrics of cotton (heading No 55.09)
Community as originally constituted 1 000 tonnes
Denmark 20 tonnes
Ireland 10 to n n es
United Kingdom 3 6 0  to n n es
3. While article 14 of the Supplementary Protocol fixes such an allocation
.  for a period ending at 1 July 1977, the Interim Agreement fixes no  
limit to this, special allocation, while could be due to the initially  
limited period of validity of the Interim Agreement applying in  
anticipated application some of the provisions of the Supplementary  
Protocol.
The end of the transitional period fixed by the Act of Adhesion on  
1 July 1977 has led the Commission to,reflect on the question of  
this allocation, which has resulted in the proposal to have a cPmmon '  
system of administration of the above tariffxsjuota.s involving, in each  
case, the opening of. a single quota, quantity 'divided'between the: Member  
States according '  to the usua-i^ criteria an^the^creation-qfa single .1;  
Community reserve open to al.l-'-tyemBer, iStates-.
A. Another problem arises in connection with the size of the quotas to  
opened for 19n4 in view of the.decision-taken..by the Association  
Coun. il duri .  i  June 1973 to grant' Turkey treatment as favourable as  
that granted to countries benefiting from generalized tariff prefe­
rences.

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A s  the decisions on the system to be applied to the. developing countries 
will not be taken uptil very late this year, the present Com m ission pro­
posal for 1 9 8 4  takes account., for the calculation of quota amounts, of 
the generalized system of preference schem a (textile sector) as proposed 
by the Commission.
,0 n  thi§ basis, t^e..volume-of- the C om m unity tariff quotas to be opened 
for 19 8 4  for Turkey should correspond to those for 1983, that is
- for cotton yarn 
-for  other cotton cloth- |  0 9 9  tonnes 
2 58 7  tonnes
- for carpets 2 0 8  tonnes
It goes without saying that these volumes'should be adjusted if the 
final decision taker, in the generalized system of preferences does 
not correspond.to the system proposed.'
In addition,,, the Commission is aware that-this concession could be 
modified in the context of registrations to be undertaken with Turkey. 
W hile awaiting afinal  decision this proposal constitutes an instrument 
to respect the Communities' contractual engagements.
Thus, the Com m ission reserves the right to modify this proposal during 
the procedure to adapt it if necessary to the result of the negocia- 
tions. -
5. A s  regard the economic information to be used in determining the basis 
for the proposed allocation of the tariff quotas concerned, it should 
be remarked that they should be based principally on M em b er States' 
imports,.actual and estimated, specifically originating in or com ing 
from  Turkey for the categories of products considered.
.Thus, although it has been possible to draw up the appropriate informa­
tion for the years 1 9 8 0  to 1 9 8 2  nevertheless because of tjie irregularity 
noted in imports during those reference years, it has not necessarily 
been possible to deduce any firm basis of assessment. For this reason, 
as it is customary, the quo. i  volumes attributed to the original 
C om m unity have been divide^ ir o  tw o tranches, the first tranche being 
•allocated am o n g  the M em b er States, and the second held as a  reserve to 
cover any additional requirements which might co m e .to light in those 
M em b er States.

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fc - r t i - i v  su .K ' regions the initial volumes allocated to the M em b er States 
U i,M  in the proposals are the sam e as in, 1983.
6. T h e Proposal fo-  a  Regulation on textile products provides for a single 
m ethod of counting imports against quota shares in the M em b er States 
.concerned, namely as and w h en  they are entered for h o m e use.

P ro p o sat fo r a
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for 
certain textile products falling within heading Nos 55.05 and 55.09 and subheading ex 58.01 A 
of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Turlcey (1 9 8 4 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 
thereof.
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas, pending the entry into force of the 
Supplementary Protocol signed in Ankara on 30 June 
1973 containing the adjustments to be made to the 
Agreement establishing an Association between the 
European Economic Community and Turkey and to the 
Additional Protocol (') consequent on the accession of 
new Member States, the Community has undertaken, in 
an Interim Agreement (2) which runs only for the period 
prior to the entry into force of this Supplementary 
Protocol which is applicable until 31 December 1974 but 
which has been extended for 1984 in accordance with the 
terms laid down in Article 13 thereof, to implement 
certain provisions of the Supplementary Protocol relating 
to trade in goods; whereas, under Article 6 of this Interim 
Agreement amending Article 1  of Annex 2 to the 
Additional Protocol, the Community must reduce by 
75% the customs duties on imports from Turkey of 
certain textile products falling within heading Nos 55.05 
and 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff, within the 
limit of annual Community tariff quotas of 390 tonnes for 
cotton yarn and 1  390 tonnes for woven fabrics of cotton; 
whereas the abovcmcntioncd Article 6 allocates these 
Community tariff quotas as follows:
— for cotton yarn:
300 tonnes to the Community as originally 
constituted, 40 tonnes to Denmark, 10 tonnes to 
Ireland and 40 tonnes to the United Kingdom;
— for woven fabrics of cotton:
1  000 tonnes to the Community as originally 
constituted, 20 tonnes to Denmark, 10 tonnes to 
Ireland and 360 tonnes to the United Kingdom;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 119 of the 1979 Act 
of Accession, the Council adopted Regulation ( E E f N o  
3555/80 of 16 December 1980 determining thearrangements to be applied with regard to imports into 
Greece, originating in Algeria, Israel, Malta, Morocco, 
Portugal, Syria, Tunisia or Turkey (3); whereas, as a 
result, this Regulation applies to the Community of 
Nine; whereas Article 14 of the said Supplementary 
Protocol only provides for such an allocation of tariff 
quotas between the Community as originally constituted 
and the three new Member States until 1  July 1977; 
whereas, moreover, following the end of the transitional 
period laid down in Article 3 9 of the Act of Accession, it is 
necessary to create a common system of administration of 
the tariff quotas concerned, consisting in each case of the 
opening of a single quota divided between all the Member 
States according to the usual criteria and the creation of a 
single Community reserve, open to all Member States;
Whereas it is desirable to provide for a provisional 
adjustment of the tariff advantages for these goods 
consisting of a total suspension of the customs duties of 
the Common Customs Tariff and an increase in the 
quotas; whereas the volumes of the quotas to be opened 
for 198 4 are therefore 1  099 tonnes for cotton yarn and 
2 587 tonnes for other woven fabrics of cotton;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 1  of Annex 2 to the 
Additional Protocol together with Article 2 of the Interim 
Agreement, for the duration of 1984 in particular, the 
Community must partially reduce the duties applicable in 
respect of third countries to carpets, carpeting and rugs, 
knotted (made up or not) of wool or of fine animal hair 
(excluding handmade carpets, carpeting and rugs) 
imported from Turkey; whereas it also appears advisable 
to improve this tariff advantage provisionally by means of 
a total suspension of the duties applicable to the products 
in question within a Community tariff quota fixed at a 
provisional level of 208 tonnes for 1984;
Whereas, it is necessary to guarantee to all Community 
importers equal and uninterrupted access to the 
abovementioned quotas and uninterrupted application of 
the rate laid down for those quotas to all imports of the 
product concerned into all Member States until the quota 
has been used up; whereas, in the light of the principles 
mentioned above, the Community nature of the quotas
(') OJ No I. 293, 29. 12. 1972, p. 4.
(2)  OJ No I. 277, 3. 10. 1973, p. 2. (J) OJ No L 382, 31. 12. 1980, p. 1.

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can best be res-'ectei by allocating the Community tariff 
,TJOta.i .'P’on^ tl e ’/iwibt· States; whereas, in order to 
reflect most accurately t’.e actual development of the 
market fo, th( prnc'. :r,s concerned, such allocation shall 
be in proportion n the needs of the Member States, 
assessed by refert nee both to the statistics of each State’s 
itr.ooits from Turk· y  over a representative period and to 
the ttonomic outlook for the quota period concerned; 
-vh reas, in sp.te o! the limited need for imports from 
Tu.kcy of the products concerned, as shown by thestatistics for the majority of the Member States the 
Community character of the tariff quotas concerned 
should be safeguarded by making provisions to cover 
needs which might arise in these Member States;
Whereat imports into the various Member States from 
Turkey were as follows during the past three years for 
which complete statistics are available:
1980 1 9 8 1 1 9 8 2
Tonnes % Tonnes % Tonnes %
Cotton yarn
Benelux
Denmark
Germany
Fiano-
Ireland
Italy
United Kingdom
Other ivoven fabrics
of cotton
Benelux
Denmark
Germany
France
Ireland
Italy
United Kingdom7  956
21 95§ 
2 202 
8 7
2 0 0 8 9  
2  1 3 914.61
4 8:  §2
4.05
0.16
36.90
3.931 3  0 9 8  
4 92 9  6 1 1  3  0 2 5  4 6
2 9  7 50 
7  6 9 015.73
0.0635.56
3.630.06
35.73 
9.231 6  0 6 4  
02 5  2 2 2  
2 6 2 2  1 5
2 7  8 8 3  
4  1 7 921.14
033.19
3.45
0 . 0 2
36.70
5.50
54 4 3 4 8 3  2 6 9 7 5  9 8 5
281
0
1 6 2
2 2 4
0
1 .026 8715.82
0
9.12
12.62
057.77/, A  71 7 0
1
5 6 7
4 1 2
092 3ASA6.16
0.04
20.56
14.93
053.45 2 4  a S *7 6 1
1
2  59 0
1  1 5 0
1 52  7 0 7  2  4 9 87.83
0 .0 1
26.64
1 1  .83 
0.16 27.84 ?ç 40
1  7 76 2  7 5 9 9  7 2 2
Whereas, in view of these figures and foreseeable Vnarket 
trends for the products concerned during 1984 the initial 
shares may be fixed approximately at the following 
percentages:
CottonOther woven
fabrics ofyarncotton
Benelux 16-11 20-06
Denmark 8-65 1-81
Germany 35-82 15-07
France 4-33 22-55
Ireland 2-28 0-93
Italy 24-04 7-49
United Kingdom 8-77 32-09
Whereas, in order to take into account the uncertainty 
of the import trends for the products concerned in the 
Member State . the quota volumes should be divided intotwo instalments, the first instalment being allocated to the 
Member States, and the second held as a reserve intended 
ultimately to cover the requirements of those Member 
States which have used up their initial shares; whereas, in 
order to ensure a certain degree of security to importers, 
the first instalment should be determined at a relatively 
high level, which, under present circumstances, may be 
about 80% of each quota volume;
Whereas the initial quota shares of the Member States 
may be used up at different times; whereas, in order to 
take this fact into account and avoid any break in 
continuity, it is important that any Member State having 
used up almost the whole of one of its initial quota shares 
should draw an additional quota share from the 
corresponding reserve; whereas, this must be done by 
each Member State as and when each of its additional 
quota shares is almost entirely used up, and repeated as 
many times as each of the reserves allows; whereas each

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of the initial and additional quota shares must be 
available for use until the end of the quota period; 
whereas this method of administration calls for close 
cooperation between Member States and the 
Commission, which must, in particular, be able to 
observe the extent to which the quota amount is used and 
inform Member States thereof;
Whereas, at a specified date in the quota period, a 
considerable balance remains in one or other Member 
State it is essential that that Member State pays a 
percentage of it back into the corresponding reserve, in 
order to prevent a part of one or other of the Community 
quotas from remaining unused in one Member State 
when it could be used in others;
Whereas the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the 
Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are 
united within and jointly represented by the Benelux 
Economic Union, all transactions concerning the 
administration of shares granted to the abovementioned 
economic union may be carried out by any one of its 
members,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article l
1. From 1  January to 31 December 1984 ^Community
tariff quotas shall be opened in the Community ot Nine 
for the following products coming from Turkey, as 
shown below:
(tonnes)
CCT
heading
NoDescription Quota
55.05 Cotton yarn, not put up for 
retail sale 1  099
55.09 Other woven fabrics of cot­
ton 2 587
58.01 Carpets, carpeting and rugs 
(made up or not)
ex A. Of wool or of fine 
animal hair excluding 
handmade carpets, car­
peting and rugs 208
2. The duties of the Common Customs T.intf are 
totally suspended for these tariff quotas.
Article 2
1. A first instalment of each of the quotas referred to in
Article 1(1), which shall be 832 tonnes for cotton yamnot put up for retail sale, 2 044 tonnes for other woven 
fabrics of cotton and 167 tonnes for carpets, carpeting 
and rugs of wool or of tine animal hair, shall be shared 
among the Member States; the shares which, subject to 
Article 5 shall be valid until 31 December 1984, shall be 
as follows:
(tonnes)
CC'T heading No
M ember States
55.0S S.S.09 ex 58.01 A
Benelux 1.14 410 16
Denmark 72 37 16
Germany 298 308 40
France .16 461 28
Ireland 19 19 2
Italy 200 153 20 ,
United Kingdom 73 656 45
832 2 044 167
2. The second instalment of each quota, amounting to
267, 543 and 41 tonnes respectively, shall make up the 
corresponding reserve.
Article 3
1. If 90% or more of one of any Member State’s initial 
shares, as laid down in Article 2 (1) or 90% of that share 
less the amount returned into the corresponding reserve, 
where Article 5 has been applied, has been used up, that 
Member State shall without delay, by notifying the 
Commission, draw a second share in the quota equal to 
15 % of its initial share, rounded up to the next unit where 
appropriate, to the extent that the amount in the reserve 
allows.
2. If, after one or other of its initial shares has been 
used up, 90 % or more of the second share drawn by one 
of the Member States has been used up, that Member 
State shall, in the manner provided for in paragraph 1, 
draw a third share equal to 7-5 % of its initial share.
3. If, after one or other of its second shares has been 
used up, 90% or more of the third share drawn by a 
Member State has been used up, the latter shall, in the 
same manner, draw a fourth share equal to the third.
This procedure shall be followed until the reserve has 
been exhausted.
4. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1, 2 and 3, Member 
States may draw smaller shares than those fixed in those 
paragraphs if there is reason to belie'.that those shares

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inr'ht i oi b u ,cu up. They shall inform the Commission 
of hen nas >ns applying this paragraph.
Article 4
Tiach o; the a  Tdft or;al shares drawn pursuant to Article 3 
shall be vaii r ui tit 31 December 1984.
Article 5
The Member States shall return to the reservr, not later 
than 1  October j98 4 the unused portion of their nitial 
share which , on :  3  September 1984 is in excess of 20 % 
of the initial amount. They may return a greater portion if 
there are ground» for believing that such portion may not 
be used in full.
Member Stares shall, not later than 1  October 1984 
notify the Commission of the total imports of the 
products concerned effected under the Community 
quotas up to and including 15 September 1984 and, 
where appropriate, the proportion of each of their 
initial shares that they are returning to each of the 
reserves.
Article 6
The Commission shall keep account of the shares opened 
by Member States in accordance with Articles 2 and 3, 
and shall inform each of them of the extent to which the 
reserves hn e been used as soon as it receives the 
notification ·.
It shall, not later than 5 October 1914, n otify the Member 
States of the state of each of the reserves after the return of 
shares pursuant to Article 5.
It shall ensure that any drawing which uses up a reserve is 
limited to the balance available and, for this purpose, 
shall specify the amount thereof to the Member State 
which makes the final drawing.Article  7
1. Member States shall take all measures necessary to 
ensure that, when additional shares are drawn pursuant 
to Article 3, it is possible for imports to be counted 
without interruption against their accumulated shares of 
the Community tariff quotas.
2. Member States shall ensure for importers of the 
products concerned
free access to the shares allocated to them.
3. Member States shall charge imports of the said 
goods against their shares as and when the goods are 
entered with customs authorities for free circulation.
4. The extent to which the Member States’shares have 
been used up shall be established on the basis of imports 
counted in accordance with paragraph 3.
Article 8
On receipt of a request from the Commission, Member 
States shall inform it of imports of the products concerned 
actually chargèd against their shares.
Article 9
The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate 
closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is 
respected.
Article 10
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1  January
1984.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
States.
Done at Brussels,
For the Council
The President