91/20/EEC: Council Decision of 21 December 1990 concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade in textile products
Date: 1990-12-21
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Czechoslovakia, agreement (EU), distributive trades, textile product













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91/20/EEC: Council Decision of 21 December 1990 concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade in textile products  


Official Journal L 013 , 18/01/1991 P. 0017 





COUNCIL DECISION  of 21 December 1990  concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade in textile products  (91/20/EEC) 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 completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion, the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic initialled on 19 June 1986, has been provisionally applied since 1 January  1987 in accordance, having regard to the Community, with Decision 87/498/EEC (1);  Whereas that Agreement provides for the possibility of adjustments to the quantitative limits;  Whereas Czechoslovakia accepted the offer for improved market access which the Community made on the basis of a specific request submitted by Czechoslovakia under the Phare action plan and it was agreed, in an Agreed Minute of 30 October 1990, to  increase for 1990 and 1991 the Community quantitative limits of a number of categories mentioned in Annex II to the aforementioned Agreement;  Whereas both parties agreed that the aforesaid quota increases are exceptional and intended to contribute to the co-ordinated effort of the 'Group of 24' industrialized countries, to facilitate the restructuring of Czechoslovakia's economy through,  inter alia, improved access to the Community's markets;  Whereas it was agreed that the said Agreed Minute will be applied provisionally as from 15 November 1990 pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion, provided that there is a reciprocal provisional application on the part of  the contracting party,  HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:    Sole Article  The Agreed Minute amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade in textile products shall be applied provisionally as from 15 November 1990 pending its formal conclusion,  provided that there is a reciprocal provisional application on the part of the contracting party.  The text of the Agreed Minute is attached to this Decision.   Done at Brussels, 21 December 1990. For the Council  The President  A. RUBERTI   (1) OJ No L 287, 9. 10. 1987, p. 89.    ANNEX  For practical reasons the product descriptions used in the Annex are given in abbreviated form  Increase of EEC quantitative limits for Czechoslovakia for 1990 and 1991   Category  Description   Units  Increase  of EEC  limits  1990 and 1991       2  Woven fabrics of cotton  tonnes  650       3  Woven fabrics of man-made fibres  tonnes  325  3 (a)  (a) of which:  other than bleached or unbleached  tonnes  F: 54  BNL: 31        6  Woven trousers  1 000 pieces  400       8  Men's shirts, woven  1 000 pieces  340       9  Woven terry fabrics and toilet linen  tonnes  70       19  Handkerchiefs  1 000 pieces  8 000       32  Velvet and corduroy  tonnes  600  32 (a)  of  which: cotton corduroy  tonnes  600       36  Woven fabrics of continuous artificial fibres  tonnes  250       37  Woven fabrics discontinuous artificial fibres  tonnes  200       76  Industrial or occupational clothing  tonnes  230       90  Synthetic  cordage  tonnes  240       110  Pneumatic mattresses  tonnes  120       117  Woven fabrics of flax or of ramie  tonnes  175