Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 on common rules for imports of textile products from certain third countries not covered by bilateral agreements, protocols or other arrangements, or by other specific Community import rules
Date: 1999-12-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, import policy, quantitative restriction, textile product

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 15.12.1999
COM(1999) 663 final

1999/0278 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 on common rules for imports of textile
products from certain third countries not covered by bilateral agreements, protocols or
other arrangements, or by other specific Community import rules

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 of 7 March 1994 lays down common rules for imports of
certain textile products from third countries not covered by bilateral agreements, protocols or
other arrangements, or by other specific Community import rules.

The amendments to Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 of 7 March 1994 that
Commission proposes are the following:

the

1.

2.

3.

The common quantitative restrictions for Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia have been
split
in line with the proposal of the Commission for the renewal of Council
Regulation (EC) No 70/97, which establishes the splitting of existing global
concessions into country specific ones for the two countries above. Based on the
trade patterns and actual utilisation of quantitative limits for the last three years
(1996-98),
is 70% Croatia and 30% Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Consequently, Annexes IIIB and VI of Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 have
been amended accordingly.1

the proposed split

The quantitative restrictions have also been increased by the same rates (country and
category specific) as applied in the Council Decision (EC) 90/649 of 24 September
1990 concerning the conclusion of a supplementary protocol to the co-operation
Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia on trade in textile products. Such increases are part of the
possible improvements to current measures called for by the General Affairs Council
of 13 September 1999.2

The 1999 quantitative restrictions for Category 6 (trousers, slacks, shorts) have been
increased to absorb pending import requests from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia,
the quotas for that Category having been exhausted.

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See enclosed tables for detailed calculations.
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1999/0278 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 on common rules for imports of textile
products from certain third countries not covered by bilateral agreements, protocols or
other arrangements, or by other specific Community import rules

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article
133 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission3,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

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4

5

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Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 of 7 March 1994 on common rules for imports of
textile products from certain third countries not covered by bilateral agreements,
protocols or other arrangements, or by other specific Community import rules4, as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1457/975, and in particular its Annexes
IIIB and VI, establishes the annual quantitative limits for certain products originating
in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia,

Council Regulation (EC) No. …/99 of .. 1999 concerning the Autonomous Import
Regime applicable to products originating in former Yugoslav Republics6 introduces
the splitting of the existing global concessions into country specific ones for Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Croatia,

It is appropriate to also follow this approach for textiles products, and thus to split the
existing common quantitative restrictions into country specific ones for Bosnia-
Herzegovina (30%) and Croatia (70%) according to the trade patterns and actual
utilisation of quantitative limits for the last three years (1996-98), and therefore to
amend Annexes IIIB and VI to Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94,

The General Affairs Council of 13 September 1999 invited the Commission to
examine possible improvements to the current measures,

It is therefore appropriate to increase the quota levels for Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Croatia, taking as a basis the quota growth rate per category which was foreseen by in
to the co-operation Agreement between the European
a supplementary protocol

OJ C …, …, p. …
OJ L67, 10.3.1994, p.1
OJ L 199, 26.7.1997, p.6
OJ L .., .. 1999, p; …

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Economic Community and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on trade in
textile products, concluded by Council Decision (EC) 90/649 of 24 September 1990, 7

(6)

The quota levels for Category 6 for the year 1999 for Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia
should be increased in order to absorb certain pending import requests,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Annexes IIIB and VI to Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 shall be replaced by those
appearing in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 1

Article 2

In order to accommodate certain additional requests for import authorisations made in 1999,
in Annex IIIB under “Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia”, under Category 6
“Quantity” “1 415” will be replaced by “1 465”.

Article 3

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

Article 1 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,

For the Council
The President

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OJ L 352, 15.12.1990, p.120

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ANNEX I

"ANNEX IIIB

ANNUAL COMMUNITY QUANTITATIVE LIMITS REFERRED TO IN THE
FOURTH INDENT OF ARTICLE 2(1)

Republic of Bosnia-
Herzegovina

Republic of Croatia

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(Serbia and Montenegro)

Category

Unit

Quantity

Category

Unit

Quantity

Category

Unit

Quantity

1

2

tonnes

2.123,5

tonnes

2.627,6

1

2

Tonnes

4.954,9

tonnes

6.131,0

2a

tonnes

593,8

2a

tonnes

1.385,5

3

5

6

7

8

9

15

16

67

tonnes

293,1

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

757,4

445,7

257,3

831,2

tonnes

278,6

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

245,7

183,0

229,6

3

5

6

7

8

9

15

16

67

tonnes

684,0

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1.767,3

1.040,0

600,4

1.939,4

tonnes

650,1

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

573,4

427,1

535,7

1

2

2a

3

5

6

7

8

9

15

16

67

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

tonnes

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

2.309

2.848

644

312

662

349

201

888

292

257

192

241

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ANNEX II

"ANNEX VI

OUTWARD PROCESSING TRAFFIC

ANNUAL COMMUNITY QUANTITATIVE LIMITS REFERRED TO IN
ARTICLE 4

Republic of Bosnia-
Herzegovina

Republic of Croatia

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(Serbia and Montenegro)

Category

Unit

Quantity

Category

Unit

Quantity

Category

Unit

Quantity

5

6

7

8

15

16

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1.544,0

3.465,3

2.138,0

4.040,4

1.895,2

1.040,5

5

6

7

8

15

16

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

3.602,6

8.085,6

4.988,7

9.427,6

4.422,1

2.427,9

5

6

7

8

15

16

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

1 000
pieces

000

1
pieces

1.231

3.585

1.832

4.296

1.914

1.061

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