Council Regulation (EC) No 7/2000 of 21 December 1999 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: 1999-12-21
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: import, market protection, originating product, quantitative restriction, textile product, third country

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 7/2000

of 21 December 1999

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,

(7)

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,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 517/94 (1), and in particular its
Annexes IIIB and VI, establishes the annual quantitative
limits for certain products originating in Bosnia-Herze-
govina and Croatia;

Annexes IIIB and VI to Regulation (EC) No 517/94 shall be
replaced by those appearing in Annexes I and II respectively to
this Regulation.

Article 1

the

applicable

arrangements

Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2000 of 17 December
to
1999 concerning
imports into the Community of products originating in
the Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia
and to imports of wine originating in the Former Yugo-
slav Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Slov-
enia (2)
introduces the splitting of the existing global
concessions into country specific ones for Bosnia-Herze-
govina and Croatia;

It is appropriate to also follow this approach for textiles
products, and thus to split the existing common quantit-
ative 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 (1996-1998), and therefore to
amend Annexes IIIB and VI
to Regulation (EC) No
517/94;

The General Affairs Council of 13 September 1999
invited the Commission to examine possible improve-
ments 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 in a
Supplementary Protocol to the Cooperation Agreement
between the European Economic Community and the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on trade in
textile products, concluded by Decision 90/649/EEC (3);

is appropriate to allow,

It
authorisations to be issued by electronic means;

in certain cases,

import

Article 2

The following paragraph shall be added to Article 21

‘4.
Import authorisations may be issued by electronic
means at the request of the importer concerned. At the
duly motivated request of that importer, and provided that
paragraph 3 of this Article has been complied with, an
import authorisation issued by electronic means may be
replaced by an import authorisation in paper form by the
the same Member State which
competent authority of
issued the original
that
authority shall only issue an import authorisation in
written form after having ensured that the authorisation by
electronic means has been cancelled.

import authorisation. However,

The Commission may, in accordance with the procedure
provided for in Article 25(1), (2) and (3), take any measure
necessary to implement this paragraph.’

Article 3

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’ shall be replaced by ‘1 465’.

Article 4

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

(1) OJ L 67, 10.3.1994, p. 1, as last amended by Commission Regula-

tion (EC) No 1457/97 (OJ L 199, 26.7.1997, p. 6).

(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.
(3) OJ L 352, 15.12.1990, p. 120.

However, Article 1 shall apply with effect from 1 January
2000, and Article 2 shall apply with effect from 20 December
1999.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1999.

For the Council

The President

T. HALONEN

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ANNEX I

‘ANNEX III B

Annual Community quantitative limits referred to in the fourth indent of article 2(1)

Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Category

1

2

2a

3

5

6

7

8

9

15

16

67

Category

1

2

2a

3

5

6

7

8

9

15

16

67

Unit

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

Republic of Croatia

Unit

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

Quantity

2 123,5

2 627,6

593,8

293,1

757,4

445,7

257,3

831,2

278,6

245,7

183,0

229,6

Quantity

4 954,9

6 131,0

1 385,5

684,0

1 767,3

1 040,0

600,4

1 000 pieces

1 939,4

tonnes

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

650,1

573,4

427,1

535,7

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Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)

Category

1

2

2a

3

5

6

7

8

9

15

16

67

Unit

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

tonnes

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

Quantity

2 309

2 848

644

312

662

349

201

888

292

257

192

1 000 pieces

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

Category

Unit

5

6

7

8

15

16

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

Republic of Croatia

Categoy

Unit

5

6

7

8

15

16

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

Quantity

1 544,0

3 465,3

2 138,0

4 040,4

1 895,2

1 040,5

Quantity

3 602,6

8 085,6

4 988,7

9 427,6

4 422,1

2 427,9

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)

Category

Unit

Quantity

5

6

7

8

15

16

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 231

3 585

1 832

4 296

1 914

1 000 pieces

1 061’