2000/184/EC: Council Decision of 14 February 2000 on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Republic of Malta amending the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Malta
Date: 2000-02-14
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Malta, association agreement (EU), tariff ceiling, textile product, trade agreement

4.3.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 59/7

II

(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 14 February 2000

on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European
Community and the Republic of Malta amending the Agreement establishing an association
between the European Economic Community and Malta

(2000/184/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community and in particular Article 133, in conjunction with
the first sentence of Article 300(2) and the first subparagraph
of Article 300(3) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

to the Community, full liberalisation of textile imports
from Malta should be achieved.

(4)

For this reason the Agreement
in the form of an
Exchange of Letters repealing the tariff ceilings laid
down in Article 2 of Annex I to the Association Agree-
ment should be approved,

Whereas:

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

(1)

(2)

between

Article 2 of Annex I to the Agreement establishing an
Economic
the
association
Community and Malta (1), hereinafter referred to as
‘Association Agreement’, provides
tariff ceilings
applicable to imports of textile products originating in
Malta.

European

for

Pursuant to the Agreed Minute between the European
Community and the Republic of Malta regarding the
textile trade (2),
signed on 4 June 1997, until 31
December 1997 products falling within textile category
6 were imported into the Community duty-free up to
certain quota levels, which levels represented an increase
in liberalisation of
imports originating in Malta as
compared to the tariff ceilings laid down in the Associa-
tion Agreement.

Article 1

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between
the European Community and the Republic of Malta amending
the Association Agreement is hereby approved on behalf of the
Community.

The text of the Agreement is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate
the person empowered to sign the Agreement in the form of
an Exchange of Letters in order to bind the Community.

Done at Brussels, 14 February 2000.

(3) Within the framework both of the completion of the
first stage of the Association Agreement and of the
Community's liberalisation efforts towards Mediterra-
nean countries, as well as having regard to the current
level of and trends in access to Malta's textile products

For the Council

The President

J. GAMA

(1) OJ L 61, 14.3.1971, p. 2. Agreement as supplemented by the Addi-
tional Protocol
the supplementary
(OJ L 304, 29.11.1977, p. 2),
Protocol (OJ L 81, 23.3.1989, p. 2) and the Protocol extending the
first Stage of the Agreement (OJ L 116, 9.5.1991, p. 67).

(2) OJ L 231, 22.8.1997, p. 6.