Commission Regulation (EC) No 394/2000 of 21 February 2000 amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 2629/1999 establishing rules for the management and distribution of quotas established for the year 2000 under Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94
Date: 2000-02-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: North Korea, import policy, management, market-sharing agreement, quantitative restriction, textile product

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 394/2000

of 21 February 2000

amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 2629/1999 establishing rules for the management and
distribution of quotas established for the year 2000 under Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to 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 agree-
ments, protocols or other arrangements, or by specific
Community import rules (1), as last amended by Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 7/2000 (2), and in particular Article 17 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Council, through Regulation (EC) No 517/94, estab-
lished quantitative restrictions on imports of certain
textile products originating in third countries and envis-
aged that these quotas would be allocated in chronolog-
ical order of receipt by the Commission of notifications
from Member States according to the principle of ‘first
come, first served’.

For technical reasons the computer network set up for
the purpose of managing the quota system inadvertently
permitted the receipt of data from several Member States
at the same time on 20 December 1999.

The applications submitted by the competent authorities
of the Member States exceed the level of quotas for
products covered by categories A5, A6, A15, A16, A78
and A83.

In those circumstances and for these product categories,
it is appropriate to amend the method of allocating the
quotas for such products originating in the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea by distributing the quotas
among the Member States on a pro rata basis of total
amounts requested by each of
them relative to the
quota.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee estab-
lished by Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following paragraph is added to Article 2 of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2629/1999 (3):

‘For products covered by categories A5, A6, A15, A16,
A78 and A83 originating in the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea the quota is distributed as indicated in
the Annex to this Regulation.’

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 21 February 2000.

For the Commission

Pascal LAMY

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 67, 10.3.1994, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 2, 5.1.2000, p. 51.

(3) OJ L 321, 14.12.1999, p. 8.

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ANNEX

Category

Member State

Amount to be allocated

A15

A15

A15

A15

A15

A15

A15

A16

A16

A5

A5

A5

A5

A5

A5

A6

A6

A6

A6

A6

A6

A6

A6

A6

A78

A78

A78

A78

A78

A78

A83

A83

A83

A83

Austria

Germany

Spain

France

Italy

The Netherlands

United Kingdom

Germany

United Kingdom

Austria

Germany

Spain

France

Italy

Sweden

Austria

Germany

Denmark

Spain

France

Italy

The Netherlands

Sweden

United Kingdom

Austria

Germany

France

Italy

The Netherlands

Sweden

Austria

Germany

Italy

The Netherlands

7 193

34 988

7 193

10 790

1 079

7 193

39 563

11 786

43 214

3 785

90 831

3 785

18 923

1 892

3 785

5 341

66 553

2 671

5 341

2 671

5 341

16 024

2 671

37 388

6 551

85 475

7 688

6 551

4 367

4 367

1 156

30 068

463

2 313