Commission Regulation (EC) No 2598/2001 of 28 December 2001 amending Regulations (EC) No 1442/2001 and (EC) No 1954/2001 as regards authorised transfers between the quantitative limits of textiles and clothing products originating in the Republic of India
Date: 2001-12-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: India, clothing, import policy, originating product, quantitative restriction, textile product

29.12.2001

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 345/41

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2598/2001

of 28 December 2001

amending Regulations (EC) No 1442/2001 and (EC) No 1954/2001 as regards authorised transfers
between the quantitative limits of textiles and clothing products originating in the Republic of
India

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 of 12
October 1993 on common rules for imports of certain textile
products from third countries (1), as last amended by Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 1809/2001 (2), and in particular
Article 7 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Paragraph 6 of
the Memorandum of Understanding
between the European Community and the Republic of
India on arrangements in the area of market access for
textiles products, initialled on 31 December 1994 and
approved by Council Decision 96/386/EC (3), provides
that favourable consideration is to be given to certain
India for ‘exceptional
requests from the Republic of
flexibility’ in the setting of quotas for those products.

Commission Regulations (EC) No 1442/2001 of 16 July
transfers between the
2001 on the authorisation of
quantitative limits of
textiles and clothing products
originating in the Republic of India (4), as amended by
Regulations (EC) No 2246/2001 (5), and (EC) No 1954/
2001 of 5 October 2001 authorising transfers between
the quantitative limits of textiles and clothing products
originating in the Republic of India (6), as amended by

Regulation (EC) No 2246/2001, accommodated two
such requests from the Republic of India.

On 2 November 2001 the Republic of India submitted a
revised request for modification of the transfers author-
ised by those Regulations.

The transfers, as modified, requested by the Republic of
India, fall within the limits of the flexibility provisions in
Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93.

It is, therefore, appropriate to grant the revised request
and Regulations (EC) No 1442/2001 and (EC) No 1954/
2001 should be amended accordingly.

It is desirable for this Regulation to enter into force on
the day after its publication in order to allow operators
to benefit from it as soon as possible.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Textile Committee,

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1442/2001, the row for
Group IIB, Category 26,

is replaced by the following:

Group

Category

Unit

Limit 2001

Adjusted
working level

Quantity
units

Quantity
tonnes

%

Flexibility

‘IIB

26

pieces

19 546 000

20 914 220

3 100 000

1 000

15,9

– 3 100 000

– 1 000

15,9

Transfer from
category 15

Transfer to
category 2A

Adjusted
working level

24 014 220

20 914 220’

In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1954/2001, the row for Group IA, Category 2A, is replaced by the
following:

Article 2

(1) OJ L 275, 8.11.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 252, 20.9.2001, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 153, 27.6.1996, p. 47.
(4) OJ L 193, 17.7.2001, p. 7.
(5) OJ L 303, 20.11.2001, p. 20.
(6) OJ L 266, 6.10.2001, p. 6.

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Group

Category

Unit

Limit 2001

Adjusted
working level

Quantity
units

Quantity
tonnes

%

Flexibility

‘IA

2A

kg

21 372 000

22 868 000

2 000 000

2 000

7 %

Transfer from
categories 3 and 26

Adjusted
working level

24 868 000’

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

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 28 December 2001.

For the Commission

Pascal LAMY

Member of the Commission