Extension of electronic licensing for imports of textiles and clothing
Date: 2001-12-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: clothing, electronic mail, import licence, textile product

C 374/58

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

29.12.2001

5. PROCEDURE FOR APPLYING FOR A GRANT

(cid:151) previous year’s financial statements (balance sheet,

5.1. Application should be made on a special form. Which

may be obtained from the following address:

European Commission
Secretariat General
BREY 9/232
B-1049 Brussels.

The form is also available at the following Internet
address:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgc/
subvention/en/subv.htm

5.2. Together with the appliccation please enclose the

organisation’s:

(cid:151) programme of activities,

(cid:151) annual budget,

profit and loss accounts),

(cid:151) statutes, constitution or articles of association.

5.3.

If the organisation has received a Commission grant in
the past, a further grant will only be awarded on
prevision of evidence that
the previous grant was
properly used.

5.4. You will be notified within three months of

the
deadline below whether or not a grant has been
the
awarded.
reasons for this decision will be forwarded to you in
writing.

the project has not been selected,

If

5.5. The form and the documents forming part of

the
application should be sent application to the above
address by 31 March 2002 (as evidenced by the
postmark) at the latest.

Extension of electronic licensing for imports of textiles and clothing

(2001/C 374/07)

Paragraph 3 of Article 11 of Annex III of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on common rules for
imports of certain textile products from third countries,
introduced by Council Regulation (EC) No
391/2001 of 26 February 2001 (1) states that (cid:145)where a supplier country has entered into administrative
arrangements with the Community concerning electronic licensing the relevant information may be trans-
mitted by electronic means to replace the grant of export licences in paper form(cid:146).

On 1 November electronic licensing was introduced for the following countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam (published in OJ C 308, 1.11.2001, p. 16). Since then, the Commission has
entered into the necessary arrangements with the following: Nepal, Taiwan, Russia, Macao and Philippines.
For these, from 1 January 2002, the presentation of the original of the corresponding export licence will
no longer be required for the issuance of import licences by the licensing authorities of Member States,
and these can therefore be issued upon receipt by the competent authorities of Member States of the data
transmitted in electronic form by the supplier countries and confirmation from the Commission that the
amounts requested are available and/or of the validity of the electronic licence. The competent authorities
of the supplier third countries concerned may, however, issue an export licence or any similar documents,
including if they consider it appropriate formal export licences, for the benefit of operators in order to
facilitate the transaction.

For any questions, economic operators are invited to address the licensing authorities of Member States,
which is published in OJ C 78, 18.3.2000, p. 2.

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2001, p. 3.