WRITTEN QUESTION P-1269/02 by Concepció Ferrer (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Studying the impact of applying Growth on Growth to China.
Date: 2002-04-26
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: China, World Trade Organisation, clothing industry, import (EU), quantitative restriction, textile product, trade agreement

C 28 E/92

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

6.2.2003

(2003/C 28 E/101)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-1269/02

by Concepció Ferrer (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(26 April 2002)

Subject: Studying the impact of applying Growth on Growth to China

Within the framework of the ATC and in view of the agreements reached in Doha concerning the
to WTO member countries, and China in particular, does the
application of
Commission possess, or intend to carry out, a study of the additional quota margins which would apply to
China in terms of EU imports of Chinese textile and clothing products?

‘Growth on Growth’

Answer given by Mr Lamy on behalf of the Commission

(31 May 2002)

The examination by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Council for Trade in Goods of the proposals for
a recalculation of the ‘growth-on-growth’ rates applied to textiles quotas advanced to 1 January 2000
instead of 1 January 2002 has just started, and it is still quite uncertain whether such proposals may be
agreed. It has to be noted that since the WTO Ministerial conference in Doha, China has become a
Member, and therefore should such concession be made it would apply also to China.

The Commission has made two sets of estimates to calculate the value of such a concession, in terms of
likely increases of Community imports of textile and clothing products over the years 2002-2004:

(a) assuming that all the quotas from all the countries were used fully, the concession would be worth a
potential additional EUR 2 200 million in imports. This amount results from multiplying the increases
of all the quotas regardless of their rates of utilisation by the average prices of imports. Of this
amount, China would account for some EUR 740 million; however, this is a hypothetical value as only
around a tenth of all the textile quotas of the Community are highly utilised;

(b) according to a more likely scenario, taking into account the utilisation rates of the quotas, the value of
the concession would be around EUR 1 250 million for all WTO countries, of which some EUR 720
million would be accounted for by China. This amount results from multiplying the increases of
quotas for those product categories for which the quotas are highly utilised (90 % or more) by the
average prices of imports.

(2003/C 28 E/102)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-1270/02

by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(26 April 2002)

Subject: Substandard work on projects jointly funded under the CSF and measures by the Greek authorities

to tackle the problem

In its answer to my questions E-3197/01 and P-2890/01 (1), the Commission informed me that it had no
fresh information on substandard work on jointly funded projects in Greece. The Commission also pointed
out that the Greek Government had not replied to either of its letters sent on 29 January 2001 and 2 July
2001 and that it would, therefore, send another letter to the Greek authorities.

Does the Commission have any more recent information regarding the number of instances of substandard
work since April 2000?

Has the Commission received information about the practical action taken in the cases falling within
categories 2 and 3 as described in Question E-3197/01?