Introduction of electronic licensing for imports of textiles and clothing products from Bangladesh
Date: 2003-09-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bangladesh, electronic document, import licence, originating product, textile product

C 229/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

25.9.2003

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity will be
50 %. The maximum aid to a single SME will not exceed
GBP 100 000

Economic sector(s) concerned: All manufacturing and other
services, without prejudice to special rules, regulations and
directives concerning state aid in certain sectors

Date of implementation: 15 September 2002

Name and address of the granting authority:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 1
December 2006

communicate,

Objective of aid: The scheme will provide consultancy in
order to ensure the effective adoption of business-to-business
(B2B) in internal and supply chain processes, which is essential
to the survival and growth of SMEs. B2B e-commerce can
share,
radically change how organisations
cooperate and make decisions both internally and across the
supply chain and network. The Warwick Manufacturing Centre
will provide a range of advice to SMEs to enable them to
understand
rapid
emergence of e-business. Without assistance SMEs would lack
the technical
the
in turn safeguard the jobs
e-business opportunity. This will
of SMEs
innovation and
diversification

skills and expertise required to exploit

region and encourage

opportunities

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Government Office for the West Midlands
77 Paradise Circus
Queensway
Birmingham B1 2DT
United Kingdom
Tel. (44-121) 212 50 68

Other information:

Denis Pelych
Warwick Manufacturing Group
University of Warwick
United Kingdom
Tel. (44-24) 76 57 42 53
e-mail: Denis.Pelych@warwick.ac.uk

Introduction of electronic licensing for imports of textiles and clothing products from Bangladesh

(2003/C 229/03)

The new 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 ‘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 licenses in paper form’.

The Commission has entered into the necessary arrangements with Bangladesh for the electronic trans-
mision of data corresponding to export licenses. For Bangladesh, as from 1 September 2003, the presen-
tation of the original of the corresponding export license will no longer be required for the issuance of
import licenses by the licensing authorities of Member States. Consequently, these can therefore be issued
upon receipt by the competent authorities of Member Sates of the data transmitted in electronic form by
Bangladesh and confirmation from the Commission that the amounts requested are available and/or of the
validity of the electronic license. The competent authorities of Bangladesh may, however,
issue any
appropriate documents, including, if they consider it appropriate, formal export licenses, for the benefit
of operators in order to facilitate the transaction.

For any queries, economic operators are invited to contact the licensing authorities of Member States, the
addresses of which were published in the Official Journal of the European Communities C 99 of 24 April
2002, page 14.

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