Council Regulation (EC) No 1627/2004 of 13 September 2004 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries
Date: 2004-09-13
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Viet Nam, import policy, originating product, outward processing, quantitative restriction, re-import, textile product

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1627/2004

of 13 September 2004

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on common rules for imports of certain textile products
from third countries

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

As from 1 May 2004, 10 new Member States have
joined the European Union. Article 6(7) of the 2003
Act of Accession establishes
the new Member
States are to apply the common trade policy concerning
textiles and that the quantitative restrictions applied by
textile and clothing
the Community on imports of
products are to be adjusted to take account of
the
accession of the new Member States to the Community.

that

(2) With effect from 1 May 2004, Council Regulation (EEC)
No 3030/93 (1) was last amended by Council Regulation
(EC) No 487/2004 (2). It adjusted the quantitative limits
from third
for
imports of certain textile products
taking into
countries into the enlarged Community,
account traditional
imports into the 10 new Member
States and using a formula of the average imports of
years 2000 to 2002 adjusted pro rata temporis. This

same methodology should now be applied to adjust the
quantitative limits for imports of certain textile products
from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 should therefore 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,

(3)

(4)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93, the Community quantitative
limits for Vietnam for 2004 set out in Annex V and in Annex
VII to that Regulation shall be replaced by the Community
quantitative limits set out in Part A and Part B of the Annex
to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 13 September 2004.

For the Council
The President

B. R. BOT

(1) OJ L 275, 8.11.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 79, 17.3.2004, p. 1.

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ANNEX

PART A

In Annex V to Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93, the Community quantitative limits for Vietnam for 2004 shall be replaced
by the following:

Third country

Category

Unit

Community quantitative
limits

‘Vietnam

GROUP IB

4

5

6

7

8

GROUP IIA

9

20

39

GROUP IIB

12

13

14

15

18

21

26

28

29

31

68

73

76

78

83

GROUP IIIA

35

41

GROUP IIIB

10

97

GROUP IV

118

GROUP V

161

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

1 000 pairs

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

tonnes

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

tonnes

1 000 pieces

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

1 000 pairs

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

2004

22 276

7 669

9 755

6 408

22 628

1 067

289

266

5 539

14 984

636

1 061

2 132

22 942

2 348

7 110

747

8 088

790

2 093

2 050

2 126

710

1 341

1 336

6 841

367

295

545’

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PART B

In Annex VII to Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93, the Community quantitative limits for 2004 for goods re-imported under
OPT for Vietnam shall be replaced by the following:

Third country

Category

Unit

Community quantitative
limits

‘Vietnam

GROUP IB

4

5

6

7

8

GROUP IIB

12

13

15

18

21

26

31

68

76

78

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pairs

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

tonnes

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes

2004

1 065

812

765

1 418

3 287

3 348

1 024

331

385

2 239

210

1 869

156

532
372’