Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EC) No 54/2007 of 22 January 2007 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries ( OJ L 18, 25.1.2007 )
Date: 2007-06-05
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Belarus, China, import policy, originating product, quantitative restriction, textile product, third country

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CORRIGENDA

Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EC) No 54/2007 of 22 January 2007 amending Regulation (EEC)
No 3030/93 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries

(Official Journal of the European Union L 18 of 25 January 2007)

On pages 3 to 5, in the Annex concerning the annexes to Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93:

In Part A, under ‘Annex V: Community Quantitative Limits’, the table for China shall be replaced by the following table:

‘(The complete description of the goods is shown in Annex I)

Agreed levels

Third country

Category

Unit

11 June to 31
December 2005 (1)

2006

2007

China

GROUP IA

2 (including 2a)

tonnes

20 212

61 948

70 636

GROUP IB

4 (2)

5

6

7

GROUP IIA

20

39

GROUP IIB

26

31

GROUP IV

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

tonnes

tonnes

161 255

118 783

124 194

26 398

6 451

5 521

1 000 pieces

8 096

1 000 pieces

108 896

540 204

189 719

338 923

80 493

15 795

12 349

27 001

219 882

595 624

220 054

388 528

90 829

18 518

14 862

29 736

250 209

115

tonnes

2 096

4 740

5 347

(1) Imports into the Community of products which were shipped to the Community before 11 June 2005 but presented for free
circulation on or after that date shall not be subject to quantitative limits. Import authorisations for such products shall be granted
automatically and without quantitative limits by the competent authorities of the Member States, upon adequate proof, such as the bill
of lading, and the presentation of a signed declaration by the importer, that the goods have been shipped to the Community before
that date. By way of derogation of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93, imports of goods shipped before 11 June 2005 shall
also be released for free circulation upon the presentation of a surveillance document issued in accordance with Article 10a(2a) of
Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93.
Import authorisations for goods shipped to the Community between 11 June 2005 and 12 July shall be granted automatically and
cannot be denied on the grounds that there are no quantities available within the 2005 quantitative limits. However, the import of all
products shipped from 11 June 2005 will be counted against the 2005 quantitative limits.
The granting of import authorisations will not require the presentation of the corresponding export licenses for goods shipped to the
Community before China has put in place its export licensing system (20 July 2005).
Applications for import licences for the import, from the date of entry into force of this Regulation, of goods that have been shipped
between 11 June 2005 and 19 July 2005 (inclusive) shall be presented to the competent authorities of a Member State no later than 20
September 2005.
Goods shipped before 12 July do not need to have been shipped directly to the Community to benefit from the exemption of
quantitative limits, although the competent authorities of the Community may deny such benefits if they have reasons to suspect that
they have been shipped to another destination before 12 July in order to circumvent this Regulation, in case such transactions do not
respond to normal business practices or purely logistical reasons. By way of example, are considered as corresponding to a normal
conduct of business goods shipped to distribution centres for the importing companies, or when the importer can present a contract or
letter of credit preceding the date of shipment, or when the goods have been transhipped outside China onto another means of
transport within a reasonably short period of time.
The increases to the agreed levels introduced by the Regulation are made available to enable the issuance of import licences for goods
shipped to the Community between 13 and 19 July 2005, or for goods shipped to the Community after 20 July 2005 with a valid
Chinese export licence, which are in excess of the agreed levels introduced by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1084/2005 (OJ L 177,
9.7.2005, p. 19) in Annex V to Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93.
Should any goods shipped to the Community between 13 and 19 July 2005 exceed these levels, the Commission may authorise the
issuance of further import licences after informing the Textiles Committee, and after effecting the transfer of 2 072 924 Kg of products
of category 2 as provided for in Annex VIII.

(2) See Appendix A.

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Appendix A to Annex V

Category

Third Country

Remarks

4

China

For the purpose of setting off exports against the agreed levels a conversion rate
of five garments (other than babies' garments) of a maximum commercial size of
130 cm for three garments whose commercial size exceeds 130 cm may be
applied for up to 5 % of the agreed levels.

The export licence concerning these products must bear, in box 9, the words “The
conversion rate for garments of a commercial size of not more than 130 cm must
be applied” ’

In Part B, under ‘Table: Community Quantitative Limits for Goods Re-imported under Outward Processing Traffic’, the
table for China shall be replaced by the following table:

Specific agreed levels

11 June to 31
December 2005 (1)

2006

2007

‘China

GROUP IB

4

5

6

7

GROUP IIB

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

26

31

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

208

453

1 642

439

791

6 301

408

886

3 216

860

1 550

12 341

450

977

3 589

970

1 707

13 681

(1) The relevant textile products sent from the Community to the People’s Republic of China for processing before 11 June 2005 and
reimported into the Community after that date will, upon adequate proof such as the export declaration, benefit from these provisions.’