Commission Regulation (EC) No 1398/2007 of 28 November 2007 amending Annexes II, III B and VI to Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 on common rules for imports of textile products from certain third countries not covered by bilateral agreements, protocols or other arrangements, or by other specific Community import rules
Date: 2007-11-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Kosovo, North Korea, import, import policy, originating product, textile product, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1398/2007

of 28 November 2007

amending Annexes II, III B and VI to Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 on common rules for
imports of textile products from certain third countries not covered by bilateral agreements,
protocols or other arrangements, or by other specific Community import rules

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 517/94 of 7
March 1994 on common rules for imports of textile products
from certain third countries not covered by bilateral agreements,
protocols or other
specific
rules (1), and in particular Article 28
Community import
thereof,

arrangements, or by other

Whereas:

(1)

The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the
European Communities and their Member States, of the
one part, and the Republic of Montenegro, of the other
part, was signed on 15 October 2007. The Interim
Agreement on trade and trade related matters will enter
into force on 1 January 2008. The Interim Agreement
will allow the trade provisions of the Stabilisation and
Association Agreement to apply provisionally pending its
ratification. Therefore,
the Republic of Montenegro
should be removed from the scope of application of
Regulation (EC) No 517/94 from the date of implemen-
tation of the Interim Agreement.

(2)

the former
After the removal of all components of
Yugoslavia from the scope of application of Regulation
(EC) No 517/94, Kosovo as defined by the United

Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June
1999 (2)
is the only territory in the region subject to
the lack of
textile quotas. Therefore and in view of
textile
that
Kosovo is also excluded from the scope of application
of Regulation (EC) No 517/94 in order to avoid any
discrimination against this territory.

considered appropriate

industry,

is

it

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 517/94 should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Textile Committee
established by Article 25 of Regulation (EC) No 517/94,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annexes II, III B and VI to Regulation (EC) No 517/94 are
replaced as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2008.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 November 2007.

For the Commission

Peter MANDELSON
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 67, 10.3.1994, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(2) All references to Kosovo in the present Regulation need to be

(EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

understood as referring to Kosovo under UNSCR 1244.

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ANNEX

Annexes II, III B and VI to Regulation (EC) No 517/94 are amended as follows:

1. Annex II is replaced by the following:

‘ANNEX II

List of countries referred to in Article 2
North Korea’

2. Annex III B is replaced by the following:

‘ANNEX III B

Annual Community quantitative limits referred to in Article 2(1), fourth indent’

3. Annex VI is replaced by the following:

‘ANNEX VI

Outward processing traffic
Annual Community limits referred to in Article 4’