CELEX: 51977PC0131
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Date: 1977-04-04
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) maintaining in force the import arrangements in the Community for shirts and blouses originating in the Republic India (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                              COM(77) 131 final .
                                              Brussels , 4 April 1977 «
                               Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
               maintaining in force the import arrangements in the
               Community for shirts and "blouses originating in the
                                Republic India
                ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
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  COM ( 77 ) 131 final
 ---pagebreak---                                   SCFLANATORY KEXORANDITM
           Since early 197° the Community has held consultations with India con­
           cerning the sharp and substantial rise in imports of cotton shirts nr.d
1         blouses which has taken place throughout the Community .    Further
^          rounds of consultations have been held this year in New Delhi and in
  \\      Brussels without a mutually satisfactory solution yet being reached .
           The situation in the iiiropenn shirt-making industry meanwhile continues .
           to deteriorate and is aggravated by massive imports of cotton shirts and
          blouses from India(l ).
          A predominant proportion of the products in question are certified by
          the Indian authorities as being " goods made up by the cottage industry
          from ^/such7 cotton handloom fabrics". In principle , such products
          should be free from quantitative limit under the bilateral Agreement
          on trade in textiles products between India and the Community .     A ,
          smaller proportion of the products in question are industrially made
          and subject to the provisions of the Agreement for the establishment of
          quantitative limits .   Due to technical developments in the manufacture
          and production of ootton shirts and blouses in the handloom sector of
          the Indian textile industry , it is no longer possible for Community
          authorities to establish whether a given product is or is not in conformity
          with the criteria    of the Agreement i.e. that it is made up by^the
          cottage industry" from " cotton handloom fabrics".    Ihe distinction
          between these products and those made by normal industrial manufacturing
          processes has therefore become inoperable .
                                  *
           Taking into account the present impossibility of finding a mutually
           acceptable solution with India and given the massive quantities of goods
           involved which threaten irreparable damage to the European clothing
           industries , the most appropriate course of action is to subject cotton
           shirts and blouses to quantitative limit without distinction as to their
          manufacture .
     ( l ) Community imports of women 's cotton shirts and blouses
                '000 pieces         1975        10,093
                                    1976        27,226
            Community imports of men 's cotton shirts
                'COO pieces         1975         6»917
                                    1976        21,596
 ---pagebreak---  This , without prejudice to the provisions of the bilateral Agreement <
 concerning indu st rial ly-ciade products properly licensed as such by the
 Indian authorities .
Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 56l/77 (*) was taJcen on 16.3.1977 to
meet the urgency of the situation .      The Commission 's proposal for a
Council Regulation to extend the measures mentioned above is annexed
hereto .    It is submitted in conformity with the requirements of Article 13
of Council Regulation ( EEC ) NO 1439/74 of 6 June 1974* In these circum­
stances the Council is invited to adopt the proposed Regulation within
the six week period dating from the entry into force of the Commission
Regulation referred to above .
( 1 ) OJ No L 71 . 18.3.1977 » P. 29
 ---pagebreak---                            Proposal for a
                      COUNCIL REGULATION ( EES )
        maintaining m force "the import arrangement s in "the
        Community for shirts and blouses originating in the
                         Republic of India
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) NO 1439/74 of 4 June 1974 on •
 common rules for imports ( l ) and , in particular Article 13 thereof;
 After consultation within the .Advisory Committee established by Article 5
 of that Regulation ;
                                                                           1 ·
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 56l/77 ( 2 ) of 16 March 1977 ( 2 )
established rules concerning import arrangements in the Community for
shirts and blouses originating in the Republic of India ;
Whereas the factors which justified the establishment of these rules still
exist ; whereas they should consequently be maintained in effect until
31.12.1977 ;
Whereas these measures are without prejudice to the pursuit and the
outcome of consultations between the Community and the Republic of India ;
whereas they may be adapted in the light of the results of such consul–
tations .
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION S
&    OJ No L 159 , 15.6.1974 , P. 1
     OJ No L 71 . 18.3.1977 » P. 29
 ---pagebreak---                                       Article 1
          The rules whereby imports into the Community of shirts and "blouses , of cotton ,
          originating in the Republic of India are made subject to authorisation ,
          which were adopted by Regulation ( EEC ) NO 56L/77 , shall remain applicable , ■
           subjeot to the provisions of Article 2 hereof , until 31 December 1977 *
                                      Article 2
          The quantitative limits set out in Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC ) NO 561/ 77
          shall be replaced as follows :
Category    Nimexe                                                        Quantity in '000
                                 Description of goods
 No           Code                                                        pieces ( 1977 )
  1         61.02-82        Women 's , girls' and infants' outer
                            garments :                                      26 684
                            – Blouses and shirt blouses of cotton ( l )
  2         61.03-15        Men 's and boys * under garments , inclu­
                            ding collars , shirt fronts and ouffs ;         18 862
                            – Shirts of cotton
          The quantitative limits set out in the Annex to Commission Regulation ( EEC )
         No 56l/77 shall be replaced by those set out in the Annex to this Regulation .
                                       Article 3
          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication
          in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
         in all Member States .
         Done at Brussels ,                                For the Council
          ( l ) So far as Ireland is concerned , this category shall be deemed to include
                produoto falling within Nioexe Codo ox 61.04-ox 95 , naacly siirto of
                cotton *
 ---pagebreak---                                                  Annex
                               Quantitative limits established under Article 1
         • i
                               for cotton shirts and "blouses originating in India
Çategory     CCT          Nimexe                                       Member       Quantity in
   No      heading          Code       Description of goods            States of    • 000 units
             No    .                                                   destination     ( 1977 )
           61.02         61.02-      Women 's , girls' and infants *       D           8 218
                         ex 02       outer garments :                      Ρ           2 501
                                     – Blouses and shirt blouses
                                                                           I           1 529
                                       of cotton ( l )                    BNL          3 699
                                                                           UK          8 301
                                                                          IRL             412
                                                                           m.          2 024
                                                                          EEC         26 684
          61.03          61.03-      Men 's and boys 1 undergarments ,     D           7 4,65
                         15          including collars , shirt             Ρ              795
                                     fronts and cuffs :                    I           2 389
                                     – Shirts of cotton
                                                                          BNL          2 307
                                                                           UK          5 450
                                                                          IRL             108
                                                                           LK             348
                                                                          EEC         18 862
              The quantitative limits set out above shall apply to imports of cotton
              shirts and blouses without distinction as to the process by which they
              have been manufactured . Within these limits , the quantitative limits
              at present applied ( 2 ) in respect of industrially made products of the
              same cateaories shall remain in force .
              ( 1 ) So far as Ireland is concernedn this category shall be deemed to inclu­
                     de products falling within Nimexe Code ex 6l.04-ex 95 , namely shirts
                     of cotton
              ( 2) These limits are set out in Articles 3 and 4 of Council Regulation
                     ( EEC ) No 2 992/75 of 10 November 1975 , 0J No L 297 » 17.11.1975 and
                     Annex A to Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 3 364/75 of 23 December
                     1975 , OJ No 333 , 30.12.1975.