CELEX: 31975R2992
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2992/75 of the Council of 10 November 1975 concluding the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of India on trade in textile products and laying down provisions for its application

No L 297/ 8                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             17. 11.75
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2992/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                  of 10 November 1975
               concluding the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the
               Republic of India on trade in textile products and laying down provisions for its
                                                        application
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                        together with a special consultation procedure
                                                                  enabling safeguard measures to be adopted where
                                                                  there is a risk of market disruption ; whereas, in
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing . the                   accordance with this procedure, India has
 European Economic Community, and in particular                   undertaken to apply voluntary restraint in respect of
 Article 113 thereof;
                                                                  its exports to certain Member States ; whereas the
                                                                  voluntary restraint in question will be administered
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No                   in accordance with the system of double checking
 1023/70 (*) of 25 May 1970 establishing a common                 provided for in the Agreement ;
 procedure for administering quantitative quotas , and
 in particular Article 2 thereof;                                Whereas it is therefore necessary to retain
                                                                 provisionally quantitative restrictions on imports of
 Having     regard    to    the   proposal     from    the       these products into the Member States concerned, to
 Commission ;                                                    suspend quantitative restrictions in the other
                                                                 Member States and subsequently to replace these
                                                                 various measures by liberalization measures which
 Whereas the Agreement negotiated between the                     will be uniform throughout the Community ;
 European Economic Community and the Republic of
 India on trade in textile products should be
 included ;                                                      Whereas products brought into the customs territory
                                                                 of the Community under the inward processing
                                                                 traffic system or temporary entry arrangements and
Whereas the Community is obliged under the                       re-exported from that territory without further
Agreement to permit the import of certain textile                processing or after undergoing working should not
products within quantitative limits to which India               be subject to the Community quantitative quotas or
 undertakes to adhere by applying voluntary restraint             to the voluntary restraint measures adopted in
in respect of its exports to the Community ; whereas             respect of exports to certain Member States,
it is therefore necessary to introduce Community
quantitative quotas, to fix the volume thereof for
 1975 , 1976 and 1977 and to establish the criteria for
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
their allocation, with account being taken of the
system of double checking provided for in the
Agreement ;
                                                                                         Article 1
Whereas in view of the considerable disparities in
the conditions to which imports of the products in               The Agreement between the European Economic
question into the Member States are currently                    Community and the Republic of India on trade in
subject, and in view of the particularly sensitive               textile products is hereby concluded on behalf of the
nature of the textile industry in the Community, the             Community.
standardization of these import conditions can only
be achieved by progressive stages ; whereas these
quotas should be allocated taking into account, in               The text of the Agreement is annexed to this
particular, the fact that the volumes admitted under             Regulation .
the present import conditions are being adapted by
progressive stages to market supply requirements ;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas the Agreement provides in respect of certain
other textile products for the suspension by the                The President of the Council shall notify the other
Community of the quantitative import restrictions                Contracting Party that, as regards the Community,
                                                                the procedures necessary for the entry into force of
(!) OJ No L 124, 8 . 6. 1970, p. 1 .                             the Agreement have been completed.
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                            Article 3                               from India shall be subject to Community
                                                                    quantitative quotas and the volumes of the quotas
1.     Imports into the Community of the textile                    for 1975 , 1976 and 1977 are shown for each of these
products set out below originating in and coming                    products :
                                                                                                   Volume
                      CCT                                                                    ( in 'metric tons)
                   heading No                        Description
                                                                                    1975            1976           1977
                   55.09              Other woven fabrics of cotton               34 940           37 390         40 000
                   of which
                ex 55.09              Woven fabrics of cotton other than
                                      unbleac hed or bleached                      3 500            3 750          4 000
                ex 61.02              Women's cotton shirts and blouses               954             954          1 014
                ex 62.02              Cotton household linen                       7 592            8 015          8 544
However the volume of the quotas fixed for 1975                     3.    Import authorizations shall be granted in
are reduced by the amount of imports affected in                    accordance with the system of double checking
that year before the entry into force of the                        defined in Annex V to the Agreement.
Agreement.
                                                                    4.    Products brought into the customs territory of
2. The quotas shall be allocated, in accordance                     the Community under the inward processing traffic
with the procedure laid down in Article 11 of                       system or temporary entry arrangements and re­
Regulation (EEC) No 1023/70, in such a way as to                    exported from that territory without further
ensure the expansion and orderly development of                     processing or after undergoing working shall not be
trade in textiles and to permit carryover and                       set off against the quotas provided for in paragraph 1 .
anticipation from year to year.
                                                                                                   Article 4
The allocation shall be made, however, on the basis
of the import volumes admitted on the conditions                     1.   Imports into the Community of the textile
currently applied in the Member States and shall                    products set out below originating in and coming
provide for annual rates of increase that are                       from India shall not be subject to quantitative
appreciably higher for the Member States whose                      restrictions except that for 1975 , 1976 and 1977
import volumes are relatively the lowest in such a                  imports into the Member States indicated on the
way as to adapt them by progressive stages to                       table below shall be limited to the quantities
market supply requirements.                                          indicated in the table .
                                                                                                             Quantities
         CCT
     heading No                         Description                 Member State
                                                                                           1975                 1976         1977
     55.08             Terry towelling and similar terry          United                   450                  481          515
                       fabrics, of cotton                         Kingdom             metric tons          metric tons   metric tons
ex 60.04               T -shirts                                  France              2 250 000            2 407 500     2 575990
                                                                                         units                units         units
ex 61.03               Men's cotton shirts                        United                663 960              710 437       760 167
                                                                  Kingdom                units                units         units
ex 61.05               Cotton handkerchiefs                       United              4 344 933            4 649 078     4 974 512
                                                                  Kingdom                dozen                dozen        dozen
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However, the quantities fixed for the year 1975 shall            ( i ) cotton handloom fabrics of the cottage industry,
be reduced by the amount of imports effected in that                   containing not more than 5 °/o by weight of
year before the entry into force of the Agreement.                     manmade fibres, being fabrics which are both
                                                                       traditionally of the kind woven on handlooms
2. Import authorizations shall        be issued by the                 and actually woven on a loom for which the
competent authorities of the            Member States                  motive power is provided entirely by the
concerned in accordance with the       system of double                operators (that is where the three primary
checking defined in Annex V tp the    Agreement.                       movements of weaving namely shedding,
3.     Products introduced into the customs territory                  picking and beating, are induced by hand or
of the Community under the inward processing                           foot and no other source of power is used);
traffic system or temporary entry arrangements and
re-exported from that territory without further                ( ii) goods made up by the cottage industry from
processing or after undergoing working shall not be                    such cotton handloom fabrics ;
set off against the quantities provided for in
paragraph 1 .                                                ( iii ) traditional Indian folklore handicraft textile
                                                                       products cut, sewn or otherwise fabricated by
4.     The quantities provided for under paragraph 1                   hand in cottages which are units of the cottage
may be adapted in accordance with the procedure                        industry.
provided for in Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No
1023 /70 .
                                                                                          Article 6
                        Article 5
Imports into the Community of the textile products           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
referred to below, originating in and coming from            day following that of its publication in the Official
India and accompanied by a certificate issued and             Journal of the European Communities.
endorsed by the relevant Indian authorities in
accordance with Annex IV to the Agreement, shall             Articles 3 , 4 and 5 shall apply from the date of entry
not be subject to quantitative restrictions :                 into force of the Agreement.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 10 November 1975 .
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                   The President
                                                                                  G. MARCORA