CELEX: 51981PC0735
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Date: 1981-12-02
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) making the importation into Greece of certain jute products originating in Bangladesh and India subject to quantitative limitation (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                              Α Α
                               Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
            making the importation into Greece of certain jute products
            originating in Bangladesh and India subject to quantitative
                                 limitation
                       ( submitted to the Council! by the Commission )
C0M(81 ) 735 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                   IXFLANATORY MIMORANBUM
    I.     Two Agreements are in force between the Community on the one hand and India
   and Bangladesh on the other on trade in jute,, products .   These Agreements
    involve , inter alia ,   voluntary restraint by these two countries in their
   exports of certain of these products to the Community for the duration of
   the Agreements , that is until ? 'l December 1983 .
          In order to adapt these Agreements to the accession of Greece to the
   Community , the Council authorised the Commission to start negotiations with
   India and Bangladesh .     As these Agreements contain voluntary restraint limits ,
   the administration of which is entrusted to the exporting countries , the amount
   of these limits in the case of Greece must be agreed with the exporting third
   countries .
   II .   As these negotiations were not concluded by the end of 1980 , unilateral
   measures were adopted for 1981 so as to align arrangements for the import into
   Greece of the products in question with those in force in the Community as a
   result of    the Agreements ;   limits on imports into Greece of jute products
 • for which there are Community quantitative restrictions in the Agreements
¥  with Bangladesh and India were therefore laid down by Council Regulation
   ( EEC ) No 3505 / 80 of 22 December 1980^.
   III . In view of the fact that it has not yet been possible to reach a
   negotiated solution the unilateral arrangements must be extended for 1982 ,
   it being understood that as soon as the negotiations are completed these
   arrangements will be replaced by new provisions corresponding to the      outcome
   of the negotiations .
          The quantitative limits fixed for Greece for 1981 will be increased for
   1982 by the same percentage as the one affecting the voluntary restraint limits
   under the Agreements with India and Bangladesh .
   IV .   Consequently , the Commission recommends that the Council adopt the
   following regulation .
   ( 1 ) 0J No L 367 , 31.12.1980 , page 77
 ---pagebreak---                                               PROPOSAL FOR A
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC)
                 making the importation into Greece or certain jute products originating in Bangladesh or
                                          India subject to quantitative limitation
    THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
    pean Economic Community, and in particular Arti­
    cle 113 thereof,                                                     " "
    Having regard to the proposal from the Commission
    Whereas Agreements on trade in jute products have
    been negotiated between the Community on the one             ,                            Article i
    hand and India and Bangladesh on the other, pro-            *
    viding for voluntary restraint of exports of certain of           From 11 January
                                                                      From    Ja        to 31 December 1981 imports into
    these products to the Community ;                                 Greece of
                                                                              of the jute products listed in the Annex and
                                                                    originating in Bangladesh or India shall be subject
 Whereas by Regulation ( EEC ) No 3505 / 80                         to this Regulation.
                               ( 1 ), the Council
 made the importation into Greece of
 certain jute products originating                                        ,                  Artide 2
  in Bangladesh or India subject to
 quantitative limitation                so as to
                                                                    Imports into Greece of the jute products listed in
 align the rules for imports into                                   the Annex shall be subject to an import authoriza­
 that Member State as closely as                                    tion to be issued by the Greek authorities up to the
 possible on those applying in the                                  quantitative limits indicated in the Annex.
 other Member States of the Community ;
 whereas these arrangements were intro­
 duced pending the outcome of the
 current negotiations with Bangladesh                                                        Article 3
 and India to adapt the said Agreements
 to take account of the accession of
                                                                    Products admitted into Greece under inward pro­
 Greece ;                                                          cessing or other suspensory arrangements shall not,
                                                                   provided that they are declared under such arrange­
 Whereas , since these negotiations have                           ments to be for re-export from that territory to a
 not yet been concluded it proves to                               third country in their original state or after process­
 be necessary to maintain , as a transi­                           ing, be set off against the quantitative limits referred
 tional measure pending their conclusion                           to in Article 2.
 the rules in force for Greece in 1981 ,
 with a certain increase in the level of
 quantitative limits on imports .                                                           Article 4
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on the day fol­
                                                                   lowing 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
                                                                                           The President
( 1 ) O.J. No . L 367, 31.12.1980, p . 77 .
 ---pagebreak---                                                     ANNEX
              Quantitative limits for imports into Greece of certain juts products originating in
                                              Bangladesh and India
                                           Quantitative limits 1932
                                                                                                              (Tonnes),
           CCT                       NIM ΕΧΕ                                                          Bangla­  india
Category  heading                      code                               Description                  desh
             No
  4      57.10 Β                    57.10-6 2           Woven fabrics of jute or of other bast
                                                        fibres of heading No 57.03 :
                                                        ex 8.   Of a width of more than 150 cm but
                                                                not more than 310 cm, other than
                                                                those of category 7                     9       381
  7      57 . 10 Β                                      Woven fabrics of jute or of other textile
                                                        bast fibres of heading No 57.03 :
                                     57.10-70           ex B. Of a width of more than 150 cm,
                                                                wholly or partially bleached , dyed
                                                                or printed and having no visible sel-
                                            %
                                                                vedge in the width                      6       223