CELEX: 51994PC0101
Language: en
Date: 1994-03-29
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the conclusion of the Protocol maintaining in force the Arrangement regarding international trade in textiles (MFA)

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                  C0M(94) 101 final
                                                  Brussels, 29.03.1994
                                                  94/0097 (ACC)
                            Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL DECISION
         ON THE CONCLUSION OF THE PROTOCOL MAINTAINING IN FrtPrc
    THE ARRANGEMENT REGARDING I N T E R N A T I O N A L ^ ^
                    (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.  In view of the expiry of the MFA on 31 December 1993 and since the
   Uruguay Round agreement on textiles is not expected to enter into
   force until 1 January 1995, the GATT Textiles Committee decided on 9
   December 1993 to extend the MFA for a period of 12 months from
   1 January to 31 December 1994. This decision is in accordance with
   the negotiating directives that the Commission received from the
   Council on 2 December 1993.
2. The Commission therefore proposes that the Council approve the
   decision concluding the Protocol maintaining in force the MFA for1994
   on behalf of the Community.
 ---pagebreak---                          PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
             on the conclusion of the Protocol maintaining in force
        the Arrangement regarding international trade in textiles (MFA)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European     Community, and in
 particular Article 113 and Article 228(2),
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
 Whereas the Commission took part, on behalf of the Community,     in the
 negotiations on the maintenance in force of the Arrangement regarding
 international trade in textiles (MFA); 1
 Whereas these negotiations led to the establishment of a Protocol
 maintaining in force the MFA for a further period of 12 months until
 31 December 1994;
 Whereas this Protocol should be approved on behalf of the European
 Commun i t y,
 HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
                                     Art icle 1
 The Protocol maintaining in force the Arrangement regarding internationa
 trade in textiles, which was adopted by the GATT Textiles Committee on 9
 December 1993, is hereby approved on behalf of the European Community.
 The text of the Protocol    is attached to this Decision.
                                     Art icle 2
  The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the person
 empowered to notify acceptance of the Protocol on behalf of the European
 Community, in accordance with paragraph 3 of the Protocol.
 Done at Brussels,
       OJ L 341, 4.12.1986, p. 34
 ---pagebreak---                                                              9 December 1993
            PROTOCOL MAINTAINING IN FORCE THE ARRANGEMENT REGARDING
                         INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TEXTILES
      The PARTIES to the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in
Textiles (hereinafter referred to as "the Arrangement" or "MFA"),
      ACTING pursuant to paragraph 5 of Article 10 of the Arrangement,
      REAFFIRMING that the terms of the Arrangement regarding the competence
of the Textiles Committee and the Textiles Surveillance Body are
ma inta ined, and
      FOLLOWING the Decision of the Textiles Committee adopted on
9 December 199-3
      HEREBY AGREE as follows :
1-    The Arrangement, including the. Conclusions of the Textiles Committee,
adopted on 31 July 1986, as amended by the 1989 Protocol Amending the 1986
Protocol Extending the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in
Textiles, shall be maintained in fc-ce for a further period of
twelve months until 31 December 1994-
2.    This Protocol shall be deposited with the Director-General to the
CONTRACTING PARTIES - to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. • It '
shall be open for acceptance, by signature or otherwise, by the Parties to
the Arrangement, by other governments accepting or acceding to the
Arrangement pursuant to the provisions of Article 13 thereof and by the
European            Community.
3.    This Protocol shall enter into force with effect from 1 January 1994
for the parties which have accepted it by that date and it shall enter into
force for a party which accepts it on a later date as of the date of such
acceptance. It shall be applied provisionally, taking into account their
constitutional and/or legislative procedures for ratification, as from
1 January 1994, by parties which have signed it subject to completion of
constitutional procedures, or notified the depositary of their intention to
apply it provisionally, by that date, and by other parties from the date of
their signature or notification of provisional application.
      DONE at Geneva this ninth day of December one thousand nine hundred
and ninety-t.Kr.eein a single copy, in the English, French and Spanish
languages, each text being authentic.
                                           3
 ---pagebreak---                                           9 December 1993
    DECISION BY THE TEXTILES COMMITTEE TO MAINTAIN IN FORCE
   THE ARRANGEMENT REGARDING INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TEXTILES
                 FOR A PERIOD OF TWELVE MONTHS
                       1.1.94 TO 31.12.94
The Textiles Committee met on 9 December 1993 to resume the
discussion that it had begun at its meeting on 9 December 1992 on
the future of the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in
Textiles (MFA), in accordance with the provisions of Article 10.5
of the Arrangement.
The Committee decided to maintain in force the existing MFA, as
extended by the 1986 Protocol, and as maintained in force by the
1992 Protocol, for a further period of 12 months from 1 January
1994 to 31 December 1994 in view of the fact that the Uruguay Round
has not been completed.
The Committee reaffirmed the Conclusions of the Textiles Committee
adopted on 31 July 1986 and the obligations contained therein.
As to the necessary legal steps in this regard, the Textiles
Committee drew up the attached text of a Protocol Maintaining in
Force the MFA for a further period of 12 months. The Protocol would
enter into force on 1 January 1994.
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