CELEX: 51988PC0811
Language: en
Date: 1988-12-16
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute modifying the Agreement between the European Economic Community and India on trade in textile products (presented by the Commission)

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                                                                   COM ( 88 ) 811       final
                                                                    Brussels ,      16 December 1988
                                       Proposai for a
                                      COUNCIL DECISION
   concerning the provisional application of ( he Agreed Minute modifying the Agreement between the
      European Economic Community and            India on trade in textile products
                           ( presented by the Commission )
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                                EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . The attached document , comprising a draft proposal to the Council
    concerns the adjustment of the quantitative limits on Category 4
    which had been agreed with India in the course of the
    negotiations of the bilateral textile Agreement in 1986 .
    This adjustment had been necessary following the introduction of the
    Harmonized System up from the 1st of January 1988 .
2 . The document proposes the provisional application of the above
    modifications of the bilateral textile trade Agreement with India
    with effect from 1 January 1988-
3 . The modifications are set out in the Agreed Minutes initialled on
    23 June 1988 .
    The Agreed Minutes provide for the deletion of the quantitative
    limits for " special quantity of category 4 category 4S ) in
    respect of the 1988 to 1991 , the amounts of which have been
    converted from tons into pieces on the basis of indications by
    Member States with respect to the real conversion rate of their
    1987 imports and incorporated into the amended category 4 . The
    amended category 4 takes as well into account migration of
    certain products from the ( unrestricted ) categories 74 and 75^due
    to a narrower definition of suits and ensembles within the
    context of the Harmonized System and the Combined Nomenclature .
4 . The matter should be dealt with by the Council at the first
    available session to enable the Commission to decide on a
    regulation ensuring the proper management of the amended
    provisions .
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 ---pagebreak---                                                        Proposai for a
                                                      COUNCIL DECISION
               concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute modifying the Agreement between the
                   European Economic Community and                India on trade in textile products
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                              HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
.Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European . •
'Economic Community , and in particular Article 113                                                  Article 1
 thereof ,
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 Having regard 10 t lie proposal Irom i he Commission ,                 conclusion , the Agreed Minute modifying the Agreement on
                                                                        trade in textile products between the European Economic
 Whereas pending the completion of the procedures necessary             Community and Jndia                         ■ shall be applied
 for its conclusion , the Agreement between the European                provisionally in the Community , with effect from 1 January
 Economic Community and India                                     on     1988 provided that . there is reciprocal provisional
 trade in textile products, initialled on    0 C 15. 986 , has been      application on the part of India .
 provisionally applied since 1 January 1987 in accordance,
 having regard to the Community , with the Council Decision              The text of the Agreed Minute is attached to this
 of 11 December 1986 *                                             -     Decision .
                           #
  Whereas that Agreement provides for the possibility of
  re-examining , in the light of recent trade developments,
                                                                                                      Article 2
  quantitative adjustments to the quotas for certain categories ,
  in order to allow for                                         • the
  introduction of the Harmonized System;                                 The Commission is invited to seek the agreement of the
                                                                         Government of India                      i on the provisional
  Where **,    at  the end     of cnnMilt nitons between          the     application of the Agreed Minute referred to in Article 1 and
   Community and         India                          1111 Agreed       to notify thr Council thereof
   Minute modifying the quota on category 4 products provided
   for in the Agreement was initialled on23 June 1938j
   Whereas pending the completion of the procedures necessary             Done at Brussels ,
   for the conclusion of the Agreement and the Agreed Minute ,
  jhe Agreed Minute should be applied provisionally , with                                                       For the Council
   e?!ect- from 1 lanuarv 1988 , provided that there is a
  netlpfOCiil p«l cxIiicinaL ijpplicoi tm on the | nntr nl
    India .
 ---pagebreak---                                    AGREED MINUTE
1.    Delegations of the EEC and the Republic of India ; net in Brussels on 31
May and 1-3 June 1988 in accordance with the provisions of Article 16 of
the Agreement on trade in textiles initialled on 31 'October 1936 , in order
to examine the latter' s request for an adjustment of the quantitative
limits of certain products affected by the new definitions following the
implementation of the Harmonised System .
2 . The two parties agreed to delete the quantitative limits for " special
quantity" of cateoyry 4 ( 4(S )) in respect of the years 1988 to 1991
established in Annex II of the said Agreement -ana to amend the quantitative
 limits established in Annex II of the Agreement as follows :
 Category       Description           Unit               Year              uuC 1 mi _
      4      ■Shirts , T-shirts    1000 pieces           193S                28 , 5C0
              and the like                                1989               29,754
              knitted or crocheted                        1990               31 , 063
                                                          1991               32,430
  3-    These amended figures take also into account migration of certain^
  products from categories 74 and 75 , on the basis of the existing available
  import documentation .
  4 . The provisions of the Agreed Minute shall enter into force or. the first
  day of the month following the date of its signature . They shall apply
  with effect frcm 1 January 1988-
   5.    India also stated that the definitional changes introuuoed by the
   Harmonised System might result in "migration " of some other items frcm
   categories 16 , 18 , 29 and 78 to various restrained categories , namely ,
   categories 6 , 7 , 8 , 15 and 27 .
   The Gomnunity undertook to examine tress problems once relevar.r and
   complete documentation has been provided by India and in toe light of the
   correct interpretation of the Harmonised System
          Head of Delegation of                                   Head of yeiegat_on of
     the European Economic Comriunity                             tie Republic of India
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