CELEX: 31973D0269
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 1 August 1973 autonomously increasing imports into the Community of cotton textiles forming the subject of the trade agreement between the EEC and India on cotton textiles

No L 253 /20                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                10 . 9 . 73
                                                        COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 1 August 1973
                 autonomously increasing imports into the Community of cotton textiles forming the
                                    subject of the trade agreement between the EEC and India
                                                            on cotton textiles
                                                               (73/269 /EEC )
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           Whereas the most recent statistical data appear to
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                           warrant that the increase be fixed at a higher level,
                                                                         and in order, in particular, to take account for this
                                                                         purpose the levels of imports into Denmark and
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   Ireland ;
 Economic Community ;
                                                                         Whereas the measures provided for by this Decision
                                                                         are in accordance with the Opinion of the Quota
                                                                         Administration Committee which met on 21 May 1973 ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1471 /70 H of 20 July 1970 establishing a common
 procedure for the autonomous increase of imports                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 into the Community of products subject to measures
 of voluntary restraint by exporting countries ;
                                                                                                Article 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1023/                      The ceilings of voluntary restraint set out for products
 70 ( 2) of 25 May 1970 establishing a common procedure                  belonging to Group I ( cotton fibres whether or not
for administering quantitative quotas, and in particular                 bleached) and Group II (fibres other than bleached
 Article 11 thereof ;                                                    or unbleached fibres and manufactured articles) in the
                                                                         trade agreement on cotton textiles concluded on 12
                                                                         March 1971 between the European Economic Com­
Whereas on 12 March 1971 the Community concluded                         munity and India shall be autonomously increased until
a trade agreement with India on cotton textiles ;                        30 September 1973 as follows :
                                                                         — Group I from 8 460 metric tons to 8 675 metric tons
Whereas that agreement provides for the voluntary                        — Group II from 4 035 metric tons to 4 185 metric
restraint of Indian exports at a level agreed upon bet­                      tons .
ween the two parties ;
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas by the Commission Decisions of 8 March                           This Decision is addressed to all Member States .
1973 (3) and 25 May 1973 (4) the Community auton­
omously increased the ceilings of voluntary restraints                   Done at Brussels , 1 August 1973 .
set out in the trade agreement between the Community
and India on cotton textiles ; whereas the first of the                                                  For the Commission
increases was made to take account of the Accession
                                                                                                            The President
of the new Member States to the Community and to
avoid disturbing traditional trade flows ;                                                              François-Xavier ORTOLI
(a ) OJ   No  L 164, 27 . 7 . 1970 , p . 41 .
(2)  OJ   No  L 124, 8 . 6. 1970, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ   No  L 94 , 10. 4. 1973 , p. 20.
(4)  OJ   No  L 182 , 5 . 7. 1973 , p. 37.