CELEX: 51992PC0075
Language: en
Date: 1992-03-10
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 3301/91 on the arrangements for imports of certain textile products originating in Yugoslavia

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                       C0M(92) 7 5 final
                                       Brussels,10 March 1992
                            Proposal for a
                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3301/91
     on the arrangements for imports of certain textile products
                      originating in Yugoslavia
                     (presented by the Commission)
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                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
This Communication contains a proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation
(EEC) No 3301/91, with the aim of making it possible in the current
political situation to continue to apply the quantitative restrictions of
the autonomous arrangements for what was Yugoslavia to imports of textiles
and clothing from the Yugoslav Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia,
Montenegro and Serbia and the Republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
Implementation of these autonomous arrangements, pending the adoption of
other contractual or autonomous legal instruments, will make it possible to
monitor and limit imports from the Republics concerned, in line with the
aims of the commercial policy for textiles, and to prevent differences
among the Member States in the treatment applied to such imports.
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                             Proposal for a
                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No .../91
                                 Of
                    amending Regulation (EEC) No 3301/91
        on the arrangements for imports of certain textile products
                          originating in Yugoslavia
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3301/911 established Community
quantitative quotas for imports of certain textile products originating in
Yugoslavia, following the suspension by Regulation (EEC) No 3300/912 of
the trade concessions provided for in the Cooperation Agreement concluded
by the European Economic Community and its Member States with Yugoslavia3
and in related protocols and instruments, including the Additional Protocol
on trade in textile products;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 52/924 extended into 1992 the
provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 3301/91;
Whereas certain republics which were part of the Socialist Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia until 1 January 1992 have become independent states;
Whereas the economic conditions in the Community which led to the
establishment of the quantitative quotas still exist, notwithstanding the
new independent status of the republics in question-,
1  OJ No L 315, 15.11.1991, p.3.
2  OJ No L 315, 15.11.1991, p.1.
3  OJ L 41, 14.2.1983, p.1.
4  OJ L 6, 11.1.1992, p.1.
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Whereas it is essential to provide an institutional framework which allows
trade In textile products from any territory which was formerly part of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to develop in a uniform manner-,
Whereas determination and monitoring of the origin of textile products
imported from the territories in question should continue to be governed by
current Community rules and regulations on those matters,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                  Article 1
 In the recitals and articles of and annexes to Regulation (EEC) No 3301/91,
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 52/92, "Yugoslavia" and "Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" are hereby replaced by "the Republic of
Croatia, the Republic of Slovenia and the Yugoslav Republics of Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia".
                                  Article 2
 In compliance with Regulation (EEC) No 3301/91, as amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 52/92, origin of products must be confirmed by a certificate of
origin issued by the appropriate authorities in the Republics in question
or, where applicable, by other forms of proof allowed by Community rules
and regulations on the matter.1
    Regulation (EEC) No 802/68, 0J L 148, 28.6.1968 and Regulation (EEC)
    No 616/78, 0J L 84, 31.3.1978.
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                                 Artlcle 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
a 11 Member States.
Done at Brussels,
                                                        For the CounciI,
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