CELEX: 51978PC0159
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Date: 1978-04-17
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION maintaining the common rules for import authorization and quantitative limitation for certain textile products originating in state-trading countries (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                       COM(78)159   final .
                                                       Brussels , 17 April 1978.
                     PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION  ■
            maintaining the common rules for import authorization
            and quantitative limitation for certain textile pro­
            ducts originating in state-trading countries
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
£ ) 159 final .
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                             EXPLANATORY    MEMORANDUM
      1.        By Regulation No . 671 / 78   of 3 April 1978(1 ) and. "by
       virtue of article 7 of Council Regulation 109/70 , the Commission
      haa subjected the import of certain textile products originating •
       in state-trading countries to common rules for authorization and
      quantitative limitation .
        2.      This has been done as an urgent measure of conservation ,
       as the rules on the import of these particularly sensitive products
        should have been adopted before the 1 March 1978 *
       3.       The Commission Regulation expires six weeks after its entry
       into force in April 1978 unless it is confirmed by the Council .
                Thus the Commission proposes that the Council adopt the
        following Regulation confirming the measures it has taken .
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( 1 ) O.J.No L 96 - 10.4          1978
 ---pagebreak---                                   Proposal for a
                                COUNCIL REGULATION
           maintaining the common rules for import authorization and
quantitative limitation for certain textile products originating
in state-trading countries .
          The Council of the European Communities ,
          Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economio Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof ,
          Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 109/70 of
19 December 1969 establishing common rules              for       imports
from state-trading countries ( l ), and in particular Article 8 thereof ,
       ,  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission^
           Whereas by Regulation (EEC ) NO        671 /78   of 3 April 1978 ( 2) the
Commission made the importation into the Community of certain
textile products originating in state-trading countries subject
to common rules for authorization and quantitative limitation ;
     ' )
           Whereas the grounds justifying the introduction of these
rules still      exist      whereas they should therefore continue
to apply              until 31 December 1978 }
           Whereas ,. in addition to the provisions of Council
Regulation (EEC ) No 1023/70 of 25 Kay 1970 establishing a common
procedure for           administering of quantitative quotas (3 ) »
a simplified procedure should be set up to deal with
 the need for additional          imports        which could arise in a
Member State after                            the quota-share of the
 Community quota allocated to that Member State has been exhausted ,
 (TTÔJ No . L 19/%          26.6.1970, p.l
  ( 2 ) OJ No . L 96 , 10.4.1978, p.l
  ( 3 ) OJ Hb . L 124 . 8.6.1970,.       p .l
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                         Article   1
The rules established by Regulation (EEC ) No .    671
      Bhall continue to apply until 31 Decomber " 1978 •
                         Article 2
1 * If a Member State has issued import authorizations to the total
    amount of its quota-ehare and    finds that there is a need for additional
             imports ,      it shall inform the Commission thereof .
2 . At the request of the Member State concerned, the Commission
    may , after oral or written consultation with the Member States
    in the Committee provided for in Article 10 of Regulation (EEC )
    Bo 1023/70 , increase the amount which may be imported into
    the Member State concerned ..
    In urgent- cases ,   the Commission shall start consult at ion B
    in the said Committee within five working days of receiving the .
    request from the Member State concerned , and shall give
    it 8 decision within fifteen working days of the said date .
                         Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communilies .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States .
 Done at                                        By the Council