CELEX: 51989PC0029
Language: en
Date: 1989-05-26
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of India on trade in textile products (presented by the Commission)

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                                                             Brussels , 26             May 1989
                              Proposai for a
                             COUNCIL DECISION
    concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute amending the
    Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of
                         India on trade in textile products
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 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . The attached document is a draft proposal to the Council concerning
     adjustments to the quantitative limits for categories 7 and 27
                   agreed with rndia            when the hi . lateral Agreement
     on trade in textile products was negotiated in 1986 . The adjustments
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     are necessary following the introduction of the Harmonized System on
     1 January 1988 .
2 . It is proposed that the above changes should apply provisionally from
     1 January 1988 .
3 . The changes are set out in an Agreed Minute initialled on ^            (
      198 9 .
 4 . This matter should be dealt with promptly by the Council to enable the
      Commission to adopt a Regulation ensuring the proper management of the
      amended provisions .
 ---pagebreak---  No L 95/34                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 8 . 4 . 89
                                                    COUNCIL DECISION
                                                     of                1989
                 concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute amending the
                 Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of
                                             India on trade in textile products
                                                         (89/232/ EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           that there is a reciprocal provisional application on the
                                                                   part of the Republic of India,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                  HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
thereof,
                                                                                           Article 1
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                   Pending the completion of the procedures necessary for
Whereas pending the completion of the procedures                   its conclusion, the Agreed Minute amending the
necessary for its conclusion, the Agreement between the            Agreement on trade in textile products between the
European Economic Community and the Republic of                    European Economic Community and the Republic of
India on trade in textile products, initialled on 31               India shall be applied provisionally in the Community,
October 1986, has been provisionally applied since 1               with effect from 1 January 1988 , provided that there is
January 1987 in accordance, having regard to the                   reciprocal provisional application on the part of the
Community, with Decision 88/495/ EEC (') ;                         Republic of India.
                                                                   The texts of the Agreed Minutes are attached to this
Whereas that Agreement provides for the possibility of             Decision .
re-examining, in the light of recent developments, quanti¬
tative adjustments to the quotas for certain categories, in                                 Article 2
order to allow for the introduction of the harmonized
system ;                                                           The Commission is invited to seek the agreement of the
                                                                   Government of the Republic of India on the provisional
Whereas, at the end of consultations between the                   application of the Agreed Minutes referred to in Article 1
Community and the Repuiblic of India, an Aareyd                    and to notify the Council thereof.
Minute amending the quotas on category \yprotracts''
provided for in the Agreement was initialled oh 25 April
198 9;                                                             Done at Brussels,                1 989 .
Whereas pending the completion of the procedure                                                 For the Council
necessary for the conclusion of the Agrcment and the                                              The President
Agreed Minute, the Agreed Minute should be applied
provisionally, with effect from 1 January 1988, provided
( ' ) OJ No L 267, 27. 9. 1988 , p. 1 .
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 ---pagebreak---                                        AGREED MINUTES
          Delegations of the European Community and the Republic of India met in New Delhi
on 24-25 April , 1989 for consultations in accordance with Article 16 of the Agreement on
Trade in Textiles between India and the European Community initialled on 31st October
1986 . Consultations were held on India’s request for adjustment of restraint levels for certain
products covered under the Agreement tabled during consultations at New Delhi on 28-29
March , 1988 and at Brussels on 24-27 January, 1989, arising out of the introduction of the
harmonised system of commodity coding by the Community w.e.f. 1 - 1 - 1988.
2.         As a result of these consultations , it is agreed that the restraint levels for Categories
7 and 27 given in Annex . II of the Agreement are amended as follows :
 Category                                                       Year
                            1988            1989                1990             1991
     7                      40294           43701               44734            45792
    27                        8095             8735              9072             9422
 The above restraint levels for 1989 to 1991 Include the compensation for export opportunities
 lost by India during 1988 , equally distributed among the three years .        This agreement is the
  final settlement to the requests made by India in the consultations referred to above .
  New Delhi , the 25th April , 1989
   For thejdepublic
   For  thej^epublic of
                     of India
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                                                          :oyihe European Economic Community