CELEX: 21986A1227(05)
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-08 00:00:00
Title: Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Arab Republic of Egypt on trade in textile products consequent on the accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the Community

27 . 12 . 86                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 366 / 17
                                                     ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL
               to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Arab Republic of Egypt on
                trade in textile products consequent on the accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese
                                                      Republic to the Community
               THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
               of the one part , and
               THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT ,
               of the other part ,
               CONSIDERING the accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the European
               Communities on 1 January 1986 ,
               HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Arab Republic of
               Egypt on trade in textile products initialled on 24 September 1982 , hereinafter referred to as the
               'Agreement',
               HAVE DECIDED to determine by common accord the adjustments and transitional measures of the Agreement
               consequent on the accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the European Economic
               Community , and
               TO CONCLUDE THIS PROTOCOL :
                             Article 1                                        basis where imports of a given product into any region
                                                                              of the Community in relation to the amounts
The text of the Agreement as hereby amended , including its                   determined in accordance with paragraph 2 and 2A
Annexes , Protocols , and Exchange of Letters forming an                      exceed the following regional percentage :
integral part thereof, shall be drawn up in Spanish and
Portuguese and those texts shall be authentic in the same way                        Germany                            28,5%
                                                                                     Benelux                             10,5%
as the original texts .
                                                                                     France                              18,5%
                                                                                     Italy                               15,0%
                                                                                     Denmark                              3,0%
                             Article 2                                               Ireland                              1,0%
                                                                                     United Kingdom                      23,5%
The Agreement shall be amended as follows :                                          Greece                               2,0%
                                                                                     Spain                                7,5 %
( 1 ) The limits set out in Annex II shall be increased to the                       Portugal                             1,5%
      quantities set out in the Annex hereto .
                                                                        ( 4 ) The      following paragraph      is  hereby    added   to
( 2 ) The following paragraph is hereby inserted into                         Article 8 :
      Article 8 :
                                                                              ' 12 .    In 1986 , for purposes of introducing
      '2A .    For the purposes of applying the provisions of                 Community quantitative limits or quantitative limits for
      paragraph 2 in the year 1986 , the preceding year's total               regions of the Community other than Spain or Portugal ,
      imports from all third countries shall be calculated on                 should the figures calculated on the basis of paragraph
      the basis of imports into the Community as constituted                  2A be unavailable , or should those figures be lower than
      on 31 December 1985 and of imports into Spain and                       those resulting from the rules in force prior to
      Portugal . Trade between the Community , Spain and                      enlargement , the latter will exceptionally continue to be
      Portugal , or between Spain and Portugal shall be                       used .
      excluded from this total .'
                                                                              For purposes of introducing regional limits for Spain
( 3 ) Protocol C shall be replaced by the following :                         and Portugal , should the import figures for the year
                                                                               1985 be unavailable , the import total shall be
      'In accordance with Article 8 ( 6 ) of the Agreement ,                  established by the means set out in paragraph 2A but on
      a quantitative limit may be fixed on a regional                         the basis of 1984 import figures .'
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                           Article 3                                          2.    It shall be applicable with effect from 1 January 1986
                                                                              and remain in force during the period of validity of the
The Annex to this Protocol forms an integral part thereof.                    Agreement between the European Economic Community
This Protocol forms an integral part of the Agreement .                       and the Arab Republic of Egypt on trade in textile
                                                                              products .
                           Article 4
                                                                                                         Article 5
1.    This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of                This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in the Danish , Dutch ,
the month following the date on which the contracting                         English , French , German , Greek , Italian , Portuguese ,
parties notify each other that the procedures necessary to this               Spanish and Arabic languages , each of those texts being
end have been completed .                                                     equally authentic .
                                                                     ANNEX
                                                                                                                             Community
       Category                                         Description                                         Unit             quantitative
                                                                                                                             limits 1986
          2             Cotton fabrics                                                                    tonnes                6 706
          2 a           Cotton fabrics of which other than grey or bleached                               tonnes                1 353
          4             Knitted shirts , singlets , T-Shirts , sweater-shirts                          1 000 pieces             7 733