CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 November 1973 regarding an autonomous increase of imports into the Community of cotton textiles covered by the Trade Agreement between the EEC and the Republic of Korea on trade in cotton textiles

No L 355/66                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               24. 12. 73
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 21 November 1973
               regarding an autonomous increase of imports into the Community of cotton textiles
               covered by the Trade Agreement between the EEC and the Republic of Korea on trade
                                                           in cotton textiles
                                                         .   (73 /432/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 COMMUNITIES,                                                          are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                       ment Committee for Quota which met on 17 Sep­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                     tember 1973 ,
 pean Economic Community;
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1471 /70 (*) of 20 July 1970 establishing a common
procedure for the autonomous increase of imports                                              Article 1
into the Community of products subject to measures
 of voluntary restraint by exporting countries ;                       The ceilings laid down for products of Group I
                                                                       ( woven fabrics of cotton, unbleached or bleached)
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           and Group II (other woven fabrics and made-up
 1023/70 (2) of 25 May 1970 establishing a common                      articles) in the Agreement on trade in cotton textiles
procedure for administering quantitative quotas, and                   concluded on 29 March 1971 between the European
in particular Article 11 thereof;                                      Economic Community and the Republic of Korea
                                                                       shall be autonomously increased until 31 December
                                                                       1973 as follows :
Whereas on 29 March 1971 the Community con­
 cluded an Agreement with Korea on trade in cotton
                                                                       — Group I from 6 054 metric tons to 6 069-5 metric
textiles ;
                                                                           tons,
Whereas that Agreement provides for the limitation                     — Group II from 1 351 metric tons to 1 358-5 metric
of Korean exports within a ceiling agreed between                          tons .
the two parties ;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas by the Decisions of 8 March 1973 (3) and 2
August 1973 (4) the Community autonomously in­
creased the ceilings laid down in the Agreement                        This Decision is addressed to all Member States .
between the Community and Korea on trade in cot­
ton textiles ; whereas this increase was made to take
account of the Accession of the new Member States
to the Community and to avoid disturbing tra­                          Done at Brussels, 21 November 1973 .
ditional trade;
                                                                                                   For the Commission
Whereas the most recent statistics relating to imports                                                 The President
into Ireland appear to warrant putting this increase
at a higher level ;                                                                              Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(*) 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 .
(*) OJ  No L 253 , 10 . 9. 1973 , p. 22 .