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Title: PROPOSALS BY THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, RELATING TO THE APPLICATION IN 1975 OF GENERALIZED TARIFF PREFERENCES TO CERTAIN TEXTILE PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak---   COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                        COM(74)1689 final
                                                       Brussels . 23 October 1974
             PROPOSALS BY THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL , RELATING
               TO THE APPLICATION IN 1975 OP GENERALIZED TARIFF
             PREFERENCES TO CERTAIN TEXTILE PRODUCTS ORIGINATING
                            IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
CCM(74) 1689 final
 ---pagebreak---  PROPOSALS BY THE COMMISSION TO TIE COUNCIL , RELATING TO THE APPLICATION
 IN 1975 OF GENERALIZED TARIFF PREFERENCES TO CERTAIN TEXTILE PRODUCTS
                   ORIGINATING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
                         EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
       The present proposals by the Commission to the Council relate to the
 legal provisions required, to grant generalized tariff preferences in 1975
 for certain textile goods originating in developing countries . These pro­
posals follow upon the proposals and communications which the Commission
 laid "before the Council on 27 June 1974 concerning the application in 1975
of generalized tariff preferences in favour of exports by developing coun­
tries of certain agricultural goods of Chapters 1 to 24 of the CCT and of
manufactures and semi-manufactures - except textile goods - of CCT Chap­
ters 25 to 99 *
      The proposals for Regulations submitted to Council this time contain
provisions for the application of tariff preferences to textile products
in general on the one hand , and to jute and coir manufactures on the other .
1 . Textile products
      For cotton textiles and assimilated products , the offer of genera­
lized tariff preferences made in UNCTAD was not only limited to beneficiar-
ries who where signatories of the Long-term Agreement on International Trade
in Cotton Textiles ( LTA) and to countries accepting similar commitments ,
but limited also in time , i.e. for the duration of the LTA.
 ---pagebreak---         The Long-term Agreement having expired on 31 December 1973 , a similar
  accord covering not only cotton textiles , "but also wool textiles and man­
  made fibres has come into existence * The measures to be applied under the
  new agreement are in course of preparation and will give rise to a series
  of bilateral negotiations . The results of these negotiations will , however,
  form an essential element for the implementation of Community policy in
 the field of textiles , Generalized tariff preferences being one aspect of
 this policy and providing the link with development cooperation.
       In the circumstances , the Commission is proposing the extension for
 1975 , of the present transitional arrangement as it applies in the textile
 sector as a whole . The Commission believes it is in­
 deed necessary to ensure continuity in the application of the GSP in this
 area, until such time as an appropriate solution can be found .
       The Commission considers , however, that certain adjustments should be
made which would not fundamentally affect the sensitive sector of Community
 economy; these concern the amounts of the Community tariff quotas and ceilings ,
and also the list of beneficiary countries for cotton textiles and substitutes*
– a flat–rate increase of 5 $ in the ceilings and tariff quotas applying in
   1974 is proposed for all textile products . Such an increase would make it
   possible to extend in some measure to the textile sector - so important
   for countries seriously affected by the present economic crisis – the benefit
   of improvements which have been envisaged for other manufactures and semi-
   manufactures and which consist in raising ceiling levels by a "normal " ad­
   justment of calculation factors , as provided for in the Community 's offer on
   preferences .
– the Republic of Vietnam and Sri Lanka should be added to the list of bene­
   ficiary countries in respect of preferences on cotton textiles and substi­
   tutes . These two countries have indeed requested the benefit of preferences
 ---pagebreak---  for "the products concerned and procedures axe in hand "to enable them
 to undertake "towards the Community commitments similar to those taken
 on *by signatories of "the LTA.
<
       The Commission farther proposes to continue in 1975 "to allow           ?
Yugoslavia to benefit from generalized tariff preferences on cotton tex­
 tiles and substitutes , on the same basis and in the samemanner as was
 decided upon for this country in 1974# I"t considers moreover that the
 above-mentioned flat-rate 5 % increase in ceilings and quotas should equal­
 ly apply to cotton textiles and substitutes originating in Yugoslavia.
       Following suit on its proposals for the application of preferences in
 1974 , the Commission is not proposing to introduce a reserve share in tariff
 quotas for textiles subject to transitional arrangements . It considers nevej>-
 theless that the single and definitive allocation of Community tariff quotas
  among Member States adopted in the case of textiles in no way prejudices
  recourse to the general method of allocating Community tariff quotas compri­
  sing the setting up of a reserve share ; it further considers that implemen­
 tation of this principle should be proceeded with gradually and in parallel
 with the setting up of a reserve share for quotas relating to products other
 than textiles .
 «
 2 . Manufactures of jute and coir
       In the Community offer on generalized tariff preferences it is stated
 that , where jute and coir manufactures are concerned , customs duty exemption
  is envisaged within the framework of particular measures to be agreed with
 exporting developing countries .
       In order to settle these arrangements , negotiations were held between
  the Community and India on jute and coir products and between the Community
  and Bangladesh on jute products only . The negotiations with India led to
  agreement on two separate texts ; as regards Bangladesh , procedures are now
  in hand for conclusion of the agreement , jfoese agreements provide , in regard
 to jute manufactures , that the exporting countries shall apply appropriate
 ---pagebreak---   measures so -that their exports of the products concerned for internal
  consumption within the Community shall not exceed certain agreed ceilings .
        Taking the above into account , generalized tariff preferences on
  jute manufactures were granted to India and Bangladesh for 1974 . Preferences
  were also granted to India in respect of coir manufactures .
        The Commission 's proposal is to extend for 1975 "the generalized tariff
 preferences on jute and coir manufactures , with the following adjustments :
 – the preferential tariff margins should be increased from 40 to 60        in
    conformity with the provisions of the agreements with India and Bangladesh ;
 – it is proposed that the preferences be extended to Sri Lanka for coir manu­
    factures and to Thailand in respect of jute manufactures . Both these coun­
   tries have in fact applied for the benefit of preferences on these products
   and procedures are in hand concerning special measures which could be set
   out in exchanges of letters between the Community on the one hand and Sri
   Lanka and Thailand on the other. Considering the low level of exports of
   the products concerned to the Community from these two countries , the
   Commission believes that the solution proposed would raise no particular
   problem for the Community.
      Concerning the duties chargeable in the United Kingdom and Denmark , the
Commission is of the opinion that the system applying in 1974 should be main­
tained , having regard to the provisions of the agreements with India and
Bangladesh ( suspension of duties to the level of those chargeable in those
two Member States in 1973 )* Where imports of coir goods from Sri Lanka and
jute goods from Thailand are concerned , the Commission considers that the
Community might , by an autonomous decision , grant in favour of the said im­
ports a suspension of duties to the level of those applicable in 1973 in
both the Member States referred to .
 ---pagebreak---                                    5
                            c
     For it seems advisable , according to the Joint Declaration of
Intent appended to the Act of Accession , to avoid any deterioration
of traditional trade currents which might "be caused "by too steep an
adjustment of the duty rates formerly applicable to these products
in the United Kingdom and Denmark# It should also be observed in this
connexion that the countries benefiting from preferences for jute and
coir are among those most seriously affected by the current economic
crisis .
     With regard to Ireland and where jute manufactures A are concerned ,
it is deemed expedient , taking into account the high rates of duty
prevailing hitherto ,- to allow this country to level down by stages to
the preferential rates " provided for , i#e# in accordance with Article
39 of the Accession Treaty# This solution , moreover , was the one adopted
in the preferences scheme for 1974 *
 ---pagebreak---                                                Proposal for a
                              REGULATION (EEC) OF , THE COUNCIL
                                                         i
               opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community tari quotas
                           for certain textile products originating in developing countries
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community^ and. in particular
  to Article 113 thereof ;
Haivng regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas, within the context of UNCTAD , the Euro­
pean Economic Community offered to grant tariff
preferences on finished and semi-finished products
coming from developing countries ; whereas the pre­
ferential treatment proposed in that offer covers,
generally speaking, all finished and semi -finished
industrial products covered by Chapters 25 to 99 of the
Brussels Nomenclature which originate in develo­
ping countries ; whereas the preference consists in
the granting of exemption from customs duties ;
whereas preferential imports are effected up to the
level of ceilings calculated by value in respect of
each product on the basis of factors which are uni­
form for all the products ; whereas, in order that the
preferences granted to the most competitive develo- •
ping country or countries should be restricted and
that a substantial share should be reserved for the
least competitive, preferential imports from any one
developing country in respect of a given product            ■
 should not, as a general rule, exceed 50% of the
 ceiling fixed for that product;
 Whereas, in the offer made by the Community, the
 annual ceilings should normally be calculated on the
 basis of total value for 1968 of cif imports from the
 countries benefiting from this ' scheme, excluding
 those already enjoying various preferential tariff
 arrangements granted by the Community (basic -
 amount) plus 54/» of the value of cif imports from
 the other countries and from the countries already
 enjoying such arrangements (additional amount);
                                             i
  Whereas, however, in respect of cotton textile pro­
  ducts formerly covered "by the long-term arrangement regar­
  ding international trade in cotton textiles, the offer"
  made by the Community lays down that the prefer­
 ences in . the form of duty-tree ceilings normally
 ---pagebreak---                                            - 2 -
     calculated according to the formula set out in the
     preceding recital, will be granted to the countries
     enjoying generalized preferences which are sig-
  . natorics to the long-term arrangement or possibly to
     those countries which undertake vis-A-vis the Com­
     munity commitments similar to those existing under
     that arrangement and for the duration of the said
     arrangement; whereas the arrangement expired on
     30 September 1973 and was extended to 31 Decem­
     ber 1973; whereas , similarly to 1974 and on a
   transitional basis , it may be anticipated that
   the countries thereby concerned will for 1975 »
   adopt measures with equivalent aims , in expec­
   tation of such time as the "Arrangement con­
   cerning International Trade in Textiles " be–
   comes applicable^ whereas it is apparent that only im­
   ports from these countries are to form the basis for
    calculating the abovementioned ceilings; whereas,
   with particular regard to the link which Article 6 of
• the said long-term arrangement established between
    cotton products and substitute products, it appears
   justified in these circumstances and by virtue of the
    fact that a total suspension of customs duties is in­
   volved to include in the same scheme as that des­
   cribed above those substitute textile products given in
   the conditional list of partial and limited reductions
   of customs duties deposited with GATT by the Com­
   munity during the last scries of tariff negotiations ;
   whereas, moreover, in view of the special nature
   which trade in the products concerned may have, it
   appears expedient, wherever this is justified by the
   particular sensitivity of the product, to determine in  <
   terms of tonnages the ceilings for the preferential
   imports of such products, taking due account of           7
  deliveries effected during 1968 by the beneficiary
  countries alone; whereas, moreover, particularly in
  view of the high level of deliveries of the textiles in
  question to the Community by the third countries
  concerned, it appears appropriate, except in parti­
   cular instances, to restrict preferential imports from
  any single beneficiary country to 30% of the ceiling , .
   laid down for each category of textile products con­
   cerned ;
 Whereas the offer made by the Community includes
 a clause stating that the Community drew up the
 offer on the assumption that all the main industrial­
   ized countries which arc members of the OECD w.ould
  participate in granting preferences and would make
  similar efforts in this direction ; whereas, moreover,
 it is evident from the conclusions worked out in
 UNCTAD that this offer, while being of a temporary
 nature, does not constitute a binding commitment
  and, in particular, may be withdrawn wholly or in
  part at a later date; whereas this possibility may be
   adopted inter alia with a view to remedying any un­
  favourable situations which might arise in the asso- '
  ciated countries following the implementation of the
 generalized preference scheme;
 ( 1 ) O.J. N0 L 118 of 30.4.1974 , p.l
 ---pagebreak---            \
                                           - 3 -
   Whereas, moreover, the Conference of Heads of
   State or of Government of the Member States and the
   States acceding to the European Communities held
   in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 invited the
   Community institutions and the Member States pro­
   gressively to adopt an overall policy of development
   cooperation on a world-wide scale comprising in
   particular the improvement of generalized preferences i
   with the aim of achieving a steady increase in imports
   of manufactures from the developing countries ;
   Whereas tariff preferences have been applied from
   the second half of 1971 under the conditions set out
    above and whereas these preferences should continue
    to be applied throughout 1975 * /
   Whereas, in accordance with Protocol No 23 to the
   Act of Accession ('), the generalized tariff preferences
   scheme fcecam e          applicable in the new Member
    States from 1 January 1974;
   Whereas in respect of textile products, the complexity
    of the measures to be implemented, combined with
    the abovementioned aim of improving the general­
    ized preferences, could only "be overcome in ^*974
   "by means of a flat–rate increase of some 5^r>
    in the ceilings fixed for 1973 ; Whereas
   the same situation will again prevail in
    1975 , so that such improvement can "be
    effected only "by means of a flat–rate
    increase of 5 % of the ceilings fixed
    for 1974 ;
  Whereas it is expedient, therefore, in respect of the
  products referred to in Annex A which originate in
  the countries listed in Annex B, that the Community
  should open, for 197 5 duty-free Community tariff
  quotas within the limits of the amounts in metric
  tons given in respect of each of these products ;
  Whereas charges against each of these tariff quotas
  must, in respect of the products originating in any
 of the abovementioned countries, come within a
 specified percentage of the amount of the quota;
 whereas the benefit of such tariff quotas should be
  reserved for products originating in the countries
  under consideration, the concept of 'originating pro­
 ducts' being determined in accordance with the pro­
 cedure laid down in Article 14 of Council Regulation
(EEC) No 802/68 (2) of 27 June 1968 on the common
definition of the concept of the origin of goods;
Whereas it is necessary to ensure equal and con­
tinuous access for all Community importers to the
abovementioned quotas and the uninterrupted appli­
cation of the rate laid down for those , quotas to all
(') OJ No L 73, 27. V 1972, p. 14.
 (2) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak---  imports of the products concerned into all Member
 States until those quotas are used up ; whereas, having
 regard to the principles defined above, the Commu­
 nity nature of the quotas can be respected by allo­
 cating the Community tariff quota among Member
 States ; whereas, moreover, to this end and in the
 context of the utilization system, the actual charges
 against the quotas may relate only to goods which
 are entered for home use and which are accompanied
 by a certificate of origin ;
 Whereas the application of the generally accepted
 principles in respect of the allocation of the Com­
 munity tariff quotas which have been opened until
 now entails, under these circumstances and in view
 of the variety of the products concerned and in view
 of the fact that the benefiting countries are specified,
 calculations which are all the more problematic in
 that the statistical data required sometimes prove to
 be incomplete or not sufficiently accurate or repre­
 sentative; whereas the time required for these cal­
 culations cannot be reconciled with the continuity
 necessary for the application of the tariff preferences
 concerned ; whereas, under these conditions, it would
 be advisable still at this stage to adopt a fixed scale
 for allocating the Community tariff quotas concerned
 among the Member States ; whereas, using as a basis
 general economic criteria relating to external trade,
 in textiles, the gross national product and popula­
 tion, the percentages for the initial shares of the
 Member States in the quota amounts are as follows
 for the quota amounts are as follows for the quota
 year under considération :
          Germany         '                  27%
          Bénélux                            10%
          France                             19%
         Italy                               14%
         Denmark                              7%
         Ireland                              1%
         United Kingdom                      22%
 Whereas, without affecting the Community nature              ,
 of the tariff quotas under consideration, it appears
 possible to provide at this stage for a utilization
scheme based on a single allocation among the Mem-         !'
ber States; whereas, moreover, the allocation set out
by this Regulation in no . way prejudices the possibi­
lity of adopting
          the general method of allocation of Com­
munity quotas comprising the setting up of a reserve
share; whereas implementation of this principle in such a sensitive area can,
however, "be put in hand only progressively, yet must remain attuned to the
methods of administration laid down in the general framework of the soheme
of generalized preferences ;
           whereas at the present juncture it appears fea­
  sible that such allocation could as a rule be made
 ---pagebreak---                                                    - 5 -
according to the percentages set out in the table         limited to the maximum amount                    P^
above; whereas, however, one of the new Member            tage and in metric tons in column 4 of Annex
States, the Kingdom of Denmark, has for a number          A against each category of products.
of years been importing relatively large quantities of
certain cotton yarns and woven fabrics falling within
heading Nos ex 55.05 and ex 55.09 of the Common           4. Any amendement to Annex B, in Pa^ar by_
                                                          the addition of new countries enjoying ^riff pr
Customs Tariff from a number of developing countries
and has therefore ceased to produce the articles          ferences may entail a corresponding adjustment to
in question; whereas this special situation should        th«f^volumes      of the quotas and to f
                                                           amounts appearing in columns 3 and 4 of Annex A.
temporarily be taken into account and this Member
State should be granted an increased share without re­
stricting the access thereto of countries benefiting
from generalized preferences;                                                       Artide 2
                                                           1. The Community tariff quotas referred itorn
 Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the King­           tkle 1 shall be allocated in shares which shall be,
 dom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of             for each Member State, the amounts corresponding
 Luxembourg are united in and represented by the
 Benelux Economic Union, all transactions concern­
                                                           SVuSirii shown in coluM 5 of An«x A agmst
 ing the administration of the shares allocated to
                                                           each category of products.
 the Benelux Economic Union may be carried out
 by any one of its Members,                                2. The shares allocated to Denmark for certain pro­
                                                            ducts falling within heading Nos ex 55.05 and ex
                                                            55.09 shall be increased by an amount determined
 HAS ADOPTED TH1S REGULATION :                              in z footnote to Annex A.
                          Artide 1
                                                            Article 1 (3) shall not apply to such an increase.
                                                                                     Artide 3
  1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1975 the
  Common Customs Tariff duties and the tariff duties
  of the new Member States on the products listed            1. The Member States shall ensure free access
  in Annex A shall be completely suspended within           the shares which have been allocated to them for
  the framework of Community tariff quotas of vol­           importers of the said goods established in their
  umes which shall be expressed in metric tons and           terntory.
  which shall be indicated against each product in
   column 3 of that Annex.
                                                             2. The extent to which a Member State used up
   Ireland is authorized to apply customs duties equal
                                                             its share shall be determined on the basis of the
   to the duties it applied in respect of the same pro­      imports of the said goods which have been ent«ed
   ducts vis-a-vis Member States other than the United       for home use, and which are accompanied by a cer
   Kingdom.
                                                             tificate of origin in accordance with the rules referred
                                                              to in Article 1 (2).
   2. These tariff quotas shall be enjoyed solely by          3 Goods shall qualify for a tariff quota only if
    products originating in the countries listed in Annex     the certificate of origin referred to in paragraph 2
   B. However, those imports which already enjoy              is submitted before the date on which the levying of
    exemption from customs duties under other prefer­
                                                              duties is reintroduced.
    ential tariff arrangements granted by the Community
   may not be charged against these tariff quotas. For
    the purposes of this Regulation, the concept of ori­                              Artide 4
    ginating products shall be determined in accordance
    with the procedure laid down in Article 14 of Regu­
    lation (EEC) No 802/68.                                   The Commission shall take all necessary measures
                                                               to ensure that the maximum amount referred to in
                                                               Article 1 (3) is observed. When the charges, at Com­
     3. The amount to be charged in respect of each            munity level, of products originating in each of the
     country referred to in paragraph 2 against ea      O      countries listed in Annex B, against any one of the
     the tariff quota amounts mentioned above shall e          Community tariff quotas reach the maximum amount
 ---pagebreak---   /                                                   - 6 -
laid down in column 4 of Annex A, the Commission                                     Article 6
shall immediately notify the Member States of the
      on which, as a result of this factor, the normal
tariff is to be reintroduced in respect of the country       Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
'L             ^'s not^icat'on shall be published in         closely to ensure that the above Articles are observed.
the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                        Article S                                                    Article 7
Member States shall inform the Commission at regu­
lar intervals of imports of the products in question         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1
actually charged against their share.                        January 1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, |                       1
                                                                                 For the Council
                         '                                                '        The Président :
                   ■ •                                                                             '
 ---pagebreak---                                                                       ANNEX A
                     ist o products subject to zero-duty Community tariff quotas under the generalized tariff
                                                      preferences granted to developing countries
                                                                                          Maximum amount
               CCT                                                             Quota        per countcy
   Oràer     headinf                                                                                               Volume of share* allocated to
                                                 Description                 amount in           H)
    No         No                                                                                                  Member State* in metric tons
                                                                               metric
                                                                                tons
                                                                                                     metric
                (1)                                                                                   toni
                                                                                                                               (j)
                                                     (2)                         (3)
              ss.os
                          Cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale :
                          B. Other :
                               II. Not specified :
                                    Single, measuring per kg :
                                                                                                       257 Germany
                                    – 14 000 m or less                       1.189        30
                                                                                                                Bénélux
                                                                                                                France                    11
                                                                                                                                          321.03
                                                                                                                                          ïïc'ùT
                                                                                                                                          225# 9l
                                                                                                                Italy
                                                                                                                Denmark                   '8:8
                                                                                                                                          166,46
                                                                                                                                           83,23
                                                                                                                                           il 89
                                                                                                                Ireland                   oîl'co
                                                                                                                United Kingdom            261.58
                                        More than 14 000 m and up
                                       to 40 000 m                           4.488       30         1.346       Germany               1.211,76
                                                                                                                Bénélux                  448 80
                                                                                                                France                '< 852 72
                                                                                                                Italy                    628,32
                                                                                                                Denmark (')              314 16
                                                                                                                Ireland                , 44 88
                                                                                                                United Kingdom         ' 987,36
                                                                                                                                       I
                                       More than 14 000 m and up                                       463
                                       to 80 000 m                          1.544       30-                     Germany                  416,88
                                                                                                                Bénélux                  154,40
                                                                                                                France                   293*36
                                                                                                                Italy                    216,16
                                                                                                                Denmark (*)            S 108,08
                                                                                                                Ireland
                                                                                                                United Kingdom
                                                                                                                                       1 15,44
                                                                                                                                         339,68
                                       More than 80 000 m and up to            221      30              66" ->i
                                       120 000 m                                                                Germany                  59,67
                                                                                                                Benclux                  22 10
                                                                                                                France
                                                                                                                                         41*99
                                                                                                                Italy
                                                                                                                Denmark
                                                                                                                Ireland                   2)21
                                                                                                                United Kingdom           48,62
 ) Pursuant to Article 2 (2), this share is increased by 1156. 66 -^"tonnes
« Pursuant ,o An*. 2 tt>.                 „ incased by £           ^ tonneg
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                       Maximum amount
                CCT                                                        Quota
     Otder                                                                               pet countcy
               heading                             Description            amount in           (4)             Volume of shares allocated to
     . No        No                                                        metric                              Member State* in metric tons
                                                                            tons
                                                                                                   metnc
                  1                                                                                 tons
                                                       (2)                    3                                           y
                 55.09
                            Other woven fabrics of cotton :
                            A. of Containing
                                     cotton :
                                                  85% or more by weight
                                 ex I . Of a width of less than 85 cm :
                                          – Unbleached                     8ok        30          241       Germany             ''   217,08
                                                                                                           Bénélux               j     80,40
                                                                                                           France                 i  152 76
                                                                                                           Italy                     112 56
                                                                                                           Denmark                     56,28
                                                                                                           Ireland
                                                                                                                                        8,o4
                                                                                                           United Kingdom            176 88
                                 II. Other :
                                          Unbleached, of a width of :   'W017        30         1.205
                                               85 cm to 115 cm                                             Germany
                                                                                                           Bénélux
                                                                                                           France              !     763 23
                                                                                                           Italy                    562*38
                                                                                                           Denmark             !    281 19
                                                                                                           Ireland             ;      40 17
                                                                                                           United Kingdom'          883 74
                                              More than 115 cm and up 2.hh2         30             733
                                              to 165 cm                                                   Germany                   659,34
                                                                                                          Bénélux
                                                                                                          France
                                                                                                          Italy                     341 88
                                                                                                          Denmark (')
                                                                                                          Ireland                     24JÏ
                                                                                                          United Kingdom !          537)24
                                        – More than 165 cm                788                      236
                                                                                     30                   Germany
                                                                                                          Bénélux
                                                                                                          France
                                                                                                          Italy
                                                                                                                               t    m
                                                                                                          Denmark
                                                                                                         Ireland
                                                                                                         United Kingdom
                                                                                                                                !
                                                                                                                                    nl:!l
                                        – Not specified                  332        30                   Germany                     89,64
                                                                                                   100   Bénélux                     33 20
                                                                                                         France                i     63 08
                                                                                                         Italy                       46 48
                                                                                                         Denmark (a)                 23,24
                                                                                                         Ireland                      3 32
                                                                                                         United Kingdom              73 04
(') Pursuant to Article 2 (2), this share is increased      827,17 tonnes
f) Pursuant to Article 2 (2), this share is increased 1 . 236- 77  tonnes
 ---pagebreak---                                                        - 3 -
                                                             I
                                                                         Maximum amount
             CCT                                                 Quota       per councry
                                                                                                        Volume of ihares allocated to         •
■
   Order
     No
          heading
             No
                                       Ducription
                                                               amount in
                                                                 metric
                                                                                  W                     Member States in metric ton*           5
                                                                  cont
                                                                                         meute
                                                                           %
                                                                                          toni
              (X)                          (2)                     <3)
         ex 60.03   Stockings, under stockings, socks ankle-
                    socks, sockettes and the like, knitte or
                    crocheted, not elastic or rubberized :
     10             – Of cotton                                           30                52
                                                                . 174
                                                                                                     France                      33,06  ~'
                                                                                                     Italy                       24.30
                                                                                                     ϋίηπιΐΓίς               ! | 2*18 -
                                                                                                     Ireland                       1 74
                                                                                                      United Kingdom             38.28
                                                                                                                                               i
             61.01  Men's and boys* outer garments :                                                                                           (
    11              – In woven fabrics of cotton               _ 210      30               63 .      Gerfriany                   56,70
                                                                                                     Bénélux                     21 00
                                                                                    I
                                                                                                     ET
                                                                                                     Dcnmark
                                                                                                                                 g#
                                                                                                                                 14 70
                                                                                                     ΐΓοΙβπά                       2,10        ί
                                         r                                                           United Kingdom              46,20         I
   12               – Others                                     210      30           ,   63        Germany                     56,70
                                                                                                     Bénélux                     21,00
                                                                                                     France                      39,90
                                                                                                                                 M
           J
                                                                                                     Ireland                       2,10
                                                                                                     United Kingdom              46.20
                                                                                  !               !
            61.02   women's, girls' and infants' outer gar­
                   ments :
   13                                                            210
                   – In woven fabrics of cotton                          30           \ _ 63         Germany                  . 56,70        '
                                                                                                     Bénélux                     21,00
                                                                                                    ET                          Il:?8
                                                                                                     Denmark                     14,70
                                                                                                    Ireland                       2,10
                                                                                                     United Kindom               46,20
  14               – Others                                '   210 '     30               63        Germany                     56,70
                                                                                                    Bénélux                     21,00       ;
                                                                                                    France                      39,90       |
                                                                                                    Italy                       29 40      j
                                                                                                    Denmark                     l4 70
                                                                                                    Ireland                       2*10
                                                                                                    United Kingdom              46*20     |
           61.03   Men's and boys' under garments, including
                                                                                                                                         j
                   collars, shirt fronts and cuffs :                                                                                      1
  15               – In woven fabrics other than cotton         210      30
                                                                                          63    ■   Germany                     56.70     !
                                                                                                    Bénélux                     21 00     <
                                                                                                    France                     39Î90
                        i
                                                                                                    Italy             .         29)40    '
                                                                                                    Denmark                     14 70     \
                                                                                                    Ireland
                                                                                                    United Kingdom
                                                                                                                                  /Jlp
                                                                                                                               46.20
                                                                                                                                         !
                                                                                                                                         j
                                                                                                                                         f
 ---pagebreak---                                                                             Maximum amount
                                                            Quota              per country
       CCT                                                 amount in
Order hcading                   Description                 met rie                 (4)                        Volume of shares allocated to
                                                                                                              Member States in metric tons
 No     No                                                                                                1
                                                             ton*                                         I
                                                                                         metnc
                                                                             %
                                                                                         tons
        (1)                         (2) _____                 (3)                                                          (5)
                                                                        i
        62.02 Bed linen, tabic linen, toilet linen and                  j
              kitchen linen, curtains and other furnishing
              articles :                                                                     !      :
 16           – In woven fabrics or cotton                  174             30            52 :              Germany                        46,98
                                                                                                            Bénélux                         Uj'tO
                                                               !    i                                       France                          33;06
                                                              •I i                             ! |-         Italy                           24,36
                                                                                          ' j j ■ Ireland   Denmark                         12,18
                                        A                                                       , '   f                                      1,74
                                                                 i 1                       ' I        »
                                                                                                            United Kingdom                  38,28
                                                                      i                 ' I !
 17           – Other                                        92 i         • 30            28 !              Germany                         24, 84
î
                                                                                            ■ i         :   Bénélux                          9,20
                                                                                                            France                          17 48
                                                                                                            Italy                           12*88
                                                                                                            Denmark                          6.44
                                                                                                            Ireland                          0,92
                                                                                                            United Kingdom                 20 24
 ---pagebreak---                                            ANNEX B
List of developing countries benefiting under generalized tariff preference! for certain
                                           products
                                    Afghanistan
                                    Argentin»
                                    Bangladesh
                                     Colombia
                                     Egypt, Arab Republic of
                                     El Salvador
                                     India
                        <  i         Indonesia
                                     Jamaica
                                     Korea (South)
                                     Malaysia
                                      Mexico
                                     Pakistan
                                      Philippine»
                                       Sri Lanka                                       '
                                  ■ Vietnam , Republic of ;
                                       Thailand                         j
 ---pagebreak---                                                 Proposal for a
                             REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL
              opening preferential tariffs for terrain textile produces originating in developing
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community , and in particular to
Article 113 thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
Whereas, within the context of UNCTAD, the Euro­
pean Ecomomic Community offered to grant tariff
preferences on finished and semi-finished products
coming from developing countries; whereas the pre­
ferential treatment proposed in that offer covers,
generally speaking, all finished and semi-finished m-
dustrial products covered by Chapters 25 to 99 of
the Brussels Nomenclature which originate in devel­
oping countries; whereas the preference consists in
the ' granting of exemption from customs duties;
whereas preferential imports are effected up to the
level of ceilings calculated by value in respect of each
product on the basis of factors which are uniform
for all the products; whereas, in order that the pref­
erences granted to the most competitive developing
country or countries should be restricted and that
a substantial share should be reserved for the least
competitive, preferential imports from any one devel­
oping country in respect of a given product should
not, as a general rule, exceed 50°/o of the ceiling
 fixed for that product;
 Whereas, in the offer made by the Community, the
 annual ceilings should normally be calculated on the
 basis of the total value for 1968 of cif imports from
 the countries benefiting from this scheme, excluding
those already enjoying various preferential tariff
 arrangements granted by the Community (basic
 amount) plus 5% of the value of cif imports from
 the other countries and from countries already
 enjoying such arrangements (additional amount);
 Whereas, however, in respect of cotton textile pro­
  ducts formerly covered "by the long–term arrangement regar­
 ding international trade in cotton textiles, the offer
 made by the Community lays down that the pref­
 erence, in the form of duty-free ceilings ordinarily
  calculated according to the formula set out in the
 preceding recital, will be granted to the countries
  enjoying generalized preferences which are signato­
 ---pagebreak---    ries to the long-term arrangement or possibly to t ose
   countries which undertake vis-a-vis the Community
   commitments similar to those existing under t at
   arrangement arid for the duration of the said arran­
  gement; whereas the arrangement expired on 30 Sep­
   tember 1973 and was extended to 31 December 1973 ,
   Whereas , similarly to 1974 and on a transitional
   basis , it may be anticipated that the countries
   concerned thereby will for 1975 adopt measures with
   equivalent aims , in expectation of such time as
   the "Arrangement concerning International Trade
   in Textiles " becomes applicable                       whereas it is apparent
   that only imports from these countries are to form t e asis
   culating the abovementioned ceilings; whereas, with
  particular regard to the link which Article 6 of the
  said long-term arrangement established between •             ■
  cotton products and substitute products, it appears
  justified in these circumstances and by virtue of the
  fact that a total suspension of customs duties is in­
  volved to include in the same scheme as that described
  above those substitute textile products given in the
  conditional list of partial and limited reductions of
  customs duties deposited with GATT by the Commu­
  nity during the last series of tariff negotiations;
  whereas, moreover, in view of the special nature
  which trade in the products concerned- may have, it
  appears expedient to calculate in terms of tonnages
  the ceilings for preferential imports of such products;
  Whereas the offer made by the Community includes
  a clause stating that the Community drew up the
  offer on the assumption that all the main industrial­
   ized countries which are members of the OECD
  would participate in granting preferences and would
  make similar efforts in this direction; whereas, more­
  over, it is evident from the conclusions worked out
  in UNCTAD that this offer, while being of a tem­
  porary nature, does not constitute a binding commit­
  ment and, in particular, may be withdrawn wholly
  or in i part at a later date; whereas this possibility
  may be adopted inter alia with a view to remedying
  any unfavourable situations which might arise in the
  associated countries following the implementation
   of the generalized preference scheme;
  Whereas, moreover, the Conference of Heads of
. State or of Government of the Member States and
  the States acceding to the European Communities
  held in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 invi­
   ted the Community institutions and Member States
   progressively to adopt an overall policy of develop­
  ment cooperation on a world wide scale comprising
  in particular the improvement of generalized pref­
   ( 1 ) O.J. n° L 118 of 30.4.1974 , P. 1
 ---pagebreak---                                                       - 3 -
•       erences with the aim of achieving a steady increase
        in imports of manufactures from the developing
        countries;
       Whereas tariff preferences have been applied from
       the second half of 1971 under the conditions set
       out above and whereas these preferences should con­
       tinue to be applied throughout 1975 »
       Whereas, in accordance with Protocol No 23 to the
       ACT of Accession ('), the generalized tariff preference
       scheme beoame applicable in the new Member–States
       from 1 January 1974;
       Whereas, in respect of textile products, the complexity
      of the measures to be implemented, combined with
      the abovementioned aim of improving the generalized
      preferences, could normally be overcome in 1974 only by
      means of a flat-rate increase of some 50% in the
      ceilings fixed for 1973, the calculations for the addi­
      tional amount of the ceilings having already been
     made on the basis of 1970 figures; whereas the same
     situation will again prevail in 1975 , so that
     such improvement can be effected only by means
     of a flat-rate increase of % of the ceilings
     fixed for 1974» equivalent to 157,5 % of the
     ceilings for 1973 ;
    Whereas, in respect of the products listed in Annex A
    originating in the countries listed in Annex B, the
    Community should therefore allow, for each category
    of these products during 1975 duty-free imports
    within the limits of the Community ceilings calcula­
    ted in the manner set out above; whereas the benefit
    of such tariff exemption should be reserved for pro­
    ducts originating in the countries under consideration,
   the concept of 'originating products' being deter­
   mined in accordance with the procedure laid down in
   Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 802/
   68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common definition of
   the concept of the origin of goods; whereas charges
   against each of these ceilings must, as a general rule,
   come within a maximum Community amount of
   50% in respect of the products originating in any
   of the abovementioned countries;
   Whereas, under these circumstances, these objectives
   may be reached by applying a method of adminis- .
   tration based on the charging, at Community level, •
  against the abovementioned ceilings and maximum
   amounts, of imports of the products concerned as
  and when these products are presented for customs
   clearance under cover of declarations that they have
  been entered for home use and accompanied by a
  certificate of origin; whereas this method of adminis­
  tration must make provision for the reintroduction
  of customs duties as soon as the said ceilings or
  maximum amounts are reached at Community level;
  O OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
  0 OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 1.
 ---pagebreak---                                                - 4 -
  Whereas such method of administration calls for
   very close and particularly rapid cooperation be­
  tween Member States and the Commission, which
  must, in particular, be able to observe the extent
  to which charges are made against the ceilings and
  maximum amounts and inform Member States
  thereof; whereas such cooperation should be particu­
  larly close in view of the need for the Commission
  to be able to taken appropriate measures to re­
  introduce customs duties, either generally or indi­
  vidually, when any of the ceilings or maximum
  amounts are readied,             «
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                          Article 1
  1 . From 1 January to 31 December 197 5c"e Com­
  mon Customs Tariff duties and the tariff duties of
  the new Member States on the products listed in
  Annex A shall, subject to Article 2 and Article 4 (2)
  be totally suspended.
  Ireland is authorized to apply customs duties equal
 to the duties it applies in respect of the same products
  uis-ci-vis Member States      other   than  the United
 Kingdom.
 2. This suspension shall be enjoyed solely by pro­
 ducts originating in the countries listed in Annex B.
 However, those imports which already enjoy exemp­
 tion from customs duties under other preferential
 tariff arrangements granted by the Community shall
 not be charged against the ceilings specified in para­
 graph 3. For the purposes of this Regulation, the
concept of originating products shall be determined in
 accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 802/68 .
 3 . Subject to the provisions of Article 2 and Article
4 (2) this suspension shall be granted, in respect of
each category of products, within a Community ceil­
 ing which shall be equal to 15?,% of the amount
obtained by adding together imports in 1968, expres­
sed in metric tons, of the products concerned from
the countries listed in Annex B, excluding those al­
ready enjoying various preferential tariff arrange­
ments granted by the Community, and 5% of the
tonnage of imports in 197.0 from other countries
and from countries already enjoying such arrange­
ments .     .
 ---pagebreak---                                                             - 5 -
 4. Subject to the provisions of Article 2 and Article      for home use, and provided that they are accom­
4 (2), within each ceiling thus calculated, charges of       panied by a certificate of origin pursuant to the rules
 products originating in any one of the countries listed     referred to in Article 1 (2).
in Annex B should not exceed a Community maxi­
mum amount equivalent to 50% of this ceiling with            2. Goods may be charged against a ceiling or maxi­
the exception of certain products for which the maxi­        mum amount only if the certificate of origin referred
 mum amount shall be reduced to the percentage               to above is presented before the date on which the
 shown in Annex A.                                           levying of duties is reintroduced.
 5. Any amendment to Annex B, in particular by the           3 . The extent to which the ceilings and maximum
 addition of new countries enjoying tariff preferences,      amounts have been actually filled shall be determined
 may entail a corresponding adjustment to the Com­          at Community level on the basis of the imports
munity ceilings and the maximum amounts referred            charged in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2.
to in paragraphs 3 and 4.
                        Article 2                                                     Article 4
 1 . As soon as the ceilings calculated in accordance
with the provisions of Article 1 (3 ), which are laid        1 . The Commission, in close cooperation with the
down for Community imports of products orig­                 Member States, shall take all necessary measures to
inating in all of the countries referred to in Article       ensure that the above provisions are applied.
1 (2) are reached at Community level, the levying
of customs duties on imports of the products in              2. The Commission shall reintroduce the levying of
question from all the countries concerned may at             customs duties in respect of all the countries referred
any time be reintroduced until the end of the period         to in Article 1 (2) or in respect of any one of them
referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 1(1 ).     by means of a Regulation in the conditions laid
                                                            down in Article 2 ( 1 ) and (2).
2. As soon as the maximum amounts calculated in
accordance with the provisions of Article 1 (4) which
are laid down for Community imports of products
                                                                                      Article S
originating in each of the countries referred to in
Article 1 (2) are reached for any one of these coun­
tries at Community level, the levying of the customs        Member States shall inform the Commission at re­
duties on imports of the products in question from          gular intervals of imports of the products in question
the country concerned may at any time be reintro­           actually charged against the Community ceilings and
duced until the end of the period referred to in the        maximum amounts laid down in Article 1 (3) and (4).
first subparagraph of Article 1 ( 1 ).
                        Article 3                                                     Article 6
1 . Imports of the products in question shall be
actually charged against the Community ceilings and         This Regulation        shall   enter into force   on   1
maximum amounts as and when the goods are entered           January 1975 •
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels,
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                   The Président
 ---pagebreak---                                                           ANNEX A
       List of products originating in developing countries to which the generalized tariff
                              preferences for certain textile products will apply (a)
     Ordbr         CCT
                  hcadlng                                                Description
                    No
                                   CHAPTER 54
         1          54.05         Woven fabrics of flax or of ramie
                                  CHAPTER 55
        2           55.05         Cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale :
                                  A. Multiple or cabled, finished, in balls or on cards , reels, tubes or
                                       similar supports, of a weight (including support) not exceeding
                                      900 g
      3                           B. Other :
                                        I. Measuring, per single yarn, 120 000 m or more per kg
       4            55.06         Cotton yarn, put up for rctail sale
       5            55.07         Cotton gauze
       6           55.08          Terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, of cotton
                   55.09          Other woven fabrics of cotton : •
                                 A. Containing 85 % or more by weight of cotton :
                                      ex I. Of a width of less than 85 cm :
                                            ' – Other than raw cotton (*)
       8                         B. Other
                                 CHAPTER 56
                   56.05         Yarn of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste), not put up for
                                 retail sale :
      9                          B. Of regenerated textile fibres
                   56.07         Woven fabrics of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste):
    10                           B. Of regenerated textile fibres
(a) Products qualifying, under the ordinary arrangements, for exemption or total temporary suspension of the Common
     Customs Tariff duty are only token entries as regards the Member States of the Community as originally constituted,
    whereas the exemption or suspension is directly and fully applicable by the new Member States under these arrange­
    ments, except for Ireland, which is authorized to apply customs duties equal to theduties it applies in respect of the same
    products vis-A-vis Member States other than the United Kingdom.
0 For products falling within subheading No 55.09 A ex I (other than raw cotton), the maximum Community amount
    referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation is reduced to 30% .
 ---pagebreak---                                                                        - 2 -
                   CCT
 Order
                 hcading                                                    Description
    No              No
                                       CHAPTER 58
    11               58.04             Woven pile fabrics and chenille fabrics (other than terry towelling
                                       or similar terry fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 58.05)
    12               58.10             Embroidery, in the piece, in strips or in motifs                                     '
                                       CHAPTER 60
                     60.01              Knitted or crocheted fabric, not elastic or rubberized :
                                          B. Of man-made fibres
    13
                                          C. Of other textile materials
                                                                                        i
     14        'ex 60.02                Gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted orcrocheted, not elastic or rubber­
                                        ized , of cotton (' )
                     60.04              Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized :
     15                                 A. Of cotton. (*) .
                     60.05              Outer garments and other articles, knitted or crocheted, not elastic
                                        or rubberized :
                                                A. Outer garments and clothing accessories :
     16                                            ex H. Other, of cotton (2)
                                          .  \
                                            ex B. Other, of cotton (2)
                     60.06              Knitted or crocheted fabric and articles thereof, clastic or rubberized
                                        (including clastic knee-caps and elastic stockings) :
     17                                  A. Fabric
                                         CHAPTER. 61
                 ex 61.03                Men's and boys* under garments# including collars, shirt fronts and
                                         cuffs :
     18                                  – Of cotton fabric ( l)                                                       ' .
      19         ex 61.04                Women's, girls' and infants' under garments, of cotton fabric
                      61.05              Handkerchicfs :
      20                                 –- Of cotton fabric
      21                                 – Of fabrics other than cotton
. « referred
       For products   falling within heading No, <0,02 (of cotton) and ej: <1.03 (of cotton), the maximum Community
                 to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation is reduced to 30% .
                                                                                                                              .mount
                                                                                                                       oairim Ii)
  (*) For   products
       (of cotton     fallingthewithin
                   fabric),            subheading
                                 maximum            Nos 60.04
                                               Community      A, 60.05
                                                         amount  referredA cxH,
                                                                           to in Articlec*1 (4) of ^
                                                                                                   this R^llutioa
                                                                                                        Reguutioa Uu reduced
                                                                                                                     mum to 30% •
 ---pagebreak---             CCT
Ordor
 No        headlng                                           Description
             No
                             CHAPTER 61
             <2.01           Travelling rugi and bltnkctt s
                             B. Otheri
 22                              I. Of cotton
             62.03           Sacks and bag*, of a kind uicd for the packing of goods :
                             B. Of other textile materiali :
                                   I. Uied :
                                      ex b) Other :
 23                                          – Of cotton (')
                                  ex II. Otheri
                                         – Of cotton
 24          62.04           Tarpaulins , sails, awnings, sunblinds, tents and camping goods
 f°/ Pout's falling within subheading Not 60.04 A, 60.05 A ex II, 60,05 ex & (of cotton fabric), and 62.03 B I ex b)
 M cot»ton fabric), the maximum Community amount referred to in Artide I (4) of chic Regulation is reduced to 30% .
 ---pagebreak---                                            ANNEX B
List of developing countries benefiting under generalized tariff preferences for certain textile
                                            products
                                    Afghanistan
                                     Argentina
                                     Bangladesh
                                     Colombia
                                     Egypt, Arab Republic of
                                     El Salvador
                                      India
                                      Indonesia
                                      Jamaica
                                      Korea (South)
                                      Malaysia
                                      Mexico
                                       Pakistan
                                  ■ ■ Philippines
                                  ;     Sri Lanka
                                        Vietnam, Republic of
                                        Thailand
 ---pagebreak---                                            . Proposal for a
                               REGULATION (EEC)          OF THE COUNCIL
                opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas
                  - for certain textile products              originating in developing countries
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES.
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
   pean Economic Community and in particular
   to article 113 thereof}
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
  Whereas, within the context of UNCTAD, the Euro­
  pean Economic Community offered to grant tariff
  preferences on finished and semifinished products
  coming from developing countries; whereas the pre­
  ferential treatment proposed in that offer covers,
  generally speaking, all finished and semi-finished
  industrial products covered by Chapters 25. to 99 of
  the Brussels Nomenclature which originate in devel­
   oping countries; whereas the preference consists in
  the granting of exemption from customs duties ;
  whereas preferential imports are effected up to the
  level of ceiling calculated by value in respect of each
  product on the basis of factors which are uniform
  for all the products; whereas, in order that the pre­
  ferences granted to the most competitive developing
  country or countries should be restricted and that a
  substantial share should be reserved for the least
, competitive, preferential imports from any one devel­
  oping country in respect of a given product should
  not, as a general rule, exceed 50% of the ceiling
  fixed for that product;
  Whereas, in the offer made by the Community, the
  annual ceilings should normally be calculated on the
  basis of the total value for 1968 of cif imports from
  the countries benefiting from this scheme, excluding
  those already enjoying various preferential tariff
  arrangements granted by the Community, (basic
  amount), plus 5% of the value of cif imports from
  the other countries and from the countries already
  enjoying such arrangements (additional amount);
  whereas such additional amount is variable and is
  calculated each year on the basis of the latest, figures
  available, provided that this entails no reduction in
  the ceiling;
 ---pagebreak---  Whereas, however, in view of the special nature
  which trade in the majority of textile products referred
  to in this Regulation may have, it appears
  expedient                               to determine in
   terms of tonnages the ceilings for the preferential
  imports of such products, taking due account of deli­
  veries effected by the beneficiary countries alone;
  whereas, moreover, particularly in view of the high
   level of deliveries of the products in question to the
  Community by the third countries concerned, it ap­
  pears appropriate, except in particular instances, to
 restrict preferential imports from any single benefi­
   ciary country to 20 or 30% of the ceiling laid down
  for each category of products concerned;
 Whereas stating the offer made by the Community
 includes a clause that the Community drew up the
  offer on the assumption that all the main industrial­
  ized countries which are members of theOECD would
 participate in granting preferences and would make
 similar efforts in this direction ; whereas, moreover,
 it is evident from the conclusions worked out in
 UNCTAD that this offer, while being of a temporary
 nature, docs not constitute a binding commitment
 and, in particular, may be withdrawn wholly or in
 part at a later date; whereas this possibility may be
 adopted inter alia with a view to remedying any
 unfavourable situations which might arise in the
 associated countries following the implementation of
 the generalized preference scheme ;
 Whereas, moreover, the Conference of Heads of State
 or of Government of the Member States and the
 States acceding to the European Communities held in
 Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 invited the Com­
 munity institutions and the Member States progress­
 ively to adopt an overall policy of development coop­
eration on a worldwide scale comprising in particular
the improvement of generalized .preferences with the
aim of achieving a steady increase in imports of
 manufactures from the developing countries;
Whereas tariff preferences have been applied from
the second half of 1971 under the conditions set out
above and whereas these preferences should continue
to be applied throughout 197 S;
 ---pagebreak---                                                      - 3 -
  Whereas, in accordance with Protocol No 23 to the
  Act of Accession (l), the generalized tariff preference
  scheme became applicable in the new Member
  States     from 1 January 1974:
 Whereas, having regard to the terms of the offer
 concerned and to the need to improve the generalized
 preferences the abovementioned basic and additional
  amounts should normally refer to 1971 ; whereas,
  however, in respect of textile products, the com­
  plexity of the measures to be implemented, combined
 with the abovementioned aim of improving the gen­
  eralized preferences, as can be overcome only by
  means of a flat-rate increase of some 50% in the
  ceilings fixed for 1973 ; whereas the same situation
  will again prevail in 1975 , so that such
  improvement can be effected only by means
  of a flat-rate increase of jfo of the
  ceilings fixed for 1974 }
  Whereas it is expedient, therefore, in respect of the
  products referred to in Annex A which originate in
  the countries listed in Annex B, that the Community
  should open, for 1975, duty-free Community tariff
  quotas within the limits of the amounts in units of
  account or metric tons given in respect of each of
  these products;
  Whereas charges against each of these tariff quotas
 must, in respect of the products originating in any
 of the abovementioned countries, come within a
 specified percentage of the amount of the quota;
 whereas the benefit of such tariff quotas should be
 reserved for products originating in the countries
 under consideration, the concept of 'originating
 products' being determined in accordance with the
 procedure laid down in Article 14 of Council Regu­
 lation (EEC) No 802/68 (2) of 27 June 1968 of the
 common definition of the concept of the origin of
 goods;
 Whereas it is necessary to ensure equal and con­
 tinuous access for all Community importers to the
 abovementioned quotas and the uninterrupted appli­
 cation of the rate laid down for those quotas to all
 imports of the products concerned into all Member
States until those quotas are used up ; whereas, having
 regard to the principles set out above, the Com­
 munity nature of the quotas can be respected by
 allocating the Community tariff quota among Mem­
 ber States ; whereas, moreover, to this end and in the
context of the utilization system, the actual charges
against the quotas may relate only to products which
are entered for home use and which are accompanied
by a certificate of origin;
(!) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
(>) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1958, p. 1.
 ---pagebreak---                                                        - 4 -
     Whereas the application of the generally accepted
     principles in respect of the allocation of the Com­
     munity tariff quotas which have been opened hitherto '
     entails under these circumstances, in view of the
     variery of the products concerned and the fact that
     the beneficiary countries are specified, calculations
    which are all the more problematic in that the
    statistical data required sometimes prove to be in­
     complete or not sufficiently accurate or represen­
     tative; whereas the time required for these calculations
    cannot be reconciled with the continuity necessary
     for the application of the tariff preferences con­
     cerned; whereas, under these conditions, it would be
     advisable still at this stage to adopt a fixed scale for
     allocating the Community tariff quotas concerned
     among the Member States; whereas, using as a basis
     general economic criteria relating to external trade
     either as a whole or in the textile sector alone, the
     gross national product and population, the percent­
     ages for the initial shares of the Member States in
     the quota amounts are as follows for the quota year
     under consideration :
             Germany                             27%
             Bénélux                             10%
             France                              lîWo
             Italy                               14%
             Denmark                               7%
             Ireland                               1%
             United Kingdom                      22%
    Whereas, without affecting the Community nature
    of the tariff quotas under consideration, it appears
    possible to provide at this stage for a utilization
    scheme based on a single allocation among the
    Member States ; whereas, moreover, the allocation
    set out by this Regulation in no way prejudices the
 1 possibility of adopting, the general method of allocation of
   Community tariff quotas comprising the setting up
   of a reserve share; whereas implementation of this
  principle in such a sensitive area can , however
  be put in hand only progressively , yet must
  remain attuned to the methods of administration
  laid down in the general framework of the
  scheme of generalized preferences ;
                         whereas at the present juncture it
  appears feasible that such allocation could be made .
  according to the percentages set out in the table
  above; whereas, however, as regards certain yarn and
  woven fabrics of synthetic textiles fibres and sisal
 twine falling within subheading Nos 51.04, 56.05 A,
56.07 A and ex 59.04 of the Common Customs
Tariff, one new Member State, the Kingdom of Den­
mark, has for some years been importing these at a
relatively high level from certain developing countries
and has therefore ceased to produce the articles in
question ; whereas, this special situation should tem­
porarily be taken into account and this Member State
should be granted an increased share without restric­
ting the access thereto of countries benefiting from
generalized preferences;              1
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the King­             4. Any amendments Co Annex B, in particular by
dom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of               the addition of new countries enjoying tariff pre­
Luxembourg are united in and represented by the             ferences, may entail a corresponding adjustment to
Benelux Economic Union, all transactions concern­           the amounts of the quotas and to the maximum
                                                            amounts appearing in columns 3 and 4 of Annex A.
ing the administration of the shares allocated to the
Benelux Economic Union may be carried out by any
one of its Members,
                                                                                      Article 2
                                                             1 . The Community tariff quotas referred to in
                                                            Article 1 shall be allocated in shares which shall be,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                               for each Member State, the amounts corresponding
                                                            to the quantities shown in column 5 of Annex A
                                                            against each category of products.
                         Article 1
                                                            2. The shares allocated to Denmark for certain
                                                            products falling within subheading Nos 51.04, 56.05
                                                            A, 56.07 A and ex 59.04 shall be increased by an
1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1975 the Com­              amount determined by a footnote to Annex A.
mon Customs Tariff duties and the tariff duties of the
new Member States on the products listed in Annex            Article 1 (3) shall not apply to such an increase.
A shall be completely suspended within the frame­
work of Community tariff quotas in volumes                )
which shall be expressed in metric tons
            and which shall be indicated in respect of                               Article 3
each product in column 3 of such Annex.
                                                             1 . The Member States shall ensure free access to the
Ireland is authorized to apply customs duties equal          shares which have been allocated to them for im­
to the duties it applies in respect of the same pro­        porters of the said goods who are established in
ducts vis-a-vis Member States other than the United         their territory.
Kingdom.
                                                            2 . The extent to which the shares of Member States
                                                            have been actually used up shall be determined on
2. These tariff quotas shall be enjoyed solely by           the basis of imports of the said goods which have
products originating in the countries listed in Annex       been entered for home use and which are ac­
B. However, those imports which already enjoy                companied by a certificate of origin in accordance
exemption from customs duties under other preferen­          with the rules referred to in Article 1 (2).
tial tariff arrangements granted by the Community
may not be charged against these tariff quotas. For
the purpose of this Regulation, the concept of ori­         3 . Goods shall qualify for a tariff quota only if the
ginating products shall be determined in accordance         certificate of origin referred to in paragraph 2 is
with the procedure laid down in Article 14 of Regu­         presented before the date on which the levying of
lation (EEC) No 802/68.                                      duties is reintroduced.
With regard to carpets, carpeting and rugs, mentioned
in Annex A and falling under heading No 58.01 ex A,                                   Article 4
the certificates of origin for these products shall state
the number of knots per metre of warp.
                                                             The Commission shall take all necessary measures to
                                                            ensure that the maximum amount referred to in
                                                             Article 1 (3 ) is observed . When the charges, at Com­
3- The amount to be charged in respect of each               munity level, of products originating in each of the
country referred to in paragraph 2 against each of           countries listed in Annex B against any one of the
the tariff quota amounts mentioned above shall be            Community tariff quotas reach the maximum amount
 limited . u> the maximum amount given as a percent­         laid down in column 4 of Annex A, the Commission
 age and either in metric tons or in units of account        shall immediately notify the Member States of the
"> column 4 of Annex A against each category of              date on which, as a result of this fact, the normal
Products.
 ---pagebreak---                                                       - 6 -
                                                                                      Article 6
 tariff is to be reintroduced in respect of the country
 in question. This notification shall be published in
 the Official Journal of the European Communities.            Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                              closely to ensure that the above Articles are observed.
                         Article 5
                                                                                      Article 7
  Member States shall inform the Commission at reg­
  ular intervals of imports of the products in question       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
  actually charged against their shares.                      1975.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.            ^
               Done at Ërussels,
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                                                                                   The Président
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 ---pagebreak---                                                                      ANNEX A
                     List of products subject to zero-duty Community tariff quotas under die generalized tariff
                                                    preferences granted to developing countries
                                                                                            Maximum amount
                                                                                 Quota
              CCT        »
                                                                                amount in     percountry
                                                                                                                    Volume of shares allocated to
   Order
    No
            heading
               No
                                               Description                       mctric
                                                                                  tons
                                                                                                  (4)              Member States in metric tons (a)
                                                                                   (a)                même
                                                                                            %          tons
               (1)                                  (2)                            (3)    i              <»>                    (S)
     1          51.01    Yarn of man-made fibres (continuous),                   1;418      50            ; 70S   Germany               382,86
                         not put up for retail sale :                                                             Bénélux               141,80
                                                                                                                  France                269,42
                         A. Yarn of synthetic textile fibres                                                      Italy                 198,52
                         B. Yarn of regenerated textile fibres :                                                  Denmark                99,26
                                                                                                                  Ireland                14,18
                              II. Other                                                                           United Kingdom       311,96
     2         51.04     Woven        fabrics     of    man-made    fibres        , 347     30              104 , Germany                93,69
                         (continuous), including woven fabrics of                                                 Bénélux                34,70
                         monofil or strip of heading No 51.01 or                                    !             France                 65,93
                         51.02                                                                                    Italy                  48,58
                                                                                                                  Denmark (')            24.29
                                                                                                                  Ireland                -3,47
                                                                                                                  United Kingdom '6,34
                                                                              I
   , 3         56.05     Yarn of man-made fibres (discontinuous                     575 ,   20          i 115     Germany               155,25
                         or waste), not put up for retail sale:                                                   Bénélux                57,25
                                                                                                                  France                109,25
                         A. Of synthetic textile fibres                                                           Italy                  80,50
                                                                                                                  Denmark (*)            40,25
                                                                                                                  Ireland                 5,75
                                                                                                                  United Kingdom       126,50
                                                                                          i
     4                                                                            536       30         i 161      Germany
               56.07     Woven fabrics of man-made fibres
                         (discontinuous or waste) :                                                               Benelux
                                                                                                                  France
                                                                                                                                       ini'fit
                         A. Of synthetic textile fibres                                                           Italy                  75,04
                                                                                                                  Denmark (*)            37,52
                                                                                                                  Ireland              -mi ' oo
                                                                                                                  United Kingdom "1 ',9Z
                                                                           ■i
                                                                            i
W Save as otherwise indicated.                             oc oc
I J Pursuant to Article 2 (2) this share is increased by £y»4x   OAfleS
U Pursuant to Article 2 (21 this share is increased by           100118$
O Pursuant to Article 2 (2) this share is increased by 487,52 tOHflQS
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                            Maximum «mount
                                                                             Quota            per country
                CCT                                                         amount ln              (4)          Volume of share* allocated to
Order                                                                        meiric                           Member States in metric tons ( a)
               heading                            Deicription                   ton »
. No             No                                                                                    metric
                                                                                 (•)                    tons
                                                                                                         (a)               -<51-
                  1)                                  U>                         (î)
                                      t
                  58.01      Carpets, carpeting and rugs, knotted
                             (made up or not):
                            ex A. Of wool or of fine animal hair,
                                      containing per metre of warp :
                                                                                                         567
                                      – At least 350 rows of knots
                                                                              2.835         20                Germany
                                                                                                              Bénélux                   I:S
                                                                                                              France                     538,65
                                                                                                              Italy                     396 90
                                                                                                              Denmark                    198 45
                                                                                                              Ireland                      28 35
                                                                                                              United Kingdom             623 ',70
                                                                               2,205        30           662  Germany                    595,35
       6                              – 350 to 500 rows of knots                                              Bénélux
                                                                                                              France    .
                                                                                                              Italy                      308,70
                                                                                                              Denmark
                                                                                                              Ireland '                  18:B
                                                                                                                                         485 10
                                                                                                              United Kingdom
              ex 59.04       Twine, cordage, ropes and cables* plaited
                             or not :
                                                                                2.520       30            756 Germany                    680,40
 1     7                     – Of hemp                                                                                                   252,00
                                                                                                              Bénélux
                                                                                                              France                     478 80
                                                                                                              Italy                       352 80
                                                                                                              Denmark                     176,40
                                                                                                              Ireland                       25 20
                                                                                                              United Kingdom              554)40
                                                                                    630     30            189 Germany                     170,10
                                 Of sisal (agave sisalana)                                                    Bénélux                       63 00
                                                                                                              France
                                                                                                                                          119 70
                                                                                                                                            88 20
                                                                                                               Italy                        44 10
                                                                                                               Denmark (*)                   6 30
                                                                                                               Ireland
                                                                                                               United Kingdom             138,60
                                                                                     6û7    30            182  Germany '                  163,89
                             – Of synthetic textile fibres                        .. /.                       Bénélux                       60 70
                                                                                     i ■ ,
                                                                                                               France                     115,33
                                                                                   F                           Italy
                                                                                                               Dënmark
                                                                                                                                            84 98
                                                                                                                                            42
                                                                                                               Ireland
                                                                                                               United Kingdom
                                                                                                                                          13M
                                                                                ' 473        30           142  Germany
       10                    – Other, other than coir fibres                                                   Bénélux •
                                                                                                               France        •...           89,87
                                                                                                               Italy                        66,22
                                                                                                               Denmark                      33 11
                                                                                                               Ireland                        4,73
                                                                                                               United Kingdom              104 06
(a)(1) Pursuant
        Save as otherwise  indicated.
                 to Article 2 (2) this share is increased by
                                                              -re i.XOnnes
                                                                     nnnofi \
                                                                              .
 ---pagebreak---                                                                          Maxxmuim amount
                                                                  Quota
        CCT     j ■                                            amount in    per c<>untry
                                                                  metric         < 4)            Volume of shares allocated to
Ordcr  heading                     Description                                                 Member States in metric tons (a)
 No      No                                                        tons
                                                                  . (aï   % i          metric
                                                                                        tons
                                                                   '(3)                  (a)
         (1)                           (2)                                                                   (5)               ;
                                                               ,    2b9                b1
 11   ex 60.03    Stockings, under stockings, socks, ankle-              30                   Οεπηαηγ
                  socks, sockettes and the like, knitted or                                   Bénélux                26,90
                  crocheted, not elastic or rubberized :                                      France                 51,11
                  – Other than of cotton                                                      Italy                  37,66
                                                                                              Denmark                18 83
                                                                                              Ireland                 2*69
                                                                                              United Kingdom 59,18
 12       60.04   Under garments, knitted or crocheted,          1.733   20           347     Germany              ?67 ,91
                  not elastic or rubberized :                                                 Bénélux              173,30
                                                                                              France               329,27
                  B. Of other textile materials                                               Italy                242,62
                                                                                              Denmark.             121,31
                                                                                              Ireland                17,33
                                                                                              United Kingdom 381,26 '
 13       60.05   Outer garments and           other articles,    521    30            156    Germany              140,67 -
                  knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rub­                                   Bénélux
                  berized :                                 '                                 France                 98,99
                  A. Outer garments and clothing accesso­                                     Italy                  72,94
                      ries :                                                                  Denmark                36,47
                                                                                              Ireland                  5,21
                     ex II. Other                                                             United Kingdom 114,62
  I               ex B. Other
 ---pagebreak---                                                         ANNEX B
                    List of developing countries and territories enjoying generalized tariff preferences
                                               INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES .
                                          lndia                                      Rwanda
 Afghanistan
                                          Indonésia                                  Saudi Arabia
 Algeria
                                          Iran                                       Sénégal
 Argentina
                                          Iraq                                       Sierra Leone
 Bahamas
                                          Ivory Coast                                Singapore
 Bahrain
                                          Jnmaica                                    Somalia
 Bangladesh
                                          Jordan                                     Sri Lanka
 Barbados                                                   f'H
                                          Kenya                                      Sudan
 Bhutan
                                          Khmer Republic                             Swaziland
 Bolivia
                                          Korea ( South )                            Syria
 Botswana 1
                                          Kuwait                                     Tanzania
.Brazil
                                          Laos                                       Thailand
 Burma
                                          Lebanon                                    Togo
 Burundi
                                          Lesotho                                    Tonga
 Çameroon
                                          Liberia                                    Trinidad and Tobago
 Central African Republic
                                          I.ibya                                     Tunisia
 Chad
 Chile
                                           Malagasy Republic                         Uganda
                                           Malawi                                     United Arab Emirates:
 Colombia
                                          Malaysia                                         Abu Dhabi
 Congo, People's Republic of
                                           Maldivc Islands                                 Dubai
 Costa Rica
                                           Mali                                            Ras al Khaimah
 Cuba
                                           Mauritania                                      Fujairah
 Cyprus
                                           Vl.umtuis                                       Ajman
 Dahomey
 Dominican Republic                        Mexico                                          Sharjah
 Ecuador                                   Morocco                                         Ummal Qaiwain
 Egypt, Arab Republic of                   Nauru                                      Upper Volta
 El Salvador                               Ncpal                                      Uruguay
                                           Nicaragua                                  Venezuela
 Equatorial Guinea .
 Ethiopia                                  Niger                                      Vietnam, Republic of
                                           Nigeria                                    Western Samoa
 Fiji
 Gabon                                     Oman                                       Yémen, People's Démocratie
                                           Pakistan                                   Republic of
 Gambia
 Ghana                                     l' anama                                   Yémen Arab Republic
 Guatemala                                 Paraguay                                   Yugoslavia
 Guinea                                    l'eru                                      Zaire
 Guyana                                    Philippines                                Zambia
 Haiti                                     Qatar
 Honduras     »                            Komania
 ---pagebreak---                                                Proposal for a
                                REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL
                opening preferential tariffs for certain textile products Originating in
                                                  developing countrics ,
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 1 ■ '
 Having regard ro the Treaty establishing the Euro­
 pean Economic Community; and in particular                 1
to Article 113 thereof ;
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
                                 I   , *
 Whereas, within the context of UNCTAD, the Euro­
 pean Economic Community offered to grant tariff
 prctercnces on finished and semi-finished products
 coming from developing countries; whereas the pre­
 ferential treatment proposed in that offer covers,
 generally speaking, all finished and semi-finished
 industrial products covered by Chapters 25 to 99
 of the Brussels Nomenclature which originate in
 developing countries; whereas the preference consists
 in the granting of exemption from customs duties;
whereas preferential imports are effected up to the
 level of ceilings calculated by valpe in respect of each
 product on the basis of factors which are uniform
 for all the products, whereas, in order that the pref­
 erences granted to the most competitive developing
 country or countries should be restricted and that a
substantial share should he reserved for the least
 competitive, preferential imports from any one de­
 veloping country in respect of a given product should
not, as a general rule, exceed 50% of the ceiling
 fixed for that product; '         '
                             1'
Whereas, in the offer made by the Community, the
annual ceilings should normally be calculated on the
basis of the total value for , 1968 of cif imports from
the countries benefiting from this scheme, excluding
those already enjoying various preferential tariff
arrangements granted by the Community, (basic
amount) plus 5% of the value of cif imports from the
other countries and from the' countries already
enjoying such arrangements , (additional amount);
whereas such additional amount is variable and is
calculated each year on the basis of the latest figures
available, provided that this entails no reduction in
the ceiling; whereas, however, in view of the special
nature of the trade in the majority of the
textile products referred to in this
Regulation, it is expedi ent to calculate the ceilings
 concerned in terms of metric tons;
 ---pagebreak---    ' ' Whereas the offer made by the Community includes
       a clause stating that the Community drew up the
        offer on the assumption that all the main industri­
       alized countries which are members of the OECD
       would participate in granting preferences and would
       make similar efforts in this direction; whereas, more­
       over, it is evident from the conclusions worked out in
       UNCTAD that this offer, while being of a temporary
       nature, does not constitute a binding commitment
       and, in particular, may be withdrawn wholly or in
       part at a later date; whereas this possibility may be
       adopted inter alia with a view to remedying any
     . unfavourable situations which might arise in the
       associated countries following the implementation of
       the generalized preference scheme;
       Whereas, moreover, the Conference of Heads of State
       or of Government of the Member States and the
       States acceding to the European Communities held -
       in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 invited the
       Community institutions and the Member States to
       adopt an overall policy of development cooperation
       on a worldwide scale comprising in particular the
       improvement of generalized preferences with the aim
       of achieving a steady increase in imports of manu­
       factures from the developing countries;
       Whereas tariff preferences have been applied from
       the second half of 1971 under the conditions set out
       above and whereas these preferences should continue
       to be applied throughout 1975 •
       Whereas, in accordance with Protocol No 23 to the
       Act of Accession ('), the generalized tariff preference
scheme became ; applicable in the new Member States
       from 1 January 1974;
       Whereas, having regard to the terms of the offer
       concerned arid to the need to improve the generalized
       preferences, the abovementioned basic and additional
       amounts should normally refer to 1971; whereas,
        however, in respect of textile products, the complexity
       of the measures to be implemented, combined with
       the abovementioned aim of improving the generalized
       preferences tan be overcome normally only be means
       (>) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
 ---pagebreak---                                                                  - 3 -
   of a flat-rate increase of some 50% in the ceilings
   fixed for 1973, the calculations for the additional
   amount of the ceilings having already been made on '
   the basis of 1970 figures; whereas the same situation
  will again prevail in 1975 » so that such im­
  provement can be effected only "by means of
  a flat–rate increase of 5$ of the ceilings
  fixed for 1974 , equivalent to 157 » 5 $ of the
  ceilings for 1973 ;
  Whereas it is expedient, therefore, in respect of the
  products referred 10 in Annex A which originate in
  l in: i-.'iinuios jiueJ »> A CMO;* B, ih.a the Ct.mnnuuty
  should             ;v, (or each o.Ucgnr) ol tlii'sf products and
  l i ; IF I : I       tv ".. LIURV-IIII; Ì:Ì,;.(,"ÌS within the limiis
  os ijic* ( »                  cci!ir.j;s              ir. the mnr.ncr
  vr             .. OOVL ; W I KIIT.S ; he benefir of such tariff
   exemption should be rcsmvd for products originating
   in        the  countries      under     consideration ,    the  con­
  cept of 'originating products' being determined in
  accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
  14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 802/68 ( ' ) of
  27 June 1968 on the common definition of the
  concept of the origin of goods ; whereas charges
  against each of these ceilings mu^r, as a general rule,
  come within a maximum Community amount of 507o
  in respect of the products originating in any of the
  abovementioned countries;
 Whereas, under these' circumstances, these objectives
 may be reached by applying a method of adminis­
  tration based on the charging, at Community level,
 against the abovementioned ceilings and maximum
 amounts, of imports of the products concerned as
 and when these products are entered for home use,
 and are accompanied by a certificate of Origin ;
 whereas this method of administration must make
 provision for the reintroduction of customs duties as
 soon as the said ceilings or maximum amounts are
 reached at Community level ;.
 Whereas such method of administration calls for
 very close and particularly rapid cooperation between
 Member States and the Commission, which must, in
 particular, be able to observe the extent to which
 charges are made against the ceilings and maximum
 amounts and inform Member States thereof; whereas
 such cooperation should be particularly close in view
 of the need for the Commission to be able to take
 appropriate measures to reintroduce customs duties
 either generally or individually, when any of the cei­
 lings or maximum amounts is reached,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                  Article 1
                       »
1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1975                            Com­
mon Customs Tariff duties and the tariff duties of
the new Member States on the products listed in
(») OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak---                                                   - 4 -
   Annex A shall, subject to Article 2 and Article 4 (2),
 be totally suspended.          . • .               ...
  Ireland is authorized to apply customs duties equal
  to the duties it applies in respect of the same products
  vis-a-vis Member States other than the United King­
  dom.                        .
  2. This suspension shall be enjoyed solely by pro­
  ducts originating in the countries listed in Annex B.
   However, those imports which already enjoy exemp­
  tion from customs duties under other preferential
  tariff arrangements granted by the Community shall
  not be charged against the ceilings specified in para­
 graph 3: For the purposes of this Regulation, the
  concept of originating products shall be determined
  in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
 ,14 of Regulation (EEC) No 802/68.          . ..
 With regard to carpets, carpeting and rugs, mentioned
 in Annex A and falling under heading No 58.01 ex A,
  the certificates of origin for these products shall state
 the number of knots per metre of warp.
 3. Subject to the provisions of Article 2 and Article 4 .
  (2) this suspension shall be granted within a Com­
 munity ceiling expressed in metric tons, which shall be equal to ;
 157,5 % of the amount obtained by adding to­
 gether , on the one hand , the tpnnage of the
 products concerned imported into the Community
 in 1968 from the countries listed in Annex B, excluding those
  already enjoying various preferential tariff arran­
 gements granted by the Community, and, on the
 other hand, 5% of the tonnage of imports in 1970
 from other countries and from countries already
 enjoying such arrangements.
 4. Subject to Article 2 and Article 4 (2), within each -
 ceiling thus calculated, charges of products orig­
 inating in any one of the countries listed in Annex B
 should not exceed a Community maximum amount
 equivalent to 50% of this ceilingj excepting certain
products for which the maximum amount' is
reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A.
 ---pagebreak---                                                     - 5 -
 J. Any amendment to Annex B, in particular by the              2. Goods may be charged against a ceiling or maxi­
 addition of new countries enjoying tariff preferences          mum amount only if the certificate of origin referred
 may entail a corresponding adjustment to the Com­              to above is presented before the date on which the
 munity ceilings and the maximum amounts referred               levying of duties is reintroduced.
 to in paragraphs 3 and 4.
                                                                3. The extent to which the ceilings and maximum
                                                                amounts have been actually filled shall be determined
                          Article 2
                                                                at Community level on the basis of the imports
                                                                charged in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2.
 1 . As soon as the ceilings calculated in accordance
 with the first subparagraph of Article 1 (3), which
 are laid down for Community imports of products
 originating in all of the countries referred to in                                       Article 4
 Article 1 (2), are reached at Community level, the
 levying of customs duties on imports of the products
 in question from all the countries concerned may               1 . The Commission, in close cooperation with the
 be reintroduced until the end of the period referred           Member States, shall take all necessary measures to
 to in the first subparagraph of Article 1(1 ).                 ensure that the above provisions are applied.
 2. As soon as the maximum amounts calculated in                2. The Commission shall reintroduce the levying of
 accordance with Article 1 (4), which are laid down             customs duties in respect of all the countries referred
 for Community imports of products originating in               to in Article 1 (2) or in respect of any one of them
 each of the countries referred to in Article 1 (2), are        by means of a Regulation in the conditions laid down
 reached for any one of these countries at Community            in Article 2 ( 1 ) and (2).
 level, the levying of the customs duties on imports
 of the products in question from the country con­
 cerned may at any time be reintroduced until the end
                                                                                          Article S
 of the period referred to in the first subparagraph of
 Article 1 ( 1).
                                                                Member States shall inform the Commission at
                          Article 3                             regular intervals of imports of the products in ques­
                                                                tion actually charged against the Community ceiling
 1 . Imports of the products in question shall be               and maximum amounts laid down in Article 1 (3 )
                                                                and (4).
 actually charged against the Community ceilings and
 maximum amounts as and when the products are
 entered for home use, and, except for the textile
 products of Chapters 50 to 63 referred to in Annex A,                                    Article 6
 on the basis of the customs value of these products,
 and provided that they are accompanied by a cer­
tificate of origin pursuant to the rules laid down in           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
 Article 1 (2).                                                 1975 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels,
                                                                                      For the Council
                                                                                        The Président
                                                                                 A
 ---pagebreak---                                                     ANNEX A
List of products originating in developing countries to which the generalized tariff preferences
                       for certain textile products will apply ( a)
                 CCT
  Order                                                               Description
   No
               heading
                  No
           CHAPTER 50
     1          50.04              Silk yarn , other than yarn of noil or other waste silk, not put up for
                                   retail sale
     2          50.05              Yarn spun from silk waste other than noil , not put up for retail sale
     3          50.06              Yarn spun from noil silk, not put up for retail sale
     4          50.07           , Silk yarn and yarn spun from noil or other waste silk, put up for retail
                                   sale
     5          50.08              Silk-worm gut ; imitation catgut of silk
     6          50.09              Woven fabrics of silk or of waste silk other than noil
     7          50.10            ' Woven fabrics of noil silk                         .
           CHAPTER 51
     8          51.02              Monohl, strip (artificial straw and the like) and imitation catgut, of
                                   man-made fibre materials
     9          51.03              Yarn of man-made fibres (continuous), put up for retail sale
   10      CHAPTER 52              METALLIZED TEXTILES                                                              '       ■
           CHAPTER 53
                       / '■
   11           53.06              Yarn of carded sheep's or lambs' wool (woollen yarn), not put up
                                   for retail sale
   12           53.07              Yarn of combed sheep's or lambs' wool (worsted yarn), not put up
                                   for retail sale
   13           53.08              Yarn of fine animal hair (carded or combed), not put up for retail
                                   sale
(a) Products qualifying, under the ordinary arrangements for exemption or total temporary suspension of the Common *
    Customs Tariff duty are only token entries as regards the Member States of the Community as originally constituted,
    whereas the exemption or suspension is directly and fully applicable by the new Member States under the present
    arrangements, except for Ireland, which is authorized to apply customs duties equal to the duties it applies in respect
   of the same products vis-a-vis Member States other than the United Kingdom.
 ---pagebreak---                           CCT
    Ordcr
     No
                        heading                                             Dcacriscioa
                           No
     14        «; •" 53.09^                  Yarn of horsehair 'or of other coarse animal hair, not put up for retail'
                                         » . sale .  c.                             .. t..
                                                                                                          s
     15                  53.10               Yarn of sheep's or lambs' wool , of horsehair or of other animal hair
                                             (fine or coarse), put up for retail sale
     16                  53.11               Woven fabrics of sheep's or lambs' wool or of fine animal hair
     17               . 53.12 -              Woven fabrics of coarse animal hair other than horsehair
      18                 53.13"           " Woven fabrics of horsehaîr
                 CH APTER 54
      19                 54.03               Flax or ramie yarn, not put up for retail sale
      20 .         .■     54.04.1          . Flax or ramie yarn> put up tor retail sale ;
                 CHAPTER 56
      21                  56.01  '            Man-made fibres (discontinuous), not carded, combed or otherwise
                                              prepared for spinning (1)
      22                  56.02               Continuous filament .tow for the manufacture of man-made fibres
                                              (discontinuous) (4)
      23               ' 56.03                Waste (including yarn waste and pulled or garnetted rags) of man­
                                              made fibres (continuous or discontinuous), not carded, combed or
                                              otherwise prepared for spinning (')
      24                  56.04               Man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste),* carded, combed or other*
                                              wise prepared for spinning
'• .  .!»_•
      25 .                56.06               Yarn of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste), put up for retail
                                              sale
              • .. P •,- . ,       *. •
                 CHAPTER 57
      26                  57.05              .Yarn of truc hemp
      27                  57.07         I Yarn of other vegetable textile fibres:
                                              B. Other                                     -i
  •   28       .        .57.08  •-        ' Paper yarn         < .•     ,
      29                  57.09               Woven fabrics of true hemp
      30           ex 57.11                   Woven fabrics of other vegetable textile fibres, excluding those of coir
      31                  57.12               Woven fabrics of paper yarn
  (■) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to . in Arride 1 (4J of this Regu­
       lation is reduced to 30% .
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            CCT
Order
 No
          headinfc                                   Description
           . No
      CHAPTER 58
        i
           58.01     Carpets, carpeting and rugs, knotted (made up or not) :
 32                  ex A. Of more than 500 knots
 33                       B. Of silk, or waste silk other than noil, of synthetic textiles
                             fibres, of yarn falling within heading No 52.01 or of metal
                             threads
 34   %
                     ex C. Of other textile materials other than jute or other textile bast
                             fibres of heading No 57.03 or coir
           58.02     Other Carpets, carpeting, rugs , mats and matting , and 'Kelem' ,
                     'Schumacks' and 'Karamanie* rugs and the like (made up or not)
 35                  ex A. Carpets other than of jute or other textile bast fibres of heading
                             No 57.03 or coir
 36                       B. 'Kelem', 'Schumacks' and 'Karamanie' rugs and the like
 37        58.03     Tapestries, hand-made, of the type Gobelins, Flanders, Aubusson,
                     Beauvais and the like, and needle-worked tapestries (for example,
                     petit point and cross stitch) made in panels and the like by hand
 38        58.05     Narrow woven fabrics, and narrow fabrics (bolduc) consisting of
                     warp without weft assembled by means of an adhesive, other than
                     goods falling within heading No 58.06
 39        58.06     Woven labels, badges and the like, not embroidered, in the piece, in
                     strips or cut to shape or size
 40        58.07     Chenille yarn (including flock chenille yarn), gimped yarn (other than
                /  i metallized yarn of heading No 52.01 and gimped horsehair yarn);
                     braids and ornamental trimmings in the piece ; tassels pompons and
                     the like .
 41        58.08     Tulle and other net fabrics (but not including woven, knitted or cro­
                     cheted fabrics) plain
 42        58.09     Tulle and other net fabrics (but not including woven, knitted or
                     crocheted fabrics), figured ; hand or mechanically made lace, in the
                      piece, in strips or in motifs
      CHAPTER 59
 43        59.01      Wadding and articles of wadding ; textile nock and dust and mill neps
 44        59.02      Felt and articles of felt, whether or not impregnated or coated
                                                                          i
 45        59.03      Bonded fibre fabrics, similar bonded yarn fabrics, and articles of such
                      fabrics, whether or not impregnated or coated
 46        59.05      Nets and netting made of twine, cordage or rope and made up
                      fishing nets of yarn, twine, cordage or rope
 47        59.06      Other articles made from yarn, twine, cordage, rope or cables other
                      than textile fabrics and articles made from such fabrics
 ---pagebreak---                                     Docnpnoe
48  Textile fabrics coated with gum or amylaceous substance of a kind
     used for die outer covers or boo*s ana the ( ike ; tracing aoth ; prepared
     painting canvas ; buckram and similar fabrics for hat foundations
   . and similar uses
49   Textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with pre­
     parations of ceiiiilose derivatives or of other arnsciai plastic maceriais
50   Textile fabrics coated or impregnated with oil or preparations with
     a basis of drying on
51   Linoleum and materials prepared on a textile base in a similar manner
     to linoleum, whether or not cut to shape or of a kind used as floor
     coverings ; door coverings consisting, of a costing ippuw on a rcxtiiC
     base, cut to shape or not
52   Rubberized textile fabrics, other than rubberized knitted or crocheted
     goods
53   Textile fabrics otherwise impregnated or coated ; painting canvas
     being theatrical scenery, studio back-cioths or the like
54   Elastic fsbnes and rr.rnrnir.g5 'other than knitted or crocheted goods)
     consisting or texnie matenais combined with rubber threads
55   Wicks, of woven, plaited or knitted textile materials, tor lamps,
     stoves. lighters, candies and the liice, tubular knitted gas-mantle fabric
     and iuL^iiucsc^nt ^ s ciantics
56   Textile r.osepiping and similar tubing, with or without lining,
     armour or accessories of other matenais
57   Transmission , conveyor or elevator belts or belting, of textile material,
     whether or not strengthened with metal or other material
58   Textile fabrics and texnie articles, of a kind commonly used in machi­
     nery or plant
     Krutted or crocheted fabrics, not elastic or rubberized
     A. Of wool or of fine animal hair
60   Gloves , mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rub­
     berized , other than of cotton
6,   Outer garments and other articles, knitted or crocheted, not clastic
     or rubberized :
     A. Outer garments and clothing accessories :
         1. Jerseys and pullovers, containing at least 50% by weight of
             wool and weighing 600 g or more per article
 ---pagebreak---                                              - 5
Order        CCT
  No       hoding                                  Deicripuon
             No
  62        60.06   Knitted or crocheted fabric and articles thereof, elastic or rubberized
                    (including elastic knee-caps and elastic stockings):
                    B. Other
      CHAPTER 61
  63    ex 61.04
                    women's girls' and infants' under garments, other than of cotton
  64       61.06    Shawls, scarves, mufflers, mantillas, veils and the like
  65       61.07   Ties, bow ties and cravats
  66       61.08
                   Collars, tuckers, fallals, bodice-fronts, jabots, cuffs, flounces, yokes
                   and similar accessories and trimmings oi women's and girls' garments
 67       61.09
                   Corsets, corset-belts, suspender-belts, brassieres, braces, suspenders,
                   garters and the like (including such articles of knitted or crocheted
                   fabric), whether or not elastic
 68        61.10
                   Gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and sockettes, not being knit­
                   ted or crocheted goods
 69       61.11
                   Made up accessories for articles of apparel (for example, dress
                  shields, shoulder and other pads, belts, muffs, sleeve protectors,
                  pockets)                                                         .
      CHAPTER 62
 70       62.01   Travelling rugs and blankets :
                  A. Electrically heated
                  B. Other :
                       II. Of other textile materials
71
          62.03   Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods
                  B. Of other textile materials :
                        I. Used                                    .
                           a) Flax or of sisal
                                                                                      i
                           ex b) Other (excluding coir or cotton fibres)
72     ex 62.05
                  Other made up textile articles (including dress patterns), other than
                  or jute, other than textile bast fibres of heading 57.03 or coir
 ---pagebreak---                              - 6 -
        r CCT
Order
        [ heading                                Description
 No         No
      CHAPTER 63
 73     ex 63.01  Clothing, clothing accessories, travelling rugs and blankets , household
                  linen and furnishing articles (other than articles falling within heading
                  No 58.01 , 58.02 or 58.03), of textile materials, footwear and headgear
                  of any material, showing signs of appreciable wear and imported
                  in bulk or in bales, sacks or similar bulk packings other than of jute
                  other than textile bast fibres of heading 57.03 or coir
 ---pagebreak---                                                                    ANNEX H ,
                     List of developing countries and territories enjoying generalized tariff preferences
                                                    INDEPENDF.NT COUNTRlhS
 Afghanistan                                    Honduras •                              Qatar
 Algeria                                        India       1                           Rwanda
 Argemina                                       Indonesia                               Saudi Arabia
 Bahamas                                        Iran ,                                  Senegal
 Bahrain                         ■ ,            Iraq                                    Sierra I.eone
 Bangladesh                                     Ivory Coast                             Singapore
 Barbades                                       Jamaica "                               Somalia
 Bhutan                                          Jordan                                 Sri Lanka
 Bolivia                                        Kenya                                   Sudan
 Botswana                                       Khmer Republic                          Swaziland
 Bra7.il                                      ' Korea ( South)'                      , Syria
 Burma                                          Kuwait                                  Tanzania
 Burundi                                        I.aos                                   Thailand        '     ' 1
Cameroon '                                      Lebanon       •                         Togo        '     .
Central African Republic                        l.esotho' •     ■                    > Tonga
Chad                                            I.iberia                                Trinidad and Tobago
Chilc                                           I.ibya                                ( Tunisia 1     •     '
Colombia                                        Malagasy Ri-public                      Uganda
Coligo, People's Republic of                    Malawi                                  United Arab Emirates :
Gosta Rica    ''          .                 ■ Malaysia                                        Abu Dhabi
Cuba                  '     ' ::                Maldive hlands .                              Dubai
Cyprus                                   ■      Mali                                        ■ Ras al Khaimah .
Dahomey                                         Mauritania                                    Fujairah
Dominican Repnblic                              Mauritius ,                                   Ajman
Ecuador                                         México '                           •          Sharjah
Egypt, Arab Republic of 1 '            '        Morocco                                       Ummal Qaiwain
El Salvador                                     Nauru                                   Upper Volta
Equatorial Guinea                            i Nepal .                                  Uruguay
Ethiopia                                   , , Nicaragua .                              Venezuela
Fiji ,      : '•     ; ■ ..                     Nigor ,           ■                     Vietnam, Republic of
    i '
Gabon ' ' "      ...    •    •                  Nij'cri'à                               Western Samoa :
Gambia                                          Oman                                    Yemen, People's Démocratie
Ghana                                           Pakistan                                Republic of
Guatemala                                      Panama                                   Yemen Arab Republic       ,
Guinca                                                                                  Yusoslavia
                                                Paraguay
Guyana                                          Perù      .   .                         Zaire
Haiti                                                                                   Zambia
                                               Philippines
 ---pagebreak---                                              PROPOSAL FOR A
                                 REGULATION (EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
on the opening of tariff preferences in the form of a partiel suspension
of customs duties for jute manufactures originating in India, Thailand and
Bangladesh and for coir manufactures originating in India ax£ Sri Lanka.
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
  pean Economic Community , and in particular
 to Article 113 thereof ;
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
  whereas, witrnn tne context ot UNCTAD, the Euro­
  pean Economic Community offered to grant tariff
  preferences on finished and semi-finished products
  coming from developing countries; whereas the pre­
  ferential treatment proposed in that offer covers,
  generally speaking, all finished and semi-finished
  industrial products covered by Chapters 25 to 99 of
  the Brussels Nomenclature which originate in devel­
  oping countries;
  Whereas the offer made by the Community includes
  a clause stating that the Community drew up the
  offer on the assumption that all the main industrial­
  ized countries which are members of the OECD would
  participate in granting preferences and would make
   similar efforts in this direction ; whereas, moreover,
   it is evident from the conclusions worked out in
   UNCTAD that this- offer, while being of a temporary
   nature, does not constitute a binding commitment
   and, in particular, may be withdrawn wholly or in
   part at a later date; whereas this possibility may
   be adopted inter alia with a view to remedying any
   unfavourable situations which might arise in the
   associated countries following the implementation of
   the generalized preference scheme;
   Whereas, however, as regards jute and coir products,
   the said offer includes the elimination of customs
   duties only where special arrangements have been
   made with the developing exporting countries ;
     \b sreas Agreements "between the Community
    *r;.d India on jute ( l ) and coir ( 2) manu-
    7 enures have entered into force ;
                                               whereas the said
       Ap.' c;iv-;,tsrefer , in particular, to the 'Joint Declar-
       ",W. .-.f Trtent on the development of trade relations
       v , Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and
       ■^.vapore* contained in the Act of Accession q and
          ,/fng down special regulations governing trade in
        -i '-s^Vcducts         the Community;
                                82 of 27.3.1974 PP.ll 311(1
     \       "1 Ko L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
 ---pagebreak---      Whereas, as regards Bangladesh, approval procedures are being com­
  pleted concerning               an agreement on an iden­
     tical basis to that of the Agreement between the Com­
     munity and India;
 _ Whereas it is provided, in particular, that the Community
          shall , autonomously and within the scope
     of its offer on the granting of generalized tariff pre­
     ferences for ] jute and coir manufactures originating
             in India and Bangladesh, partially and by
     stages suspend theCommon Customs Tariff duties
     relating to these products, and from 1st January 1974
     where ïndia is concemed ;                                                            >
     Whereas , moreover , ad hoc measures are about to be
     finally agreed between the Community , of the one
     part , and Sri Lanka, in respect of coir manu­
     factures , as well as Thailand , in respect of
     jute manufactures , of the other part ;
   Whereas, in accordance with Protocol No 23 to the
* Act of Accession, the generalized tariff preference scheme
 became fully               applicable in the new Member
   states from 1 January 1974; whereas, however,
   Article 2 (2) of the abovementioned Agreements with India and Bangladesh con­
   cerning these products lay. down that in Denmark,
   Ireland and the United Kingdom the tariff adjust­
   ments resulting from the opening of the preferences
   in question may be introduced gradually; whereas it appears equally appropriate tQ apply
  similar provisions in respect of Thailand and Sri Lanka ;
  Whereas, therefore, in respect of the products cov­
  ered by Article 1 of this Regulation, the Community
   should until 31 December 197$ allow imports to be
  partially free from customs duties in respect of jute products
 as regards India , Thailand and Bangladesh and , in respect
 of coir products , as regards India and Sri Lanka ;
  Whereas the benefit of these suspensions should be
  granted to the said products originating in India ,
  Bangladesh , Thailand and Sri Lanka ; whereas , to this end , the provisions con­
  cerning the definition of the concept of originating
  products should be applied to tariff preferences
  granted by the Community to the products from                                            )
  developing countries for the period from 1 January
  until 31 December 1974,
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                            Article 1
  1. From 1 January 197,5, the Common Customs
  Tariff duties on the products listed hereafter shall
  be suspended preferentially at the rates shown in
  respect thereof:
 ---pagebreak---                                                 - 3 -
                                                                                         Preferential
            CCT      1
           heading                                 Description                              - • rate
              No
                                                                                         ( ad valorem)
               57.06   Yarn of jute or of other bast fibres                                 3,2
         I
                       falling under heading No 57*03
               57.10
             : 57.10   Woven fabrics of jute : or other bast fibres falli ng
                             ffa wiatnoï not more than Î50 cm and weighing pcr m2 :
                             I. Less than 310 g             •                               8
                           II. Not less than 310 g but not more than 500 g                  7,6
                          III. More than 500 g                                         '    6
                       B. Of a width more than 150 cm                                      11
               58.02   Other carpets, carpeting, rugs, mats and matting, and 'Kellem',
                       'Schumacks' and 'Karamanie' rugs and the like (made up or
                       not):
                       A. Carpets, carpeting, rugs, mats and matting :
                               I. Coir mats and matting and tufted carpets                  9,2
                                  of jute and coir                           '
               62.03   Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods :
                       ex A. Of jute :
                                II . Other :                                     - ,
                                     a) Of fabric weighing less than 310 g/rrr              8
                                     b) Of fabric weighing not less than 310 g/ma but
                                        not more than 500 g/m2
                                     c) Of fabric weighing more than 500 g/m2               V6
 2. On imports of the said goods into Denmark and
 the United Kingdom, the duties to be applied shall
 be those of their customs tariff suspended at the
 level of those applied in 1973 . For jute textile pro­
 ducts falling within heading Nos ex 57.06, ex 57.10
 and 62.03 ex A II referred to in paragraph 1 , Ireland
 shall align its national customs tariff duties on the
 abovementioned preferential rates on the dates and •
 in the order fixed in Article 39 ( 1) and (2) of the Act
 of Accession .
 3 . The benefit of the suspensions referred to in Ar­
 ticle 1 shall be reserved for products originating in
 India until 31 December 1975". Products origi­
nating in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, except
coir mats and matting and tufted carpets
of coir , shall also benefit from these sus­
pensions . The same coir mats and matting
und tufted carpets of coir shall , however ,
benefit from these suspensions when origina­
ting in Sri Lanka . For the purposes of this
Foliation the concept of originating pro­
ducts shall be that laid
  d'jwn by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3614/73
     applicable to products benefiting from tariff pre-
  fcvc.Kcs granted by the Community to developing
  countries for the period from 1 January until 31
  December 197.5-
 ---pagebreak---                                        Article 2
                 1. The Commission, in close collaboration with
                 Member States, shall take all necessary measures to
                 ensure that the foregoing provisions are applied.
                 2. The Member States shall regularly inform the
                 Commission of imports benefiting under the pre­
                 ceding provisions.
                                       Article 3
                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1
                 January 197/.
This  Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels,:
                                                                  For the Council
                                                                    The Président
 ---pagebreak---                                                 Proposal for a
                                 REGULATION (EEC) OF THfi COUNCIL
               opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota
                                  for 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
 to Article 113 thereof :
Having      regard     to    the    proposai    from     the
Commission ;                  n                       ..                        .    .
Whereas within the framework of UNCTAD the
European Economic Community offered to grant
tariff preferences on finished and semi-finished
products originating in developing countries ;
whereas the preferential treatment proposed in that
offer covers, generally speaking, all finished and
semi-finished industrial products falling within
Chapters 25 to 99 of the Brussels Nomenclature and
originating in developing countries ;
Whereas, however, in respect of cotton textile
products formerly covered by the Long-term Arrangement ( l )
regarding International Trade in Cotton Textiles,
the offer made by the Community lays down that
the preferences, in the form of duty-free ceilings,
will be granted to the countries benefiting from
generalized preferences which are signatories to the
Long-term Arrangement or possibly . to those
countries benefiting from generalized preferences
which undertake in respect of the Community
commitments similar to those existing under that
Arrangement and for its duration ; whereas, having
particular regard to the link which Article 6 of the
Long-term Arrangement established between cotton
products and substitute products, it appears justified
in these circumstances and by virtue of the fact that
a total suspension of customs duties is involved to
include in the same scheme as that described above
those substitute textile products given in the
conditional list of partial and limited reductions of
customs duties deposited with GATT by the
Community during the last series of tariff
negotiations ;
Whereas the offer made by the Community includes
a clause stipulating that the Community drew up the
offer on the assumption that all the main
industrialized countries which are members of the
OECD would participate in granting preferences and
would make        similar efforts       in this   direction;
whereas,     moreover,      it   is   evident   from     the
 conclusions worked out in UNCTAD that this offer,
while being of a temporary nature, does not
constitute a binding commitment and, in particular,
may be withdrawn wholly or in part at a later date;
 (' ) OJ No L 225, 12. 10. 1970, p. 29.
 ---pagebreak---      whereas this possibility may be adopted inter alia
     with a view to remedying any unfavourable
     situations which might arise in the associated •
      countries following the implementation of the
      generalized preference scheme;
     Whereas, moreover, the Conference of Heads of
     State or of Government of the Member States and
     the States acceding to the European Communities
     held in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 invited the
     Community institutions and the Member States
     progressively to adopt an overall policy of
      development cooperation on a world-wide scale
     comprising in particular the improvement of
     generalized preferences with the aim of achieving a
     steady increase in imports of manufactures from the .
     developing countries ;
     Whereas, in accordance with Protocol No 23 to the
     Act of Accession (2), the generalized tariff preference
scheme became applicable in the new Member States
     from 1 January 1974;
     Whereas, for the various categories of textile
     products in question, Council Regulation (EEC) No
                  of                 1974 opening, allocating
     and providing for the administration of Community
    tariff quotas for certain textile products originating
     in developing countries^'and Council Regulation
     (EEC) No                       of :               1974
    establishing preferential tariffs in respect of certain .
    textile products originating in' developing countries^/
    put into effect the abovementioned offer for 1975
    favour of those developing countries satisfying the
     conditions outlined above and listed in Annex B to
    those Regulations; whereas this measure has been
    taken on a transitional basis, the Commission
    counting on the countries thus concerned to take
    measures ensuring that equivalent objectives are
    respected, at least throughout 1975 ; in expec­
    tation of such time, as the "Arrangement
    concerning International Trade in Textiles "
   "becomes applicable ( 5) ; whereas
       Yugoslavia for its part has entered into
      commitments similar to those made under the Long-
     term Arrangement; whereas Yugoslavia should,
     therefore, "by similar considerations "be
      granted the benefit of tariff
       preferences for the textile products in question
  also for 197.; j whereas, in order not to affect the
      advantages which the present beneficiaries enjoy for
      these products, separate ceilings at zero duty should
      be opened exclusively for products originating in
      Yugoslavia; whereas each of these ceilings should
      under normal conditions be equal to the maximum
      (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972. D . 14.
      (») OJ No L
     (4 ) OJ No L
    (5 ) OJP L 118 , 30.4.1974, P. 1
 ---pagebreak---  amount fixed by Regulations ( EEC) No 3502/73 and
 ( EEC) No 3503 /73 for corresponding products, with
 a lower limit of 10 °/o and an upper limit of 100 '/# of
 the quantities of the types of products in question
 exported from Yugoslavia to the Community in
 1968 ;
Whereas the Community should, therefore, for the
 period to 31 December 197^ open Community
 duty-free tariff quotas in respect of the products
 listed in the Annex to this Regulation up to the
 amounts specified in metric tons for each of them ;
 whereas the benefit of these tariff quotas should
 apply only to products originating in Yugoslavia,
and the concept of originating products should be
determined in accordance with the procedure laid
down in Article 14 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No
802/68 ( ' ) of 27 June 1968 on the common
definition of the concept of origin of goods ;.
Whereas a utilization scheme of Community tariff
quotas among the Member States would appear to
 conform to         the Community character of those
quotas ; whereas the application of the generally
accepted principles in respect of the allocation of the
Community tariff quotas which have been opened
until now entails, under these circumstances and in
view of the variety of the products concerned,
calculations which are all the more problematic in
that the statistical data required sometimes prove to
be incomplete or not sufficiently accurate or
representative ; whereas the time required for these
calculations cannot be reconciled with the continuity
necessary for the application of the tariff preferences
concerned ; whereas, under these conditions, it
would be advisable still at this stage to adopt a .
fixed scale for allocating the Community tariff
quotas concerned among the Member States; ^
whereas, on the basis of general economic criteria
i.e. foreign trade in the textile sector, the gross
national product and population , the percentages for
the initial shares of the Member States in the quota
amounts are as follows for the quota year under
consideration :
           Germany                              27 '/#
           Bénélux                              10 °/o
           France                               19 •/»
           Italy                                14 •/•
           Denmark                               7 #/o
           Ireland                               1 •/•
            United Kingdom                      22®/o
    ( ' ) OJ No L. 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak---                                                       - 4 -
   Whereas, since the tariff quotas involved are in general
   relatively small it appears possible, without affecting
   the Community nature of the quotas under
   consideration, to provide at this stage for a utilization
   scheme based on a single allocation among the
   Member States, more particularly since imple­
 mentation of the principle regarding the
 setting up of a reserve site, re cannot , in
 such a sensitive area, be put in hand except
 progressively and must remain attuned to the
 methods of administration laid down in the
 general framework of the scheme of generalized
 preferences ; whereas such allocation could be
   made according to the percentages set out in the
   table above;
   Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
   Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy
   of Luxembourg are united in and represented by the
   Benelux Economic Union for the allocation of the
   tariff quotas concerned, any measure concerning the
   administration of the shares allocated to that
   Economic Union may be carried out by one of its
   Members,
   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                           Article 1
   1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1975. the
  Common Customs Tariff duties and the tariff duties
  of the new Member States on the products listed in
   the Annex shall be totally suspended for Community
  tariff quotas up to the volume in metric tons
  indicated in column 3 of that Annex in respect of
  each of those products.
  Ireland is authorized to apply quota duties equal to
  the duties which it applies to imports of the same
  products from Member States other than the United
  Kingdom.
 2. The tariff quotas referred to shall be granted
  only to products originating in Yugoslavia. For the
 purposes of this Regulation the concept of
 originating     products    shall   be   determined      in
 accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
  14 of Regulation (EEC) No 802/68 .
                          Article 2
 The Community tariff quotas referred to in Article 1
 (1 ) shall be allocated among the Member States in
 shares equal to the amounts indicated in column 4
 of the Annex in respect of each type of product.
                          Article 3
1 . The Member States shall ensure free access to
the share which has been allocated to them for
importers of the products concerned who are
established on their territory.
2.      The extent to which the shares of Member
States have been actually filled shall be determined
on the basis of imports of the products which have
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been    entered    for home use,       and which    are                            Article S
accompanied by a certificate of origin in accordance
with the rules referred to in Article 1 (2).                 Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
3. Goods may qualify for a tariff quota only if              closely to ensure that the preceding provisions are
the certificate of origin referred to in paragraph 2 is      observed.
submitted before the date on which the levying of
duties is reintroduced.
                        Article 4                                                   Article 6
Member States shall inform the Commission at
              vals of imports actually charged against
regular intervals                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
their shares.                                                 1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels,
                                                                           For the Council
                                                                            The Président
 ---pagebreak---                                                      ANNEX
       List of products originating in Yugoslavia covered by Community duty-free tariff quotas as
                                   part of the generalized tariff preferences
          CCT                                                       Quota                Volume of shares allocated
Ordcr   hcnding                                                     volume
                                                                                             to Member States
 No       No                         Description                  (in mctric
                                                                     tons)                    ( in metric tons)
           w                             (2)                                                           4)
                                                                      (3)
   1    55.05       Cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale:
                   B. Other:
                        II. Other:
                            Measuring, per single yam, per
                            kilo;
                            – 14 000 m or less                       75        Germany                      2Qt25
                                                                               Bcnelux                        7,50
                                                                               France                       14,25
                                                                               Italy                        10,50
                                                                               Denmark               ,        5,25
                                                                               Ircland             .          0,75
                                                                               United Kingdom               16,50
  2                         – More than 14 000 m but not         .346          Germany                    363,42
                               more than 40 000 m                              Bénélux .                  135,60
                                                                               France                     255,74
                                                                               Italy                      188,44
                                                                               Denmark                     94 22
                                                                               Ircland                     1 3*46
                                                                               United Kingdom            296 1 2
 3                         – More than 40 000 m but not            462        Germany                   124,74
                               more than 80 000 m                             Bénélux                      46,20
                                                                              France                       87,78
                                                                              Italy                        64 68
                                                                              Denmark                      32,34
                                                                              Ireland                        4,62
                                                                              United Kingdom            101 64
 4                         – More than 80 000 m but not             68        Germany                      18,36
                               more than 120 000 m                            Bénélux                        6,80
                                                                              France                       12,92
                                                                              Italy                          9,52
                                                                              Denmark                        4,76
                                                                              Ireland                        0,68
                                                                              United Kingdom              14.36
5     55.09       Other woven fabrics of cotton :
                  A. Containing 85 %> or more by weight
                     of cotton :
                      I. Of a width of less than 85 cm:
                          – Unbleached                              40       Germany                      10,80     -
                                                                             Bénélux                        4,00
                                                                             France                         7,60
                                                                             Italy                          5,60
                                                                             Denmark                        2,80
                                                                             Ireland                       0,40
                                                                             United Kingdom                 8,80
 ---pagebreak---                                                 - 2 -
        CCT
                                                       Quota
                                                       volume                 Volume of shares allocated
Ordcr heading                Description             (in inctrlc                   to Member ,State»
 No     No                                              tons)                        (in metric toiu)
         (1)                     (2)                     (3)                               (4)
  6               – Other                               120         Germany                   32.40
                                                                    Bénélux                   12,00
                                                                    France                    22,80
                                                                    italy                     16*80
                                                                    Dcamark                     8,40
                                                                    Ireland                     1 20
                                                                    United Kingdom            26*40
                                                                                                       »
  7              II. Other:
                                                                 i
                     – Unbleached, of a width:
                        – Of 85 cm or more but not    1150        i Germany                 325,89
                            more than 115 cm                        Bénélux                 120,70
                                                                    France                  229,33
                                                                    Italy                   168,98
                                                                    Denmark                   84,49
                                                                    Ireland                   12,07
                                                                    United Kingdom          265,54
  8                     – More than 115 cm but not      732         Germany
                            more than 165 cm                        Bénélux                 . 73,20
                                                                    France
                                                                    Italy                   102,48
                                                                    Denmark                   51 , 24
                                                                    Ireland                     7,32
                                                                    United Kingdom          161,04
  9                     – More than 165 cm              236         Germany                   63,72
                                                                    Bénélux                   23 , 60
                                                                    France        '           44,84
                                                                    Italy                     33^04 '
                                                                    Denmark                   16,52
                                                                    Ireland                     2,36
                                                                    United Kingdom            51 , 92
 10                     Other:
                        – Printed                         82        Germany                    22,14
                                                                    Bénélux                      8,20
                                                                    France                     15,58
                                                                    Italy                     11,48
                                                                    Denmark                     5,74
                                                                    Ireland '                   0, 82
                                                                    United Kingdom             18,04
 11                     – Other                           82        Germany                    22,14
                                                                    Bénélux                      8,20
                                                                    France                     15 , 58
                                                                    Italy                      iTJÏÉf
                                                                    Denmark                     5,74
                                                                    Ireland                     0,82
                                                                    United Kingdom            18,04
 12   56.05   Yarn of man-made fibres (discontinuous
              or waste), not put up for retail sale:
              B. Of regenerated textile fibres           173        Germany                    46,71
                                                                    Bénélux                    17,30
                                                                    France                    32,87
                                                                    Italy .                    24,22
                                                                    Denmark                   12,11
                                                                    Ireland                     ] 73
                                                                    United Kingdom.           38*06
 ---pagebreak---                                                        - 3 -
               CCT                                                    Quota
             hcading                                                  volume               Volume of snares allocated
   Order                                                                                       to Member States
    No         No                        Deicription                (in mctric
                                                                       ton»)                     ( in metric tons)
                (1)                          »)                                                          («)
                                                                         (3 )
    13       56.07     woven     fabrics   of     man-made fibres
                       (discontinuous or waste):
                       B. Of regenerated textile fibres:
                           – Printed                                      57      Cermany                  42,39
                                                                                  Bénélux                  15 70
                                                                                  France                   29*83
                                                                                  Italy                    21 98
                                                                                  Denmark                  KiQQ
\
                                                                                  Ireland
                                                                                  United Kingdom           3 /,
    14                    – Other                                      157        Germany                  42.39
                                                                                  Bénélux                  15,70
                                                                                 France                    29,83
                                                                                 Italy                    21,98
                                                                                 Denmark                  10,99
                                                                                 Ireland                    1,57
                                                                                 United Kingdom           3*, 54
   15    ex 60.03     Stocking, under stockings, socks, ankle-
                      socks, sockettes and the like, knitted or
                      crocheted , not elastic or rubberized :
                     – Of cotton                                                 Germany                  6,21
                                                                         23
                                                                                 Bénélux                  2,30
                                                                                 France                   4,37
                                                                                 Italy                    3,22
                                                                                 Denmark                  l,bl
                                                                                 Ireland
                                                                                 United Kingdom
                                                                                                            » n^
                                                                                                          5,0o
   16       60.04    Under garments, knitted or crocheted,
                     not elastic or rubberized :
                     A. Of cotton                                     113       Germany                 30,51
                                                                                Bénélux                 11.30
                                                                                France                  21,47
                                                                                Italy                   15.82
                                                                                Denmark                   7 91
                                                                                Ireland                  l' l3
                                                                                United Kingdom          24*86
  17       61.01     Men's and boys' outer garments:
                     – Of cotton fabric                                 47      Germany                12,69
                                                                                Bénélux                  4,70
                                                                                France
                                                                                Italy
                                                                                Denmark
                                                                               Ireland                   0|47
                                                                               United Kingdom          10,34
  18                 – Other                                      ! 298        Germany                 80,46
                                                                               Bénélux                 29 80
                                                                               France                  56*62
                                                                               Italy                   41 72
                                                                               Denmark                 20,86
                                                                               Ireland                   2,98
                                                                               United Kingdom         65,56
 ---pagebreak---                                                      - 4 -
                                                               QuoU                 Volume of shares allocated        '
        CCT                                                   volume                    to Member States
Order hcading                   Description                  (Jn mctrle                   (in metric tons)
 No      No                                                     ions)
                                                                                                        (4)
         (1)                        (2) '                         (3 )
  19  61.02   Woman's,      girls'  and     infants   outer
              garments :
              – Of cotton fabric                                   63    Germany                          'c'qn
                                                                         Bénélux                          1 1 *Q7
                                                                         France                             q ' cq
                       \
                                                                         Italy
                                                                         Denmark
                                                                                                            {.g
                                                                                                            n» r^
                                                                         Ireland
                                                                         United Kingdom                    ,J > °°
  20          – Other                                            120     Germany                          32,40
                                                                         Bénélux                          12,00
                                                                         France                            22,80
                                                                         Italy                             16,80
                                                                         Denmark                             8,40
                                                                          Ireland                            1 , 20
                                                                          United Kingdom                   26.40
  21  61.03    Men's     and    boys'     under    garments,
               including collars, shirt fronts and cuffs:
              – Other than of cotton fabric                         63    Germany                        17,01
                                                                          Bénélux                           b,JU
                                                                          France .           .           U,9ï '
                                                                          Italy
                                                                          Denmark                           SJ'
                                                                          Ireland
                                                                          United Kingdom
                                                                                              \
. 22   62.02   Bed linen, table linen, toilet linen and
               kitchen    linen ;   curtains    and    other                                    i
               furnishing articles:                                                               i
               – Of cotton fabric                                     52   Germany
                                                                           Bénélux                  :
                                                                           France
                                                                           Italy                      !             '
                                                                           Denmark
                                                                           Ireland                        iV'rr
                                                                           United Kingdom                  1I|H
- 23            – Other                                                6   Germany                           1,62
                                                                           Bénélux
                                                                           sr
                                                                           Denmark
                                                                                                             fe
                                                                            Ireland
                                                                           United Kingdom
                                                                                                             0»$
                                                                                                              •
 ---pagebreak---                                                  Proposai for a
                               REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL
                                                                      I
                 opening tariff preferences for certain textile products originating in Yugoslavia
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and ill particular
to Article 113 thereof ;
Having regard to the proposai                   from      tne
Commission ;
 Whereas within the context of UNCTAD the
European Economic Community offered to grant
tariff preferences on finished and semi-finished
products     originating   in     developing      countries;
whereas the preferential treatment proposed in that
offer covers, generally speaking, all finished and
semi-finished products falling within Chapters 25 to
99 of the Brussels Nomenclature and originating in
developing countries;
Whereas, however, in respect of cotton textile
products formerly covered by the_ Long-term Arrangement ^ 1 ;
regarding International Trade in Cotton Textiles the
offer made by the Community lays down that the
preferences, in the form of duty-free ceilings, will be
granted to the countries benefiting from generalized
preferences which are signatories to the Long-term
Arrangement       or   possibly    to    those     countries
benefiting from generalized preferences which
undertake in respect of . the Community
commitments similar to those existing under that
Arrangement and for its duration ; whereas, having
particular regard to the link which Article 6 of the
Long-term Arrangement established between cotton
products and substitute products, it appears justified .
in these circumstances and by virtue of the fact that
a total suspension of customs duties is involved to
include in the same scheme as that described above
those substitute textile products given in the
conditional list of partial and limited reductions of
customs duties deposited with GATT by the
Community during the last series of tariff
negotiations ;
Whereas the offer made by the Community includes
a clause stipulating that the Community drew up the
offer on the assumption that all the main
industrialized countries which are members of the
OECD would participate in granting preferences and
would    make     similar  efforts    in   this    direction ;
whereas,    moreover,     it    is   evident     from      the
conclusions worked out in UNCTAD that this offer,
while being of a temporary nature, does not
constitute a binding commitment and, in particular,
may be withdrawn wholly or in part at a later date;
(') OJ No L 225, 12. 10. 1970, p. 29.
 ---pagebreak---                                                      - 2 -
whereas this possibility may be adopted inter alia
with a view to remedying any unfavourable
situations which might arise in the associated
countries following the implementation of the
generalized preference scheme;
Whereas, moreover, the Conference of Heads of
State or of Government of the Member States and
the States acceding to the European Communities
held in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 invited the
 Community institutions and the Member States
progressively to adopt an overall policy of
development cooperation on a world-wide scale
 comprising in particular the improvement of
 generalized preferences with the aim of achieving a
 steady increase in imports of manufactures from the
 developing countries ;
 Whereas, in accordance with Protocol No 23 to the
 Act of Aocession (a), the generalized tariff preference
 scheme "became              1 applicable in the new
Member States from 1 January 19T4;
  Whereas for the various categories of textile
  products in question Council Regulation (EEC) No
                               1974 opening, allocating
   and providing for the administration of Community
  tariff quotas for certain textile products originating
  in developing countriey^'and Council Regulation
   (EEC)                                  1974- opening
  tariff preferences in respect of certain^ textile
  products originating in developing countries put into
  effect the abovementioned offer for 197-5" in favour
   of those developing countries satisfying the
   conditions outlined above and listed in Annex B to
   those Regulations; whereas this measure has been
   taken on a transitional basis, the Commission
   counting on the countries thus concerned to take
   measures ensuring that equivalent objectives were
   respected, at least throughout 197S J and in
   expectation of such time as the "Arrange­
   ment concerning International Trade in
   Textiles " becomes applicable iW^hereas
    Yugoslavia for its part has entered into commitments
    similar   to those    made     under  the  Long-term
    Arrangement; whereas Yugoslavia should, therefore, "by similar COnsiderar-
tion be granted the benefit of tariff preferences for
    the abovementioned textile products           also for
    1975; whereas, in order not to affect the advantages
    which the present beneficiaries enjoy for these
    products, separate ceilings at zero duty should be
    opened exclusively for products originating in
    (*) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972. p. 14.
    (») OJ No L                            •
    (4) OJ No L
     ( 5 ) OJ      L 118 of 30.4.1974 , p. 1
 ---pagebreak--- Yugoslavia; whereas each of these ceilings should         duties and the tariff duties of the new Member
under normal conditions be equal to the maximum           States on the products listed in the Annex shall be'
amount fixed by Regulations (EEC) No                and   totally suspended for Community ceilings up to the
 (EEC) No              for corresponding products, with   volume in metric tons indicated in column 3 of the .
a lower limit of 10 °/o and an upper limit of 100 °/«     Annex in respect of each of those products.
of the quantities of the types of products in question
exported from Yugoslavia to the Community in 1968 ;       Ireland is authorized to apply quota duties equal to
whereas these ceilings must be adjusted in order to       the duties which it applies to imports of the same
take account of certain special cases where there are
no deliveries from Yugoslavia ; whereas these ceilings    products from Member States other than the United
must be adjusted, however, to take account inter olid      Kingdom.
of certain particular cases where there are no
deliveries from Yugoslavia;                                2. The benefit of the suspension referred to in
                                                           paragraph 1 is granted only for products originating
 Whereas, therefore, in respect of each of the types of    in Yugoslavia. For the purposes of this Regulation
 products listed in the Annex to this Regulation, the      the concept of originating products shall be
 Community should until 31 December 1975 allow             determined in accordance with the procedure laid
 duty-free imports up to the Community ceilings            down in Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 802/68.
  indicated opposite each of those classes ; whereas the
  benefit of these tariff quotas should apply only to
  products originating in Yugoslavia, and the concept
  of originating products should be determined in                                    Article 2
  accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
   14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 802/68 (') of
  27 June 1968 on the common definition of the              As soon as the ceilings indicated in column 3 of he
  concept of the origin of goods ;                          Annex have been reached at Community level, the
                                                            normal duties may be reintroduced at any time on
                                                            imports of products originating in Yugoslavia, until
  Whereas, in the event, these objectives may be            the end of the period specified in Article 1 ( 1 ).
   attained by a method of administration based on the
   charging at Community level of imports of the
   products in question against the abovementioned
   ceilings as and when the products are entered for
   home use and are accompanied by a certificate of
   origin; whereas this form of administration should                                Article 3
   make it possible to reintroduce duties as soon as the
   ceilings have been reached at Community level ;           1. Imports of the products in question shall be
                                                            actually charged against the Community ceilings as
    Whereas rhis form of administration requires close       and when the products are entered for home use
    and particularly rapid collaboration between the         and are accompanied by a certificate of origin
    Member States and the Commission, and the                pursuant to the rules laid down in Article 1 (2).
    Commission must in particular be able to follow the
    extent to which charges are made in respect of the       2.    Goods may be charged against a ceiling only if
    ceilings and inform the Member States thereof;           the certificate of origin referred to in paragraph 1 is
    whereas this collaboration must be sufficiently close    submitted before the date on which the levying of
    for the Commission to be able to take adequate           duties is reintroduced.
    measures to reintroduce the normal duties,
                                                             3. The extent to which the ceilings have actually
       ?                                                     been filled shall be determined at Community level
       i                                                     on the basis of imports charged in accordance with
                                                             paragraphs 1 and 2.
     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                              Article 1
                                                                                      Article 4
     1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1975. subject
     to Articles 2 and 4 (2), the Common Customs Tariff       1.   The Commission, in close collaboration with
        f                                                     the Member States, shall take all necessary measures
     (M OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 1 .                   to ensure that the above provisions are applied.
 ---pagebreak--- 2.    The Commission shall, by means of a                    against the Community ceilings provided for in
Regulation, reintroduce the levying of normal duties         Article 1 ( 1 ).
in respect of Yugoslavia, in accordance with Article 2.
                       Artide S                                                       Article 6
The Member States shall regularly inform the                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
Commission of imports which are actually charged             1975 •
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
                                  v       4
              Done at Brussels,       __             j .
                                                                              For the Council
                                                                               The Président
 ---pagebreak---                                                ANNEX
List of the products originating in Yugoslavia which are covered by generalized tariff
                             preferences for certain textile products
         CCT
                                                                                               Community
                                                                                                  ceiling
     hcading No                                      Detcription                             (in mctric toni)
          1
                                                         «                                          0
       54.05
                    woven fabrics of flax or yarn
       55.05
                    Cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale:
                   A. Multiple or cabled, finished, in balls or on cards, reels, tubes or
                       similar supports, of a weight (including support) not exceeding 900 g
                   B. Other:
                       I. Measuring, per single yarn, 120000 m or more per kg
      55.06
                   Cotton yarn, put up for retail sale
      55.07
                   Cotton gauze
      55.08
                   Terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, of cotton
     55.09         Other woven fabric» of cotton :
                  B. Other
     58.04
                  Woven pile fabrics and chenille fabrics (other than terry towelling or
                  similar terry fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 55.08 and
                  fabrics falling within heading No 58.05)
     58.10
                  Embroidery, in the piece, in strips or in motifs
     60.01
                 Knitted or crocheted fabric, not elastic or rubberized :
                 B. Of man-made fibres
                 C. Of other textile materials
ex 60.02
                 Gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized,
                 of cotton
    60.05
                 Outer garments and other articles, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or
                 rubberized
                     A. Outer garments and clothing accessories:
                         ex II. Other, of cotton
                ex B. Other, of cotton
   60.06
                Knitted or crocheted fabric and articles thereof, elastic or rubberized
                (including elastic knee-caps and elastic stockings):
                A. Fabric:
                    – In cotton fabric
                    – Other
    61.03
                Men s and boys* under garments, including collars, shirt fronts and cuffs:
                – In cotton fabric          \
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                Community
     CCT                                       Description                       ceiling
  heading No                                                                ( in metric tons)
                                                     2                               3
ex 61.04     Women's, girls1 and infants' under garments, of cotton                 53,55
   61.05     Handkerchiefs                                                          29,40
   62.01     Travelling rugs and blankets:
             B. Other:
                 I. Of Cotton                                                       15,75
   62.03     Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods;               85
             B. Of other textile materials:
                     I. Used :
                        çx ( b ) Others
                                 – In cotton fa bric
                ex II . Other:
                        – In cotton fabric
   62.04     Tarpaulins, sails, awnings, sunblinds, tents and camping goods          94,50