CELEX: 31976R1169
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1169/76 of 17 May 1976 concerning import arrangements for certain textile products originating in Brazil

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                                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1169/ 76
                                                    of 17 May 1976
               concerning import arrangements for certain textile products originating in
                                                         Brazil
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas, with the exception of the products covered
COMMUNITIES,                                                     by Category 2 of the table in Annex A, those products
                                                                 which enter the Community's customs territory under
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           •inward processing or other temporary admission
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                arrangements and are re-exported therefrom in their
thereof,                                                         original condition or after processing should not be
                                                                 set off against the abovementioned quantitative limits,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas, in the context of the arrangement regarding
international trade in textiles, the European Economic           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community and Brazil have negotiated an Agreement
on trade in textile products ; whereas the Commission
has submitted to the Council a recommendation for a                                        Article 1
Regulation concluding that Agreement ;
                                                                 1.    During 1976 and 1977 imports into the Commu­
Whereas, for the purpose of applying the Agreement               nity of the textile products listed in Annex A and orig­
which has been negotiated, import arrangements for               inating in Brazil shall be subject to the quantitative
the products in question should be adopted and put               limits agreed with Brazil and set out in that Annex ,
into force immediately ;                                         and to the presentation of an export certificate issued
                                                                 by the authorities of that country.
Whereas the Agreement requires the Community to
admit imports of certain textile products within
quantitative limits, the observance of which will be             2.    These quantitative limits shall be allocated
guaranteed by an agreed system of bilateral checking ;           among the Member States in accordance with the
                                                                 procedure laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas the appropriate provisions for 1976 and 1977             1023/ 70 of 25 May 1970 establishing a common proce­
should therefore be adopted, including the criteria for          dure for administering quantitative quotas ('), and in
the allocation of the quantitative limits agreed with            particular in Article 1 1 thereof, in such a way as to
Brazil ;                                                         ensure the expansion and orderly development of
                                                                 trade in textiles and to permit amounts to be carried
Whereas, because of the considerable disparities                 over or brought forward from one year to another.
between the conditions now governing imports of the
products concerned into the Member States and                    However, the allocation shall be made on the basis of
because of the particular sensitivity of the Commu­              the import volumes admitted under the conditions
nity's textile industry, standardization of these import         currently applied in the Member States and shall
conditions can only be achieved progressively ;                  provide for annual rates of increase that are appreci­
whereas the criterion to be adopted for the allocation           ably higher for those Member States whose import
of the Community quantitative limits should therefore            volumes are relatively the lowest, in order to align
be the gradual adjustment of the amounts admitted                them gradually with the supply requirements of the
under current import conditions to the supply require­           market .
ments of the market ;
                                                                 3.    The competent authorities of the Member States
Whereas imports should be set off against the quantita­          concerned shall , within the quantitative limits pres­
tive limits fixed for the year in which the goods were
exported from Brazil ;                                           (') OJ No L 124, 8 . 6 . 1970 , p. 1 .
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cribed, automatically authorize the import of the             off against the quantitative limits referred to in para­
products referred to in paragraph 1 immediately upon         graph 1 .
production by the importer of an export certificate
issued by the competent authorities of Brazil and                                     Article 2
containing the details set out in Annex B. However,
this export certificate will not be required for goods       The measures provided for in this Regulation shall
taken aboard in Brazil before 1 June 1976 .                   replace those laid down by Commission Regulation
                                                             (EEC) No 790/76 of 6 April 1976 amending the
4. Authorized imports shall be set off against the
                                                              interim measures established by Commission Regula­
quantitative limits valid for the year during which the
                                                              tion (EEC) No 3355/75 with regard to imports of
products were taken aboard in Brazil for export.
                                                             certain textile products originating in the Federal
5. With the exception of the products covered by              Republic of Brazil (').
Category 2 of the table in Annex A, products which
enter the Community's customs territory under                                         Article 3
inward processing or other temporary admission
arrangements and are re-exported therefrom in their          This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 May
original condition or after processing shall not be set       1976 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 17 May 1976 .
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                             R. VOUEL
                                                              (') OJ No L 92, 7. 4. 1976, p. 18 .
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                                                                            ANNEX A
                                                        Quantitative limits referred to in Article 1
           CCT
                                                                                                                   Quantitative ive limits
Cate­                      NIMEXE code
          heading                                                        Description                      Units
gory        No                 ( 1975)                                                                           1976                   1977
  1        55.05                                    Cotton yarn , not put up for retail sale           1 000 kg 26 500                28 090
 2    ex 55.09                                      Other woven fabrics of cotton :                    1 000 kg 15 000                15 450
                  55.09-01    ; 02 ; 11 ;     1.2   — Unbleached or bleached
                  13 ; 14 ;   15 ; 16 ; 17 ;  19
                  21 ; 29 ;  31 ; 33 ; 35 ;   37
                  38 ; 39 ;   41 ; 49 ; 68   ; ex
                  71 ; 72 ;  73 ; 74 ; 76 ;   77
                  78
 3    ex 55.09                                      Other woven fabrics of cotton :                    1 000 kg  2 850                 3 021
                  55.09-03 ; 04 ; 05 ; 51           — Other than unbleached and bleached
                  52 ; 53 ; 54 ; 55 ; 56 ; 57
                  59 ; 61 ; 63 ; 64 ; 65 ; 66
                  67 ; 69 ; ex 71 ; 81 ; 82 ;
                  83 ; 84 ; 86 ; 87 ; 92 ; 93
                  97
 4     ex 62.02                                     Bed linen , table linen , toilet linen and kitchen 1 000 kg  6 000                 6 360
                                                    linen ; curtains and other furnishing articles :
                                                    ex B. Other than net curtains :
                                                            — Bed linen :
                  62.02-11                                      — Of cotton
                                                            — Table linen :
                        -41 , 43 , 47                           — Of cotton
                                                            — Toilet linen and kitchen linen :
                        - 71 , 73                               — Of cotton
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                                                                 ANNEX B
                                                     Details referred to in Article 1 (3)
            The export certificate issued by the Brazilian authorities (') for products covered by this Regulation
             shall specify or contain :
             1 . the destination , and in particular the Member State to which the goods are destined ;
             2 . the order number ;
             3 . the name and address of the importer ;
             4. the name and address of the exporter ;
             5 . the net weight, in kilogrammes or in metric tons, and the value of the products covered by the
                   certificate ;
             6. the category against which the product has been debited by the Brazilian authorities and the
                   description of the product ;
             7. a certificate to the effect that the quantity in question has been debited against the share of the
                   Member State to which it is being sent of the agreed ceiling for exports to the Community, or,
                   where appropriate, that the quantity is for immediate re-export, or for re-export after processing,
                   outside the Community ;
             8 . the year during which the products were exported, that is, were taken aboard in Brazil for export
                   to the Community.
            ( ! ) Cartcira de Comercio Exterior (CACEX ).