CELEX: 31973D0098
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30 March 1973 autonomously increasing imports into the Community of cotton textiles forming the subject of an agreement concluded between the Community and Taiwan

No L 120/ 26                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                              7 . 5 . 73
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 30 March 1973
             autonomously increasing imports into the Community of cotton textiles forming the
                     subject of an agreement concluded between the Community and Taiwan
                                                           ( 73 / 98 / EEC )
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           therefore, in order to avoid disturbing traditional
 COMMUNITIES,                                                             trade flows, the agreement must be modified so as
                                                                           to take account of the needs of the enlarged
Having regard to the Treaty                establishing the               Community ; whereas provision must thus be made
European Economic Community ;                                             to permit the import into the enlarged Community,
                                                                          until the expiry date of the agreement in question,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1023/                       of quantities additional to those laid down in the
70 (') of 25 May 1970 establishing a common                               said agreement, the amounts thereof being fixed in
procedure for administering quantitative quotas , and                     the light of the traditional trade flows existing
in particular Article 11 thereof;                                         between the new Member States and the exporting
                                                                          third country .
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1471 /
70 (2 ) of 20 July 1970 establishing a common                             Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
procedure for the autonomous increase of imports                          are in acocrdance with the Opinion of the Quota
into the Community of products subject to measures                        Administration Committee ;
of voluntary restraint by exporting countries ;
Whereas the Commumity has concluded a trade                               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
agreement on cotton textiles with Taiwan (3) which
remains in force after 1 January 1973, the date on
which the Accession of the new Member States to                                                   Sole Article
the Community took effect;
                                                                          The quantitative ceilings set out in the agreement
Whereas, from that date, this agreement applies to                        concerning the textile trade concluded between the
the enlarged Community ; whereas the quantitative                         European Economic Community and Taiwan on
ceilings on imports into the Community set out in                         20 April 1971 and expiring 30 September 1973 are,
the agreement were agreed on the basis of the                             from 1 January 1973 and until the expiry date of
market of the six Member States composing the                             this agreement, increased autonomously up to the
Community at the time of negotiation ; whereas,                           limits as follows :
                                                                                                    (quantities in metric tons )
                                                                  Group I                             Group U
                                                     unbleached or bleached cotton        other  cotton  fabrics ,  made-up
                                                        fabrics ; whether or not          goods and various cotton goods
                                                                 mercerized
                                                  from 9 230 to 10 010                  from 2 215 to 2 350
             of which :
             — for the domestic market                   3 230 to      4 010
             — for re-export                             6 000 to      6 000
             This Decision is addressed to all Member States .
             Done at Brussels, 30 March 1973 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                                The President
                                                                                         François-Xavier ORTOLI
 (») OJ No L 124, 8 . 6. 1970, p . 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 164, 27. 7. 1970, p. 41
 (3) OJ No L 43, 22. 2. 1971 , p. 1 .