CELEX: 31975R2993
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2993/75 of the Council of 10 November 1975 concluding the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on trade in textile products and laying down provisions for its application

17. 11 . 75                          Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 297/21
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2993 /75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 10 November 1975
                 concluding the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Islamic
                 Republic of Pakistan on trade in textile products and laying down provisions for its
                                                        application
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                        enabling safeguard measures to be adopted where
                                                                  there is a risk of market disruption ; whereas, in
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     accordance with this procedure, Pakistan has
 European Economic Community, and in particular                   undertaken to apply voluntary restraint in respect of
 Article 113 thereof;                                             its exports to certain Member States ; whereas the
                                                                 voluntary restraint in question will be administered
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     in accordance with the system of double checking
 1023 /70 ( x ) of 25 May 1970 establishing a common             provided for in the Agreement;
 procedure for administering quantitative quotas, and
 in particular Article 2 thereof;                                Whereas products brought into the customs territory
                                                                 of the Community under the inward processing
Having        regard   to   the    proposal     from   the       traffic system or temporary entry arrangements and
 Commission ;                                                     re-exported from that territory without further
                                                                 processing or after undergoing working should not
                                                                 be subject to the Community quantitative quotas or
Whereas the Agreement negotiated between the                     to the voluntary restraint measures adopted in
European Economic Community and the Islamic                       respect of exports to certain Member States,
 Republic of Pakistan on trade in textile products
 should be concluded ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the Community is obliged under the
Agreement to permit the import of certain textile
 products within quantitative limits to which Pakistan
                                                                                        Article 1
undertakes to adhere by applying voluntary restraint
in respect of its exports to the Community ; whereas
it is therefore necessary to introduce Community                 The Agreement between the European Economic
quantitative quotas, to fix the volume thereof for               Community and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on
 1975, 1976 and 1977 and to establish the criteria for           trade in textile products is hereby concluded on
their allocation, with account being taken of the                behalf of the Community.
system of double checking provided for in the
Agreement;                                                       The text of the Agreement is annexed to this
                                                                 Regulation.
Whereas in view of the considerable disparities in
the conditions to which imports of the products in
question into the Member States are currently                                           Article 2
subject, and in view of the particularly sensitive
nature of the textile industry in the Community, the             The President of the Council shall notify the other
standardization of these import conditions can only              Contracting Party that, as regards the Community,
be achieved by progressive stages ; whereas these                the procedures necessary for the entry into force of
quotas should be allocated taking into account, in               the Agreement have been completed.
particular, the fact that the volumes admitted under
the present import conditions are being adapted by
progressive stages to market supply requirements ;                                      Article 3
Whereas the Agreement provides in respect of                     1.    Imports into the Community of the textile
another textile product for the suspension by the               products set out below originating in and coming
Community of the quantitative import restrictions               from Pakistan shall be subject to Community
together with a special consultation procedure                   quantitative quotas and the volumes of the quotas
                                                                 for 1975 , 1976 and 1977 are shown for each of these
<*) OJ No L 124, 8 . 6 . 1970, p. 1 .                           products :
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                                                                                                Volume
                                                                                            (in metric tons)
                  CCT heading No                   Description
                                                                                      1975       1976         1977
                  55.09                Other woven fabrics of cotton                17 038      18 230       19 510
              of which
              ex 55.09                 Woven fabrics of cotton, other
                                       than unbleached or bleached                    1 002      1 040        1 075
              ex 62.02                 Bed linen, toilet linen and
                                       kitchen linen, of cotton                       1 750      1 873        2 004
However the volume of the quotas fixed for 1975                    Tariff, originating in and coming from Pakistan,
«re reduced by the amount of imports affected in                   shall not be subject to quantitative restrictions.
that year before the entry into force of the
Agreement.
2.     The quotas shall be allocated, in accordance
with the procedure laid down in Article 11 of                                                  Article 5
Regulation (EEC) No 1023 /70, in such a way as to
ensure the expansion and orderly development of
trade in textiles and to permit carryover and
anticipation from year to year.
                                                                   Imports into the Community of the textile products
                                                                   referred to below, originating in and coming from
                                                                   Pakistan and accompanied by a certificate issued and
The allocation shall be made, however, on the basis                endorsed by the relevant Pakistani authorities in
of the import volumes admitted on the conditions                   accordance with Annex II to the Agreement, shall
currently applied in the Member States and shall                   not be subject to quantitative restrictions :
provide for annual rates of increase that are
appreciably higher for the Member States whose
import volumes are relatively the lowest in such a
way as to adapt them by progressive stages to
market supply requirements.                                           (i) cotton handloom fabrics of the cottage industry,
                                                                            containing not more than 5 °/o by weights of
                                                                            man-made fibres ; being fabrics which are both
3.     Import authorizations shall be granted in                            traditionally of the kind woven on handlooms
accordance with the system of double checking                               and actually woven on a loom for which the
defined in Annex III to the Agreement.                                      motive power is provided entirely by the
                                                                            operators (that is where the three primary
                                                                            movements of weaving namely shedding,
                                                                            picking and beating, are induced by hand or
4. Products brought into the customs territory of                           foot and no other source of power is used);
the Community under the inward processing traffic
system or temporary entry arrangements and re­
exported from that territory without further
processing or after undergoing working shall not be
 set off against the quotas provided for in paragraph 1 .             (ii ) goods made up by the cottage industry from
                                                                            such cotton handloom fabrics ;
                         Article 4
                                                                    (iii) traditional Pakistani folklore handicraft textile
                                                                            products cut, sewn or otherwise fabricated by
Imports into the Community of cotton table linen                            hand in cottages which are units of the cottage
under heading No ex 62.02 of the Common Customs                             industry.
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                                                     Article 6
             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication
             in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
             Articles 3 , 4 and 5 shall apply from the date of entry into force of the Agreement.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 10 November 1975 .
                                                                '          For the Council
                                                                             The President
                                                                            G. MARCORA