2001/33/EC: Council Decision of 19 December 2000 on the signing of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Ukraine concerning the extension and amendment of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Ukraine on trade in textile products initialled on 5 May 1993, as last amended by the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters initialled on 15 October 1999 and authorising its provisional application

Council Decision
of 19 December 2000
on the signing of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Ukraine concerning the extension and amendment of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Ukraine on trade in textile products initialled on 5 May 1993, as last amended by the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters initialled on 15 October 1999 and authorising its provisional application
(2001/33/EC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 in conjunction with the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 300(2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1) The Commission has negotiated on behalf of the Community a bilateral Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters to extend and amend the existing Agreement between the European Economic Community and Ukraine on trade in textile products(1) and Protocols thereto.
(2) The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters was initialled on 2 October 2000.
(3) The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters should be signed on behalf of the Community.
(4) This Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters should - considering the provisions on increases of quotas in 2000 - be applied on a provisional basis as soon as possible before the end of 2000, pending completion of the relevant procedures for its formal conclusion, subject to reciprocity,