31975R2992

No L 297/ 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 17 . 11.75

REGULATION (EEC) No 2992/75 OF THE COUNCIL of 10 November 1975

concluding the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of India on trade in textile products and laying down provisions for its application

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , together with a special consultation procedure 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, India 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 (*) of 25 May 1970 establishing a common provided for in the Agreement ; procedure for administering quantitative quotas , and in particular Article 2 thereof; Whereas it is therefore necessary to retain provisionally quantitative restrictions on imports of Having regard to the proposal from the these products into the Member States concerned, to Commission ; suspend quantitative restrictions in the other Member States and subsequently to replace these various measures by liberalization measures which Whereas the Agreement negotiated between the will be uniform throughout the Community ; European Economic Community and the Republic of India on trade in textile products should be included ; Whereas products brought into the customs territory of the Community under the inward processing traffic system or temporary entry arrangements and Whereas the Community is obliged under the re-exported from that territory without further Agreement to permit the import of certain textile processing or after undergoing working should not products within quantitative limits to which India be subject to the Community quantitative quotas or undertakes to adhere by applying voluntary restraint to the voluntary restraint measures adopted in in respect of its exports to the Community ; whereas respect of exports to certain Member States, it is therefore necessary to introduce Community quantitative quotas, to fix the volume thereof for 1975 , 1976 and 1977 and to establish the criteria for HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : their allocation, with account being taken of the system of double checking provided for in the Agreement ; Article 1

Whereas in view of the considerable disparities in the conditions to which imports of the products in The Agreement between the European Economic question into the Member States are currently Community and the Republic of India on trade in subject, and in view of the particularly sensitive textile products is hereby concluded on behalf of the nature of the textile industry in the Community, the Community. standardization of these import conditions can only be achieved by progressive stages ; whereas these The text of the Agreement is annexed to this quotas should be allocated taking into account, in Regulation . particular, the fact that the volumes admitted under the present import conditions are being adapted by progressive stages to market supply requirements ; Article 2 Whereas the Agreement provides in respect of certain other textile products for the suspension by the The President of the Council shall notify the other Community of the quantitative import restrictions Contracting Party that, as regards the Community, the procedures necessary for the entry into force of (!) OJ No L 124, 8 . 6. 1970, p. 1 . the Agreement have been completed .

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Article 3 from India shall be subject to Community quantitative quotas and the volumes of the quotas 1 . Imports into the Community of the textile for 1975 , 1976 and 1977 are shown for each of these products set out below originating in and coming products :

Volume CCT ( in 'metric tons) Description heading No 1975 1976 1977

55.09 Other woven fabrics of cotton 34 940 37 390 40 000 of which ex 55.09 Woven fabrics of cotton other than unbleac hed or bleached 3 500 3 750 4 000

ex 61.02 Women's cotton shirts and blouses 954 954 1 014

ex 62.02 Cotton household linen 7 592 8 015 8 544

However the volume of the quotas fixed for 1975 3 . Import authorizations shall be granted in are reduced by the amount of imports affected in accordance with the system of double checking that year before the entry into force of the defined in Annex V to the Agreement. Agreement. 4. Products brought into the customs territory of the Community under the inward processing traffic 2. The quotas shall be allocated, in accordance system or temporary entry arrangements and re­ with the procedure laid down in Article 11 of exported from that territory without further Regulation (EEC ) No 1023/70, in such a way as to processing or after undergoing working shall not be ensure the expansion and orderly development of set off against the quotas provided for in paragraph 1 . trade in textiles and to permit carryover and anticipation from year to year. Article 4 The allocation shall be made, however, on the basis of the import volumes admitted on the conditions 1 . Imports into the Community of the textile currently applied in the Member States and shall products set out below originating in and coming provide for annual rates of increase that are from India shall not be subject to quantitative appreciably higher for the Member States whose restrictions except that for 1975 , 1976 and 1977 import volumes are relatively the lowest in such a imports into the Member States indicated on the way as to adapt them by progressive stages to table below shall be limited to the quantities market supply requirements. indicated in the table .

Quantities CCT Description Member State heading No 1975 1976 1977

55.08 Terry towelling and similar terry United 450 481 515 fabrics, of cotton Kingdom metric tons metric tons metric tons ex 60.04 T -shirts France 2 250 000 2 407 500 2 575990 units units units ex 61.03 Men 's cotton shirts United 663 960 710 437 760 167 Kingdom units units units ex 61.05 Cotton handkerchiefs United 4 344 933 4 649 078 4 974 512 Kingdom dozen dozen dozen

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However, the quantities fixed for the year 1975 shall ( i ) cotton handloom fabrics of the cottage industry, be reduced by the amount of imports effected in that containing not more than 5 °/o by weight of year before the entry into force of the Agreement. manmade fibres, being fabrics which are both traditionally of the kind woven on handlooms 2. Import authorizations shall be issued by the and actually woven on a loom for which the competent authorities of the Member States motive power is provided entirely by the concerned in accordance with the system of double operators (that is where the three primary checking defined in Annex V tp the Agreement. movements of weaving namely shedding, 3 . Products introduced into the customs territory picking and beating, are induced by hand or foot and no other source of power is used); of the Community under the inward processing traffic system or temporary entry arrangements and re-exported from that territory without further ( ii) goods made up by the cottage industry from such cotton handloom fabrics ; processing or after undergoing working shall not be set off against the quantities provided for in ( iii ) traditional Indian folklore handicraft textile paragraph 1 . products cut, sewn or otherwise fabricated by 4. The quantities provided for under paragraph 1 hand in cottages which are units of the cottage may be adapted in accordance with the procedure industry . provided for in Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1023 /70 . Article 6 Article 5

Imports into the Community of the textile products This Regulation shall enter into force on the third referred to below, originating in and coming from day following that of its publication in the Official India and accompanied by a certificate issued and Journal of the European Communities. endorsed by the relevant Indian authorities in accordance with Annex IV to the Agreement, shall Articles 3 , 4 and 5 shall apply from the date of entry not be subject to quantitative restrictions : 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