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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 in accordance with the system of double checking Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No provided for in the Agreement; 1023 /70 ( x ) of 25 May 1970 establishing a common 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 traffic system or temporary entry arrangements and Having regard to the proposal from the re-exported from that territory without further Commission ; 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 The Agreement between the European Economic it is therefore necessary to introduce Community Community and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on quantitative quotas, to fix the volume thereof for trade in textile products is hereby concluded on 1975 , 1976 and 1977 and to establish the criteria for behalf of the Community. their allocation, with account being taken of the system of double checking provided for in the The text of the Agreement is annexed to this Agreement; Regulation . Whereas in view of the considerable disparities in the conditions to which imports of the products in Article 2 question into the Member States are currently 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 traditionally of the kind woven on handlooms 3 . Import authorizations shall be granted in and actually woven on a loom for which the accordance with the system of double checking motive power is provided entirely by the defined in Annex III to the Agreement. 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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Article6¶

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