COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 3667/93 of 20 December 1993 supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 3917/92 extending into 1993 the application of Regulations (EEC) No 3831/90, (EEC) No 3832/90, (EEC) No 3833/90, (EEC) No 3834/90, (EEC) No 3835/90 and (EEC) No 3900/91 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1991 in respect of certain products originating in developing countries and adding to the list of beneficiaries of such preferences
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the Community has since 1980 reserved the benefit of its scheme of generalized tariff preferences for products covered by the Arrangement regarding International Trade in Textiles (MFA) to those products originating in countries and territories having signed, within the framework of the MFA, bilateral agreements with the Community providing for a quantitative limitation of their exports of certain textile products to the Community, or to such products which originate in countries or territories undertaking similar commitments;
Whereas the countries of the former USSR have been beneficiaries under the Community's scheme of generalized tariff preferences since 1 January 1993 and whereas certain of them negotiated with the Community bilateral agreements on the trade of textile products which were initialled during the course of 1993; whereas these countries have consequently become eligible for the benefit of preferences for the products covered by the MFA up to a proportional amount of the volume which would be granted to each of them for a full year; whereas this annual volume is fixed at 0,5 % of total Community imports of these products in 1985, except for categories 1 to 8 for which the percentage is fixed at 0,3 %;
Whereas it is therefore appropriate to adapt Annex I of Regulation (EEC) No 3832/90 (1) and to include these countries in Annex IV of the aforementioned Regulation,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia shall be added to Annex IV to Regulation (EEC) No 3832/90.
2. The columns (5), (6), (6b) and (7) of Annex I to the aforementioned Regulation shall be supplemented by the indications appearing in the same columns of the Annex to this Regulation compared to the corresponding serial numbers and compared to the categories indicated in the columns (1) and (2).
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply as of 1 June 1993 for Belarus, 1 July 1993 for Ukraine and Moldova, 1 August 1993 for Uzbekistan and Russia, 1 September 1993 for Tajikistan and Armenia, 1 November 1993 for Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, 1 December 1993 for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and 1 January 1994 for Georgia.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 December 1993.