title: RECOMMANDATION FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the conclusion of the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the People's Republic of Bangladesh on trade in textile products consequent on the accession on the Hellenic Republic to the Community (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                        COM(81 ) 703 final .
                                                        Brussels . 23 November 1981
                          RECOMMANDATION FOR A
                        COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
  on the conclusion of the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between
  the European Economic Community and the People 's Republic of Bangladesh
  on trade in textile products consequent on the accession on the Hellenic
                       Republic to the Community
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             ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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  C0M(81 ) 703 final
 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
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  Under the Act of Accession of Greece to t>je European Communities '
  (Article 123 ), it was agreed that the Community would pegotiate
 protocols of adaptation to the bilateral agreements on fade in
  textile products between the Community an^ third countries .
 By Decision of         1 August         1980 the Council authorised the Commission
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 to open negotiations with Bangladesh                • ' to conclude an agre^went 90 '
 such adaptation .                                                        ..* $•"
  In accordance with that Council Decision and in consultation wit;h the
 Article 113 Committee, the Commission conducted negotiations with
  Bangladesh            from        23rd September 1980 to 8th January 1981 .
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  Following the negotiations , a draft Protocol was drawn up expending the
  terms of the original bilateral agreement to trade between
     Bangladesh                 and the enlarged Community, thus ( inter alia )
  - extending the existing consultation procedures whereby new voluntary
     restraint measures may be introduced fgr categories of products nttt
     at present' subject to limitation , wher^ certain thresholds are exceeded,
   ■ in respect of both the whole Community and Greece .
  The Heads of Delegation initialled the tijxt of th^-draft Protocol on
 8th January '1981                        having notetj it correctly represented ,the
  results of the negotiations .                               ~
  The Protocol has already been implemented by Council Regulation ( EEC )
  No 3553 / 80     of 22 Oecember 1980 ( 1 ) amending the existing regime established
• by Regulation ( EEC ) No 3059 / 78 of 21 December 1978 ( 2 ).
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5.     The .Commission considers that the draft Protocol embodies an arrangp
       went which is acceptable to the Community, It therefore recommends
       that the Council t
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        <i )       approve the Protocol by adopting the"* Regulation, the draft of
                   which is annexed hereto ;
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        Cii )      pending approval of the Protocol , take the necessary decisions
                   in connection uith the signing thereof .
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( 1 ) O.J. No L 381 of 31 . 12.1980, p.1 .
( 2 ) O.J. No L 365 of 27.12.1978, p.1 .
 ---pagebreak---                                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 NoL
                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                                      RECOMMANDATION
                                        COUNQL REGULATION ( EEC)
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                  on the*conc!usion of the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European
                  Economic Community and the People 's Republic of Bangladesh                                                   •
                 on trade in textile products consequent on the accession of the Hellenic
                 Republic to the Community .
                                                                       on trade in textile products ,
   THF. COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES.                                   consequent on the accession of the Hellenic
                                                                      Republic to the Community is hereby approved on
                                                                     behalf of the Community,
   ( I.ivnin regard to (he Treaty establishing the European
   l.ionomic Community, and in particular Article 113
   ( hereof ,
                                                                     The text of the Protocol it annexed to this Regulation.
   Hjving regard to the recommendation from the
   Commission ,                                        ,
    \Vherea » it i . necessary to approve the Additional
   Protocol ro . he Agreement between the European
    Economic Con.munitv and the People 's                                                       Article 2
  Republic of Bangladesh-
                                                                      The President of the Council shall give the notification
on trade in textile products to take                                  provided for in Article 13 of the Additional Protccol (f).
account of the accession of the Hellenic
Republic to the Community-
    HAS ADOPTED IT US REGULATION:
                                                                                Article 3
                              Article 1
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the cay
  'The Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the               following its publication in the Official journal of iht
    European Economic Community and the                               European Communities.
   People 's Republic of Bangladesh
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entififty and directly applicable in all Member States.
                   Done at Brussels.
                                                                                ' , For the Council
                                                                     (J) The date of entry into force of the Protocol will be
                                                                         published in the Official Journal of the European
                                                                         Communities by the General Secretariat of the Council.
 ---pagebreak--- Additional Protocol to the Agreement between
thd European Economic Community and the People 's
Republic of Bangladesh on trade in textile products
consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic
to the Community
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 ---pagebreak--- THE COUNCIL Of THE EUROPEAN CCrt?1 UNITIES :
of the one part - and
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE 'S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH .
of the other part ^
CONSIDERING the accession of the Hellenic Republic to
the European Communities on 1 January 1981                             \
HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Economic Community
and the People' s Republic of Bangladesh and hereafter called the "Agreement ",
signed on 23 July 1979 .                                 ' "
HAVE DECIDED to determine by common accord the adjustments and transitional
measures to the Agreement consequent on the accession of the Hellenic
Republic to the European Economic Community
and TO CONCLUDE THIS PROTOCOL :
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 ---pagebreak---                              Article 1
The text of the Agreement as hereby amended, including its annex,
protocols and exchange of notes forming an integral part thereof ,
shall be drawn up in Greek and that . text shall be authentic in the
same way as the original texts .
                             Article 2
The Agreement shall be amended as follows :
1.     Protocol C > paragraph 2 , shall be replaced by the following :
        'Where the Community finds , under the system of administrative - -
       control set up , that the level of imports of products in a
       given category listed in the Annex originating in Bangladesh
       exceeds , in relation to 102% of the preceding year 's total
        imports intp the territories within which the Treaty establishing
       the European Economic Community applied at 31 December 1980 of
       products in that category , the following percentages' :
            for categories of products in Group I ,             0.22
V      ~    for categories of products in Group II , ,          1.5%
     ' *•   for categories of products in Group III , IV or V   4%
       it may request the opening of consultations in .accordance with the
       procedure specified in Article 5 of the Agreement ,- with a view to
       teaching agreement on a suitable level of limitation for products
       in that category.'
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 ---pagebreak--- Protocol C , paragraph 6 to th « Agreement » h«U b* rtaUctd by
the following :
 'Quantitative limits on a regional basis may be introduced
only where .imports of a given product into any region of the
Community exceed , in relation to the amounts calculated by
the fraction 100/ 102 Cone hundred divided by one hundred and
¥wo ) of the amounts determined in accordance with paragraph ,
    the following regional percentages' :
                        Germany     28 . 5X
                        Benelux     10.5%
                        France      18 . 5X
                        Italy       15% ,
                        Denmark      3% ,
                        Ireland     '1 *
                        U.K.        23 . 5X
                        Greece       2X
 For the purpose of calculating 'the preceding year 's total imports'
 referred to in- 1 . above both of 1980 aad 1981 , imports from the
Hellenic Republic shall be those recorded in 1980 .
                        Article 3
This Protocol forms an integral part of the Agreement .
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This Protocol shall be approved by the contracting Parties in
accordance with their own procedures . It shall enter into force
on the first day of the second month following the date on which
the contracting parties notify each other of the completion of
the procedures necessary for this purpose .
It shall apply with effect from 1st January 1981 .
                      Article 5
This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate, in the Danish, Jfutch , English,
French , German, Greek and Italian languages, each of th*tse texts
being equally authentic .
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 ---pagebreak---                             CXCHANGS 0 ? NOTÉS
             . The Hisjjiort of the Feople 's Republic of Bangladesh, la the European
 Communities presents Its compliments to the Di reet crate-Gere r ^ I for
 Exte^n-l I Relations of the Commission of the Europea'n Communities and
 has th * honour to refer to the Agreement in textile products             .   . /
 negotiated between the People 's Republic of Bangladesh and the C#»g^;?3ty# • /.
 signed         on  23 July 1979     , and .to the Additional Protocol to tfce:
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Agreement consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the
Community initialled on 8 January 1981 ..
               The Mission of the People 's Republic of Bangladesh fishes to inform
the Directorate-General that whilst awaiting the completion of the
necessary procedures for the conclusion and the coming into force of the
Additional Protocol / the Bangladesh Government is prepared to allow the
provisions of the Additional Protocol to apply de facto fro« list January
1981 if the Community is disposed to do likewise .
               The Mission'of the People 's Republic of Bangladesh would lilke also to.
propose that the present note and the Community 's note in fepily shall
constitute an Agreement between the Bangladesh         Government and the Community®
     •     ■   The Mission of the Feople 's Republic of Bangladesh avails itself of this
opportunity to renew to the Oi rectorate-General for External Relations            ,
the Assurance of its highest consideration .
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 ---pagebreak---                       " The Directorate-General for External Relations of it he Commission
           presents its compliments to the Mission of the People 's Republic of Bangladesh
         * to the European Communities and has the honour to refer to the Mission 's
           note of today reading as follows :
                         "The Mission of the People 's Republic of Bangladesh to the European
           Communities presents its compliments to the Directorate-General for External
           Relations of the Commission of the European Communities and has the honour
           to refer to the Agreement in textile products negotiated between the People 's
Republic of Bangladesh           and the Community   signed   on 23 July 1979 . , and to
           the Additional Protocol . to the Agreement consequent on the accession of the
           Hellenic Republic to the Community initialled-on 8 January 1981 .
                       The Mission of the People 's Republic of Bangladesh wishes to inform the
          Directorate-General that whilst awaiting the completion of the necessary
          procedures for t}ie conclusion and the coming int6 force of tfjie Additional
          Protocol , the Bangladesh Government is prepared to allow the provisions of                    j
          the Additional Protocol to apply de facto from lit January 1981 if . the
          Community is disposed to do likewise .
                       The Mission of the People 's Republic of Bangladesh would like also to
          propose that the present note and the Community 's note in reply shall
          constitute an Agreement .between the Bangladesh fiovernment and the Community.
                       The Mission of the People 's Republic of Bangladesh avails itself of thi:
          Opportunity to renew to the Directorate-General for External Relations the
          assurance of its highest consideration ."
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                       The Directorate of External Relations has the honour to confirm
          to the Mission of the People 's Republic of Bangladesh that it is agreed on the ..*
          content of the foregoing note and considers therefore that the exchange of
          notes constitutes an agreement between the Bangladesh Government^and the
     i    Community .
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                       The Directorate-General for External Relations avails itself of                1
          this opportunity to renew to the Mission of the People 's Republic of Bangladesh 1
       to the European Communities the assurance of its highest consideration .
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