91/20/EEC: Council Decision of 21 December 1990 concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade in textile products

• Published date: 18 January 1991
• Subject Matter: Textiles,External relations,Commercial policy
• Official Gazette Publication: Official Journal of the European Communities, L 13, 18 January 1991

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91/20/EEC: Council Decision of 21 December 1990 concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade in textile products

Official Journal L 013 , 18/01/1991 P. 0017

COUNCIL DECISION of 21 December 1990 concerning the provisional application of the Agreed Minute amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade in textile products (91/20/EEC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas, pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion, the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic initialled on 19 June 1986, has been provisionally applied since 1 January 1987 in accordance, having regard to the Community, with Decision 87/498/EEC (1);

Whereas that Agreement provides for the possibility of adjustments to the quantitative limits;

Whereas Czechoslovakia accepted the offer for improved market access which the Community made on the basis of a specific request submitted by Czechoslovakia under the Phare action plan and it was agreed, in an Agreed Minute of 30 October 1990, to increase for 1990 and 1991 the Community quantitative limits of a number of categories mentioned in Annex II to the aforementioned Agreement;

Whereas both parties agreed that the aforesaid quota increases are exceptional and intended to contribute to the co-ordinated effort of the 'Group of 24' industrialized countries, to facilitate the restructuring of Czechoslovakia's economy through, inter alia, improved access to the Community's markets;

Whereas it was agreed that the said Agreed Minute will be applied provisionally as from 15 November 1990 pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion, provided that there is a reciprocal provisional application on the part of the contracting party,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: Sole Article The Agreed Minute amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade in textile products shall be applied provisionally as from 15 November 1990 pending...