question are presented for importation into the Community within 60 days of that date.4. Where a Community decision on classification resulting in a change of classification practice or a change of categorization of any product subject to the Agreement affects a category subject to quantitative limits, the Contracting Parties agree to enter into consultation in accordance with the procedures described in Article 15 of the Agreement with a view to honouring the obligation under the second subparagraph of Article 11 (1) of the Agreement.5. In case of divergent opinions between Russian and the competent Community authorities at the point of entry into the Community on the classification of products covered by the present Agreement, classification shall provisionally be based on indications provided by the Community, pending consultations in accordance with Article 15 with a view to reaching agreement on definitive classification of the product concerned.TITLE II ORIGIN Article 21. Products originating in Russia for export to the Community in accordance with the arrangements established by this Agreement shall be accompanied by a certificate of Russian origin conforming to the model annexed to this Protocol.2. The certificate of origin shall be certified by the competent Russian organizations authorized under the Russian legislation if the products in question can be considered products originating in that country within the meaning of the relevant rules in force in the Community.3. However, the products in Group III, IV and V may be imported into the Community in accordance with the arrangements established by this Agreement on production of a declaration by the exporter on the invoice or other commercial document relating to the products to the effect that the products in question originate in Russia within the meaning of the relevant rules in force in the Community.4. The certificate of origin referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be required for import of goods covered by a certificate of origin Form A or Form APR completed in accordance with the relevant Community rules in order to qualify for generalized tariff preferences.Article 3The certificate of origin shall be issued only on application having been made in writing by the exporter or, under the exporter's responsibility, by his authorized representative. The competent Russian organizations authorized under Russian legislation shall ensure that the certificate of origin is properly completed and for this purpose they shall call for any necessary documentary evidence or carry out any check which they consider appropriate.Article 4Where different criteria for determining origin are laid down for products falling within the same category, the certificates or declarations of origin must contain a sufficiently detailed description of the goods so as to enable Russian criterion to be determined, on the basis of which the certificate was issued or the declaration drawn up.Article 5The discovery of slight discrepancies between the statements made in the certificate of origin and those made in the documents produced to the customs office for the purpose of carrying out the formalities for importing the products shall not ipso facto cast doubt upon the statements in the certificate.TITLE III DOUBLE-CHECKING SYSTEM FOR THE CATEGORIES OF PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO COMMUNITY QUANTITATIVE LIMITS Section I Exportation Article 61. The competent authorities of Russia shall issue an export licence in respect of all consignments from Russia of textile products referred to in Annex II, up to the relevant quantitative limits as may be modified by Article 3, 4 and 6 of this Agreement, as well as of textile products subject to any definitive or provisional quantitative limits, established as a result of the application of Article 5 of the Agreement.Article 71. The export licence shall conform to the model annexed to this Protocol and it shall be valid for exports throughout the customs territory to which the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community applies. However, where the Community has made recourse to the provisions of Articles 5 and 7 of the Agreement in accordance with the provisions of the Agreed Minute No 1, or to the Agreed Minute No 2, the textile products covered by the export licences can only be put into free circulation in the region(s) of the Community indicated in those licences.2. Each export licence must certify inter alia that the quantity of the product in question has been set off against the quantitative limit established for the category of the products concerned and shall only cover one category of products subject to quantitative limits. It may be used for one or more consignments of the products in question.Article 8The competent authorities of the Community must be informed immediately of the withdrawal or modification of any export licence already issued.Article 91. Exports shall be set off against the quantitative limits established for the year in which the shipment of the goods has been effected even if the export licence is issued after such shipment.2. For the purpose of applying paragraph 1, shipment of the goods is considered to have taken place on the date of their loading onto the exporting aircraft, vehicule or vessel.Article 10The presentation of an export licence, in application of Article 12 hereafter, shall be effected not later than 31 March of the year following that in which the goods covered by the licence have been shipped.Section II Importation Article 11Importation into the Community of textile products subject to quantitative limits shall be subject to the presentation of an import authorization.Article 121. The competent authorities of the
the Delegation of the European CommunitiesExchange of notes The Directorate-General for External Relations of the Commission of the European Communities presents its compliments to the Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Communities and has the honour to refer to the Agreement on textile products between Russian Federation on trade in textile products, initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993.The Directorate-General wishes to inform the Mission that whilst awaiting the completion of the necessary procedures for the conclusion and the coming into force of the Agreement, the Community is prepared to allow the provisions of the Agreement to apply de facto from 1 January 1993. This is on the understanding that either Party may at any time terminate this de facto application of the Agreement provided that 120 days' notice is given.The Directorate-General for External Relations would be grateful if the Mission would confirm its Agreement to the foregoing.The Directorate-General for External Relations avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Communities the assurance of its highest consideration.Exchange of notes The Mission of the Russian Federation 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 between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile products, initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993.The Mission of the Russian Federation wishes to confirm to the Directorate-General that whilst awaiting the completion of the necessary procedures for the conclusion and the coming into force of the Agreement, the Government of the Russian Federation is prepared to allow the provisions of the Agreement to apply de facto from 1 January 1993. This is on the understanding that either Party may at any time terminate this de facto application of the Agreement provided that 120 days' notice is given.The Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Communities avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Directorate-General for External Relations of the Commission of the European Communities the assurance of its highest consideration.Agreed Minute No 5 In the context of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile products initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993, the Parties agreed that, in conformity with Article 19 (2), of the Agreement, the quantities of products originating in Russia shipped during the year 1993 and falling within one of the categories of textile products subject to the quantitative limits referred to in Article 2 (1) of the Agreement shall be set off against the quantitative limits established for the year 1993 for the category concerned.For the Delegation of the Russian FederationFor the Delegation of the European CommunitiesAgreed Minute No 6 In the context of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile products initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993, the Delegation of the Russian Federation, while accepting the provisions of Article 6 of the Agreement, expressed its concern over the effect of these provisions on the legitimate trade of products of true Russian origin. This refers in particular to paragraph 4 (c) of this Article, which provides for establishment of quantitative limits on unrestricted categories of products under the Agreement should it appear that the territory of Russia is involved in re-routing or transhipment of these products originating in third countries.The Community's Delegation took note of this concern.For the Delegation of the Russian FederationFor the Delegation of the European CommunitiesAgreed Minute No 7 In the context of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile products, initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993, the Russian Delegation informed the Community Delegation that it is introducing a new foreign trade statistical system projected to take effect on 1 January 1994, and for this reason it expressed its serious concern over its ability to comply technically with its obligation to supply the Community, notably during 1993, with import statistics for all products covered by Annex I, referred to in Article 12 (4) of the Agreement.The Community took note of the concern expressed by the Russian Federation. The Contracting Parties agreed to hold consultations, should the need arise, in order to avert any problems which might occur in this respect.For the Delegation of the Russian FederationFor the Delegation of the European CommunitiesAgreed Minute No 8 In the context of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile products initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993, the Community will give favourable consideration, upon request of the authorities of the Russian Federation, to the application of exceptional flexibilities for the year 1993 for products falling under the following categories, in so far as those requests do not exceed the following quantities in addition to the quantitative limits established in Annex II to the Agreement:category 4 1 million pieces, category 12 2,5 million pairs, category 23 450 tonnes.The details will be fixed, after the exact quota utilizations have been established by the Community.For the Delegation of the Russian FederationFor the Delegation of the European Communities AGREEMENT between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile productsTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,of the one part, andTHE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION,of the other part,DESIRING to promote, with a view to permanent cooperation and in conditions providing every security for trade, the orderly and equitable development of trade in textile products between the European Economic Community (hereinafter referred to as 'the Community') and the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as 'Russia'),RESOLVED to take the fullest possible account of the serious economic and social problems at present affecting the textile industry in both importing and exporting countries,HAVE DECIDED to conclude this Agreement and to this end have designated as their plenipotentiaries:THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION,WHO HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:Article 11. Trade in textile products listed in Annex I and originating within the Contracting Parties shall be liberalized for the duration of this Agreement under the conditions set out therein.2. Subject to the provisions of this or any successive Agreement, the Community undertakes, in respect of the products listed in Annex I, to suspend the application of quantitative import restrictions currently in force and not to introduce new quantitative restrictions.Quantitative import restrictions shall be re-introduced in case of denunciation or non-replacement of the present Agreement.3. Measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions on the importation into the Community of the products listed in Annex I shall be prohibited for the duration of this Agreement.Article 21. Russia agrees to establish and maintain for each calendar year quantitative limits on its exports to the Community in accordance with Annex II. Such exports shall be subject to a double-checking system as specified in Protocol A.2. In administering the quantitative limits referred to in paragraph 1, Russia shall ensure that the Community textile industry shall benefit from utilization of the said limits.More particularly, as regards categories 1, 2, 2a and 3 Russia undertakes upon request from the Community to reserve to the Community textile industry, as a priority, 30 % of the quantitative limits concerned for industry users during a period extending between 1 January to 31 May of each year. For this purpose, contracts made with the industry during the period in question shall be taken into consideration.3. To facilitate the implementation of these provisions the Community shall provide the competent Russian authorities, before the end of each year, with a list of interested Community manufacturers and processors and, if possible, of the quantity of products requested for each firm. To this end, the firms concerned are invited to make direct contact with the relevant Russian enterprises as early as possible during the reservation period mentioned in paragraph 2, in order to make their purchasing intentions known.Article 31. Imports into the Community of textile products covered by this Agreement shall not be subject to the quantitative limits established in Annex II, provided that they are declared to be for re-export outside the Community in the same state or after processing, within the framework of the administrative system of control which exists within the Community.However, the release for home use of products imported into the Community under the conditions referred to above shall be subject to the production of an export licence issued by the authorities of Russia, and to proof of origin in accordance with the provisions of Protocol A.2. Where the Community authorities ascertain that imports of textile products have been set off against a quantitative limit established under this Agreement, but that the products have subsequently been re-exported outside the Community, the authorities shall inform the Russian authorities within four weeks of the quantities involved and authorize imports of identical quantitaties of the same products, which shall not be set off against the quantitative limit established under this Agreement for the current or the following year, as appropriate.3. The Community and Russia recognize the special and differential character of re-imports of textile products into the Community after processing in Russia as a specific form of industrial and trade cooperation.Provided that they are effected in accordance with the regulations on economic outward processing in force in the Community, these re-imports are not subject to the quantitative limits set out in Annex II when they are subject to the specific arrangements laid down in Protocol C.Article 41. In any Agreement year advance use of a portion of the quantitative limit established for the following Agreement year is authorized for each category of products up to 5 % of the quantitative limit for the current Agreement year.Amounts delivered in advance shall be deducted from the corresponding quantitative limits established for the following Agreement year.2. Carry-over to the corresponding quantitative limit for the following Agreement year of the amounts not used during any Agreement year is authorized for each category of products up to 7 % of the quantitative limit for the current Agreement year.3. Transfers in respect of categories in Group I shall not be made from any category except as follows:- transfers between categories 2 Avis juridique important|21994A0517(15)Acordo entre a Comunidade Europeia e a Federação Russa sobre o comércio de produtos têxteis - Protocolo A - Protocolo B - Protocolo C - Actas aprovadas - Nota verbal - Troca de notas Tradução não oficial Jornal Oficial nº L 123 de 17/05/1994 p. 0528 - 0555 Edição especial finlandesa: Capítulo 11 Fascículo 31 p. 0530 Edição especial sueca: Capítulo 11 Fascículo 31 p. 0530 out by the organizations authorized to do so under Russian law shall be issued, in accordance with Protocol A to the Agreement, for all products covered by this Protocol. This certificate shall bear a reference to the prior authorization mentioned in paragraph 6 above as evidence that the processing operation it describes has been carried out in Russia.8. The Community shall provide Russia with the names and addresses of, and specimens of the stamps used by, the competent authorities of the Community which issue the prior authorizations referred to in paragraph 6 above.9. Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraphs 1 to 8 above, Russia and the Community shall continue consultations with a view to seek a mutually acceptable solution enabling both Contracting Parties to benefit from the Agreement's provisions on outward processing traffic and so ensure the effective development of trade in textile products between Russia and the Community.Annex to Protocol C (The product descriptions of the categories listed in this Annex are to be found in Annex I to the Agreement) OPT QUOTAS >POSIÇÃO NUMA TABELA>Agreed Minute No 1 In the context of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile products, initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993, the Parties agreed that Article 5 of the Agreement does not preclude the Community, if the conditions are fulfilled, from applying the safeguard measures for one or more of its regions in conformity with the principles of the internal market.In such an event, Russia shall be informed in advance of the relevant provisions of Protocol A to the Agreement to be applied, as appropriate.For the Delegation of the Russian FederationFor the Delegation of the European CommunitiesAgreed Minute No 2 Nothwithstanding Article 7 (1) of this Agreement, for imperative technical or administrative reasons or to find a solution to economic problems resulting from regional concentration of imports, or in order to combat circumvention and fraud of the provisions of this Agreement, the Community will establish for a limited period of time a specific management system in conformity with the principles of the internal market.However, if the Parties are unable to reach a satisfactory solution during the consultations provided for in Article 7 (3), Russia undertakes, if so requested by the Community, to respect temporary export limits for one or more regions of the Community. In such a case, these limits shall not preclude the importation into the region(s) concerned of products which were shipped from Russia on the basis of export licences obtained before the date of formal notification to Russia by the Community about the introduction of the above limits.The Community shall inform Russia of the technical and administrative measures, such as defined in the attached note verbale, that need to be introduced by both Parties in order to implement the above paragraphs in conformity with the principles of the internal market.For the Delegation of the Russian FederationFor the Delegation of the European CommunitiesNote verbale The Directorate-General for External Relations of the Commission of the European Communities presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and has the honour to refer to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile products, initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993.The Directorate-General wishes to inform the Ministry, that the Community has decided to apply, starting from 1 January 1993, the provisions of paragraph 1 of Agreed Minute No 2 to the Agreement, initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993. Consequently, the corresponding provisions of Articles 7 and 12 of Protocol A to the Agreement shall also be applied as of the above date.The Directorate-General for External Relations avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation the assurance of its highest consideration.Agreed Minute No 3 In the context of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile products, initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993, the Parties agreed that Russia shall endeavour not to deprive certain regions of the Community which have traditionally had relatively small shares of Community quotas of imports of products serving as inputs for their processing industry.The Community and Russia further agreed to hold consultations, should the need arise, in order to avert any problems which might occur in this respect.For the Delegation of the Russian FederationFor the Delegation of the European CommunitiesAgreed Minute No 4 In the context of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Russian Federation on trade in textile products, initialled at Brussels on 12 June 1993, Russia agreed that, from the date of request for and pending the consultations referred to in Article 7 (3), it shall cooperate by not issuing export licences that would further aggravate the problems resulting from the regional concentration of direct imports into the Community.For the Delegation of the Russian FederationFor the Delegation of the European CommunitiesExchange of notes The Directorate-General for External Relations of the Commission of the European Communities presents its compliments to the Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Communities and has the honour to refer to the Agreement on textile products between Russian Federation on trade in textile products, initialled