Considerations on COM(2014)707 - Repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries

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dossier COM(2014)707 - Repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 on common rules for imports of certain textile products from third countries.
document COM(2014)707 EN
date June  8, 2015
 
table>(1)Council Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 (2) entered into force on 9 November 1993 and was applied as from 1 January 1993.
(2)On 22 August 2012, the Russian Federation acceded to the World Trade Organization. As a consequence, the Republic of Serbia remained the last country with which the European Union had a bilateral agreement on trade in textiles.

(3)On 29 April 2008, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part (3) was signed. It entered into force on 1 September 2013.

(4)On 1 February 2010, the Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part (4) entered into force. Since then, Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 no longer applied to imports from Serbia.

(5)Title I of Council Regulation (EC) No 427/2003 (5) expired on 11 December 2013. Therefore, the possibility to impose safeguard measures through that mechanism has expired.

(6)For reasons of legal certainty, Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93 should therefore be repealed,