AGREED MINUTE

1. Delegations of the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic met in Brussels on 30 October 1990. The meeting was held on the basis of the specific requests for enlarged market access in textiles and clothing, submitted by Czechoslovakia under the Phare action plan on 6 April 1990.

2. The parties agreed to increase for 1990 and 1991 the EEC quantitative limits of a number of categories mentioned in Annex II of the textile agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, initialled on 19 June 1986 and provisionally applied since 1 January 1987, by the quantities listed in the Annex to this Agreed Minute.

3. The 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. It is in this spirit that the additional quantities listed in the Annex to this Agreed Minute will be integrated into the existing textile agreement between Czechoslovakia and the Community.

4. The parties agreed that the increases provided for in this Agreed Minute will be applied provisionally as of 15 November 1990.

Done at Brussels, 30 October 1990.

Delegation of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic

Delegation of the European Economic Community

ANNEX

For practical reasons the products descriptions used in the Annex are given in abbreviated form

Increase of EEC quantitative limits for Czechoslovakia for 1990 and 1991

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