23. 12. 83 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 360/5 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3626/83 of 19 December 1983 amending Regulation (EEC) No 616/78 on proof of origin for certain textile products falling within Chapter 51 or Chapters 53 to 62 of the Common Customs Tariff and imported into the Community and on the conditions for the acceptance of such proof 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 the arrangements applied since 1 January 1978 to certain textile products falling within Chapter 51 or Chapters 53 to 62 of the Common Customs Tariff and imported into the Community include quantitative limits established or agreed with certain third countries which supply the Community; whereas, in addition, all imports of the said textile products are subject to a system of surveillance; whereas such arrangements and systems have been renewed as from 1 January 1983; Whereas, in order to prevent any deflection of trade or abuse which could be detrimental to the application of these arrangements, the Council has adopted, in Regu- lation (EEC) No 616/78 ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1681/81 (%), a system for the control of origin of certain textile products imported into the Community, based on the requirement of a certificate of origin, or in the case of less sensitive products, a declaration of origin; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1681/81 has reinforced this system by laying down an internal procedure for exchanges of information between Member States on cases of fraud and between them and the Commission ; Whereas experience has shown that the scope of the procedure thus established needs to be extended and clarified ; Whereas experience has also shown that prevention of fraud requires that the Commission in particular carry out Community administrative cooperation and inves- tigative missions in third countries in cooperation with Member States in order to discover the facts and establish proof relating to fraudulent traffic for the () OJ No L 84, 31. 3. 1978, p. 1. () OJ No L 169, 26. 6. 1981, p. S. purposes of taking appropriate measures, both within the Community and with regard to third countries, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 616/78 is hereby amended as follows : 1. Article 4 is replaced by the following : ‘Article 4 1. In order to ensure that measures of commer- cial policy provided for in the textile sector are correctly applied, each Member State shall work together with the Commission in the framework of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1468/81 of 19 May 1981 on mutual assistance between the administra- tive authorities of the Member States and coopera- tion between the latter and the Commission to ensure the correct application of the law on customs or agricultural matters (). To this end, each Member State shall communicate to the Commis- sion as soon as possible all the useful information in its possession concerning important cases of abuses or irregularities which come to its notice or which it has valid reason to presume exist with regard to such measures of commercial policy. The Commission shall inform the other Member States thereof. Furthermore, Member States shall, on their own initiative or at the request of the Commission, provide additional information including copies of all documentation, possibly in the form of an extract, necessary to determine the facts fully and to establish proof of abuses or irregularities with regard to the third countries concerned with a view to: (i) implementing administrative cooperation with third countries as provided for in Article 4a (2); (ii) adjusting quantitative limits established for imports of textile products in accordance with the procedure laid down in bilateral agreements or in Community law ; (iii) carrying out the missions referred to in Article 4b.