- No L 180/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 5.7.83 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1828/83 of 30 June 1983 on the form of prior authorizations to be granted for the economic outward processing traffic in textile and clothing products and the procedures for issuing and checking such authorizations THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 636/82 of 16 March 1982 establishing economic outward processing arrangements applicable to certain textile and clothing products reimported into the Commu- nity after working or processing in certain third coun- tries ('), and in particular Article 12 thereof, Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 636/82 provides that the competent authorities of the Member States shall issue prior authorizations to applicants eligible to use the economic outward processing arrangements in ‘respect of textile and clothing products ; ' Whereas the operation of the said arrangements should be improved by harmonizing the form of such prior authorizations and the issuing and checking of procedures ; Whereas the introduction of a standard prior authori- zation form should facilitate administrative coopera- tion among Member States and the third countries where processing operations are carried out; Whereas procedures for issuing and checking prior -authorizations should be designed to ensure confor- mity with the purposes of the economic outward processing arrangements and to enable checks to be carried out on essential items such as the origin of goods and whether the set quantities are exported ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Economic Outward Processing Arrangements for Textiles, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 The form of the prior authorizations referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 636/82 and the N OJ No L 76, 20. 3. 1982, p. 1. procedures whereby such authorizations are to be issued and checked by the competent authorities of the Member States shall be those laid down by this Regulation, subject to the transitional arrangements provided for in Article 18. Article 2 Prior authorization forms shall conform to the specimen in the Annex, except as specified in Article 4, Article 3 Prior authorizations may be made out in the form specified in Article 2 to cover part only of a quantity of compensating products in respect of which an initial prior authorization has previously been issued. The procedure for the issue of such partial prior authorizations is laid down in Article 9. Article 4 Article 2 shall not apply to the initial prior authoriza- tions on the basis of which partial prior authorizations are subsequently to be issued. Article 5 The amounts of compensating products shall be charged against any quantitative limits or entered under any surveillance arrangements established as specific measures as referred to in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 636/82 at the time when the prior authorization is issued. Article 6 Article § shall not be held to prevent the competent authorities from provisionally allocating in advance to applicants for the economic outward processing arrangements the quantity of compensating products to which they may be entitled under Article 2 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 636/82.