Brussels, 07/04/2005 (Agence Europe) - The debate scheduled for Wednesday by the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) on the issue of textiles, which is still holding up the adoption of the regulation on the new generalised system of preferences (GSP) has been postponed. Diplomats explain that the decision was made as the Member States wanted first of all to analyse the guidelines presented by the Commission on Wednesday, to allow the EU to act in the hypothetical situation of the flooding of the market with textiles from China (EUROPE 8922). It is highly likely that the dossier will return to Coreper's table at its next meeting on 13 April. EUROPE points out that the regulation on the new GSP, which was due to have entered into force on 1 April, is temporarily at a standstill over the issue of the graduation of the beneficiary countries of the GSP in the textiles sector (EUROPE 8911). Although the Commission proposed that for textiles, a beneficiary country should be excluded from the GSP for a specific product once its market share of this product reaches 12.5% of the total of community imports of this product under the GSP regime, the Member States are divided over the issue. Some of them (Italy, Portugal and Greece) plead for this graduation threshold to be put at 10%, which would allow India to be excluded from the GSP. A second group of countries, of a similar size to the first, defends a graduation threshold of 15%, the normal threshold for all other categories of products.