COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1434/90
of 14 May 1990
implementing certain provisions of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics on trade and commercial and economic cooperation
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 an Agreement between the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on trade and commercial and economic cooperation (1), hereinafter referred to as the ‘Agreement’, was signed in Brussels on 18 December 1989 and entered into force on 1 April 1990;
Whereas, under this Agreement, certain liberalization measures intended to facilitate access to the Community market for goods from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, hereinafter referred to as the ‘USSR’, are to be introduced progressively; whereas, pursuant to Article 8 of the Agreement, the Community undertakes, in particular, to eliminate quantitative restrictions on imports into regions of the Community of those products listed in Annex I to the Agreement and to suspend application of quantitative restrictions on imports into regions of the Community of those products listed in Annex II to the Agreement, on the terms and conditions specified therein;
Whereas, however, the Community has already adopted some of the measures provided for in Annex I to the Agreement, by Commission communications to the Council Nos 89/C 288/03 (2), 89/C 315/05 (3), 90/C 1/06 (4) and 90/C 36/06 (5); whereas it is therefore necessary simply to abolish the quantitative restrictions on imports of the remaining products listed in Annex I and to suspend the quantitative restrictions on imports of the products listed in Annex II to the Agreement, except in the case of one product falling within CN code 4910 00 00 which has already been liberalized at Community level;
Whereas, in consequence, Community imports of some of the products listed in Annex I to the Agreement, originating in the USSR, will be free of all quantitative restrictions; whereas these products - now listed in Annex III - can therefore be covered by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/82 of 30 June 1982 on common rules for imports from State-trading countries (6),
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. The quantitative restrictions on the release for free circulation in the Community of the products listed in Annex I, originating in the USSR, are hereby abolished in the regions of the Community specified in the Annex in relation to those products.
2. The application of quantitative restrictions on the release for free circulation in the Community of products listed in Annex II, originating in the USSR, is hereby suspended in the regions of the Community listed in the Annex, on the terms and conditions specified in that Annex,
Article 2
The quantitative restrictions on the release for free circulation in the Community of products listed in Annex III, originating in the USSR, are hereby abolished throughout the Community. Imports of these products into the Community shall be subject to Regulation (EEC) No 1765/82. The products concerned shall be added to the Annex to that Regulation.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following it publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 14 May 1990.