EN Official Journal of the European Union L 291/17

ACT

concerning the conditions of accession of the Hellenic Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties





PART ONE

PRINCIPLES

Article 1

For the purposes of this Act:

— the expression ‘original Treaties’ means the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, as supplemented or amended by treaties or other acts which entered into force before accession of the Hellenic Republic; the expressions ‘ECSC Treaty’, ‘EEC Treaty’ and ‘Euratom Treaty’ mean the relevant original Treaties thus supplemented or amended,

— the expression ‘present Member States’ means the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Article 2

From the date of accession, the provisions of the original Treaties and the acts adopted by the institutions of the Communities shall be binding on the Hellenic Republic and shall apply in that State under the conditions laid down in those Treaties and in this Act.

Article 3

1. The Hellenic Republic accedes by this Act to the Decisions and Agreements adopted by the representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting in Council. It undertakes to accede from the date of accession to all other Agreements concluded by the present Member States relating to the functioning of the Communities or connected with their activities.

2. The Hellenic Republic undertakes to accede to the Conventions provided for in Article 220 of the EEC Treaty and to the Protocols on the interpretation of those Conventions by the Court of Justice, signed by the Member States of the Community as originally or at present constituted, and to this end it undertakes to enter into negotiations with the present Member States in order to make the necessary adjustments thereto.

3. The Hellenic Republic is in the same situation as the present Member States in respect of declarations or resolutions of, or other positions taken up by, the Council and in respect of those concerning the European Communities adopted by common agreement of the Member States; it will accordingly observe the principles and guidelines deriving from those declarations, resolutions or other positions and will take such measures as may be necessary to ensure their implementation.

Article 4

1. The Agreements or Conventions entered into by any of the Communities with one or more third States, with an international organization or with a national of a third State, shall, under the conditions laid down in the original Treaties and in this Act, be binding on the Hellenic Republic.

2. The Hellenic Republic undertakes to accede, under the conditions laid down in this Act, to Agreements or Conventions concluded by the present Member States and any of the Communities, acting jointly, and to Agreements concluded by the present Member States which are related to those Agreements or Conventions. The Community and the present Member States shall assist the Hellenic Republic in this respect.

3. The Hellenic Republic accedes by this Act and under the conditions laid down therein to the Internal Agreements concluded by the present Member States for the purpose of implementing the Agreements or Conventions referred to in paragraph 2.

4. The Hellenic Republic shall take appropriate measures, where necessary, to adjust its position in relation to international organizations and International Agreements to which one of the Communities or to which other Member States are also parties, to the rights and obligations arising from its accession to the Communities.

Article 5

Article 234 of the EEC Treaty and Articles 105 and 106 of the Euratom Treaty shall apply, for the Hellenic Republic to Agreements or Conventions concluded before its accession.

Article 6

The provisions of this Act may not, unless otherwise provided herein, be suspended, amended or repealed other than by means of the procedure laid down in the original Treaties enabling those Treaties to be revised.

Article 7

Acts adopted by the institutions of the Communities to which the transitional provisions laid down in this Act relate shall retain their status in law; in particular, the procedures for amending those acts shall continue to apply.

Article 8

Provisions of this Act the purpose or effect of which is to repeal or amend acts adopted by the institutions of the Communities; otherwise than as a transitional measure, shall have the same status in law as the provisions which they repeal or amend and shall be subject to the same rules as those provisions.

Article 9

1. The application of the original Treaties and acts adopted by the institutions shall, as a transitional measure, be subject to the derogations provided for in this Act.

2. Subject to special provisions in this Act laying down different dates or shorter or longer time limits, the application of the transitional measures shall terminate at the end of 1985.

PART TWO

ADJUSTMENTS TO THE TREATIES

TITLE I

PROVISIONS COVERING THE INSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER 1

The Assembly

Article 10

The following shall be substituted for Article 2 of the Act concerning the election of the representatives of the Assembly by direct universal suffrage, which is annexed to Decision 76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom:

‘The number of representatives elected in each Member State shall be as follows: Belgium: 24, Denmark: 16, Germany: 81, Greece: 24, France: 81, Ireland: 15, Italy: 81, Luxembourg: 6, Netherlands: 25, United Kingdom: 81.’

CHAPTER 2

The Council

Article 11

The following shall be substituted for the second paragraph of Article 2 of the Treaty establishing a single Council and a single Commission of the European Communities:

‘The office of President shall be held for a term of six months by each member of the Council in turn, in the following order of Member States: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom.’

Article 12

The following shall be substituted for the fourth paragraph of Article 28 of the ECSC Treaty:

‘Decisions of the Council, other than those for which a qualified majority or unanimity is required, shall be taken by a vote of the majority of its members; this majority shall be considered to be attained if it represents an absolute majority of the representatives of the Member States, including the votes of the representatives of two Member States which each produce at least one eighth of the total value of the coal and steel output of the Community. However, for the purpose of applying those provisions of Articles 78, 78b and 78d of this Treaty which require a qualified majority, the votes of the members of the Council shall be weighted as follows: Belgium: 5, Denmark: 3, Germany: 10, Greece: 5, France: 10, Ireland: 3, Italy: 10, Luxembourg: 2, Netherlands: 5, United Kingdom: 10. For their adoption, acts shall require at least 45 votes in favour, cast by not less than six members.’

Article 13

The following shall be substituted for the fourth paragraph of Article 95 of the ECSC Treaty:

‘These amendments shall be proposed jointly by the High Authority and the Council, acting by a nine-tenths majority of its members, and shall be submitted to the Court for its opinion. In considering them, the Court shall have full power to assess all points of fact and of law. If as a result of such consideration it finds the proposals compatible with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, they shall be forwarded to the Assembly and shall enter into force if approved by a majority of three-quarters of the votes cast and tow-thirds of the members of the Assembly.’

Article 14

The following shall be substituted for Article 148 (2) of the EEC Treaty and Article 118 (2) of the Euratom Treaty:

‘Whwere the Council is required to act by a qualified majority, the votes of its members shall be weighted as follows: Belgium: 5, Denmark: 3, Germany: 10, Greece: 5, France: 10, Ireland: 3, Italy: 10, Luxembourg: 2, Netherlands: 5, United Kingdom: 10. For their adoption, acts of the Council shall require at least: — 45 votes in favour where this Treaty requires them to be adopted on a proposal from the Commission, — 45 votes in favour, cast by at least six members, in other cases.’

CHAPTER 3

The Commission

Article 15

The following shall be substituted for the first subparagraph of Article 10 (1) of the Treaty establishing a single Council and a single Commission of the European Communities:

‘The Commission shall consist of 14 members, who shall be chosen on the grounds of their general competence and whose independence is beyond doubt.’

CHAPTER 4

The Court of Justice

Article 16

Upon the accession of the Hellenic Republic, the Council of the European Communities, acting unanimously, shall decide on the adjustments to be made to the first paragraph of Article 32 of the ECSC Treaty, the first paragraph of Article 165 of the EEC Treaty and the first paragraph of Article 137 of the Euratom Treaty in order to increase by one the number of judges constituting the Court of Justice. It shall also decide on the necessary consequential adjustments to be made to the second paragraph of Article 32b of the ECSC Treaty, the second paragraph of Article 167 of the EEC Treaty, the second paragraph of Article 139 of the Euratom Treaty and to the second paragraph of Article 18 of the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Coal and Steel Community, Article 15 of the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Economic Community and Article 15 of the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Atomic Energy Community.

CHAPTER 5

The Economic and Social Committee

Article 17

The following shall be substituted for the first paragraph of Article 194 of the EEC Treaty and the first paragraph of Article 166 of the Euratom Treaty:

‘The number of members of the Committee shall be as follows: Belgium: 12, Denmark: 9, Germany: 24, Greece: 12, France: 24, Ireland: 9, Italy: 24, Luxembourg: 6, Netherlands: 12, United Kingdom: 24.’

CHAPTER 6

The Court of Auditors

Article 18

The following shall be substituted for Article 78e (2) of the ECSC Treaty, Article 206 (2) of the EEC Treaty and Article 180 (2) of the Euratom Treaty:

‘The Court of Auditors shall consist of 10 members.’

CHAPTER 7

The Scientific and Technical Committee

Article 19

The following shall be substituted for the first subparagraph of Article 134 (2) of the Euratom Treaty:

‘The Committee shall consist of 28 members, appointed by the Council after consultation with the Commission.’

TITLE II

OTHER ADJUSTMENTS

Article 20

The following shall be substituted for Article 227 (1) of the EEC Treaty:

‘1. This Treaty shall apply to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.’

PART THREE

ADAPTATIONS TO ACTS ADOPTED BY THE INSTITUTIONS

Article 21

The acts listed in Annex I to this Act shall be adapted as specified in that Annex.

Article 22

The adaptations to the acts listed in Annex II to this Act made necessary by accession shall be drawn up in conformity with the guidelines set out in that Annex and in accordance with the procedure and under the conditions laid down in Article 146.

PART FOUR

TRANSITIONAL MEASURES

TITLE I

PROVISIONS GOVERNING THE INSTITUTIONS

Article 23

1. During 1981 the Hellenic Republic shall hold an election by direct universal suffrage of 24 representatives to the Assembly, of the people of Greece, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 20 September 1976 concerning the election of representatives of the Assembly by direct universal suffrage.

The term of office of these representatives shall end at the same time as that of the representatives elected in the present Member States.

2. From accession and until the election referred to in paragraph 1, the 24 representatives, of the Assembly, of the people of Greece shall be appointed by the Hellenic Parliament within itself in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Hellenic Republic.

TITLE II

FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

CHAPTER 1

Tariff provisions

Article 24

1. The basic duty to which the successive reductions provided for in Articles 25 and 64 are to be applied shall, for each product, be the duty actually applied on 1 July 1980.

The basic duty used for the moves towards alignment on the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC unified tariff provided for in Articles 31, 32 and 64 shall, for each product, be the duty actually applied by the Hellenic Republic on 1 July 1980.

2. The Community as at present constituted and the Hellenic Republic shall inform each other of their respective basic duties.

Article 25

1. Customs duties on imports between the Community as at present constituted and the Hellenic Republic shall be progressively abolished in accordance with the following timetable:

— on 1 January 1981 each duty shall be reduced to 90 % of the basic duty,

— on 1 January 1982 each duty shall be reduced to 80 % of the basic duty,

— the four other reductions of 20 % each shall be made on: — 1 January 1983, — 1 January 1984, — 1 January 1985, — 1 January 1986.

2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1:

(a) duty-free entry shall, from the date of accession, apply to imports which benefit from the provisions relating to tax exemptions applicable to persons travelling from one Member State to another;

(b) duty-free entry shall, from the date of accession, apply to imports of goods sent in small consignments, not of a commercial nature, which benefit from the provisions relating to tax exemptions applicable between Member States.

Article 26

In no case shall customs duties higher than those applied to third countries enjoying most-favourednation treatment be applied within the Community.

In the event of the Common Customs Tariff duties being amended or suspended or the Hellenic Republic applying Article 34, the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, may take the necessary measures for the maintenance of Community preference.

Article 27

The Hellenic Republic may suspend in whole or in part the levying of duties on products imported from the Community as at present constituted. It shall inform the other Member States and the Commission thereof.

The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, may suspend in whole or in part the levying of duties on products imported from Greece.

Article 28

Any charge having equivalent effect to a customs duty on imports introduced as from 1 January 1979 in trade between the Community as at present constituted and Greece shall be abolished on 1 January 1981.

Article 29

Charges having equivalent effect to customs duties on imports shall be progressively abolished between the Community as at present constituted and Greece in accordance with the following timetable:

— on 1 January 1981, each charge shall be reduced to 90 % of the rate applied on 31 December 1980,

— on 1 January 1982, each charge shall be reduced to 80 % of the rate applied on 31 December 1980,

— the four other reductions of 20 % each shall be made on: — 1 January 1983, — 1 January 1984, — 1 January 1985, — 1 January 1986.

Article 30

Customs duties on exports and charges having equivalent effect shall be abolished between the Community as at present constituted and Greece on 1 January 1981.

Article 31

For the purpose of the progressive introduction of the Common Customs Tariff, the Hellenic Republic shall amend its tariff applicable to third countries as follows:

— from 1 January 1981 the Hellenic Republic shall apply a duty reducing by 10 % the difference between the basic duty and the duty in the Common Customs Tariff,

— from 1 January 1982: (a) in the case of tariff headings in respect of which the basic duties do not differ by more than 15 % in either direction from the duties in the Common Customs Tariff, these latter duties shall be applied; (b) in other cases, the Hellenic Republic shall apply a duty reducing again by 10 % the difference between the basic duty and the duty in the Common Customs Tariff. This difference shall be further reduced by 20 % on 1 January 1983, by 20 % on 1 January 1984 and by 20 % on 1 January 1985.

The Hellenic Republic shall apply in full the Common Customs Tariff from 1 January 1986.

Article 32

1. For the purpose of the progressive introduction of the ECSC unified tariff, the Hellenic Republic shall amend its tariff applicable to third countries as follows:

(a) in the case of tariff headings in respect of which the basic duties do not differ by more than 15 % in either direction from the duties in the ECSC unified tariff, these latter duties shall be applied from 1 January 1982;

(b) in other cases, the Hellenic Republic shall, from the same date, apply a duty reducing by 20 % the difference between the basic duty and the duty in the ECSC unified tariff. This difference shall be further reduced by 20 % on 1 January 1983, by 20 % on 1 January 1984 and by 20 % on 1 January 1985.

The Hellenic Republic shall apply in full the ECSC unified tariff from 1 January 1986.

2. In respect of lignite, whether or not agglomerated, falling within heading No 27.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, the Hellenic Republic shall introduce in accordance with the same timetable of progressivity as that laid down in paragraph 1 the provisions in the Common Customs Tariff for these products and shall apply a duty of 5 % by 1 January 1986 at the latest.

Article 33

1. Where duties in the customs tariff of the Hellenic Republic differ in nature from the corresponding duties in the Common Customs Tariff or the ECSC unified tariff, the progressive alignment of the former on the latter shall be effected by adding the components of the Greek basic duty to those of the Common Customs Tariff or the ECSC unified tariff, the Greek basic duty being reduced to zero progressively, in accordance with the timetable set out in Articles 31, 32 and 64, and the duty in the Common Customs Tariff or the ECSC unified tariff increasing from zero to reach the full amount progressively in accordance with the same timetable.

2. From 1 January 1981, if any duties in the Common Customs Tariff or the ECSC unified tariff are altered or suspended, the Hellenic Republic shall simultaneously amend or suspend its tariff in the proportion resulting from the implementation of Articles 31, 32 and 64.

3. The Hellenic Republic shall apply the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC unified tariff nomenclature from 1 January 1981.

The Hellenic Republic may include within these nomenclatures national subdivisions existing at the time of accession which are indispensable in order that the progressive alignment of its customs duties with those in the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC unified tariff be carried out under the conditions laid down in this Act.

4. With a view to facilitating the progressive introduction of the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC unified tariff by the Hellenic Republic, the Commission shall determine, if necessary, the implementing provisions whereby the Hellenic Republic alters its customs duties.

Article 34

In order to bring its tariff into line with the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC unified tariff, the Hellenic Republic shall remain free to alter its customs duties more rapidly than is provided for in Articles 31, 32 and 64. It shall inform the other Member States and the Commission thereof.

CHAPTER 2

Elimination of quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect

Article 35

Quantitative restrictions on imports and exports and any measures having equivalent effect shall, from the date of accession, be abolished between the Community as at present constituted and Greece.

Article 36

1. Notwithstanding Article 35, the Hellenic Republic may retain quantitative restrictions until 31 December 1985 on products listed in Annex III to this Act coming from the present Member States.

2. The restrictions referred to in paragraph 1 shall take the form of quotas. The quotas for 1981 are listed in Annex III.

3. The minimum rate of progressive increase for such quotas shall be 25 % at the beginning of each year for quotas expressed in units of account, and 20 % at the beginning of each year for quotas expressed in terms of volume. Such increase shall be added to each quota and the next increase calculated on the basis of the total thus obtained.

Where a quota is expressed in terms of both volume and value, the quota relating to the volume shall be raised by at least 20 % a year and the quota relating to the value by at least 25 % a year, the succeeding quotas to be calculated each year on the basis of the preceding quota plus the increase.

However, with regard to motor coaches and buses and other vehicles falling within subheading ex 87.02 A I of the Common Customs Tariff, the volume quota shall be raised by 15 % a year and the quota relating to the value by 20 % a year.

4. Where the Commission records by a decision that imports into Greece of a product listed in Annex III have for two consecutive years been less than 90 % of the quota, the Hellenic Republic shall liberalize imports of that product from the present Member States.

5. Quotas for fertilizers falling within heading Nos 31.02, 31.03 and subheadings 31.05 A I, II and IV of the Common Customs Tariff shall also constitute transitional measures required in order to abolish exclusive import rights. Such quotas shall be accessible to all importers in Greece and products imported under the said quotas may not be made subject in Greece to exclusive marketing rights.

Article 37

Notwithstanding Article 35, the present Member States and the Hellenic Republic may, in trade between the present Member States and Greece, retain restrictions on imports of waste and scrap metal of iron or steel falling within heading No 73.03 of the Common Customs Tariff for a period of two years from 1 January 1981, in so far as these arrangements are not more restrictive than those applied to exports to third countries.

Article 38

Notwithstanding Article 35, import deposits and cash payments in force in Greece on 31 December 1980 with regard to imports from the present Member States shall be progressively eliminated over a period of three years from 1 January 1981.

The rate of import deposits and cash payments shall be reduced in accordance with the following timetable:

— 1 January 1981: 25 %,

— 1 January 1982: 25 %,

— 1 January 1983: 25 %,

— 1 January 1984: 25 %.

Article 39

1. Notwithstanding Article 35, the 8 % general preference applied in Greece to public contracts shall be progressively eliminated by the Hellenic Republic in accordance with the same timetable as that established in Article 25 for the abolition of customs duties on imports between Greece and the Community as at present constituted.

2. Notwithstanding Article 35, the Hellenic Republic may, for two years from the 1 January 1981, postpone opening its lists of approved suppliers to Community suppliers.

Article 40

1. Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article, the Hellenic Republic shall, from 1 January 1981 progressively adjust State monopolies of a commercial character within the meaning of Article 37 (1) of the EEC Treaty so as to ensure that by 31 December 1985 no discrimination regarding the conditions under which goods are procured and marketed exists between nationals of the Member States.

The present Member States shall have equivalent obligations in relation to the Hellenic Republic.

The Commission shall make recommendations as to the manner in which and the timetable according to which the adjustment provided for in the first subparagraph above must be carried out, it being understood that the manner and timetable must be the same for the Hellenic Republic and the present Member States.

2. The Hellenic Republic shall, from 1 January 1981, abolish all exclusive export rights. It shall also abolish, on the same date exclusive rights on imports of copper sulphate falling within subheading ex 28.38 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, saccharin falling within subheading ex 29.26 A I of the Common Customs Tariff and flimsy paper falling within heading No ex 48.18 of the Common Customs Tariff.

CHAPTER 3

Other provisions

Article 41

1. The Commission shall, with due regard for the provisions in force, in particular those relating to Community transit, determine the methods of administrative cooperation designed to ensure that goods fulfilling the requisite conditions benefit, from 1 January 1981, from the abolition of customs duties and charges having equivalent effect and quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect.

2. The Commission shall lay down the provisions applicable from 1 January 1981 to trade within the Community in goods obtained in the Community in the manufacture of which have been incorporated:

— products on which the customs duties or charges having equivalent effect which were applicable to them in the Community as at present constituted or in Greece have not been levied, or which have benefited from a total or partial drawback of such duties or charges,

— agricultural products which do not fulfil the conditions required for admission to free movement in the Community as at present constituted or in Greece.

In adopting these provisions, the Commission shall take into account the rules laid down in this Act for the elimination of customs duties between the Community as at present constituted and Greece, and for the progressive introduction by the Hellenic Republic of the Common Customs Tariff and the provisions relating to the common agricultural policy.

Article 42

1. Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions in force with regard to customs legislation for trade with third countries shall apply under the same conditions to trade within the Community, for such time as customs duties are levied in that trade.

For the purpose of establishing the customs value in respect of trade within the Community, and trade with third countries, until 1 January 1986 the customs territory to be taken into consideration shall be that defined by the provisions existing in the Community and in the Hellenic Republic on 31 December 1980.

2. The Hellenic Republic shall apply the Common Customs Tariff and ECSC unified nomenclatures in trade within the Community from 1 January 1981.

The Hellenic Republic may include within these nomenclatures national subdivisions existing at the time of accession which are indispensable in order that the progressive elimination of its customs duties within the Community be carried out under the conditions laid down in this Act.

Article 43

1. Where the compensatory amounts referred to in Article 61 are applied in trade between the Community as at present constituted and Greece on one or more of the basic products considered as having been used in the manufacture of goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 determining the system of trade applicable to certain goods processed from agricultural products, Regulation (EEC) No 2730/75 on glucose and lactose and Regulation (EEC) No 2783/75 on the common system of trade for ovalbumin and lactalbumin, the following transitional measures shall be applied:

— a compensatory amount calculated on the basis of the compensatory amounts referred to in Article 61 and in accordance with the rules laid down by Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 for calculating the variable component applicable to the goods covered by this Regulation shall be applied on importation of those goods into the Community from Greece,

— when the goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 are imported from third countries into Greece the variable component laid down by this Regulation shall be increased or reduced as the case may be by the compensatory amount referred to in the first indent,

— a compensatory amount determined on the basis of the compensatory amounts fixed for the basic products and in accordance with the rules applicable for the calculation of the refunds provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 2682/72 laying down the general rules for granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty and the criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds shall for the goods covered by this Regulation with the exception of albumins be applied on exportation of those goods from the Community into Greece,

— on importation into Greece from third countries and from the Community and into the Community from Greece of products covered by Regulations (EEC) No 2730/75 and (EEC) No 2783/75 there shall be applied a compensatory amount calculated on the basis of the compensatory amounts referred to in Article 61 and in accordance with the rules laid down by the above Regulations for the calculation of the import charge,

— where products covered by Regulations (EEC) No 2682/72 and (EEC) No 2730/75 are exported from Greece to third countries they shall be subject to the compensatory amounts referred to in the third or fourth indent respectively.

2. If, during the application of compensatory amounts, there should be deflections in trade in the products covered by Regulations (EEC) No 2783/75 and (EEC) No 2730/75 the Commission may take appropriate corrective measures.

3. The customs duty constituting the fixed component of the charge applicable on importation into Greece from third countries to goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 shall be determined by excluding from the total protection applied by the Hellenic Republic on the date of accession the agricultural protection to be introduced taking into consideration the transitional measures mentioned in paragraph 1.

Each fixed component determined in accordance with the first subparagraph applied by the Hellenic Republic to imports from third countries shall be aligned upon the Common Customs Tariff in accordance with the timetable laid down in Article 31. However, if the fixed component to be applied by the Hellenic Republic upon accession is lower than the fixed component in the Common Customs Tariff, the Hellenic Republic may align upon the latter immediately upon accession. Moreover the fixed components determined in accordance with the first subparagraph shall take account, as far as possible, of any particular difficulties which the Hellenic Republic foresees for specific products.

4. The Hellenic Republic shall, for the goods covered by Regulations (EEC) No 1059/69, (EEC) No 2682/72 and (EEC) No 2730/75, apply in full the Common Customs Tariff nomenclature upon accession.

5. The Hellenic Republic shall upon accession abolish any customs duties or charges having equivalent effect other than those provided for in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 for products covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 and any export aid or aid having equivalent effect to export aid for products covered by Regulations (EEC) No 2682/72 and (EEC) No 2730/75.

On imports from the Community the Hellenic Republic shall upon accession abolish any quantitative restrictions as well as all measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions for products covered by Regulations (EEC) No 1059/69, (EEC) No 2730/75 and (EEC) No 2783/75.

6. The Council shall, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, adopt provisions to implement this Article.

TITLE III

FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS, SERVICES AND CAPITAL

CHAPTER 1

Workers

Article 44

The provisions of Article 48 of the EEC Treaty shall only apply in relation to the freedom of movement of workers between the present Member States and Greece subject to the transitional provisions laid down in Articles 45, 46 and 47 of this Act.

Article 45

1. Articles 1 to 6 and 13 to 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 on the freedom of movement of workers within the Community shall only apply in the present Member States with regard to Hellenic nationals and in Greece with regard to nationals of the present Member States as from 1 January 1988.

The present Member States and the Hellenic Republic may maintain in force until 1 January 1988, with regard to Hellenic nationals and to nationals of the present Member States respectively, national provisions submitting to prior authorization immigration undertaken with a view to pursuing an activity as an employed person and/or the taking up and pursuit of paid employment.

2. Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 shall only apply in the present Member States with regard to Hellenic nationals and in Greece with regard to nationals of the present Member States as from 1 January 1986.

However the members of workers' families, within the meaning of Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 shall have the right to be employed in the territory of the Member State where they have settled with the worker, if they are resident for at least three years in this territory. This period of residence shall be reduced to 18 months as from 1 January 1984.

The rules of this paragraph shall not prejudice more favourable national provisions.

Article 46

In so far as certain provisions of Directive 68/360/EEC on the abolition of restrictions on movement and residence within the Community for workers of Member States and their families, may not be dissociated from those of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 whose application is deferred pursuant to Article 45, the present Member States and the Hellenic Republic may derogate from these provisions, in so far as is necessary for the application of the provisions for derogation which are laid down in Article 45 in connection with the said Regulation.

Article 47

The present Member States and the Hellenic Republic shall take, with the assistance of the Commission, the necessary measures so that the application of the Commission Decision of 8 December 1972 on the uniform system established pursuant to Article 15 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68, known as ‘Sedoc’ and the Commission Decision of 14 December 1972 on the ‘Community plan’ for the collection and circulation of information provided for in Article 14 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 may be extended to Greece on 1 January 1988 at the latest.

Article 48

Until 31 December 1983, the provisions of Articles 73 (1) and (3), 74 (1) and 75 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families moving within the Community, and Articles 86 and 88 of Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 fixing the procedure for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 shall not apply to Greek workers employed in a Member State other than Greece, whose family members are resident in Greece.

The provisions of Articles 73 (2), 74 (2) and 75 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71, and Articles 87, 89 and 98 of Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 shall apply by analogy to these workers.

However, the legislative provisions of a Member State laying down that family benefits shall be payable to a worker irrespective of the country where members of his family reside shall not be prejudiced.

CHAPTER 2

Capital movements and invisible transactions

Section 1

Capital movements

Article 49

1. The Hellenic Republic may, under the conditions and within the time limits set out in Articles 50 to 53, defer the liberalization of capital movements provided for in the First Council Directive of 11 May 1960 for the implementation of Article 67 of the EEC Treaty and in the Second Council Directive of 18 December 1962 adding to and amending the First Directive for the implementation of Article 67 of the EEC Treaty.

2. Appropriate consultations shall take place in due course between the Hellenic authorities and the Commission about procedures for applying measures of liberalization or relaxation, the implementation of which may be deferred under the following provisions.

Article 50

1. The Hellenic Republic may defer:

(a) until 31 December 1985 the liberalization of direct investments in the present Member States made by persons resident in Greece;

(b) until 31 December 1983 the liberalization of the transfer of the proceeds of the liquidation of direct investments in Greece made before 12 June 1975 by persons resident in the Community. During the period of application of this temporary derogation, the general or special facilities relating to the free transfer of the proceeds of the liquidation of these investments and existing by virtue of Hellenic arrangements or of agreements governing relations between the Hellenic Republic and any present Member State shall be maintained and applied in a non-discriminatory manner.

2. Recognizing that it is desirable to proceed, from 1 January 1981, to a substantial relaxation in the rules concerning the operations referred to in paragraph 1 (a), the Hellenic Republic will endeavour to take appropriate measures to this end.

Article 51

1. The Hellenic Republic may defer until 31 December 1985:

(a) the liberalization of real estate investments, in a present Member State, by persons resident in Greece who do not fall within the category of those who emigrate in the context of freedom of movement for workers and self-employed persons;

(b) the liberalization of real estate investment, in a present Member State, by self-employed persons resident in Greece who emigrate, other than investments connected with their establishment.

2. The repatriation of the proceeds from the liquidation of real estate investments situated in Greece and acquired before accession by persons resident in the present Member States shall be the subject of a gradual liberalization through the inclusion of the operations in question in the liberalization system introduced for the funds blocked in Greece as defined in Article 52.

Article 52

Funds blocked in Greece belonging to persons resident in the present Member States shall be progressively released by equal annual instalments starting from accession until 31 December 1985, in six stages, the first of which shall begin on 1 January 1981.

Capital on deposit in each blocked fund on 1 January 1981 or which may be paid into blocked funds between this date and 31 December 1985 shall be released, at the beginning of each stage, successively by one-sixth, one-fifth, a quarter, a third and a half of the amount on deposit at the beginning of each of these stages.

On 1 January 1986 blocked funds belonging to persons resident in the present Member States shall be abolished.

Article 53

The Hellenic Republic may defer until 31 December 1985 the liberalization of the operations set out in List B annexed to the Directives referred to in Article 49, and carried out by persons resident in Greece.

However, operations in securities issued by the Communities and by the European Investment Bank carried out by persons resident in Greece shall be the subject of progressive liberalization over this period as follows:

(a) for 1981 these operations may be limited to 20 million European units of account;

(b) this ceiling shall then be raised, at the beginning of each year by 20 % in relation to that fixed for 1981.

Section 2

Invisible transactions

Article 54

1. The Hellenic Republic may, until 31 December 1985 and under the conditions set out in paragraph 2, maintain restrictions on transfers relating to tourism.

2. On 1 January 1981, the annual tourist allowance per person may not be less than 400 European units of account.

From 1 January 1982, this allowance shall be increased each year by at least 20 % in relation to the annual amount fixed for 1981.

Section 3

General provisions

Article 55

The Hellenic Republic will, circumstances permitting, carry out the liberalization of capital movements and invisible transactions referred to in Articles 50 to 54 before the expiry of the time limits laid down in those Articles.

Article 56

For the purpose of implementing the provisions of this Chapter, the Commission may consult the Monetary Committees and submit appropriate proposals to the Council.

TITLE IV

AGRICULTURE

CHAPTER 1

General provisions

Article 57

Save as otherwise provided in this Title, the rules provided for in this Act shall apply to agricultural products.

Article 58

1. This Article shall apply to prices in respect of which, in Chapter 2, reference is made to this Article.

2. Before the first move towards price alignment referred to in Article 59, the prices to be applied in Greece shall be fixed, in accordance with the rules provided for in the common organization of the market in the sector in question, at a level which allows producers in that sector to obtain market prices equivalent to those obtained, for a representative period to be determined for each product, under the previous national system.

However, in the absence of price data in respect of certain products on the Greek market, the price to be applied in that Member State shall be calculated on the basis of the prices obtaining in the Community as at present constituted of similar products or groups of similar products, or products with which they are in competition.

Article 59

1. If the application of the provisions of this Title results in a price level different from that of the common prices, the prices in respect of which, in Chapter 2, reference is made to this Article shall, subject to paragraph 4, be aligned with the level of the common prices each year at the beginning of the marketing year in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3.

2. As regards:

— tomatoes and peaches falling within Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables, and

— products processed from tomatoes or peaches, falling within Regulation (EEC) No 516/77 on the common organization of the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables, alignment shall be carried out in seven stages as follows: (a) when the price of a product in Greece is lower than the common price, the price in that Member State shall, at the time of the first six moves towards alignment, be increased successively, by a seventh, a sixth, a fifth, a quarter, a third and a half of the difference between the price level in that Member State and the common price level which are applicable before each move towards alignment; the price resulting from this calculation shall be increased proportionately to any rise in the common price for the next marketing year; the common price shall be applied at the time of the seventh move towards alignment; (b) when the price of a product in Greece is higher than the common price, the difference between the price level applicable before each move towards alignment in the Member State and the common price level applicable for the next marketing year shall be reduced successively, at the time of the first six moves towards alignment by a seventh, a sixth, a fifth, a quarter, a third and a half; the common price shall be applied at the time of the seventh move towards alignment.

3. As regards other products, the moves towards alignment shall be carried out in five stages as follows:

(a) when the price of a product in Greece is lower than the common price, the price applicable in that Member State shall, at the time of the first four moves towards alignment, be increased successively by a fifth, a quarter, a third and a half of the difference between the price level in that Member State and the common price level which are applicable before each move towards alignment; the price resulting from this calculation shall be increased proportionately to any rise in the common price for the next marketing year; the common price shall be applied at the time of the fifth move towards alignment;

(b) when the price of a product in Greece is higher than the common price, the difference between the price level applicable before each move towards alignment in the Member State and the common price level applicable for the next marketing year shall be reduced successively at the time of the first four moves towards alignment by a fifth, a quarter, a third and a half; the common price shall be applied at the time of the fifth move towards alignment.

4. In the interest of the smooth functioning of the process of integration, the Council, acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the EEC Treaty, may decide that, notwithstanding paragraphs 2 and 3, the price of one or more products in Greece shall for one marketing year depart from the prices resulting from the application of paragraphs 2 or 3.

This departure may not exceed 10 % of the amount of the price move to be made.

In that event, the price level for the following marketing year shall be that which would have resulted from applying paragraph 2 or 3 if the departure had not been decided upon. A further departure from this price level may, however, be decided upon for that marketing year in accordance with the conditions in the first and second subparagraphs.

The derogation laid down in the first subparagraph shall not apply to the last move towards alignment referred to in paragraph 2 or 3.

Article 60

The Council, acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the EEC Treaty may decide that the common price shall be applied to Greece for a specified product:

(a) if it is found that the difference between the price level for the product in question in this Member State and the common price level is minimal;

(b) if the price in Greece or the price on the world market for the product in question is higher than the common price.

Article 61

The differences in price levels in respect of which, in Chapter 2, reference is made to this Article shall be compensated as follows:

1. For products in respect of which prices are fixed in accordance with Articles 58 and 59, the compensatory amounts applicable in trade between the Community as at present constituted and Greece, and between Greece and third countries, shall be equal to the difference between the prices fixed for Greece and the common prices.

2. No compensatory amount shall, however, be fixed if the application of paragraph 1 results in a minimal amount.

3. (a) In trade between Greece and the Community as at present constituted, compensatory amounts shall be levied by the importing State or granted by the exporting State. (b) In trade between Greece and third countries, levies or other import charges applied under the common agricultural policy, and export refunds, shall be reduced or increased, as the case may be, by the compensatory amounts applicable in trade with the Community as at present constituted. Customs duties may not, however, be reduced by the compensatory amount.

4. For products in respect of which the duty in the Common Customs Tariff is bound under the General Agreement on tariffs and trade, the binding shall be taken into account.

5. The compensatory amount levied or granted by a Member State in accordance with paragraph 1 may not exceed the total amount levied by that same Member State on imports from third countries, benefiting from the most-favoured-nation clause. The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, may derogate from this rule, in particular in order to avoid deflections of trade and distortions of competition.

6. The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, may derogate, in so far as is necessary for the proper functioning of the common agricultural policy, from the first subparagraph of Article 42 (1) for products to which compensatory amounts apply.

Article 62

If the world market price for a product is higher than the price used in calculating the import charge introduced under the common agricultural policy, less the compensatory amount deducted from the import charge in accordance with Article 61, or if the refund on exports to third countries is less than the compensatory amount, or if no refund is applicable, appropriate measures may be taken with a view to ensuring the proper functioning of the common organization of the market.

Article 63

The compensatory amounts granted shall be financed by the Community from the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund.

Article 64

The following provisions shall apply to products the importation of which from third countries into the Community as at present constituted is subject to customs duties:

1. Customs duties on imports shall be progressively abolished between the Community as at present constituted and Greece on the dates and following the timetable laid down in Article 25. However, for products falling within Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal, customs duties on imports shall be progressively abolished in five stages by 20 % at the beginning of each of the five marketing years following accession. If, for products referred to in paragraph 2 (b) the duties in the Common Customs Tariff are less than the basic duties, the latter shall, for the application of this paragraph, be replaced by the duties in the Common Customs Tariff.

2. (a) For the purpose of the progressive introduction of the Common Customs Tariff, the Hellenic Republic shall reduce the difference between the basic duty and the duty in the Common Customs Tariff under the conditions, on the dates and following the timetable laid down in Article 31. (b) Notwithstanding point (a), the duty in the Common Customs Tariff shall be applied by the Hellenic Republic in its entirety as from 1 January 1981 for the following products: — products falling within Regulation (EEC) No 805/68, — products falling within Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and for which, for the whole or part of the marketing year, a reference price is fixed, — products falling within Regulation (EEC) No 100/76 on the common organization of the market in fishery products and for which a reference price is fixed, — products falling within Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 on the common organization of the market in wine and for which a reference price is fixed.

3. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 the basic duty shall be as defined in Article 24. As regards products falling within Regulation No 136/66/EEC on the establishment of a common organization of the market in oils and fats the basic duties shall be fixed as follows: CCT heading No Description Rate of basic duty to be considered as the rate actually applied by the Hellenic Republic on 1 July 1980: vis-à-vis third countries vis-à-vis the Community as at present constituted 12.01 Oil seed and oleaginous fruit, whole or broken: ex B. Other, except linseed and castor seed 40 % 36 % 12.02 Flours or meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruit, non-defatted (excluding mustard flour): ex B. Other, except linseed and castor seed 15.07 Fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, crude, refined or purified: ex D. Other oils, except — Linseed oil — Coconut (copra) oil and palm oil, for technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption 130 % 104 % 15.12 Animal or vegetable oils and fats, wholly or partly hydrogenated, or solidified or hardened by any other process, whether or not refined, but not further prepared: A. In immediate packings of a net capacity of 1 kg or less B. Other

4. In respect of products covered by a common organization of the market it may be decided in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 38 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC or, as the case may be, in corresponding Articles of other Regulations on the common organization of agricultural markets that: (a) the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized: — to abolish the customs duties referred to in paragraph 1 or move towards the alignment referred to in paragraph 2 at a more rapid rate than laid down there, — to suspend in whole or in part the customs duties on products imported from the present Member States, — to suspend in whole or in part the customs duties on products imported from third countries; (b) the Community as at present constituted shall: — abolish the customs duties referred to in paragraph 1 at a more rapid rate than laid down there, — suspend in whole or in part the customs duties on products imported from Greece. In respect of other products, no authorization shall be required for the Hellenic Republic to apply the measures referred to in the first and second indents of point (a) of the first subparagraph. The Hellenic Republic shall inform the other Member States and the Commission of measures taken. The customs duties resulting from an accelerated alignment may not be less than the customs duties on imports of the same products from other Member States.

Article 65

1. In respect of products covered, on the date of accession, by a common organization of the market, the system applicable in the Community as at present constituted in respect of customs duties and charges having equivalent effect and quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect shall, subject to Articles 61, 64 and 115, apply in Greece as from 1 January 1981.

2. In respect of products not covered, on the date of accession, by a common organization of the market, the provisions of Title II concerning the progressive abolition of charges having equivalent effect to customs duties and of quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect shall not apply to those charges, restrictions and measures if they form part of a national market organization on the date of accession.

This provision shall only apply until the common organization of the market for these products is implemented and not later than 31 December 1985 and to the extent strictly necessary to ensure the maintenance of the national organization.

3. The Hellenic Republic shall apply the Common Customs Tariff nomenclature as from 1 January 1981, in respect of products falling within Annex II to the EEC Treaty.

To the extent that no difficulties arise in the application of the Community rules and, in particular, in the functioning of the common organization of markets and of the transitional mechanisms provided for in this Title, the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, may authorize the Hellenic Republic to include within this nomenclature such existing national subdivisions as would be indispensable for carrying out the progressive moves towards alignment with the Common Customs Tariff or the elimination of the duties in the Community under the conditions laid down in this Act.

Article 66

1. The component for protection of the processing industry which is used in calculating the charge on imports from third countries of products covered by the common organization of the markets in cereals and rice shall be levied on imports from Greece into the Community as at present constituted.

2. For imports into Greece, the amount of that component shall be determined by separating out, from the total protection applied on 1 January 1979, the component or components designed to ensure the protection of the processing industry.

Such component or components shall be levied on imports from other Member States; they shall replace, as regards the charge on imports from third countries, the Community protective component.

3. Article 64 shall apply to the component referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, which shall be considered as the basic component. The reductions or alignments in question shall, however, be made in five stages by 20 % at the beginning of the five marketing years following accession fixed for the basic product concerned.

Article 67

In fixing the level of the various amounts laid down within the common agricultural policy, except for the prices referred to in Article 58, account shall be taken for Greece, to the extent necessary for the proper functioning of the common agricultural policy, of the compensatory amount applied, or in absence thereof, of the difference in prices recorded and, where appropriate, of the incidence of customs duties.

Article 68

1. The provisions of this Article shall apply to aids, premiums or other analogous amounts instituted under the common agricultural policy for which, in Chapter 2, reference is made to this Article.

2. For the purposes of introducing Community aid in Greece, the following provisions shall apply:

(a) the level of Community aid to be granted for a specific product in Greece as from 1 January 1981 shall be equal to an amount defined on the basis of aids granted by Greece, for a representative period to be determined, under the previous national system. However, this amount may not exceed the amount of aid granted on the date of accession in the Community as at present constituted. If no analogous aid was granted under the previous national system, and subject to the following provisions, no Community aid shall be granted to Greece on the date of accession;

(b) thereafter, either Community aid shall be introduced in Greece, or the level of Community aid in Greece shall, where there is a difference, be aligned with aid granted in the Community as at present constituted in accordance with the following timetable: — at the beginning of each of the four marketing years — or in the absence of a period of application of the aid, following accession, successively by a fifth, a quarter, a third and a half: — either of the amount of Community aid applicable for the next marketing year or period, — or of the difference between the level of aid in Greece and the level of aid applicable in the Community as at present constituted for the next marketing year or period, — the level of Community aid shall be applied in its entirety in Greece at the beginning of the fifth marketing year or the period of application of the aid following accession.

Article 69

1. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 68, the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized to maintain national aids on a transitional basis and in a degressive manner until 31 December 1985. However, a derogation may be made to the principle of degressivity for Greek national aids that are to be assessed by taking into consideration the scope of the socio-structural Directives referred to in Annex IV.

2. The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall adopt as from accession, the necessary measures for the implementation of the provisions of this Article.

These measures shall include in particular the list and the exact wording of the aids referred to in paragraph 1, the amount of the aids and the timetable of their abolition, and detailed rules necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the common agricultural policy; these detailed rules must, in addition, ensure that the means of production, whether they originate from Greece or from the present Member States, enjoy equal access to the Greek market.

Article 70

1. Until the entry into force of the supplementary provisions to be adopted by the Community, and:

— at the latest until the beginning of the first marketing year following accession for products referred to in paragraph 2 (a),

— at the latest until 31 December 1985 for products referred to in paragraph 2 (b),

the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized to maintain for these products amongst the measures in force under the previous national system in its territory for a representative period to be determined those measures which are strictly necessary in order to maintain the income of the Greek producer at the level obtained under the previous national system.

2. The products referred to in paragraph 1 are as follows:

(a) dried figs falling within subheading 08.03 B of the Common Customs Tariff, dried grapes falling within subheading 08.04 B of the Common Customs Tariff;

(b) olives for uses other than the production of oil falling within subheadings 07.01 N I, ex 07.02 A, 07.03 A I, ex 07.04 B, ex 20.01 B, ex 20.02 F of the Common Customs Tariff.

3. The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall establish as from accession the measures referred to in paragraph 1 that the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized to maintain.

Article 71

Any stock of products in free circulation in Greek territory on 1 January 1981 and which in quantity exceeds what may be considered representative of a normal carry-over stock must be eliminated by and at the expense of the Hellenic Republic under Community procedures to be specified and within time limits to be determined.

Article 72

1. The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall adopt the provisions necessary for implementing this Title.

2. The Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission after consulting the Assembly, may make the adaptations to the provisions appearing in this Title, which may prove to be necessary as a result of a modification in Community rules.

Article 73

1. If transitional measures are necessary to facilitate the passage from the existing arrangements in Greece to those resulting from the application of the common organization of the markets as provided for in this Title, particularly if for certain products the implementation of the new arrangements on the scheduled date meets with appreciable difficulties, such measures shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 38 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC or, as the case may be, in the corresponding Articles of the other Regulations on the common organization of agricultural markets. Such measures may be taken during the period up to 31 December 1982, but their application may not extend beyond that date.

2. The Council may, acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission after consulting the Assembly, extend the period referred to in paragraph 1.

CHAPTER 2

Provisions relating to certain common organizations of markets

Section 1

Fruit and vegetables

Article 74

For fruit and vegetables, Article 59 shall apply to basic prices.

The basic price shall be fixed in Greece, at the time of accession, taking into account the difference between the average producer prices in Greece and in the Community as at present constituted, recorded over a reference period to be determined.

Article 75

1. A compensatory mechanism shall be introduced on importation, into the Community as at present constituted, for fruit and vegetables coming from Greece for which an institutional price is fixed.

2. This mechanism shall be governed by the following rules:

(a) A comparison shall be drawn between the offer price of the Greek product, as calculated in (b) and a Community offer price calculated annually on the one hand, on the basis of the arithmetical average of producer prices of each Member State of the Community as at present constituted increased by the transport and packaging costs borne by the products from the areas of production up to the representative centres of Community consumption and, on the other hand, taking into account the trend of production costs. The abovementioned producer prices shall correspond to an average of the price quotations recorded over the three years prior to the date of fixing the abovementioned Community offer price. The annual Community price may not exceed the level of the reference price applied vis-à-vis third countries. This Community offer price shall be reduced by 3 % at the time of the first move towards price alignment referred to in Article 59, by 6 % at the time of the second move, 9 % at the time of the third move, by 12 % at the time of the fourth move, by 15 % at the time of the fifth move and, as regards peaches and tomatoes, by 18 % at the time of the sixth move, and by 21 % at the time of the seventh move.

(b) The offer price of the Greek product shall be calculated, each market day, on the basis of the representative price quotations recorded or reduced to the importer-wholesaler stage in the Community as at present constituted. The price for products coming from Greece shall be equal to the lowest representative price quotation or the average of the lowest representative price quotations recorded for at least 30 % of the quantities of the products in question marketed throughout the representative markets for which price quotations are available. This or these price quotations shall be reduced by any corrective amount that may be introduced in accordance with the provisions laid down hereinafter in (c).

(c) If the Greek price, thus calculated, shall be less than the Community price, as indicated in (a), a corrective amount equal to the difference between these two prices shall be levied on importation into the Community as at present constituted by the importing Member State. If the daily offer price of the Community product calculated from the markets of the centres of consumption is at a lower level than that of the Community price as defined in (a), the corrective amount may, however, not exceed the difference between, on the one hand, the arithmetical average of these two prices and, on the other hand, the price of the Greek product.

(d) The corrective amount shall be levied until records taken show that the price of the Greek product is equal to or greater than either, the Community price as defined in (a) or, where appropriate, the arithmetical average of Community prices referred to in (c).

3. The compensatory mechanism provided for in this Article shall remain in force:

(a) until 31 December 1987 for the products referred to in Article 59 (2);

(b) until 31 December 1985 for the products referred to in Article 59 (3).

4. If the Greek market is disturbed by the fact of imports from the present Member States, appropriate measures, which may provide for a compensatory mechanism similar to that provided for in the preceding paragraphs, may be decided in respect of imports into Greece of fruit and vegetables from the Community as at present constituted for which an institutional price is fixed.

Article 76

Article 68 shall apply to the financial compensation referred to in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2511/69 laying down special measures for improving the production and marketing of Community citrus fruit.

This financial compensation shall be considered as an aid which is not granted in Greece under the previous national system.

Article 77

The minimum price and the financial compensation applicable in Greece, laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2601/69 laying down special measures to encourage the processing of certain varieties of oranges and to Articles 1 and 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/77 laying down special measures to encourage the marketing of products processed from lemons, shall be fixed as follows:

1. Until the first move towards price alignment referred to in Article 59, the minimum price applicable shall be established on the basis of prices paid in Greece to producers of citrus for processing, recorded during a representative period to be determined, under the previous national system. The financial compensation shall be that of the Community as at present constituted, less, where appropriate, the difference between, on the one hand, the common minimum price and, on the other hand, the minimum price applicable in Greece.

2. For fixing subsequent prices, the minimum price applicable in Greece shall be aligned on the common minimum price in accordance with the provisions laid down in Article 59. The financial compensation applicable in Greece at the time of each stage of alignment shall be that of the Community as at present constituted less, where appropriate, the difference between, on the one hand, the common minimum price, and, on the other hand, the minimum price applicable in Greece.

3. However, if the minimum price resulting from the application of paragraph 1 or 2 shall be greater than the common minimum price, the latter price may be definitively adopted for Greece.

Article 78

Until 31 December 1987, the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized to lay down for all the producers of fruit and vegetables the obligation of marketing through local markets all their fruit and vegetable production, which is subject to common quality standards.

Section 2

Oils and fats

Article 79

1. For olive oil, Articles 58, 59 and 61 shall apply at intervention prices.

However, the compensatory amount which results from the application of Article 61 shall be corrected, where appropriate, by the incidence of the difference between Community aids to consumption applicable in the Community as at present constituted and in Greece.

2. For oil seeds, target prices and guide prices shall be fixed on the basis of the difference existing between the price of competing products in crop rotation in Greece and in the Community as at present constituted, during a reference period to be determined. If the prices of these competing products are close, the common price shall be applicable in Greece as from accession. If the contrary holds true, Article 59 shall apply to the target or guide prices fixed for these products. However the target or guide prices to be applied in Greece may not exceed the common target or guide prices.

Article 80

Notwithstanding Article 67, at the time of fixing the level of the various amounts laid down for oil seeds other than the prices referred to in Article 79 (2) account shall be taken, for Greece, to the extent necessary for the proper functioning of the common organization of the market for these products, of the difference arising from the application of Article 79 (2).

Article 81

1. Article 68 shall apply to aid for olive oil. However the first move towards alignment concerning production aid for this product shall occur on 1 January 1981.

To this end, the level of Community production aid to be adopted for the calculation of the level of aid applicable in Greece shall be that fixed for the marketing year obtaining on the date of accession.

The second stage of alignment shall occur at the beginning of the second marketing year following accession, the only possible movement at the beginning of the first marketing year being that resulting, where appropriate, from the modification of Community aid applicable in the Community as at present constituted.

2. The amount of aid for colza, rape, sunflower and castor seeds harvested in Greece shall be adjusted by the difference existing, where appropriate, between the target for guide price applicable in Greece and in the Community as at present constituted.

Without prejudice to the application of the first subparagraph, the amount of aid for colza, rape, sunflower and castor seeds processed in Greece shall be reduced by the incidence of the customs duties applied by the Hellenic Republic to the import of these products from third countries.

3. The amount of aid for soya beans and linseed harvested in Greece shall be adjusted by the difference existing, where appropriate, between guide prices applicable in Greece and in the Community as at present constituted and reduced by the incidence of customs duties applied by the Hellenic Republic to the import of these products from third countries.

Article 82

The Hellenic Republic may apply until 31 December 1983 and in accordance with detailed rules to be defined the system of import control of oil seeds and vegetable oils and fats that it applies on 1 January 1979.

Section 3

Milk and milk products

Article 83

Articles 58, 59 and 61 shall apply to the intervention prices for butter and skimmed-milk powder.

Article 84

The compensatory amount for milk products other than butter and skimmed-milk powder shall be fixed with the help of coefficients to be determined.

Section 4

Beef and veal

Article 85

Articles 58, 59 and 61 shall apply to the prices for adult bovine animals in Greece and in the Community as at present constituted.

Article 86

The compensatory amount for products referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be fixed with the help of coefficients to be determined.

Section 5

Tobacco

Article 87

1. Article 58 shall apply to the intervention price fixed for each variety or group of varieties.

2. The norm price corresponding to the intervention price referred to in paragraph 1 shall be fixed in Greece for the first harvest following accession at a level that shall reflect the relation existing between the norm price and the intervention price, in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco.

3. For the four following harvests this norm price shall be:

(a) fixed in accordance with the criteria laid down in the first subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 taking, however, into account the aids that the Hellenic Republic is authorized to maintain for tobacco pursuant to Article 69;

(b) increased in four stages, the first increase occurring for the second harvest following accession by the incidence of the reduction in national aids that the Hellenic Republic is authorized to maintain in a degressive fashion for tobacco pursuant to Article 69.

Article 88

Notwithstanding Article 71, any stock of tobacco existing in Greece coming from harvests prior to accession must be entirely eliminated by and at the expense of the Hellenic Republic under Community procedures to be specified and in accordance with time limits to be determined.

Section 6

Flax and hemp

Article 89

Article 68 shall apply to aid for fibre flax and hemp.

Section 7

Hops

Article 90

Article 68 shall apply to aid for hops.

Section 8

Seeds

Article 91

Article 68 shall apply to aid for seeds.

Section 9

Silk worms

Article 92

Article 68 shall apply to aid for silk worms.

Section 10

Sugar

Article 93

Articles 58, 59 and 61 shall apply to the intervention price for white sugar and the minimum price for beet.

Article 94

Compensatory amounts for products, other than fresh beet, in Article 1 (1) (b) and for products in Article 1 (1) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 on the common organization of the market in sugar shall be derived from the compensatory amount for the primary product in question, with the help of coefficients to be determined.

Article 95

The amount referred to in Article 26 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 applicable in Greece shall be adjusted by the compensatory amount.

Section 11

Cereals

Article 96

For cereals, Articles 58, 59 and 61 shall apply to the intervention price and, for common wheat, to the reference price.

Article 97

The compensatory amounts shall be fixed as follows:

1. The compensatory amount applicable until the first move towards alignment in the case of cereals for which no intervention price is fixed shall be derived from the compensatory amount applicable in the case of a competing cereal for which an intervention price is fixed, account being taken of: — the price relationship on the Greek market, or — the relationship existing between the threshold prices of the cereals in question. The subsequent compensatory amounts shall be fixed on the basis of those referred to in the first subparagraph and according to the rules in Article 59 for price alignment. However, in the case referred to in the first indent of the first subparagraph the relationship adopted must be aligned on the relationship existing between the threshold prices in accordance with the rules laid down in Article 59.

2. The compensatory amount for the products referred to in Article 1 (c) and (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the common organization of the market in cereals shall be derived from the compensatory amount for cereals to which they relate with the help of coefficients to be determined.

3. Without prejudice to the application of paragraph 2, where products processed from common wheat and durum wheat are concerned, the compensatory amount shall be fixed at a level which also takes into account any national aid that the Hellenic Republic would maintain pursuant to Article 69 for wheat used for the bread grain milling industry.

Article 98

Article 68 shall apply to aid to durum wheat referred to in Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75.

Section 12

Pigmeat

Article 99

1. For pigmeat, Articles 58, 59 and 61 shall apply to the price of this product in Greece and in the Community as at present constituted.

2. However, in order to avoid any risk of disturbance in trade between the Community as at present constituted and Greece, the compensatory amount may be calculated on the basis of the compensatory amounts for feed grain. To this end, the compensatory amount per kilogram of pig carcase shall be calculated on the basis of the compensatory amounts applicable to the quantity of grain required for the production in the Community of one kilogram of pigmeat.

Without prejudice to the application of the first subparagraph, the compensatory amount may be fixed at a level that also takes into account the national aid that the Hellenic Republic maintains pursuant to Article 69 for grain used in pig farming.

3. For products, other than pig carcases, referred to in Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 on the common organization of the market in pigmeat, the compensatory amount shall be derived from the compensatory amount applied in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2 with the help of coefficients to be determined.

Section 13

Eggs

Article 100

1. For eggs, Articles 58, 59 and 61 shall apply to the price of these products in Greece and in the Community as at present constituted.

2. However, in order to avoid any risk of disturbance in trade between the Community as at present constituted and Greece, the compensatory amount may be calculated on the basis of compensatory amounts for feed grain. To this end:

(a) for eggs in shell, the compensatory amount per kilogram of eggs in shell shall be calculated on the basis of the compensatory amounts applicable to the quantity of feed grain required for the production in the Community of one kilogram of eggs in shell;

(b) for hatching eggs, the compensatory amount per hatching egg shall be calculated on the basis of the compensatory amounts applicable to the quantity of feed grain required for the production in the Community of one hatching egg.

Without prejudice to the application of the first subparagraph the compensatory amount may be fixed at a level that also takes into account the national aid that the Hellenic Republic maintains pursuant to Article 69 for grain used in poultry farming.

3. For the products referred to in Article 1 (1) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 on the common organization of the market in eggs, the compensatory amount shall be derived from the compensatory amount applied in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2 with the help of coefficients to be determined.

Section 14

Poultrymeat

Article 101

1. For poultrymeat, Articles 58, 59 and 61 shall apply to the price of these products in Greece and in the Community as at present constituted.

2. However, in order to avoid any risk of disturbance in trade between the Community as at present constituted and Greece, the compensatory amount may be calculated on the basis of compensatory amounts for feed grain. To this end:

(a) for slaughtered poultry, the compensatory amount per kilogram of slaughtered poultry shall be calculated on the basis of the compensatory amounts applicable to the quantity of feed grain required for the production in the Community of one kilogram of slaughtered poultry, differentiated by species;

(b) for chicks, the compensatory amount applicable per chick shall be calculated on the basis of the compensatory amounts applicable to the quantity of feed grain required for the production in the Community of one chick.

Without prejudice to the application of the first subparagraph the compensatory amount may be fixed at a level that also takes into account the national aid that the Hellenic Republic maintains pursuant to Article 69 for grain used in poultry farming.

3. For the products referred to in Article 1 (2) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 on the common organization of the market in poultrymeat, the compensatory amount shall be derived from the compensatory amount applied in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2 with the help of coefficients to be determined.

Section 15

Rice

Article 102

1. For rice, Articles 58, 59 and 61 shall apply to the intervention price of paddy rice.

2. The compensatory amount for husked rice shall be the compensatory amount for paddy rice, converted by means of the conversion rate referred to in Article 1 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC.

3. For wholly milled rice, the compensatory amount shall be the compensatory amount for husked rice, converted by means of the conversion rate referred to in Article 1 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC.

4. For semi-milled rice, the compensatory amount shall be the compensatory amount for wholly milled rice, converted by means of the conversion rate referred to in Article 1 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC.

5. For the products referred to in Article 1 (1) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 on the common organization of the market in rice, the compensatory amount shall be derived from the compensatory amount applicable to products to which they are related, with the help of coefficients to be determined.

6. The compensatory amount for broken rice shall be fixed at a level that takes into account the difference existing between the supply price in Greece and the threshold price.

Section 16

Products processed from fruit and vegetables

Article 103

For products benefiting from the system of aid laid down in Article 3a of Regulation (EEC) No 516/77 on the common organization of the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables, the following provisions shall apply in Greece:

1. Until the first move towards alignment of prices referred to in Article 59 the minimum price referred to in Article 3a (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 516/77 shall be established on the basis of prices paid in Greece to producers for a product for processing, recorded over a representative period to be determined, under the previous national system.

2. If the minimum price referred to in paragraph 1 differs from the common price, the price in Greece shall be modified at the beginning of each marketing year following accession, in accordance with the detailed rules laid down in Article 59.

3. The amount of Community aid granted in Greece shall be fixed in such a fashion as to compensate the difference between the level of prices of products of third countries, determined under Article 3a (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 516/77 and the level of prices of Greek products established taking into account the minimum price referred to in paragraph 2, and the processing costs obtaining in Greece, without taking into consideration undertakings which have higher costs. This aid may not however exceed aid granted in the Community as at present constituted.

4. Community aid shall be applied in its entirety in Greece as from the beginning of the seventh marketing year following accession for tomato concentrates, peeled tomatoes, tomato juice and tinned peaches, and as from the beginning of the fifth marketing year following accession for prunes derived from dried plums (‘prunes d'Ente’).

5. However, if the minimum price resulting from the application of paragraph 1 or 2 is greater than the common minimum price, the latter price may be definitively adopted for Greece.

Section 17

Dried fodder

Article 104

1. The guide price referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 on the common organization of the market in dried fodder, applicable in Greece on 1 January 1981, shall be fixed at a level equivalent to the world market price increased by any aid granted in Greece, during a reference period to be determined, under the previous national system, excepting aids maintained pursuant to Article 69, and customs duties applied on 1 July 1980 by Greece towards third countries. However the guide price, thus determined, may not exceed the common guide price.

2. Article 59 shall apply to the guide price calculated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 if it is less than the common guide price.

3. Supplementary aid applicable in Greece shall be reduced by an amount equal to:

— the difference, if any, existing between the guide price applied in Greece and the common guide price, and

— the incidence of customs duties applied by Greece to the import of these products from third countries,

this amount being multiplied by the percentage referred to in Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78.

4. Article 68 shall apply to the flat-rate aid referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78.

Section 18

Peas and field beans

Article 105

1. For peas and field beans, the activating price applicable in Greece on 1 January 1981 shall be fixed on the basis of the difference existing between the prices of competing products in crop rotation in Greece and in the Community as at present constituted during a reference period to be determined.

If the prices of these competing products are similar, the common price shall be applicable in Greece as from accession. If the contrary holds true, Article 59 shall apply to the activating price for these products. However, the activating price to be applied in Greece may not exceed the common activating price.

2. The amount of the aid referred to in Article 2 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1119/78 laying down special measures for peas and field beans used in the feeding of animals, for peas and field beans harvested in Greece, shall be reduced by an amount equal to the difference, if any, existing between the activating price applied in Greece and the common activating price.

Without prejudice to the application of the first subparagraph, the amount of the aid in question for a product processed in Greece shall be reduced by the incidence of the customs duties applied in Greece to the import of soya oil cakes from third countries.

The amounts resulting from the application of the first and second subparagraphs shall be multiplied by the percentage referred to in Article 2 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1119/78.

Article 106

Notwithstanding Article 67, at the time of fixing the level of the different amounts laid down for peas and field beans, other than the prices referred to in Article 105 (1), account shall be taken, for Greece, to the extent necessary for the proper functioning of the common organization of the market for these products of the difference in prices arising from the application of Article 105 (1).

Section 19

Wine

Article 107

1. Articles 58 and 59 shall apply to guide prices for table wines. Article 61 shall apply to the same products subject to paragraph 3.

2. The compensatory amount for the other products for which a reference price is fixed, shall be determined, to the extent necessary for the proper functioning of the common organization of the market, on the basis of the compensatory amount fixed for table wines. However, for liqueur wines, the compensatory amount applicable on 1 January 1981 shall be equal to the amount of the countervailing charge to be applied vis-à-vis third countries on this date. This compensatory amount shall be eliminated in accordance with the timetable laid down in Article 59.

3. No compensatory amount shall apply to the import into Greece from third countries for goods subject to reference prices.

Article 108

Notwithstanding Article 67, the activating price referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 on the common organization of the market in wine, applicable in Greece, shall not be adjusted by the compensatory amount. However, this amount shall be added to the average price fixed for each representative Greek market.

Article 109

For such time as the Hellenic Republic shall apply Article 70 to dried grapes, the volume of alcohol from dried grapes which may be added to certain wines in Greece pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 351/79 concerning the addition of alcohol to products in the wine sector shall be limited to an annual volume not exceeding the annual average in volume of this alcohol used for this purpose in Greece during 1978, 1979 and 1980.

CHAPTER 3

Provisions relating to fisheries

Article 110

1. Notwithstanding Article 2 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 101/76 laying down a common structural policy for the fishing industry, and Article 100 of the Act of Accession 1972, the Italian Republic and the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized, until 31 December 1985, to restrict, as between each other, fishing in waters under their sovereignty or jurisdiction, situated within the areas indicated in Article 111, to vessels which traditionally fish from ports in the geographical coastal area in these waters.

2. The provisions of paragraph 1 and of Article 111 shall not prejudice the special fishing rights which the Hellenic Republic and the Italian Republic may enjoy, as between each other, on 1 January 1981.

Article 111

The demarcation of areas referred to in Article 110 (1) shall be made as follows:

1. Greece Waters situated inside a limit of six nautical miles calculated from the base lines.

2. Italy Waters situated inside a limit of six nautical miles calculated from the base lines. This limit shall be extended to 12 nautical miles for the following areas: (a) Adriatic Sea, from the south of the mouth of the Po di Goro; (b) Ionian Sea; (c) Sicilian Sea and Straits of Sicily, including the islands; (d) waters of Sardinia.

CHAPTER 4

Other provisions

Section 1

Veterinary measures

Article 112

1. The Hellenic Republic shall not send to the territory of other Member States, from those of its regions specified in accordance with the procedure of the Standing Veterinary Committee on the basis of guarantees offered, any bovine animal or swine, nor fresh meat from bovine animals, swine, goats, sheep or lambs, until, in the said regions, a period of 12 months has elapsed since the appearance of the last source of exotic virus foot-and-mouth disease or since the last vaccination against this disease.

2. Before 31 December 1985 an examination of the situation shall be carried out concerning exotic virus foot and mouth disease.

At the latest by 1 July 1984 the Commission shall present to the Council a report with proposals with a view to adopting appropriate Community provisions in this field.

Section 2

Measures concerning seed and seedling legislation

Article 113

1. Until 31 December 1985 the Hellenic Republic may apply its own admission rules to varieties of agricultural or horticultural species or to basic material of forestry species, as well as rules of certification and control of its production of seeds and agricultural, horticultural and forestry seedlings.

2. The Hellenic Republic:

(a) shall take all the necessary measures to comply progressively and at the latest before the expiry of the time limit referred to in paragraph 1 to Community provisions concerning the admission of varieties, basic materials, and the marketing of seeds, and agricultural, horticultural and forestry seedlings;

(b) may restrict, wholly or partially, before the expiry of the time limit referred to in paragraph 1, the marketing of seeds and agricultural and horticultural seedlings to seeds and seedlings of the varieties admitted into its territory; this provision shall also apply to basic materials in respect of reproductive forestry material;

(c) shall only export to the territory of present Member States seeds and seedings that comply with Community provisions.

3. In accordance with the procedure of the Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry it may be decided, before 31 December 1985, to liberalize progressively trade in seeds and seedlings of certain species between Greece and the Community as at present constituted as soon as it appears that the necessary conditions for such liberalization are met.

Section 3

Miscellaneous provisions

Article 114

The acts listed in Annex IV to this Act shall apply in respect of Greece under the conditions laid down in that Annex.

TITLE V

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

CHAPTER 1

Common commercial policy

Article 115

1. Until 31 December 1985 the Hellenic Republic may maintain quantitative restrictions in the form of global quotas for the products and amounts listed in Annex V as temporary derogations from the common liberalization lists contained in Regulations (EEC) No 109/70, (EEC) No 1439/74 and (EEC) No 2532/78. These products shall be fully liberalized on 1 January 1986 and the quotas shall be progressively increased until that date. The procedures for the increase in the quotas shall be identical to those laid down in Article 36.

If imports made in two consecutive years are less than 90 % of the annual quota opened, the Hellenic Republic shall abolish the quantitative restrictions in force, if the product in question is at that time liberalized vis-à-vis the present Member States.

2. Until 31 December 1985 the Hellenic Republic shall not liberalize vis-à-vis third countries, products not yet liberalized vis-à-vis the Community as at present constituted, or give third countries any other advantage over the Community as at present constituted as regards the quotas set for these products. The Hellenic Republic shall not liberalize with regard to State-trading countries referred to in Regulations (EEC) No 109/70 and (EEC) No 2532/78 products not yet liberalized with regard to the Community as at present constituted or countries to which Regulation (EEC) No 1439/74 applies or give such countries any other advantage over the Community as at present constituted or countries to which Regulation (EEC) No 1439/74 applies as regards the quotas fixed for these products.

3. Until 31 December 1985 the Hellenic Republic shall maintain quantitative restrictions, in the form of quotas, vis-à-vis all third countries for the products listed in Annex VI which are not liberalized by the Community as at present constituted and which the Hellenic Republic has not yet liberalized vis-à-vis the former. The quotas for 1981 for countries to which Regulation (EEC) No 1439/74 applies other than those referred to in Article 120 and with regard to State-trading countries referred to in Regulations (EEC) No 109/70 and (EEC) No 2532/78 shall be the amounts shown in that Annex.

Any alteration of these quotas shall only be made in accordance with Community procedures.

Article 116

The Hellenic Republic shall abolish vis-à-vis third countries its system, as it exists at the time of accession, of import deposits and cash payments in accordance with the same timetable and under the same conditions as those laid down in Article 38 as regards the present Member States.

Article 117

1. On 1 January 1981 the Hellenic Republic shall apply the Community system of generalized preferences for products other than those listed in Annex II of the EEC Treaty; however, as regards the products listed in Annex VII, the Hellenic Republic shall progressively align until 31 December 1985 on the rates of the system of generalized preferences. The timetable of alignment for these products shall be the same as those laid down in Article 31.

2. In the case of products listed in Annex II to the EEC Treaty, the preferential rates provided for or calculated shall be applied to the duties actually levied by the Hellenic Republic in respect of third countries as laid down in Article 64.

In no case should Greek imports from third countries benefit from rates of duty more favourable than those applied to products from the Community as at present constituted.

CHAPTER 2

Agreements of the Communities with certain third countries

Article 118

1. As from 1 January 1981 the Hellenic Republic shall apply the provisions of the Agreements referred to in Article 120.

The transitional measures and adjustments shall be the subject of Protocols concluded with the cocontracting third countries and annexed to those Agreements.

2. These transitional measures, which shall take into account the corresponding measures adopted within the Community and which may not extend beyond the period of validity thereof, shall be designed to ensure the application by the Community of a single system for its relations with the cocontracting third countries as well as the identity of the rights and obligations of the Member States.

3. These transitional measures applicable to the countries listed in Article 120 shall not, in any field, involve the Hellenic Republic granting them more favourable treatment than will apply to the Community as at present constituted.

In particular, all products subject to transitional measures in respect of quantitative restrictions applicable to the Community as at present constituted shall be subject to such measures vis-à-vis all the countries listed in Article 120, and for an identical period of time.

4. These transitional measures applicable to the countries listed in Article 120 shall not result in the Hellenic Republic giving less favourable treatment to these countries than to other third countries. In particular, transitional measures in respect of quantitative restrictions cannot be envisaged for the countries listed in Article 120 in respect of products which will be free of such restrictions when imported into Greece from other third countries.

Article 119

If the Protocols referred to in Article 118 (1) are not, for reasons outside the control of the Community or the Hellenic Republic, concluded on 1 January 1981 the Community shall take the necessary measures to deal with this situation after accession.

In any case, most-favoured-nation-treatment shall be applied as from 1 January 1981 by the Hellenic Republic to the countries listed in Article 120.

Article 120

Articles 118 and 119 shall apply to the Agreements concluded with Algeria, Austria, Cyprus, Egypt, Finland, Iceland, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.

Articles 118 and 119 shall also apply to Agreements which the Community concludes with other third countries in the Mediterranean region before the entry into force of this Act.

CHAPTER 3

Relations with the African, Caribbean and Pacific States

Article 121

The arrangements resulting from the ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé and the Agreement on products within the province of the European Coal and Steel Community, signed on 28 February 1975, shall not apply in relations between the Hellenic Republic and the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, with the exception of Protocol 3 on sugar.

Article 122

The provisions of Articles 118 and 119 shall apply to any new Agreement that the Community concludes with the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries before the entry into force of this Act.

CHAPTER 4

Textiles

Article 123

1. As from 1 January 1981 the Hellenic Republic shall apply the Arrangement of 20 December 1973 regarding international trade in textiles as well as the bilateral Agreements concluded by the Community under this Arrangement. Protocols o