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Corrigendum to the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the other part (Official Journal of the European Communities No L 358 of 31 December 1994)

On page 33:

for: 'Hecho en Udfaerdiget i Geschehen zu ¸ãéíaa óôéò Done at Fait à Fatto a Gedaan te Feito em >REFERENCE TO A FILM>

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read: 'Hecho en Bruselas, el ocho de marzo de mil novecientos noventa y tres.

Udfaerdiget i Bruxelles, den ottende marts nitten hundrede og treoghalvfems.

Geschehen zu Bruessel am achten Maerz neunzehnhundertdreiundneunzig.

¸ãéíaa óôéò ÂñõîÝëëaaò, óôéò ïêôþ Ìáñôssïõ ÷ssëéá aaííéáêueóéá aaííaaíÞíôá ôñssá.

Done at Brussels on the eighth day of March in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three.

Fait à Bruxelles, le huit mars mil neuf cent quatre-vingt-treize.

Fatto a Bruxelles, addì otto marzo millenovecentonovantatre.

Gedaan te Brussel, de achtste maart negentienhonderd drieënnegentig.

Feito em Bruxelas, em oito de Março de mil novecentos e noventa e três.

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AGREEMENT in the form of an exchange of letters extending the adaptation to the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria on trade in mutton, lamb and goatmeat

Letter No 1

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to the exchange of letters of 1990 constituting an Agreement between the Community and the Republic of Bulgaria adapting the principal Agreement concluded in 1982 between the Community and the Republic of Bulgaria on trade in mutton, lamb and goatmeat.

Further to recent discussions, I have the honour to propose that the Agreement set out in the above exchange of letters, extended for one year on 17 December 1992, shall continue in force until 31 December 1994 subject to the following amendment:

in Clause 6 of the Agreement, 'until 31 December 1993' shall be replaced by 'until 31 December 1994'.

I have the honour to propose that, if the foregoing is acceptable to your Government, this letter and your confirmatory reply shall together constitute an Agreement between the Community and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria on the matter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

On behalf of the Council of the European Union

Letter No 2

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today's date which reads as follows:

'I have the honour to refer to the exchange of letters of 1990 constituting an Agreement between the Community and the Republic of Bulgaria adapting the principal Agreement concluded in 1982 between the Community and the Republic of Bulgaria on trade in mutton, lamb and goatmeat.

Further to recent discussions, I have the honour to propose that the Agreement set out in the above exchange of letters, extended for one year on 17 December 1992, shall continue in force until 31 December 1994 subject to the following amendment:

in Clause 6 of the Agreement, "until 31 December 1993" shall be replaced by "until 31 December 1994".

I have the honour to propose that, if the foregoing is acceptable to your Government, this letter and your confirmatory reply shall together constitute an Agreement between the Community and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria on the matter.' I have the honour to confirm that my Government is in agreement with the contents of your letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria
AGREEMENT in the form of an exchange of letters extending the adaptation to the Agreement between the European Community and the Czech Republic on trade in mutton, lamb and goatmeat

Letter No 1

Brussels, . . . . . . Sir,

I have the honour to refer to the exchange of letters of 1990 constituting an Agreement between the Community and the Czech Republic adapting the Principal Agreement concluded in 1982 between the Community and the Czech Republic on trade in mutton, lamb and goatmeat.

Further to recent discussions, I have the honour to propose that the Agreement set out in the above exchange of letters shall continue in force until 30 June 1995 subject to the following amendment:

in Clause 6 of the Agreement: 'until 31 December 1994` shall be replaced by 'until 30 June 1995`.

Moreover, the quantity for the first six months of 1995 will be 50 % of the figure agreed for the whole of the year 1995, but it may be exceeded by up to 20 %, which will be taken into account during the subsequent period.

I have the honour to propose that, if the foregoing is acceptable to your Government, this letter and your confirmatory reply shall together constitute an Agreement between the Community and the Government of the Czech Republic on the matter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

On behalf of the Council of the European Union

Letter No 2

Brussels, . . . . . .

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today's date which reads as follows:

'I have the honour to refer to the exchange of letters of 1990 constituting an Agreement between the Community and the Czech Republic adapting the Principal Agreement concluded in 1982 between the Community and the Czech Republic on trade in mutton, lamb and goatmeat.

Further to recent discussions, I have the honour to propose that the Agreement set out in the above exchange of letters shall continue in force until 30 June 1995 subject to the following amendment:

in Clause 6 of the Agreement: "until 31 December 1994" shall be replaced by "until 30 June 1995".

Moreover, the quantity for the first six months of 1995 will be 50 % of the figure agreed for the whole of the year 1995, but it may be exceeded by up to 20 %, which will be taken into account during the subsequent period.

I have the honour to propose that, if the foregoing is acceptable to your Government, this letter and your confirmatory reply shall together constitute an Agreement between the Community and the Government of the Czech Republic on the matter.`

I have the honour to confirm that my Government is in agreement with the contents of your letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

On behalf of the Government of the Czech Republic
AGREEMENT

in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Community and the Republic of Latvia on maritime transport

A. Letter from the Community

Sir,

We would be grateful if you would confirm that your Government agrees with the following:

When the Free Trade Agreement between the European Communities and Latvia was signed, the Parties undertook to address in the appropriate manner issues relating to the operation of shipping, particularly where the development of trade might be hindered. Mutually satisfactory solutions on shipping will be sought while the principle of free and fair competition on a commercial basis is observed.

It has likewise been agreed that such issues should also be discussed by the Joint Committee.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of our highest consideration.

On behalf of

the Council of the European Union

B. Letter from the Republic of Latvia

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to confirm that my Government agrees with the following:

'When the Free Trade Agreement between the European Communities and Latvia was signed, the Parties undertook to address in the appropriate manner issues relating to the operation of shipping, particularly where the development of trade might be hindered. Mutually satisfactory solutions on shipping will be sought while the principle of free and fair competition on a commercial basis is observed.

It has likewise been agreed that such issues should also be discussed by the Joint Committee.'

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of our highest consideration.

For the Government

of the Republic of Latvia
PROTOCOL 34

on the possibility for courts and tribunals of EFTA States to request the Court of Justice of the European Communities to decide on the interpretation of EEA rules corresponding to EC rules

Article 1

When a question of interpretation of provisions of the Agreement, which are identical in substance to the provisions of the Treaties establishing the European Communities, as amended or supplemented, or of acts adopted in pursuance thereof, arises in a case pending before a court or tribunal of an EFTA State, the court or tribunal may, if it considers this necessary, ask the Court of Justice of the European Communities to decide on such a question.

Article 2

An EFTA State which intends to make use of this Protocol shall notify the Depositary and the Court of Justice of the European Communities to what extent and according to what modalities the Protocol will apply to its courts and tribunals.

Article 3

The Depositary shall notify the Contracting Parties of any notification under Article 2.
PROTOCOL 6

on the building up of compulsory reserves by Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Switzerland and Liechtenstein may subject to a scheme of compulsory reserves products which are indispensable for the survival of the population and, in relation to Switzerland, for the army, in times of serious supply shortages, and the production of which in Switzerland and Liechtenstein is insufficient or non-existent and the characteristics and nature of which enable reserves to be built up.

Switzerland and Liechtenstein shall apply this scheme in a manner that does not involve discrimination, direct or indirect, between the products imported from the other Contracting Parties and like or substitute national products.
Exchange of letters between the European Economic Community and the Czech Republic concerning Article 68

A. Letter from the Community

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to the discussions concerning Article 68 of the Europe Agreement.

I hereby confirm that with regard to the provisions of Article 68 of the Europe Agreement, the access to contract award procedures in the Czech Republic granted to Community companies upon entry into force of the Agreement pursuant to Article 68 shall apply to Community companies established in the Czech Republic in the form of subsidiaries as described in Article 45 and in the forms described in Article 55. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 68, Community companies established in the Czech Republic in the form of branches and agencies as described in Article 45 shall have access to contract award procedures in the Czech Republic at the latest by the end of the transitional period referred to in Article 7.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that the Government of the Czech Republic is in agreement with the contents of this letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of may highest consideration.

On behalf of the Council of the European Communities

B. Letter from the Czech Republic

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today's date which reads as follows:

'I have the honour to refer to the discussions concerning Article 68 of the Europe Agreement.

I hereby confirm that with regard to the provisions of Article 68 of the Europe Agreement, the access to contract award procedures in the Czech Republic granted to Community companies upon entry into force of the Agreement pursuant to Article 68 shall apply to Community companies established in the Czech Republic in the form of subsidiaries as described in Article 45 and in the forms described in Article 55. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 68, Community companies established in the Czech Republic in the form of branches and agencies as described in Article 45 shall have access to contract award procedures in the Czech Republic at the latest by the end of the transitional period referred to in Article 7.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that the Government of the Czech Republic is in agreement with the contents of this letter.`

I have the honour to confirm that my Government is in agreement with the contents of this letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

For the Government of the Czech Republic
Exchange of letters between the European Economic Community and the Slovak Republic concerning Article 68

A. Letter from the Community

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to the discussions concerning Article 68 of the Europe Agreement.

I hereby confirm that with regard to the provisions of Article 68 of the Europe Agreement, the access to contract award procedures in the Slovak Republic granted to Community companies upon entry into force of the Agreement pursuant to Article 68 shall apply to Community companies established in the Slovak Republic in the form of subsidiaries as described in Article 45 and in the forms described in Article 55. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 68, Community companies established in the Slovak Republic in the form of branches and agencies as described in Article 45 shall have access to contract award procedures in the Slovak Republic at the latest by the end of the transitional period referred to in Article 7.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that the Government of the Slovak Republic is in agreement with the contents of this letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

On behalf of the Council of the European Communities

B. Letter from the Slovak Republic

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today's date which reads as follows:

'I have the honour to refer to the discussions concerning Article 68 of the Europe Agreement.

I hereby confirm that with regard to the provisions of Article 68 of the Europe Agreement, the access to contract award procedures in the Slovak Republic granted to Community companies upon entry into force of the Agreement pursuant to Article 68 shall apply to Community companies established in the Slovak Republic in the form of subsidiaries as described in Article 45 and in the forms described in Article 55. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 68, Community companies established in the Slovak Republic in the form of branches and agencies as described in Article 45 shall have access to contract award procedures in the Slovak Republic at the latest by the end of the transitional period referred to in Article 7.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that the Government of the Slovak Republic is in agreement with the contents of this letter.`

I have the honour to confirm that my Government is in agreement with the contents of this letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

For the Government of the Slovak Republic
STATEMENT BY THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM

ON THE SIGNING OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS TO BE CONCLUDED JOINTLY BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND ITS MEMBER STATES

(95/C 157/01)

At its meeting on 12 June 1995, the Council took note of the following statement by the Kingdom of Belgium and agreed that it should be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities:

'The Kingdom of Belgium intends in future to proceed as follows on the occasion of the signing of international agreements to be concluded jointly by the European Community and its Member States:

(a) only one signature will be appended to those agreements on behalf of the Kingdom of Belgium, whether that signature is appended by a Federal, Regional or Community Minister;

(b) a statement will appear below that signature referring to the Communities and Regions of the Kingdom of Belgium where such an indication is imposed by Belgian constitutional law;

(c) the Kingdom of Belgium confirms that it will in all cases be the Kingdom as such that is bound, in respect of its whole territory, by the provisions of the international agreements which it has concluded;

(d) the Kingdom of Belgium confirms that the Kingdom alone, as such, will bear full responsibility for compliance with the obligations entered into in the international agreements concerned, with regard to both the European Communities and the other contracting States.`
AGREEMENT for the conclusion of negotiations between the European Community and New Zealand under Article XXIV:6

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND NEW ZEALAND,

DESIRING to bring their GATT Article XXIV:6 negotiations to conclusion on the basis of a reasonable and mutually satisfactory compromise, and

FURTHER DESIRING to strengthen the close partnership in commercial and economic matters between the European Community and New Zealand,

AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS:

A. The European Community shall incorporate in its new Schedule CLX, for the customs territory of the EUR 15, the concessions that were included in the previous Schedule LXXX as modified by the European Community Schedule annexed to the Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement, 1994 (dated 15 April 1994).

B. To settle the current GATT Article XXIV:6 negotiations on agriculture the following has been agreed and as regards the tariff rate quotas will apply with effect from 1 January 1996:

- add 1 700 tonnes to the allocation for New Zealand under the EC tariff rate quota for sheepmeat,

- add 1 000 tonnes to the allocation for New Zealand under the EC tariff rate quota for cheese for processing,

- add 500 tonnes to the allocation for New Zealand under the EC tariff rate quota for cheddar,

- tariff rate quota 300 tonnes of high quality beef at 20 %,

- ex 0810 90 10 Kiwifruit, 15 May to 15 November:

- reduction of the final tariff rate from 8,8 % to 8,0 %;

- reduction by 0,8 % percentage points of the tariff rate at each stage prior to the final tariff rate. The first such reduction shall apply from 15 May 1996.

New Zealand accepts the basic components of the European Community's approach to adjusting the GATT obligations of the EUR 12 and those of Austria, Finland and Sweden, following the recent enlargement of the Community:

- netting out of export commitments,

- netting out of tariff quotas,

- aggregation of domestic support commitments.

The appropriate legal modalities of implementation remain to be agreed.

C. The following has also been agreed:

- ex 0304 20 96 frozen fillets of fish of the species Pseudocyttus Maculatus and Allocytus spp.

tariff quota of 200 tonnes at zero duty.

D. Final provisions

This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of signature.

Consultations will be held with regard to the matters in this Agreement at any time at the request of either party.

Signed ad Brussels this twenty-second day of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five.

For the Government of New Zealand

On behalf of the Council of the European Union
INTERNATIONAL GRAINS AGREEMENT, 1995

PREAMBLE

THE SIGNATORIES TO THIS AGREEMENT

Considering that the International Wheat Agreement, 1949 was revised, renewed, updated or extended on successive occasions leading to the conclusion of the International Wheat Agreement, 1986,

Considering that the provisions of the International Wheat Agreement, 1986, consisting of the Wheat Trade Convention, 1986, on the one hand, and the Food Aid Convention, 1986, on the other, as extended, will expire on 30 June 1995, and that it is desirable to conclude an agreement for a new period,

HAVE AGREED

that the International Wheat Agreement, 1986 shall be updated and renamed the International Grains Agreement, 1995, which shall consist of two separate legal instruments:

(a) the Grains Trade Convention, 1995 and

(b) the Food Aid Convention, 1995,

and that each of these two Conventions, or either of them as appropriate, shall be submitted for signature and ratification, acceptance or approval, in conformity with their respective constitutional or institutional procedures, by the Governments concerned.
AGREEMENT in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the provisional application of the Protocol establishing, for the period from 1 January 1996 to 31 December 1997, the fishing rights and financial compensation provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Government of the Republic of Guinea on fishing off the Guinean coast

A. Letter from the Government of the Republic of Guinea

Sir,

With reference to the Protocol, initialled on 6 December 1995, establishing, for the period from 1 January 1996 to 31 December 1997, the fishing rights and financial compensation, I have the honour to inform you that the Government of the Republic of Guinea is ready to apply this Protocol on a provisional basis, with effect from 1 January 1996, pending its entry into force in accordance with Article 9 of the said Protocol, provided that the European Community is disposed to do the same.

This is on the understanding that the first instalment of the financial compensation specified in Article 2 of the Protocol is paid by 31 May 1996.

I should be obliged if you would confirm the European Community's agreement to such provisional application.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

For the Government of the Republic of Guinea

B. Letter from the Community

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today's date, which reads as follows:

'With reference to the Protocol, initialled on 6 December 1995, establishing, for the period from 1 January 1996 to 31 December 1997, the fishing rights and financial compensation, I have the honour to inform you that the Government of the Republic of Guinea is ready to apply this Protocol on a provisional basis, with effect from 1 January 1996, pending its entry into force in accordance with Article 9 of the said Protocol, provided that the European Community is disposed to do the same.

This is on the understanding that the first instalment of the financial compensation specified in Article 2 of the Protocol is paid by 31 May 1996.

I should be obliged if you would confirm the European Community's agreement to such provisional application.`

I have the honour to confirm the European Community's agreement to this provisional application of the Protocol.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

On behalf of the Council the European Union