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COUNCIL 
TRANSLATION 
AGREEMENT 
on trade  with  the  Overseas  Countries  and  Territories  in products  within  the  province 
of the European  Coal  and  Steel  Community 
(14 December  1970) 
HIS MAJESTY  THE  KING  OF THE  BELGIANS, 
THE  PRESIDENT  OF THE  FEDERAL  REPUBLIC  OF GERMANY, 
THE  PRESIDENT  OF THE  FRENCH  REPUBLIC, 
THE  PRESIDENT  OF THE  ITALIAN  REPUBLIC, 
HIS ROYAL  HIGHNESS  THE  GRAND  DUKE  OF LUXEMBOURG, 
HER  MAJESTY  THE  QUEEN  OF THE  NETHERLANDS, 
Contracting  Parties  to the Treaty  establishing  the European  Coal  and  Steel  Community,  signed 
at Paris  on 17 April  1951,  whose  States  are hereinafter  referred  to as 'Member  States', 
HAVING  REGARD  to the Treaty  establishing  the European  Coal  and  Steel  Community; 
HAVING  REGARD  to the  Treaty  establishing  the  European  Economic  Community,  and  in 
particular  to Article  232  thereof; 
CONSIDERING  the  fact  that  the  association  arrangements  between  the  European  Economic 
Community  and  the  Overseas  Countries  and  Territories  associated  with  that  Community, 
hereinafter  referred  to as 'Countries  and  Territories',  does  not  apply  to products  within  the 
province  of the European  Coal  and  Steel  Community; 
DESIRING  nevertheless  to maintain  and  increase  trade  in those  products  between  the Member 
States  and  the Countries  and  Territories; 
HAVE  DESIGNATED  as their  Plenipotentiaries: 
HIS MAJESTY  THE  KING  OF THE  BELGIANS: 
Mr Pierre  HARMEL, 
Minister  for Foreign  Affairs; 
THE  PRESIDENT  OF THE  FEDERAL  REPUBLIC  OF GERMANY: 
Mr Walter  SCHEEL, 
Minister  for Foreign  Affairs; 
THE  PRESIDENT  OF THE  FRENCH  REPUBLIC: 
Mr Maurice  SCHUMANN, 
Minister  for Foreign  Affairs; 
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THE  PRESIDENT  OF THE  ITALIAN  REPUBLIC: 
Mr Aldo  MORO, 
Minister  for Foreign  Affairs; 
HIS ROYAL  HIGHNESS  THE  GRAND  DUKE  OF LUXEMBOURG: 
Mr Gaston  THORN, 
Minister  for Foreign  Affairs; 
HER  MAJESTY  THE  QUEEN  OF THE  NETHERLANDS: 
Mr J. M. A. H. LUNS, 
Minister  for Foreign  Affairs; 
WHO,  having  exchanged  their  Full  Powers,  found  in good  and  due  form, 
HAVE  AGREED  the following: 
Article  1 
Save  where  measures  are taken  pursuant  to Chapter 
X of the Treaty  establishing  the European  Coal  and 
Steel  Community,  products  within  the  province  of 
that Community  shall,  when  they  originate  in the 
Countries  and  Territories,  on importation  into  the 
Community  be admitted  free  of customs  duties  and 
charges  having  equivalent  effect;  however,  the treat-
ment  applied  to these  products  shall  not  be more 
favourable  than  that  applied  by the  Member  States 
among  themselves. 
Article  2 
The products  mentioned  above  shall,  when  they 
originate  in the Member  States,  on importation  into 
the Countries  and  Territories,  be admitted  free  of 
customs  duties  and  charges  having  equivalent  effect 
and free  of quantitative  restrictions  and  measures 
having  equivalent  effect,  under  similar  conditions  to 
those  to be laid  down  in Title  I, Chapter  I, and  Ar-
ticle 15 (1) of the  Decision  on the  Association  of 
the Overseas  Countries  and  Territories  with  the 
European  Economic  Community  and  in Annexes  II 
and III thereto. 
Article  3 
Consultations  shall  take  place  between  the  Parties 
concerned  in all cases  where,  in the opinion  of one 
of them,  the implementation  of the above  provisions 
calls  for such  consultations. Article  4 
This  Agreement  shall  not  affect  the  provisions  of 
the Treaty  establishing  the European  Coal  and  Steel 
Community,  nor the powers  or jurisdiction  conferred 
by that  Treaty. 
Article  5 
This  Agreement  shall  be approved  by each  Signatory 
State  in accordance  with  its  own  constitutional 
requirements.  The  Government  of each  State  shall 
notify  the Secretariat  of the Council  of the European 
Communities  of the  completion  of the  procedures 
required  for the entry  into  force  of this  Agreement. 
This  Agreement  shall  enter  into  force  on the  first 
day of the  month  following  the date  on which  the 
Member  States  deposit  their  instruments  of ratifica-
tion. 
Article  6 
This  Agreement  shall  expire  on 31 January  1975. 
Article  7 
This  Agreement,  drawn  up in a single  original  in 
the Dutch,  French,  German  and  Italian  languages, 
each  of these  texts  being  equally  authentic,  shall  be 
deposited  in the  archives  of the  Secretariat  of the 
Council  of the  European  Communities,  which  shall 
transmit  a certified  copy  to the Government  of each 
of the Signatory  States. 
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In witness  whereof,  the undersigned  Plenipotentiaries  have  signed  this  Agreement. 
Done  at Brussels  this  fourteenth  day  of December  in the  year  one  thousand  nine 
hundred  and seventy. 
For His Majesty  the King  of the Belgians: 
P. HARMEL 
For the President  of the Federal  Republic  of Germany: 
W. SCHEEL 
For the President  of the French  Republic: 
M. SCHUMANN 
For the President  of the Italian  Republic: 
A. MORO 
For His Royal  Highness  the Grand  Duke  of Luxembourg: 
G. THORN 
For Her  Majesty  the Queen  of the Netherlands: 
J. M. A. H. LUNS