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Corrigendum to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Slovenia in the field of transport

(Official Journal of the European Communities No L 189 of 29 July 1993)

On page 164 Article 12 (2) shall be replaced by the following:

'2. The Contracting Parties hereby agree to grant unrestricted access to Community transit traffic through Slovenia and to Slovenian transit traffic through the Community with effect from the date on which this agreement enters into force.`
AGREEMENT in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway concerning the adaptation of the Agreement on reciprocal trade in cheese

A. Letter from the Community

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to the consultations held between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway under paragraph 7 of the Agreement on reciprocal trade in cheese, signed on 22 March 1989.

I hereby confirm that these consultations have led to the following results:

1. for 1993, the quantities of cheese and the import duties laid down by the said Agreement are maintained without change, without prejudice to the provisions of the Agreement signed on 14 July 1986 between the Community and Norway following the accession of Spain and Portugal;

2. if necessary, during the second half of 1993 consultations will be held to determine the quantities and import duties applicable for the following years.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that your Government is in agreement with the foregoing.

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

On behalf of the Council

of the European Communities

B. Letter from Norway

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 consultations held between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway under paragraph 7 of the Agreement on reciprocal trade in cheese, signed on 22 March 1989.

I hereby confirm that these consultations have led to the following results:

1. for 1993, the quantities of cheese and the import duties laid down by the said Agreement are maintained without change, without prejudice to the provisions of the Agreement signed on 14 July 1986 between the Community and Norway following the accession of Spain and Portugal;

2. if necessary, during the second half of 1993 consultations will be held to determine the quantities and import duties applicable for the following years.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that your Government is in agreement with the foregoing.`

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 Kingdom of Norway
AGREEMENT in the form of on exchange of letters between the European Economic Community and Hungary concerning Article 66

A. Letter from the Community

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to the discussions concerning Article 66 of the Europe Agreement.

I hereby confirm that with regard to the provisions of Article 66 of the Europe Agreement, the access to contract award procedures in Hungary granted to Community companies upon entry into force of the Agreement pursuant to Article 66 shall apply to Community companies established in Hungary in the form of subsidiaries as described in Article 44 and in the forms described in Article 54. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 66, Community companies established in Hungary in the form of branches and agencies as described in Article 44 shall have access to contract award procedures in Hungary at the latest by the end of the transitional period referred to in Article 6.

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

Accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

On behalf of the Community

B. Letter from Hungary

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 66 of the Europe Agreement;

I hereby confirm that with regard to the provisions of Article 66 of the Europe Agreement, the access to contract award procedures in Hungary granted to Community companies upon entry into force of the Agreement pursuant to Article 66 shall apply to Community companies established in Hungary in the form of subsidiaries as described in Article 44 and in the forms described in Article 54. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 66, Community companies established in Hungary in the form of branches and agencies as described in Article 44 shall have access to contract award procedures in Hungary at the latest by the end of the transitional period referred to in Article 6.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that the Government of the Republic of Hungary 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.

Accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

For the Government of Hungary
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

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to the exchange of letters of 1990 constituting an Agreement between the Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic adapting the principal Agreement concluded in 1982 between the Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal 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, 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 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

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 and Slovak Federal Republic adapting the principal Agreement concluded in 1982 between the Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal 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, 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 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 concerning the recognition of regionalization of African swine fever in the Kingdom of Spain

A. Letter from Latvia

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to the discussions concerning trade agreements for certain agricultural products between the Community and Estonia which have taken place in the framework of the negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement.

I hereby confirm that Latvia accepts to recognize that the territory of the Kingdom of Spain, with the exception of the provinces of Badajoz, Huelva, Sevilla and Cordoba, is free from African swine fever, under the same terms as foreseen in Council Decision 89/21/EEC of 14 December 1988, and the successive Commission Decisions.

Latvia accepts this derogation without prejudice to all other requirements foreseen by the Latvian veterinary legislation.

I should be obliged if you would confirm the agreement of the Community to the contents of this letter.

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

For the Government

of the Republic of Latvia

B. Letter from the Community

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 trade agreements for certain agricultural products between the Community and Latvia which have taken place in the framework of the negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement.

I hereby confirm that Latvia accepts to recognize that the territory of the Kingdom of Spain, with the exception of the provinces of Badajoz, Huelva, Sevilla and Cordoba, is free from African swine fever, under the same terms as foreseen in Council Decision 89/21/EEC of 14 December 1988, and the successive Commission Decisions.

Latvia accepts this derogation without prejudice to all other requirements foreseen by the Latvian veterinary legislation.

I should be obliged if you would confirm the agreement of the Community to the contents of this letter.'

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

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

On behalf of

the Council of the European Union
PROTOCOL maintaining in force the arrangement regarding international trade in textiles

THE PARTIES to the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in textiles (hereinafter referred to as 'The Arrangement' or 'MFA'),

ACTING pursuant to Article 10 (5) of the Arrangement,

REAFFIRMING that the terms of the Arrangement regarding the competence of the Textiles Committee and the Textiles Surveillance Body are maintained, and

FOLLOWING the Decision of the Textiles Committee adopted on 9 December 1993,

HEREBY AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

1. The Arrangement, including the Conclusions of the Textiles Committee, adopted on 31 July 1986, as amended by the 1989 Protocol Amending the 1986 Protocol Extending the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in Textiles, shall be maintained in force for a further period of 12 months until 31 December 1994.

2. This Protocol shall be deposited with the Director-General to the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on tariffs and Trade. It shall be open for acceptance, by signature or otherwise, by the Parties to the Agreement, by other governments accepting or acceding to the Arrangement pursuant to the provisions of Article 13 thereof and by the European Community.

3. This Protocol shall enter into force on 1 January 1994 for the parties which have accepted it by that date and it shall enter into force for a party which accepts it on a later date as of the date of such acceptance. It shall be applied provisionally, taking into account their constitutional and/or legislative procedures for ratification, as from 1 January 1994, by parties which have signed it subject to completion of constitutional procedures, or notified the depositary of their intention to apply it provisionally, by that date, and by other parties from the date of their signature or notification of provisional application.

Done at Geneva this ninth day of December one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three in a single copy, in the English, French and Spanish languages, each text being authentic.
EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 336/308

DRAFT EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN URUGUAY AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

The European Community agrees to include in its final offer on market access under the Uruguay Round an additional quantity of two thousand metric tonnes of high-quality beef (0201.30.00 — 0206.10.85 meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled: 0202.30.90 — 206 29.91 meat of bovine animals, frozen) from Uruguay.

The European Community and Uruguay agree that the provision contained in the Tokyo Round agreement according to which the European Community was prepared to envisage the possibility of Uruguay being able to export additional annual quantities of high-quality beef if the overall quota for such cuts was not fully used by other beneficiary countries shall cease to apply.

The abovementioned provision shall cease to apply on the same date that the additional quantity of two thousand metric tonnes is implemented.
EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 56/24

ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS' RESOLUTION

of 2 July 1993

on the applicability of carnets de passage en douane and CPD carnets to private road vehicles

For the purposes of the application of the Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles (New York, 1954) the Community hereby notifies the Secretary-General of the United Nations that it accepts the United Nations' resolution of 2 July 1993 on the applicability of carnets de passage en douane and CPD carnets to private road vehicles.

The Community will apply the resolution, in the context of its relations with the Contracting Parties, to any of the Parties, which have also accepted the instrument.

The Community will also apply the Customs Cooperation Council's recommendation of 25 June 1992 on the CPD carnet (1) in so far as it concerns private road vehicles.

The text of the United Nations' resolution is reproduced below.

(1) OJ No L 289, 24. 11. 1993, p. 42.
AGREED MINUTES

Negotiations under GATT, Article XXVIII (4), relating to Schedule LXXX - European Communities

In the negotiations conducted under GATT, Article XXVIII (4), the delegations of the Commission of the European Communities and Brazil reached an agreement as indicated in the Annex.

The Delegations of the Commission of the European Communities and Brazil will submit this Agreement for approval to their respective authorities.

For the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities

For the Delegation of Brazil

ANNEX A

Director-General

GATT

Geneva

NEGOTIATIONS RELATING TO SCHEDULE LXXX - EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The Delegations of the Commission of the European Communities and Brazil have concluded their negotiations pursuant to Article XXVIII for the modification or withdrawal of concessions provided for in Schedule LXXX - European Communities as set out in the report attached.

For the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities

For the Delegation of Brazil

ANNEX B

Results of negotiations pursuant to Article XXVIII for the modification or withdrawal of concessions in the schedule of the European Communities initially negotiated with Brazil

CHANGES IN SCHEDULE LXXX - EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

A. Concessions to be withdrawn

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B. Bound rates to be increased

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C. Reduction of rates bound in the existing schedules

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D. New concessions

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PROTOCOL 16 on measures in the field of social security related to transitional periods on the free movement of persons (Switzerland and Liechtenstein)

Article 1

For the purposes of applying this Protocol and Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community (OJ No L 149, 5.7.1971, p. 416), 'seasonal worker` shall mean, as regards Switzerland and Liechtenstein, any worker who is a national of an EC Member State or another EFTA State and who is the holder of a seasonal permit in the sense of the national legislation of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively, for a maximum period of nine months.

Article 2

During the period of validity of the permit, the seasonal worker shall be entitled to unemployment benefits according to Swiss and Liechtenstein legislation, respectively, under the same conditions as a national of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively, and according to the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71.

Article 3

Part of the unemployment contributions paid by seasonal workers shall be reimbursed by Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively, to the States of residence of these workers according to the following procedure:

(a) For each State, the total amount of contributions shall be established according to the number of seasonal workers who are nationals of this State and present in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively, at the end of August, to the average length of the season, to the wages and to the rates of contribution to Swiss and Liechtenstein unemployment insurance, respectively (shares of the employer and of the worker).

(b) The amount reimbursed to each State shall correspond to fifty per cent of the total amount of the contributions, calculated according to subparagraph (a).

(c) The reimbursement shall be made only when the total number of seasonal workers residing in the State concerned exceeds, during the accounting period, 500 as regards Switzerland or 50 as regards Liechtenstein.

Article 4

The provisions on the reimbursement of unemployment contributions contained in the conventions on unemployment insurance concluded by Switzerland with France (Convention of 14 December 1978), Italy (Convention of 12 December 1978), the Federal Republic of Germany (Convention of 17 November 1982), Austria (Convention of 14 December 1978) and the Principality of Liechtenstein (Convention of 15 January 1979), shall continue to apply during the transitional periods.

Article 5

The validity of this Protocol shall be limited to the length of the transitional periods as defined in Protocol 15.
PROTOCOL 36

on the Statute of the EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee

Article 1

The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee established by Article 95 of the Agreement shall be constituted and function in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement and this Statute.

Article 2

The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee shall consist of 66 members.

An equal number of members of the EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee shall be appointed by the European Parliament and by the Parliaments of the EFTA States, respectively.

Article 3

The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee shall elect its President and Vice-President from among its members. The office of President of the Committee shall be held alternately, for a period of one year, by a member appointed by the European Parliament and by a member appointed by a Parliament of an EFTA State.

The Committee shall appoint its bureau.

Article 4

The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee shall hold a general session twice a year, alternately in the Community and in an EFTA State. The Committee shall decide at each session where the next general session shall be held. Extraordinary sessions may be held when the Committee or its bureau so decides in accordance with the rules of procedure of the Committee.

Article 5

The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure with a two-third majority of the members of the Committee.

Article 6

The costs for participation in the EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee shall be borne by the Parliament that appointed a member.
PROTOCOL 43

on the Agreement between the EC and the Republic of Austria on the transit of goods by road and rail

The Contracting Parties note that simultaneously with the present Agreement, a bilateral Agreement was signed between the European Communities and Austria on the transit of goods by road and rail.

Provisions of the bilateral Agreement shall prevail over provisions of the present Agreement to the extent that they cover the same subject matter and as specified in the present Agreement.

Six months before the expiration of the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Austria on the transit of goods by road and rail, the situation in road transport will be jointly reviewed.
PROTOCOL 33

on arbitration procedures

1. If a dispute has been referred to arbitration there shall be three arbitrators, unless the parties to the dispute decide otherwise.

2. The two sides to the dispute shall each, within 30 days, appoint one arbitrator.

3. The arbitrators so designated shall nominate by consensus one umpire, who shall be a national of one of the Contracting Parties other than those of the arbitrators designated. If they cannot agree within two months of their appointment, the umpire shall be chosen by them from seven persons on a list established by the EEA Joint Committee. The Joint Committee shall establish and keep under review this list in accordance with the rules of procedure for the Committee.

4. Unless the Contracting Parties decide otherwise, the arbitration tribunal shall adopt its rules of procedure. It takes its decisions by majority.
AGREEMENT

in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Community and Bulgaria concerning certain provisions applying to pigs and poultry

A. Letter from the Community

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to the discussions held in the context of the Europe Agreement negotiations between the Community and Bulgaria concerning the trade arrangements applicable to certain agricultural products.

I hereby confirm that the Community will notify the Bulgarian authorities before applying additional levies in the pig and poultry sectors to products listed in Annexes XIa and XIIIa to the Europe Agreement and originating in Bulgaria. The Parties will consult within five working days with a view to exchanging any information that might help the Community reach a decision on the need for such measures.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that your Government is in agreement with the above.

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

For the Community

B. Letter from Bulgaria

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 held in the context of the Europe Agreement negotiations between the Community and Bulgaria concerning the trade arrangements applicable to certain agricultural products.

I hereby confirm that the Community will notify the Bulgarian authorities before applying additional levies in the pig and poultry sectors to products listed in Annexes XIa and XIIIa to the Europe Agreement and originating in Bulgaria. The Parties will consult within five working days with a view to exchanging any information that might help the Community reach a decision on the need for such measures.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that your Government is in agreement with the above.'

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

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

For the Government of Bulgaria