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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(74)2251final
Brussels,8January1975
-RECOMMENDATION FORACOUNCILDECISION
concerningthecontinuation ofnegotiations onanadditionalProtocol
totheAgreementestablishing anAssociation betweenthe
EuropeanEconomicCommunityandGreecerequiredbytheaccessionofnew
/
MemberStatestotheEuropeanEconomicCommunity
(submittedtotheCouncilbytheCommission)
com(74)2251final

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
TheCommission presents totheCouncil itsproposals for
implementation ofthedecisions onGreek wines taken inthe SBC-Greece
Council ofAssociation on2December ,1974 *Thedecisions covered
twoaspects :theCommunity Decision ,transmitted totheGreek party ,
tomake adeclaration onharmonization inthewine sector ,andthe
Decision ofthe Council ofAssociation toretain for the Six Protocol
no.14annexed totheAssociation Agreement astheprovisional arrange­
ments for imports totheCommunity ofproducts inthis sector andtolay
down similar arrangements forthethree newMember States .Asregards
thedeclaration onharmonization ,theCommission considers that the
attached proposal ,once adopted bytheCouncil ,should beofficially commu­
nicated tothe Greek Government onthe occasion ofthe conclusion ofthe
negotiations 'Ontheadditional Protocol .
TheCommission considers that the import treatment accorded in
thethree newMember States should belaid down forthewhole period -
namely 2years–referred toinArticle 35although theCouncil ofAsso­
ciation infact mentioned 1975•fordisparity between atwo-year arran­
gement for the original Members oftheCommunity andtreatment accorded
foronly afewmonths forthenewMember States ,should beavoided .Fur­
thermore ,theCommission thinks itappropriate tooffer Greece preferential
treatment without ,however ,losing sight ofthefact that theCommunity 's
position should notbeweakened incase theharmonization negotiations came
tonothing andthetreatment applicable toimports ofGreek wine hadtobe
fixed forthewhole Community . Ittherefore proposes that ,byanalogy
with what wasdone in1962 inaccordance with Protocol no.14forBenelux
andforGermany thetariff treatment applied bythenewMember States
-2-

shouldbethetreatmentthattheyapplytothesameproductsfrom
theCommunityasoriginallyconstituted .Furthermore thetradit­
ionaltradepatternsshouldbetakenintoaccount,aswasdonefor
Germany,soastolaydowntreatmentwhich,whilerestricting imports
tothequantitiestraditionally exportedbyGreece,avoidstheneed
tohaverecourse,withintheCommunity,tomeasureswhichcouldbe
warrantedbythediversityoftreatmentappliedbytheMemberStates.
Sincethetreatmentinquestionwouldbeaccordedforamaximumoftwo
years,itmustbeemphasizedthatsuchaquantitativerestriction would
notaffectthenormaltrendoftradebetweenGreeceandthethreenew
MemberStatesandthat,consequently ,thebasicprinciplesoftheAthens
Agreementarenotbeingignored.

Recommendation foraCouncildecisionconcerning
thecontinuation ofnegotiations onanadditionalProtocol
totheAgreementestablishing anAssociation^etween
theEuropeanEconomicCommunityandGreecerequiredbythe
accessionofnewMemberStatestotheEuropeanEconomic
Community
THECOUNCILOPTHEEUROPEANCOMMUNITIES ,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishing theEuropeanEconomicCommunity,
andinparticularArticle238thereof;
HavingregardtotheTreatyconcerningtheaccessionofnewMemberStates
totheEuropeanCommunityandtotheEuropeanAtomicEnergyCommunitysigned
inBrusselson22January,1972,andinparticularArticle108ofthe
accompanying Act;
Havingregardtotherecommendation fromtheCommission ;
WhereastheEEC-GreeceCouncilofAssociation decidedon2December,1974»
thatthetreatmentapplicabletoimportsintotheCommunityofGreekwines
willbedealtwithwithintheframeworkoftheharmonization ofagricultural
policies;whereasthetreatmentapplicabletoimportsofthosewinesinto
thethreenewMemberStatesoftheCommunitywillbesimilartothatapplied
atpresentundertheAthensAgreementtoimportsofthewinesinquestion
intothesixoriginalMemberStates;
WhereasthetreatmenttobeappliedtothenewMemberStatesshouldthere­
forebepreciselydefined;
HASDECIDED:
SoleArticle
TheCommissionisherebyauthorizedtocontinuenegotiations with
Greece,withintheframeworkofthedirectivesannexedheretoforthe

conclusionoftheadditionalProtocoltotheAgreementestablishing
anAssociation betweentheESCandGreecerequiredbytheaccession
ofnewMemberStatestotheE3C.'
TheCommissionshallconductthesenegotiations withthe
participation oftherepresentatives oftheMemberStates.
FortheCouncil
ThePresident
Brussels.

ANNEX
1*Theadditional Protocol shall laydown thetreatment the
newMember States aretoapply toimports ofGreek wines during
theperiod referred toinArticle 35ofthe-'Association Agreement .
2.Such treatment will comprise tariff quotas ,thesize ofwhich
will "bedetermined inthe light ofthepattern ofimports "between
each ofthenewMember States andGreene during the last three
years forwhich statistics areavailable .
3.Theduties applicable tothose imports will foreach ofthenew
Member States beequal totheduties applied bythelatter toimports
ofidentical products from theCommunity asoriginally constituted .

Declaration "bytheCommunity totheGreek Government onthebasis
ofArticle 35oftheAssociation Agreement •-
THEEUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY ,
Having regard toArticles 33t35and36oftheAgreement establishing
anAssociation "between theEuropean Economic Community andGreece ;
Whereas thefunctioning anddevelopment oftheAssociation inrespect
ofagricultural products must beaccompanied byprogressive harmoniza­
tion oftheagricultural policies oftheCommunity andofGreece ;
Whereas theCommunity 'sagricultural policy constitutes anindivisible
whole ;
Whereas itisincumbent upon theCommunity totake theinitiative in
launching theprocedure forharmonizing agricultural policies between
theCommunity and Greece ;
Declares that fortheproducts listed inArticle 1ofRegulation (EEC)
N*816/70oft-heCouncil oftheEuropean Communities of28April 1970
laying down additional provisions forthecommon organization ofthe
market inwine ,thebasic provisions forimplementing thecommon
agricultural policy have been laid down .