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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(81)351 final
Luxemburg-25thJune1981
PROPOSAL FORACOUNCILREGULATION (EEC)
layingdownthearrangements applicable totradebetweenGreece
andtheACPStates
DRAFT
decisionoftheRepresentatives
StatesoftheEuropeanCoaland
theCounciloftheGovernments oftheMember
SteelCommunity,meetingwithin
(presentedbytheCommissiontotheCouncil)
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
FollowingthesessionoftheACP/EECCouncilofMinisters on9and10
April1981/anagreement hasbeenmadebetweentheCommunity andthe
ACPStatesbyvirtueofwhichtheCommunity hasundertaken toextend
until31December1981thetimelimitoftheprovisional arrangements
fortradebetweentheHellenicRepublicandtheACPStateslaiddown
inRegulation (EEC)439/81andbytheDecisionoftheRepresentatives
oftheGovernments oftheMemberStatesoftheCECA,whichbearsthe
dateof20January1981<0JN°>L53/81,onpages19and65respectively),
providedthattheACPStatesttfillbeabletosignbefore1stJuly1981
aProtocolontheadjustments andtransitional measures^to thesecond
ACP/EECConvention totakeintoaccounttheaccessionoftheHellenic
Republic.SuchaProtocolha«beeninitialled on June1981.
Inorderto'ensurethatthisagreementiscompliedwith,theCommission
-proposestotheCounciltoadoptthetextoftheattachedRegulation,
~recommendsthattheRepresentatives oftheMemberStateGovernments
oftheCECAadoptthedecisionofwhichadraftisalsoattached.'
Thetwotextsaimatextendingthetimelimitofthetradearrangements
arisingfromtheregulation andthedecisionMentioned aboveuntil
31December 1981.

PROPOSAL OFA
COUNCILREGULATION (EEC)No
layingdpwnthearrangements applicabletotradebetween6reeceandtheACPStates
THECOUNCILOFTHEEUROPEANCOMMUNITIES,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishing theEuropeanEconomicCommunity,and
inparticularArticle113thereof,
HavingregardtotheproposalfromtheCommission-
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(1)WhereastheProtocoltothesecondACP-'EECConvention ofLom*hereinafter
referrecjtorespectively as'theProtocol' and*theConvention*,totakeaccount
oftheaccessionoftheHellenicRepublicwasInitialled on June1981.-
Whereas,from1July1981andpendingtheentryintoforceoftheProtocol,
theCommunityshouldinthelightoftheprovisionsofthesaidProtocol,extend
autonomously thearrangements applicable totrad*betweenGreeceandtheACPStates
(2)established byRegulation (EEC)No439/81oftheCouncilextendedbyRegulation
(EEC)No1122/81(3),
HASADOPTEDTHISREGULATION :
SoleArticle
From1July1981until31December1981,thearrangements applicabletotrade
I
betweenGreeceandtheACPStatesshallbethoseresultingfromtheAnnexto
I
Regulation (EEC)No439/81.
i
ThisRegulationshallbebinding1nItsentiretyanddirectlyapplicable 1nall
MemberStates.
Doneat
FortheCouncil /
ThePresident
}0JNoL347,22.12.80,p.1
(2>OJNoL53,27.2.S1,p.19
(3)OJ(>'0L118,30.4*81,p."14

DRAFT
DECISION
OFTHEREPRESENTATIVES OFTHEGOVERNMENTS OFTHEMEMBERSTATESOFTHE
EUROPEAN COALANDSTEELCOMMUNITY,MEETINGWITHINTHECOUNCIL
OF
extendingthetimelimitoftheprovisional arrangements applicabletotrade
betweentheHellenicRepublicandtheACPStatesforproductscoveredbythat
Community
THEREPRESENTATIVES OFTHEGOVERNMENTS OFTHEMEMBERSTATESOFTHEEUROPEAN
COALANDSTEELCOMMUNITY,MEETINGWITHINTHECOUNCIL,
WhereastheMemberStateshaveconcluded amongthemselyes theTreatyestablishing
theEuropeanCoalandSteelCommunity;
Whereasitisappropriate toextenduntil31December1981thetimelimitof
theprovisional arrangements fortradebetweentheHellenicRepublicandthe
ACPStateslaiddowninDecision81/57/ECSC^*forproductscoveredbytheECSC,
(2)extendedbyDecision 81/249/ECSC;
InagreementwiththeCommission,
HAVEDECIDED ASFOLLOWS:
Article 1
/
Theprovisional arrangements applicabletotradebetweentheHellenicRepublicand
theACPStateslaiddowninDecision 81/S7/ECSCshallremainapplicableuntil
31December 1981.
Article 2
MemberStateswilltakethenecessarymeasurestoimplementthiiDecision.
Doneat
ThePresident
OJHoL53,27.2.1981,p.65
<2>OJNoL113,30,4.81,p.51