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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(83) 533 final 
Brussels, 15 September 1983
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
extending the arrangements applicable to trade between 
Greece and the ACP States
DECISION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES
OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL
extending the period of validity of the provisional arrangements 
applicable to trade between Greece and ACP States for 
products covered by that Community
C O M (83) 533 final

Explanatory memorandum
Until such time as definitive arrangements are made for trade between Greece 
and the ACP States, the Community Member States have decided that measures 
will be applied provisionally and autonomously to products originating in 
the ACP States to ensure that these products receive special treatment when 
they are imported into Greece. Council Regulation (EEC) No 439/81 and the 
Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the ECSC Member States 
of 20 January 1981, which establish this special treatment, entered into force 
on 28 February 1981 and were due to expire on 30 April 1981, which was the 
date on which they were to be replaced by the definitive arrangements.
The provisional measures were extended for two months initially, and then 
for successive six-month periods until 30 June 1983.
Two additional Protocols to the second ACP-EEC Convention were signed on 
8 October 1981, one laying down general trade arrangements and the other 
arrangements applicable to ECSC products. They should enter into force as 
soon as the ratification procedures have been completed. When the Council 
examined the latest proposal for an extension, which was for a further 
six-month period, it agreed to a three-month extension only (until September 
1983) and along with its decision sent the Chairman of the ACP Committee 
of Ambassadors a letter stressing how important it was that the two Protocols 
enter into force as soon as possible and pointing out that the delay on the 
ACP side in signing the Protocols was a source of disappointment and concern 
to the Community.
If the Protocols were signed by 30 September, the ratification procedures 
could be undertaken by the Member States and, in this event, the provisional 
measures would be extended once again until such time as the Protocols entered 
into force.
Should there be a further delay in signing the Protocols, the Community has 
reserved the right to suggest that the situation be examined jointly by 
the Community and the ACP States. An extension of three months after 
30 September is therefore proposed, so that this examination can take 
place, should it prove necesse.y without disturbing the present trade arrangements 
between Greece and the ACP States. The attached proposal for a Regulation 
covers both possibilities.

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
extending the arrangements applicable to trade between Greece and the 
ACP States
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 
and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the additional Protocol to the second ACP-EEC Convention consequent 
on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the European Economic Community 
was signed on 8 October 1981;
Whereas, pending the entry into force of that Protocol, the Community should, 
in the light thereof, extend autonomously from 1 October 1983 the arrangements
applicable to trade between Greece and the ACP States as provided for by
1 2 Regulation (EEC) No 439/81 , as last extended by Regulation (EEC) No 1808/83 ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 1
/From 1 October until 31 December 1933^7
/From 1 October 1983 until the date of entry into force of the additional 
Protocol to the second ACP-EEC Convention consequent on the accession of 
the Hellenic Republic to the European Economic Community, 1
the arrangements applicable to trade between the Hellenic Republic and the 
ACP States shall be those resulting from the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
No 439/31.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter in'-j force on the day of its publication in the 
Official Journal of the Eu opear Communities.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable 
in all Member States.
I  one at Brussels,
For the Council
OJ No L 53, 27.2.1981, p. 19
2 OJ No L 177, 1.7.1933, p. 4

DECISION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES
OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL
extending the period of validity of the provisional arrangements applicable to 
trade between Greece and the ACP States for products covered by that Community
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN 
COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL,
Whereas the Member States have concluded among themselves the Treaty establishing 
the European Coal and Steel Community;
Whereas a Protocol to the Agreement between the Member States of the European 
Coal and Steel Community and the ACP States consequent on the accession 
of the Hellenic Republic to the Community was signed on 3 October 1981;
Whereas,pending the entry into force of that Protocol, the Community should,
in the tight thereof, extend autonomously from 1 October 1983 the provisional
arrangements applicable to trade between Greece and the ACP States as established
for the products covered by that Community by Decision 31/57/ECSC , as last
(? Iextended by Decision 33/327/ECSC ,
In agreement with the Commission,
HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
The provisional arrangements laid down in Decision 81/57/ECSC for trade 
between Greece and the ACP States shall remain in force /from 1 October until 
31 December 1933_7.
/Until the date of entry into force of the Protocol to the Agreement between 
the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community and the ACP States 
consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the Community, which 
was signed on 8 October 1981._/

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ArticLe 2
Member States shall take the measures necessary to implement this Decision. 
D>ne at Brussels,
For the Council,
O J  N o L 53, 27.2.1981, p. 65
2  O J  N o L 177, 1.7.1983, p. 7