No C 104/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 21. 4. 87 
Recommendation for a Council Decision on the conclusion of an Additional Protocol to the 
Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Lebanese 
Republic 
COM(87) 7 final 
Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 14 January 1987 
(87/C 104/03) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 238 
thereof, 
Having regard to the recommendation from the Com­
mission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­
ment, 
Whereas it is necessary to approve an Additional Proto­
col to the Cooperation Agreement between the Euro­
pean Economic Community and the Lebanese Repub­
lic (*), signed in Brussels on 3 May 1977, 
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: 
Article 1 
The Additional Protocol to the Cooperation Agreement 
between the European Economic Community and the Lebanese Republic is hereby approved on behalf of the 
Community. The text of the Protocol is attached to this 
Decision (2). 
Article 2 
The President of the Council shall give the notification 
provided for in Article 5 of the Protocol. 
Article 3 
This Decision shall take effect on the day following its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European 
Communities. 
(•) OJ No L 267, 27. 9. 1978. (2) The date of entry into force of the Protocol will be published 
in the Official Journal of the European Communities by the 
General Secretariat of the Council. 
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ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL 
to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Lebanese 
Republic 
THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, 
of the one part, and 
THE LEBANESE REPUBLIC, 
of the other part, 
HAVING REGARD TO the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Lebanese 
Republic, signed at Brussels on 3 May 1977, hereinafter referred to as the 'Agreement', 
WHEREAS the Community and Lebanon wish to strengthen still further their relations in order to take 
account of the new dimension created by the accession to the European Communities of Spain and Portugal 
on 1 January 1986; whereas Article 44 of the Agreement provides for the possibility of improvements in its 
terms; 
WHEREAS certain rules should be laid down to enable Lebanon's traditional export trade to the Community 
to be maintained, 
HAVE DECIDED TO conclude a Protocol adapting certain provisions of the Agreement, and to this end 
have designated as their Plenipotentiaries: 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LEBANESE REPUBLIC, 
Who, having exchanged their Full Powers, found in good and due form, 
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: 
Article 1 
1. Customs duties applicable under the Agreement 
to imports into the Community of products listed in 
the Annex to this Protocol and originating in Lebanon 
shall be dismantled over the same periods and at the 
same rates as provided in the Act of Accession of Spain 
and Portugal in respect of imports into the Community 
as constituted on 31 December 1985 of the same prod­
ucts originating in Spain or Portugal. This provision 
shall be applied in accordance with the rules hereinafter 
set out in this Article. 
In the course of such dismantling, where the level of 
customs duties applied to imports into the Community 
as constituted on 31 December 1985 originating in 
Spain differs from that applied to imports originating 
in Portugal, products originating in Lebanon shall be 
subject to the higher of the two rates. 
2. Where the customs duty on a product listed in the 
Annex is lower for Lebanon than for Spain, Portugal 
or both, elimination of the duty shall commence once 
the duty on that product from both Spain and Portugal 
has fallen below that applied to imports originating in 
Lebanon. 
3. For the purposes of dismantling customs duties for 
dried leguminous vegetables falling within subheading 
07.05 B of the Common Customs Tariff and originating 
in Lebanon, a reference quantity of 2 200 tonnes is 
hereby established. Should the volume of imports of this product exceed 
the reference quantity, the Community, having regard 
to an annual review of trade flows which it shall carry 
out, may make the product in question subject to a 
Community tariff quota, the volume of which shall be 
equal to the reference quantity. Once the volume of 
imports of such products exceeds the quota, the Com­
munity shall apply the customs duties resulting from 
the Agreement. 
4. Should the Community discover, in the light of 
an annual review of trade flows which it shall carry 
out, that the volume of imports of a product listed 
in the Annex, other than the product referred to in 
paragraph 3, threatens to cause difficulties on the Com­
munity market, it may establish a reference quantity as 
provided for in paragraph 3 for that product. 
Article 2 
1. A Trade and Economic Cooperation Committee 
shall be set up for the purpose of improving the oper­
ation of the institutional mechanisms of the Agreement. 
The Committee shall facilitate: 
— the regular exchange of information on trade and 
production data and forecasts, 
— the regular exchange of information on the oppor­
tunities for cooperation in areas covered by the 
Agreement. 
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The Committee shall be chaired alternately by a rep­
resentative of the Commission of the European Com­
munities and a representative of Lebanon. 
2. The Cooperation Council shall decide as soon as 
possible on the composiiton of this Committee and how 
it shall function, in accordance with Article 38 (2) of 
the Agreement. It may also decide, where appropriate, 
that the Committee should submit a report. 
Article 3 
From 1995 onwards the Community and Lebanon shall 
examine the results of cooperation between the Con­
tracting Parties in order to appraise the situation and 
the future development of their relations in the light of 
the objectives defined in the Agreement. 
Article 4 
This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Cooper­
ation Agreement between the European Economic 
Community and the Lebanese Republic. 
For the Council of the Article 5 
1. This Protocol shall be ratified, accepted or 
approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with 
their own procedures; the Contracting Parties shall 
notify each other of the completion of the procedures 
necessary to that end. 
2. This Protocol shall enter into force on the first 
day of the month following such notification. 
Article 6 
This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the 
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Portu­
guese, Spanish and Arabic languages, each of these texts 
being equally authentic. 
In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries 
have hereunto set their hands. 
Done at Brussels, 
<ean Communities 
For the Lebanese Republic 
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ANNEX 
CCT 
heading No 
07.04 
07.05 
08.01 
08.02 
08.05 
ex 08.09 
09.09 
12.03 
12.08 Description 
Dried, dehydrated or evaporated vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in 
powder, but not further prepared: 
A. Onions 
ex B. Other: 
— Garlic 
Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or splir.f1) 
B. Other 
Dates, bananas, coconuts, Brazil nuts, cashew nuts, pineapples, avocados, man­
goes, guavas and mangosteens, fresh or dried, shelled or not: 
H. Other 
Citrus fruit, fresh or dried: 
D. Grapefruit 
Nuts other than those falling within heading No 08.01, fresh or dried, shelled 
or not: 
B. Walnuts 
Other fruit, fresh: 
— Water melons, from 1 April to 15 June 
Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway and juniper 
Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing: 
E. Other 
Chicory roots, fresh or dried, whole or cut, unroasted; locust beans, fresh or 
dried, whether or not kibbled or ground, but not further prepared; fruit kernels 
and other vegetable products of a kind used primarily for human food, not 
falling within any other heading: 
B. Locust beans 
C. Locust bean seeds: 
I. Not decorticated, crushed or ground 
II. Other 
D. Apricot, peach and plum stones, and kernels thereof 
E. Other 
(') Reference quantity of 2 200 tonnes. 
No C 104/22 Official Journal of the European Communities 21. 4. 87 
Joint Declaration by the Contracting Parties on Article 1 of the Protocol 
(to be annexed to the Additional Protocol) 
The Contracting Parties agree that should the entry into force of the Protocol not coincide 
with the start of the calendar or seasonal year, as the case may be, the quantitative limits 
referred to in Article 1 of the said Protocol shall be applied on a pro rata basis. 
The Contracting Parties further agree that the charging against quantitative limits of Com­
munity imports of the product originating in Lebanon which are subject to such limits under 
the Protocol shall begin on 1 January of each year.