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access for Community fishing boats to Greenland's 
territorial waters. 
3. The Committee calls upon the Commission to 
submit, as soon as possible, proposals providing access for EC fishing boats to Greenland's territorial waters and 
abolishing the restrictions on Greenland's eligibility for 
tariff preferences with regards to fishery products 
(Common Customs Tariff heading Nos 03.01, 03.03, 
16.04, 16.05, 23.01 B). 
Done at Brussels, 12 December 1984. 
The Chairman 
of the Economic and Social Committee 
Gerd MUHR 
Opinion on the proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulations (EEC) No 918/83 
and (EEC) No 950/68 in respect of the tariff treatment applicable to goods contained in 
travellers' personal luggage or sent in small consignments to private individuals (') 
(85/C 44/10) 
On 3 December 1984 the Council decided to consult the Economic and Social Committee, 
under Article 198 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, on the 
abovementioned proposal. 
The Economic and Social Committee appointed Mr Flum as rapporteur-general with the task 
of preparing its work on the subject. 
At its 222nd plenary session (meeting of 12 December 1984) the Economic and Social 
Committee adopted the following opinion by a unanimous vote: 
1. The Economic and Social Committee welcomes the 
proposal of the Commission that from 1 January 1985 the 
system of reliefs from customs duty be further extended 
by increasing the ceiling for goods contained in travellers' 
personal luggage and for small, non-commercial 
consignments from private individuals in a third country 
to another private individual in the Community customs 
area. 
2. This necessary adjustment will be a further, albeit 
small, step towards strengthening the personal contacts 
between citizens of non-member countries and citizens of 
the Community. 
3. The Committee calls on the Commission to 
investigate the possibility of simplifying the procedure for 
adjusting the ceilings for goods of this type. 
4. The Committee calls on the Commission - as on 
previous occasions - to take steps to harmonize the 
customs regulations applicable to private individuals in 
order to facilitate contacts between individuals in the 
Community across frontiers which have become 
Done at Brussels, 12 December 1984. anachronistic. These steps should also take greater 
account of contacts with private individuals in third 
countries. 
5. In the view of the Committee it will only be possible 
to take a step towards a politically united Europe if the 
barriers to personal contacts across frontiers are 
noticeably reduced. 
To achieve this end it is necessary to implement the 
relaxation of restrictions, in respect of the Community's 
internal and external frontiers, so often talked of by 
politicians. 
It is particularly important that this point should be 
made. Recently there has been a noticeable tendency for 
relaxations of restrictions on the movement of individuals 
which have been agreed between various States to be 
negated by increased controls of a different type. 
6. In the view of the Committee an adjustment of 
duty-free allowances does not entail the risk of distorting 
competition. 
The Chairman 
of the Economic and Social Committee 
Gerd MUHR 
(») OJ No C 324, 5. 12. 1984, p. 5.