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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
amendingtheDecisionof19December1978onthe
adoptionbycertainMemberStatesoftheEuropean
EconomicCommunityofanadditionalProtocolto
therevisedConventionfortheNavigationofthe
Rhineof17October1868initsversionof
(submittedtotheCouncilbytheCommission)-"COM(79)356final
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Proposalfora
COUNCILDECISION
20November1963
C0M<79)356final

Ejcplanatory Note
1. Inorder toavoid thedisturbances totheRhine transport
market which arelikely tofollow theopening inthenear future ofthecanal
Main-Danube /,theCentral Commission fortheNavigation oftheRhine
.(CCR )hasprepared adraft ofanAdditional Protocol totherevised
Convention fortheNavigation oftheRhine (ActofMannheim ).The
Commission presented totheCouncil aproposal linking theadoption
ofthis protocol totheaccession oftheCommunity tothesaid
Convention (1).On19December 1978 ,theCouncil approved adecision
providing forcommon action bytheMember States toseek approval ,
within theCCR ,ofanamended text oftheAdditional Protocol witn
aProtocol ofSignature .Italso instructed COREPER tocontinue its
work onthequestion ofaccession .
2. Theproposed texts encountered objections from the
representatives ofSwitzerland attheCCRanditappeared necessary
tore-examine them .Inmultilateral meetings ,both outside andwithin
theCCR ,inwhich theCommission 'sdepartments participated ,a
solution hasbeen found which recognizes both thepreoccupations of
theCommunity andthose ofSwitzerland ,intheform ofanewdraft
Protocol ofSignature which defines andcompletes theAdditional
Protocol approved bytheCouncil on19December 1978 .
3. Thepresent draft decision isintended tosolidify this
solution bymodifying theaforementioned Council decision of19
December 1978 ,inparticular byreplacing thetext oftheProtocol
ofSignature byanewtext without touching thetext oftheAdditional
Protocol totherevised Convention fortheNavigation oftheRhine
approved onthat date .
(1)Doc .COM(77)518 final of21.10.1977

PROPOSAL FOR A
COUNCIL DECISION AMENDING THE DECISION OF19DECEMBER 1978
ONTHE ADOPTION BYCERTAIN MEMBER STATES OFTHE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC
COMMUNITY OFANADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TOTHE REVISED CONVENTION FOR
THE NAVIGATION OFTHE RHINE OF17OCTOBER 1868 INITS VERSION OF
20NOVEMBER 1963
THECOUNCIL OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard totheTreaty establishing theEuropean Economic
Community ,
Having regard totheproposal from theCommission ,
whereas ,following theCouncil Decision of19December 1978 ,thetexts
ofthe draft Additional Protocol tothe revised Convention for the
Navigation oftheRhine andofadraft Protocol ofSignature ,approved
bytheCouncil ,didnotreceive theessential agreement ofSwitzerland
whereas itisappropriate inthese circumstances toamend thetext of
theProtocol ofSignature andaccordingly toamend the .aforementioned
Decision ;
whereas theprocedure provided forinArticle 2ofthesaid
Decision isapplicable inparticular toanydecisions taken
byvirtue ofthesecond sentence ofparagraph 3ofthenewdraft
Protocol ofSignature ,
HAS DECIDED ASFOLLOWS :
Sole Article
The Counci I.Decision of19December 1978 dn
theadoption bycertain Member States oftheEuropean Economic
Conunity ofanAdditional Protocol totherevised Convention
for .theNavigation ,oftheRhine of17October 1868 initsversion

of20November 1963 isamenued asfollows : -
1.Annex IIisreplaced bythetext annexed tothis Decision .
2.Thefollowing isadded toArticle 2:
"This procedure shall apply inparticular tothedecisions
referred tointhesecond sentence ofparagraph 3oftheProtocol of
Signature ."
Done at
For the Council
The President

DRAPT PROTOCOL OPSIGNATUREANNEX I'I
ThePlenipotentiaries
of••••• (list oftheContracting Parties ),meeting inStrasbourg
for thepurpose ofsigning theAdditional Protocol totheRevised
Convention fortheNavigation oftheRhine ,agreed atthetime of
signing this Protocol tothefollowing provisions which shall
form anintegral part ofthe said Additional Protocol :
1. Thedocument referred toinArticle 2(3 )ofthe
revised Convention fortheNavigation oftheRhine ,as
amended bytheAdditional Protocol ,shall beissued bythe
competent authority ofthe State concerned only forvessels
which have agenuine link with that State inamanner tobe
determined onthebasis ofequal treatment between
Contracting States ;these States will take themeasures
necessary toensure itsuniform adoption# Ifthe conditions
fortheissue ofthis document cease tobefulfilled ,it
shall lapse andmust accordingly bewithdrawn bythe
issuing authority .
2. Inthe interests ofdeveloping the common transport
policy andtheRhine regime ,theContracting States areprepared
totake themeasures necessary topermit thenegotiation of
such amendments totheRevised Convention fortheNavigation
oftheRhine asmayprove toberequired with aview topossible
accession bythe EEC totheinternational Rhine regime *
3. With aview tothis possible accession ,thetreatment
accorded tovessels which belong totheRhine Navigation shall
beaccorded ,asfrom the entry into force ofthepresent
Protocol ,tovessels which have theright toflytheflag ofa
Member State oftheEEC.Thesame treatment maybeaccorded
bymeans ofadecision taken inaccordance with the
procedure laid down inthe 2ndsentence ofArticle 11(1 )of
the Additional Protocol ,tovessels which fly the flag of
another State ..

ANNEX II
Draft Statements "bytheCouncil and theCommission ,to "beentered m
theminutes oftheCouncil meeting atwhich theDecision isadopted
1• The Council and theCommission ,with reference toparagraph 1
oftheProtocol ofSignature ,state that theconditions for the
issue ofthedocument referred toinparagraph 1ofthat Protocol
will ,asregards theCommunity , "bedetermined bytheCouncil in
accordance with theprocedure laid down inArticle 75oftheTreaty .
2. The Council instructs thePermanent Representatives Committee
topress onwith implementation ofthebrief handed down "bythe
Council on23November 1978 .