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Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
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of certain products originating in the USSR and amending 
Regulation (EEC) No 3420/83 accordingly 
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
The Community has undertaken extensive dismantling of specific quantitative 
restrictions for the countries of central and eastern Europe with which it has 
concluded trade and cooperation agreements. The trade and cooperation 
agreement with the USSR also provides for such dismantling. In order to 
strengthen economic relations between the two sides and thus to contribute to 
economic reconstruction in the USSR, the present proposal brings forward the 
date for the dismantling of specific quantitative restrictions applying to the 
USSR to 1 July 1991. In view of the structure of EC-Soviet trade and the 
agreement's provisions for the redress of any problems arising between the 
parties, this measure should not lead to sectoral difficulties in the 
Community. 
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Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
liberalising quantitative restrictions applying to imports 
of certain products originating in the USSR and amending 
Regulation (EEC) No 3420/83 accordingly 
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 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3420/83 of 14 November 1983 on import 
arrangements for products originating in State-trading countries, not 
liberalised at Community level,1 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 
2727/90,2 applies inter al ia to imports originating in the Union of Soviet 
Socialist Republics (USSR); 
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/82 of 30 June 1982 on common rules 
for imports from State-trading countries,3 as last amended by Regulation 
(EEC) No 1434/90,4 provides that imports of the products listed in its Annex 
are not subject to any quantitative restrictions; 
Whereas the trade and cooperation agreement between the Communty and the 
USSR5 provides for the gradual dismantling by the Community of remaining 
specific quantitative restrictions; 
Whereas it is desirable to strengthen trade relations between the Communty and 
the USSR and thus to contribute to its economic reconstruction; whereas, 
therefore, the dismantling of specific quantitative restrictions provided for 
by the agreement should be brought forward to 1 July 1991, 
1 0J No L 346, 8.12,1983, p.6 
2 0J No L 262, 26.9.1990, p.11 
3 OJ No L 195, 5.7.1982, p.1 
4 0J No L 138, 31.5.1990, p.1 
5 0J No L 68, 15.3.1991, p.1 
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Whereas this liberalisation measure must remain compatible with the economic 
situation in certain particularly sensitive sectors of Community production; 
whereas it should be possible to apply the safeguard measures provided for in 
the trade and economic cooperation Agreement between the Community and the 
Soviet Union in order to remedy adverse situations which might arise in the 
Community,6 
Whereas the German Democratic Republic was incorporated into the Federal 
Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990 and the opportunity should therefore be 
taken to remove it from the field of application of the above-mentioned 
Regulation (EEC) No 3420/83, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Art icle 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 3420/83 is hereby amended as follows: 
In the second and third sentences of the second indent of Article 2(1), 
the words "the German Democratic Republic" are replaced by the words "the 
USSR". 
Art icle 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 
It shall apply from 1 July 1991. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in 
a I I Member States. 
Done at Brussels, ... 
For the Counci 
The President 
6 OJ No L 68, 15.3.1990, p.1 
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