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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(77)555final.
Brussels,9November1977
Recommendation fora
COUNCILREGULATION(EEC)
concludingtheAgreement "betweentheEuropeanEconomicCommunity
andthePortugueseRepublicregardingpreparedor
preservedtomatoesfallingwithinsubheading20.02C
oftheCommonCustomsTariff
(submittedtotheCouncilbytheCommission)
COM(77)555final

EXPOSIpDESMOTIFS
L'échangedelettresannexéauprojetderèglement
apourobjectifdereconduire,pour1978,levolumed'auto­
limitationconvenuaveclaPortugalpourl'annéeencours.

COUNCILREGULATION (EEC)
concludingtheAgreement
betweentheEuropeanEconomicCommunity
andthePortugueseRepublic
regardingpreparedorpreservedtomatoes
fallingwithinsubheading20.02C
oftheCommonCustomsTariff
THECOUNCILOFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishing theiEuropean Economic
Community,andinparticularArticle113thereof,
Havingregardtotherecommendation fromtheCommission,

Whereas theAgreement intheformofenexchange ofletters relating
toArticle 5ofProtocol Ho6totheAgreement' between theEuropean
Economic Community andthePortuguese Republic signed inBrusse
22July 1972should beconcluded . .» '
HASADOPTED THIS REGULATIONS
Article 1
TheAgreement intheformofVn exchange ofletters relating
t0Article }ofProtocol No"8totheAgreement between theEuropean
Economic Community andthePortuguese Republic ishereby coneu
onbehalf oftheCommunity . -
ThetextoftheAgreement isannexed tothisRegulation .
Articlé 2
ThePresident oftheCouncil ishereby authorized toappoint
theperson empowered tosigntheAgreement referred toinArticle
andtoconfer onhimthepowers necessary tobindtheCommunity .
* *1
Article 3
This .Regulation shall enter intoforce onthedayfollowing
thatofitspublication intheOfficial Journal oftheEuropea
Communities .

-X-
This Regulation shall bebinding initsentirety anddirectly
applicable inallMember .States . ' -
Done artBrussels ,
For the Council
The President
(

AGREEMENT
INTHEFORMOFANEXCHANGE OFLETTERS
RELATING TOARTICLE3OFPROTOCOL n°8
TOTHEAGREEMENT
BETWEENTHEEUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
ANDTHEPORTUGUESE REPUBLIC

-5-
LETTERn°1
Brussels^
IhavethehonourtorefertoArticle3ofProtocoln°8to
theAgreementbetweentheEuropeanEconomicCommunityandthePortu­
gueseRepublicsignedon22July1972,andtotheexchangeof
lettersof5December1975.
Ihavethehonourtoinformyouthatfor1978theCommunity
isreadytorenewthevolumeagreedfortheprecedingyear.In
thesecircumstances thePortuguese Governmentundertakestoadoptthe
necessarymeasuresinorderthatthequantitiesoftomatoesthathave
beenpreparedorpreservedotherwisethanbyvinegaroraceticacid
fallingwithinsubheading20.02CoftheCommonCustomsTariffsupplied
totheCommunityin1978donotexceed90,000tonnes.
Ishouldbegratefulifyouwouldkindlyconfirmtheagreement
ofyourGovernmenttothecontentsofthisletter.
Pleaseaccept, ,theassuranceofmy
4highestconsideration .
OnbehalfoftheCouncil
oftheEuropeanCommunities

LETTERn®2
Brussels,
Ihavethehonourtoacknowledgereceiptofyourletterof
today'sdatewordedasfollows:
"IhavethehonourtorefertoArticle3ofProtocoln°8
totheAgreementbetweenthe'EuropeanEconomicCommunityand
V
thePortugueseRepublicsignedon22July1972,andto
theexchangeoflettersof5December1975.
Ihavethehonourtoinformyouthatfor1978theCommunity
isreadytorenewthevolumeagreedfortheprecedingyear.In
thesecircumstances thePortugueseGovernmentundertakesto/
adoptthenecessarymeasuresinorderthatthequantitiesof
tomatoesthathavebeenpreparedorpreservedotherwisethanby
vinegaroraceticacidfallingwithinsubheading20.02Cofthe
CommonCustomsTariffsuppliedtotheCommunityin1978dorot
exceed90,000tonnes.
Ishouldbegratefulifyouwouldkindlyconfirmtheagreement
ofyourGovernmenttothecontentsofthisletter"._
s»
IhavethehonourtoconfirmtheagreementofmyGovernmentwith
thecontentsofthatletter.
Pleaseaccept, ,theassuranceofmy
highestconsideration .-
FortheGovernment
ofthePortugueseRepublic