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i-Ji Proposal for a 
CQUNCIL DECISION 
on the approval of the InternatIonal Agreement 
on Jute and Jute Products. 1989 
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(presented by the Commission) 
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Explanatory memorandum 
Council Decision 91/51/EEC of 18 December 1990 authorized the Community and 
its Member States, acting simultaneously, to sign the International 
Agreement on Jute and Jute Products, 1989, by 31 December 1990 at the 
latest.1 
The Community and most Member States signed the Agreement before that date 
and notified their intentlon to apply the Agreement provisionaIly on its 
entry into force. 
Since the requirements of Article 40 regarding the number of governments 
and the percentage of net imports needed for the Agreement to enter into 
force had not been met by the end of 1990, those governments which had 
signed decided, at a conference convened by UNCTAD in Geneva on 12 ApriI 
last year, to apply the Agreement provisionally from that day. 
Other governments have since signed the Agreement and lodged their 
instruments of acceptance or ratification, bringing the number of 
governments and the percentage of net imports up to the levels specified in 
Art icle 40. 
The Commission therefore proposes that the Council approve the Agreement 
and decide that the Community and its Member States, acting simultaneously, 
notify their approval of the Agreement, thereby permitting the Agreement to 
enter into force definitively. 
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PROPOSAL ' 
FOR A COUNCIL DECISION 
on the approval of the International Agreement 
on Jute and Jute Products, 1989 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES: 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 
and in particular Articles 113 and 116 thereof, 
Having regard to the Commission proposal, 
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Whereas, pursuant to Council Decision 91/51/EEC of 18 December 1990, the 
European Economic Community and its Member States signed the International 
Agreement on Jute and Jute Products, 1989, and, with the exception of 
Portugal, notified its provisional application pending the completion of 
the internal procedures required for its approval; 
Whereas the required number of governments and the percentage of net 
imports specified in Article 40(1) for the definitive entry into force of 
the Agreement have now been exceeded; 
Whereas the Agreement should now be approved and the Community and its 
Member States should, acting simultaneously, notify the Secretary-GeneraI 
of the United Nations of their approval of the Agreement, 
HAS DECIDED AS F0LL0WS: 
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Article 1 
The International Agreement on Jute and Jute Products, 1989,is hereby 
approved on behalf of the Community. ; 
Acting simultaneously, the Community and its Member States shall, upon 
completion of the requisite internal procedures, notify the Secretary-
General of the United Nations of their approval as importers of the 
International Agreement on Jute and Jute Products, 1989, in accordance with 
Article 37 thereof. 
The text of the Agreement is annexed to Decision 91/51/EEC. 
Art icle 2 
The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the person 
empowered to deposit the instrument of approval on behalf of the Community. 
Done at Brussels, For the Council 
The President 
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