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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(78)754 final .
Brussels ,12January 1979
Recommendation for aCouncil Decision
Concerning thenegotiation ofalegal instrument enabling
theEuropean Economic Community tobecome aContracting
Party totheEuropean Agreement ontheExchange of
Therapeutic Substances ofHuman Origin .
(submitted totheCouncil bytheCommission )
COMÍ 78)754 final .

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
TheEuropeanAgreement ontheExchangeofTherapeutic SubstancesofHuman .
Origin,openforsignaturebymembercountriesoftheCouncilofEuropeas
from15December1958,wassignedandratifiedbyalltheCommunity Member
Statesbetween1958and1964.
ConceivedinaspiritofEuropeansolidarity,thisAgreementisapraise­
worthymanifestation ofthehighesthumanitarian motives.
Theseconsiderations apart,itshouldbenotedthatArticle5oftheAgree­
mentprovidesthattheContracting Partiesshalltakeallnecessarymeasures
toexemptfromallimportdutiesthetherapeutic substancesplacedattheir!
disposalbytheotherContracting Parties.Thismeansinpracticethat
MemberStatesmustrefrainfromapplying CCTdutiesC8.87.-9,6%)onthe
Droductsconcerned,whichcurrentlyfallwithinsub-headings 30.01Band
30.02AoftheTariff. '
SincetheCommunity,particularly asregardsresponsibility fortariff
matters,hastakentheplaceoftheMemberStates,itshouldjointhemin
concludingthisAgreementinsofarastheabove-mentioned Article5is
concerned .
However,sinceonlyMemberStatesoftheCouncilofEuropemayaccedeto ;
theEuropeanAgreement ontheExchangeofTherapeutic SubstancesofHuman
Origin,alegalinstrumentisneededtoenabletheCommunitytobecomeai
Contracting PartytotheAgreement.
TheCommissiontherefore recommendsthattheCouncil,byvirtueofArticle
113oftheTreaty,authorizeittonegotiate alegalinstrumentenabling
theEuropeanEconomicCommunitytoconcludetheEuropeanAgreement onthe
ExchangeofTherapeutic SubstancesofHumanOriginalongwithitsMember i
States.
ThetextofArticle5oftheAgreementisgivenintheAnnextothisdraft
CouncilDecision. ■

recommendation for aCouncil Decision
onthenegotiation ofaLegal instrument enabling the
European Economic Community tobecome aContracting
Party totheEuropean Agreement onthe Exchange of
Therapeutic Substances ofHuman Origin
THE COUNCIL OFTHE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard totheTreaty establishing the European Economic Community
and inparticular Article 113thereof ,
Having regard tothe recommendation from the Commission ,
Whereas the European Agreement ontheExchange ofTherapeutic Substances of
Human Origin ,drawn uponthe initiative ofthe Council ofEurope ,is
designed toestablish mutual assistance between themember Countries of
that organization forthereciprocal supply oftherapeutic substances ;
Whereas itisnecessary ifmutual assistance istobeeffective that ,as
Article 5ofthesaid Agreement provides ,thetherapeutic substances
concerned should beexempted from customs duties ;
Whereas between 1958 and 1964 the said Agreement was signed and ratified
byall theMember States oftheCommunity ;whereas since then theCommunity
hastaken theplace oftheMember States ,inparticular with regard to
competence forcustoms questions ;whereas itistherefore desirable that
theCommunity should join theMember States inconcluding theAgreement
insofarastheabove-menttaned 'Article 5isconcerned ,
HAS DECIDED ASFOLLOWS

Sole article
The Commission ishereby authorized toconduct negotiations with the Council
ofEurope with aview toinserting intheEuropean Agreement onthe Exchange
ofTherapeutic Substances ofHuman Origin alegal instrument enabling the
European Economic Community tobecome aContracting Party tothesaid
Agreement .
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TheCommission shall conduct thenegotiations ,assisted bytheArticle 113
Committee . 1
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Done atBrussels , Forthe Council
The President

ANNEX
Article 5
The Contracting Parties shall take allnecessary measures toexempt from
all import duties thetherapeutic substances ofhuman origin placed at
their disposal bytheother Parties .
They shall also take allnecessary measures toprovide forthespeedy
delivery ofthese substances ,bythemost direct route ,totheconsignees
referred toinArticle 3ofthis Agreement .