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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
RECOMMENDATION FORACOUNCILDECISION
ONTHENOTIFICATION OFTHECOMMUNITY'SINTENTION TO
CONTINUE TOPARTICIPATE INTHE
INTERNATIONAL COFFEEAGREEMENT 1976
(presentedbytheCommissiontotheCouncil)COM(79)480final
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PursuanttoCouncilDecision76/845/EECof20September1976(1),
theCommunityisprovisionally applyingtheInternational Coffee
Agreement1976,whichenteredintoforceprovisionally on1October
1976anddefinitively on1August1977.
UnderitsArticle68,theAgreementistoremaininforce
foraperiodofsixyearsuntil30September1982.However,
duringthethirdyearofthisAgreement,namelythecoffeeyear
ending30September1979,contractingpartiesshallnotify
theSecretary-General oftheUnitedNationsoftheirintention
tocontinuetoparticipate inthisAgreementfortheremaining
threeyearsofitsduration.
InviewofthefactthatalltheMemberStatesoftheCommunity
havenotifiedoraregoingtonotifytheirintentiontocontinue
toparticipate intheInternational CoffeeAgreement1976,the
Commission recommendsthattheCouncildecidetonotifythe
Secretary-General oftheUnitedNationsbefore30September
1979-theabsolutedeadline-oftheEuropeanEconomicCommunity's
intentiontocontinuetoparticipate intheAgreementforthe
remainingthreeyearsofitsduration',namelyuntil30September .
1982.
(1)0JN°L309,10.11.1976 .

Recommendation fora
COUNCILDECISION
onthenotification oftheCommunity'sintentiontocontinueto
participate intheInternational CoffeeAgreement 1976
THECOUNCILOFTHEEUROPEANCOMMUNITIES,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishing theEuropeanEconomic
Community,andinparticularArticle113thereof,
HavingregardtotheRecommendation fromtheCommission,
(1)
Whereas,byvirtueofCouncilDecision76/845/EEC,
theCommunity hasbeenapplyingprovisionally theInternational Coffee
Agreement 1976,thetextofwhichisannexedtothesaidDecision,
sincetheentryintoforceofthatAgreement }whereastheAgreement
enteredintoforceprovisionally on1October1976anddefinitively
on1August1977;
WhereastheCommunityshouldnotifyitsintentiontocontinueto
participate intheAgreementfortheremainingthreeyearsofits
duration,
HASDECIDED ASFOLLOWS :
Article 1
Notlaterthan30September1979,theEuropeanEconomicCommunitywill
depositwiththeSecretary-General oftheUnitedNationsthe
notification annexedtothisDecisionstatingitsintentiontocontinue
toparticipate intheInternational CoffeeAgreement1976forthe»
remainingthreeyearsofitsduration.
Article2
ThePresidentoftheCouncilisherebyauthorizedtodesignatethe
personempoweredtodepositthesaidnotification .
DoneatBrussels, FortheCouncil
ThePresident
(1)0JN°L309,10.11.1976,10.11.1976,p.28

ANNEX
Notification ofintentiontocontinuetoparticipate inthe
International CoffeeAgreement1976
Inaccordance withArticle68(2)oftheInternational Coffee
Agreement1976,theEuropeanEconomicCommunityherebydeposits
thisnotification ofitsintentiontocontinuetoparticipate in
theAgreementfor'theremainingthreeyearsofitsduration..