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
Date: 1991-05-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: USSR, originating product, quantitative restriction

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Brussels,  23 May  1991 

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 

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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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