Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) extending Regulation ( EEC ) No 715/90 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products originating in the African, caribbean and Pacific States ( ACP States °) or in the overseas countries and territories ( OCT )
Date: 1991-12-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, abolition of customs duties, agricultural product, originating product, overseas countries and territories

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

C0MC91) 517 final 

Brussels,  11 December 1991 

Proposal  for a 

extending  Regulation  (EEC)  No 715/90 on the arrangements 
applicable to agricultural  products and certain  goods 
resulting  from the processing of agricultural  products 
originating  in the African,  Caribbean and Pacific 
States  (ACP States) or in the overseas 
countries and territories (OCT) 

(presented  by the Commission) 

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EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 

1.  With Regulation  (EEC) No 715/90 the Community  agreed  to apply the 

arrangements  laid down  in the Fourth ACP-EEC Lomé Convention  signed on 
15 December  1989 for agricultural  and processed  products  from ACP States or 
the OCT before  the date of entry  into force of  the Convention  and  the new 
Decision on  the association of  the overseas countries and  territories  (OCT). 

2.  However, the Community  limited  the application of  the Regulation to 

29 February  1992. 

Meanwhile  the Convention  has entered  into force. 

The new Decision on  the association of  the overseas countries and  territories 
of  25 July  1991  has also entered  into force.  It provides that all  products 
originating  in the OCT shall  be totally exempt  from customs duties and 
charges having equivalent  effect  when  imported  into the Community.  As a 
result, so far as the OCT are concerned,  the provisions of Regulation  (EEC) 
No 715/90 have become obsolete.  The applicability of Regulation  (EEC) No 
715/90 for  the ACP States should  therefore be extended  beyond 
29 February  1992 for  the period of validity of  the Convention. 

The purpose of  the attached  proposal  for a regulation  is such an extension, 
limited  to the ACP States. 

3.  The financial  implications  fall within  the framework of  the financial 
implication of  the Commission  proposal  on  the  introduction of the 
arrangements concerned  in 1990 (C0M(90) 213  final). 

Proposa I for 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EEC) No 

Of 

extending Regulation  (EEC) No 715/90 on the arrangements 
applicable to agricultural  products and certain goods 
resulting from  the processing of agricultural  products 
originating  in the African, Caribbean and Pacific 
States  (ACP States) or  in the overseas 
countries and  territories  (OCT) 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES, 

Having  regard  to the Treaty establishing  the European Economic  Community, 

Having  regard  to Regulation  (EEC) No 715/90(1), as  last amended by Regulation 

(EEC) No 523/91<2), and  in particular  Article 31  thereof, 

Having  regard  to the proposal  from  the Commission, 

Whereas at present  the application of Regulation  (EEC) No 715/90  is limited to 

29 February  1992; whereas, however, the Fourth ACP-EEC Convention, signed at Lomé 

on 15 December  1989, entered  into force on 1 September  1991(3>  and applies until 

29 February  2000; whereas, as a result, the application of Regulation  (EEC) No 

715/90 should be extended  to the  latter date as far as products originating  in 

the ACP States are concerned; 

Whereas, moreover, with Decision 91/482/EEC of 25 July  1991 on the association of 

the overseas countries and  territories  (OCT) with  the European Economic 

Community<4>,  the Community adopted  special  arrangements  for products 

originating  in the OCT; whereas these new arrangements which entered  into force 

on 20 September  1991 provide that all products originating  in the OCT shall be 

totally exempt  from customs duties and charges having equivalent  effect  when 

imported  into the Community; whereas, as a result, as far as the OCT are 

concerned,  the provisions of Regulation  (EEC) No 715/90 have become obsolete; 

whereas, as a result, Regulation  (EEC) No 715/90 should be extended exclusively 

for products originating  in the ACP States; 

(1) OJ No L 84. 30.3.1990, p. 85. 
(2) 0J  No L 58, 5.3.1991, p. 1. 
(3) 0J No L 229, 17.9.1991, p. 287. 
(4) 0J No L 263, 19.9.1991, p. 1. 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

Y 

Articles 1 to 25 and 27 to 30(1) and  (2) as well as Article 31 and Annex  I to 

Regulation  (EEC) No 715/90 are extended until  29 February  2000,  insofar as 

agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of 

agricultural products originating  in the ACP States are concerned. 

Article 2 

This Regulation shall enter  into force on the day following  its publication  in 

the Official  Journal of the European Communities. 

It shall apply with effect from 20 September 1991. 

This Regulation shall be binding  in  its entirety and directly applicable  in all 

Member States. 

Done at 

For the Council 

The President 

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Fiche d'impact  sur la 

compétitivité  et  l' emploi 

Cette mesure n'a pas de conséquence pour  la compétitivité et 

l'emploi dans  la  Communauté. 

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