Additional Protocol to the Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia, of the other part, and to the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia, of the other part
Date: 1998-10-30
Institutions: European Community, Slovenia
Subjects: Slovenia, agricultural product, interim agreement (EU), protocol to an agreement, tariff preference, trade agreement (EU), vegetable product

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ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL

to the Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European
Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia, of the other part,
and to the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member
States, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia, of the other part

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

hereinafter referred to as ‘the Community',

THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA,

hereinafter referred to as ‘Slovenia',

WHEREAS, the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their
Member States, acting within the framework of the European Union, of the one part, and the Republic of
Slovenia, of the other part, was signed in Luxembourg on 10 June 1996, and has not yet entered into force;

WHEREAS, pending the entry into force of the Europe Agreement, provisions thereof on trade and trade-
related matters have been brought into force since 1 January 1997 by the Interim Agreement on trade and
trade-related matters between the European Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the
European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia, of the other part,
(hereinafter called ‘the Interim Agreement'), signed in Brussels on 11 November 1996;

WHEREAS the Europe Agreement and, pending its entry into force, the Interim Agreement provides, in
Annex VI of each, for preferential treatment for imports into the Community of an unlimited volume of
frozen Ajvar produce originating in Slovenia;

WHEREAS the preferential treatment traditionally enjoyed by Slovenia for frozen and non-frozen Ajvar under
the Cooperation Agreement with Slovenia should be taken into account; whereas Ajvar is a specific product
and is not produced in the Community;

WHEREAS for these reasons, the Europe Agreement and, pending its entry into force, the Interim Agreement,
should grant to imports of non-frozen Ajvar the same preferential treatment as that granted to frozen Ajvar,

HAVE DECIDED to conclude this Protocol and to this end have designated as their plenipotentiaries:

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY:

Manfred SCHEICH,
Ambassador,
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Austria,
Chairman of the Permanent Representatives Committee,

THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA:

Marko KRANJEC,
Ambassador,

WHO, having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

From the date of entry into force of this Protocol, the Europe Agreement, and, pending its entry
into force, the Interim Agreement shall be amended by the inclusion of the following concession
in Annex VI of each:

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‘CN code

Tariff
subdivision

Description

Quantity
(t)

Duty
(%)

Other vegetables prepared or preserved
otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid,
not
than products of
frozen, other
heading No 2006:

– Other vegetables and mixtures of vege-

tables:

ex 2005 90 70

20

unlimited

free'

– – Mixtures of vegetables, the product
known as “Ajvar”, obtained from
sweet peppers,
to which spices,
extracts of spices or distillates of
sometimes
natural
aubergines and tomatoes, are added,
containing at
least 9 % of dry
extracts, used mainly as a salad

spices,

and

This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Interim Agreement and of the Europe Agreement.

Article 2

This Protocol shall enter into force following notification of approval procedures.

Article 3

Article 4

This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French,
German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Slovenian languages, each of these
texts being equally authentic.

Hecho en Bruselas, el treinta de octubre de mil novecientos noventa y ocho.

Udfærdiget i Bruxelles den tredivte oktober nitten hundrede og otteoghalvfems.

Geschehen zu Brüssel am dreißigsten Oktober neunzehnhundertachtundneunzig.

(cid:130)cime stir Bqun(cid:146)kker, stir tqi(cid:145)mta Ojtybq(cid:148)ou w(cid:148)kia emmiaj(cid:149)sia emem(cid:147)mta ojt(cid:150).

Done at Brussels on the thirtieth day of October in the year one thousand nine hundred and
ninety-eight.

Fait à Bruxelles, le trente octobre mil neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-huit.

Fatto a Bruxelles, addì trenta ottobre millenovecentonovantotto.

Gedaan te Brussel, de dertigste oktober negentienhonderd achtennegentig.

Feito em Bruxelas, em trinta de Outubro de mil novecentos e noventa e oito.

Tehty Brysselissä kolmantenakymmenentenä päivänä lokakuuta vuonna tuhatyhdeksänsataayh-
deksänkymmentäkahdeksan.

Som skedde i Bryssel den trettionde oktober nittonhundranittioåtta.

V Bruslju, tridesetega oktobra tisocˇdevetstoosemindevetdeset.

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Por la Comunidad Europea

For Det Europæiske Fællesskab

Für die Europäische Gemeinschaft

Cia tgm Euqypa(cid:152)j(cid:147) Joim(cid:149)tgta

For the European Community

Pour la Communauté européenne

Per la Comunità europea

Voor de Europese Gemeenschap

Pela Comunidade Europeia

Euroopan yhteisön puolesta

För Europeiska gemenskapen

Za Republiko Slovenijo