2003/212/EC: Decision No 1/2003 of the EU-Czech Republic Association Council of 4 February 2003 extending the double-checking system established by Decision No 3/97 of the Association Council for the period from the date of entry into force of this Decision up to the date of accession by the Czech Republic to the European Union
Date: 2003-02-04
Institutions: EC–Czech Republic Association Council
Subjects: Association Council (EU), Czechia, export, export monitoring, import policy, iron and steel product, transport document

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COUNCIL

DECISION No 1/2003 OF THE EU-CZECH REPUBLIC ASSOCIATION COUNCIL
of 4 February 2003
extending the double-checking system established by Decision No 3/97 of the Association Council
for the period from the date of entry into force of this Decision up to the date of accession by the
Czech Republic to the European Union

(2003/212/EC)

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Whereas:

(1)

The Contact Group referred to in Article 10 of Protocol
2 to the Europe Agreement establishing an association
between the European Communities and their Member
States, of the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the
other part (1), which entered into force on 1 February
1995, met on 23 October 2002 and agreed to recom-
mend to the Association Council established under
Article 104 of the Agreement that the double-checking
system introduced in 1998 by Decision No 3/97 of the
Association Council (2), extended by Decision No 7/
98 (3) for the period from 1 January to 31 December
1999, extended by Decision No 1/2000 (4) for the period
from 1 January to 31 December 2000, extended by
Decision No 1/2001 (5) for the period from 1 January to
31 December 2001 and extended by Decision No 1/
2002 (6) for the period from 1 January to 31 December
2002, should be extended for the period from the date
of entry into force of this Decision up to the date of
accession by the Czech Republic to the European Union.

(2)

The Association Council, having been supplied with all
relevant information, has agreed with this recommenda-
tion,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

1.
The double-checking system established by Decision No
3/97 of the Association Council shall continue to apply for the
period from the date of entry into force of this Decision up to

the date of accession by the Czech Republic to the European
Union. In the Preamble and Article 1(1) and (3) of the Decision,
references to the period ‘1 January to 31 December 2002’ shall
be replaced by references to ‘7 April 2003 up to the date of
accession by the Czech Republic to the European Union’.

Annex I to that Decision shall be replaced by the attached

2.
Annex.

Article 2

Goods shipped to the Community as from 1 January 2003
until the date of entry into force of this Decision shall be
excluded from the scope of this Decision.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on the 10th day after that
of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 4 February 2003.

For the Association Council
The President
G. PAPANDREOU

(1) OJ L 360, 31.12.1994, p. 2.
(2) OJ L 13, 19.1.1998, p. 99.
(3) OJ L 29, 3.2.1999, p. 26.
(4) OJ L 69, 17.3.2000, p. 53.
(5) OJ L 35, 6.2.2001, p. 37.
(6) OJ L 135, 23.5.2002, p. 23.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

CZECH REPUBLIC

List of products subject to double-checking

Cold-rolled sheet

7209 15 00

7209 16 90

7209 17 90

7209 18 91

7209 18 99

7209 25 00

7209 26 90

7209 27 90

7209 28 90

7211 23 10

7211 23 51

7211 29 20

Welded tubes

Complete CN heading 7306’