CELEX: 41986D0038
Language: en
Date: 1986-02-28 00:00:00
Title: 86/38/ECSC: Decision of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council of 28 February 1986 establishing the arrangements to be applied to imports into Spain and Portugal of products covered by the ECSC Treaty originating in Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden or Switzerland and covered by the Agreements between the Community and those countries

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1.3.86                                Official Journal of the European Communities
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                                          (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                    COUNCIL
                 DECISION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE
                                MEMBER STATES, MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 28 February 1986
                 establishing the arrangements to be applied to imports into Spain and Portugal of
                 products covered by the ECSC Treaty originating in Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden
                  or Switzerland and covered by the Agreements between the Community and those
                                                           countries
                                                       (86/ 38 /ECSC)
 THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF                         Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, (hereinafter referred
 THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL                            to as the 'EFTA', countries) the customs duties on
 AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING WITHIN THE                           imports into Spain, including the Canary Islands, Ceuta
 COUNCIL,                                                          and Mellila, and Portugal shall be reduced from
                                                                   1 March 1986 to 90 % of the basic duties .
 Whereas the Member States have concluded the Treaty
 establishing the European Coal and Steel Community;
                                                                   2.     The basic duties shall be the duties actually applied
 Whereas on 1 January 1986 the Kingdom of Spain and
 the Portuguese Republic acceded to that Community;                on 1 January 1985, except for imports into Portugal of
                                                                   sheets, clad, coated or otherwise surface-treated falling
                                                                   within subheading ex 73.13 B IV for which the basic duty
 Whereas the Additional Protocols to the Agreements                 shall be 20 % .
 concluded between the Member States of the European
 Coal and Steel Community and that Community, on the
 one hand, and the Republic of Austria, the Republic of
 Finland, the Kingdom of Norway and the Kingdom of                  3.    However, if after 1 January 1985 and before
 Sweden, on the other, and also the Additional Protocols            1 January 1986 a tariff reduction is applied, such
 to the Agreements concluded between the Member                     reduced duty shall be considered as a basic duty.
 States of the said Community on the one hand and the
 Swiss Confederation and the Republic of Iceland on the
 other, must be approved by each Contracting Party in
  accordance with its own procedures ;                              4 . If, during 1986, the Kingdom of Spain or the
                                                                    Portuguese Republic suspends in whole or in part the
 Whereas the procedures for ratifying the Additional                customs duties applicable to products imported from the
  Protocols have not yet been completed and it is                   Community of Ten, it shall also suspend or reduce, by
  necessary to implement on a unilateral basis the                  the same percentage, the duties applicable to products
  obligations resulting for 1986 from those Protocols, as           originating in the EFTA countries.
  regards the customs duties on imports ;
  In agreement with the Commission,
                                                                                               Article 2
  HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS ;                                         Any amendments to the origin rules made necessary by
                                                                     the accession of Spain and Portugal shall be mtide by the
                            Article 1
                                                                    Joint Committees provided for in the Agreements
                                                                     between the Community and the EFTA countries and
  1 . For the products covered by the European Coal                  shall apply as from 1 March 1986 to the products
  and Steel Community originating in Austria, Finland,               referred to in this Decision.
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                        Article 3                                                          Article 4
This Decision shall apply until the entry into force of the       The Member States shall take the measures necessary to
Additional Protocols to the Agreements between the                implement this Decision.
Member States of the European Coal and Steel
Community and that Community, on the one hand, and                Done at Brussels, 28 February 1986.
the EFTA countries on the other, but not later than
31 December 1986 .                                                                                     The President
                                                                                                    H. van den BROEK