CELEX: 51991PC0187
Language: en
Date: 1991-05-23
Title: 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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                          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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