CELEX: 51990PC0400(21)
Language: en
Date: 1990-08-31
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING, AS A RESULT OF GERMAN UNIFICATION, REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 4055/86 APPLYING THE PRINCIPLE OF FREEDOM TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO MARITIME TRANSPORT BETWEEN MEMBER STATES AND BETWEEN MEMBER STATES AND THIRD COUNTRIES

2. 10. 90                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                No C 248/13
                                                             Proposal for a
                                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No . . .
                                                                 of . . .
                 amending, as a result of German unification, Regulation (EEC) No 4055 / 86 applying the principle of
                 freedom to provide services to maritime transport between Member States and between Member
                                                       States and third countries
                                                             (90/C 248/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                 enjoyed by third countries as a result of cargo-sharing
                                                                          arrangements relate only to cargoes originating in the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    territory of the former German Democratic Republic;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 84 (2)
thereof,                                                                 Whereas the time allowed for Member States to adjust
                                                                          agreements relating to trades not governed by the United
                                                                         Nations Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences must be
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('),
                                                                          extended in the case of bilateral agreements concluded with
                                                                         third countries by the former German Democratic Republic
Having regard           to    the  opinion  of   the   European          to enable Germany to complete the necessary negotiations
Parliament (2),                                                          for adjusting those agreements.,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (3),
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas the European Economic Community has adopted a
set of rules governing maritime transport;
                                                                                                    Article 1
Whereas, from the date of German unification onwards,                    The following subparagraph is hereby added
Community law will be fully applicable to the territory of the                                                                      to
                                                                         Article 4 (1) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 4055/86:
former German Democratic Republic;
                                                                             'Agreements concluded by the former German
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 4055/86 (4) must be                      Democratic Republic shall be adjusted as soon as possible
amended to take account of the special situation arising from                and in any event not later than 1 January 1995.'
German unification in respect of bilateral agreements
concluded between the former German Democratic Republic
and third countries;                                                                                Article 2
Whereas the agreements concluded by the former German                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
Democratic Republic relate only to cargoes originating in                publication in the Official Journal of the European
that country; whereas, therefore, the rights which may be                 Communities.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                      States.
                      Done at Brussels,
                                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                                 The President
(J) OJ No C . . .
(2) OJ No C . . .
(3) OJ No C . . .
(«) O J N o L 3 7 8 , 31. 12. 1986, p. 1.