CELEX: 51982PC0881
Language: en
Date: 1982-12-21 00:00:00
Title: RECOMMANDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION suspending the Agreement resulting from the negotiations between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway concerning reciprocal trade in cheese (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                     COM ( 82 ) 881 final
                                                     Brussels , 21 December 1982
                       RECOMMANDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
      suspending the Agreement resulting from the negotiations between the
European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway concerning reciprocal trade
                         in cheese
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . Norway and the Community negotiated an agreement on reciprocal trade in cheese
    involving for Norway , inter alia , the undertaking to open an annual import
    quota of cheese of all types and varieties .
2 . The Norwegian authorities have drawn up a list of cheeses for import , which
    implies that all cheeses not on the list are automatically excluded .
    Also , the authorities intend to allocate most of the import licences to a produ­
    cers' cooperative , which leads to fears that the latter will use the licences to
    import only types and varieties of cheese not produced in Norway . Thus , the
    arrangement in the agreement whereby all types and varieties of cheese were to be
    imported into Norway would be circumvented de facto .
3 . The Commission has held consultations with the Norwegian authorities on this
    subject . Both during and after the consultations the Norwegian authorities m?in-
    tained their stance and refused to admit imports of all types and varieties of
    cheese .
4 . In these circunstances , and notably in view of the fact that the list of cheeses
    admitted for import tompri ses trade names , which amounts to discrimination between
    the different makes of the same type of ch&ese originating in different member
    countries of the Community , the Commission is of the opinion that such measures
    have created an imbalance to the detriment of the Community .
5 . Hence , for the Community 's part , the formal signing and the implementation of the
    agreement should be suspended until the Norwegian authorities fulfil their commitment
    under the agreement . The Article 113 Committee was unanimously in favour of this
    proposal .
6 . The Commission is keeping up consultations with the Norwegian authorities in order
    to bring them round to agreeing to implementation of the agreement that is in con­
    formity with the spirit and the letter . It will report to the Council on the
    results of these consultations no later than 31    March 1983 .
 ---pagebreak---                    RECOKM ANDAT ION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
suspending the Agreement resulting from the negotiations between the European
Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway concerning reciprocal trade in cheese .
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 recommendation from the Commission ,
Whereas Norway and the Community have negotiated an Agreement concerning reciprocal
trade in cheese , which is due to enter into force on 1 January 1983 ;
Whereas Norway has not implemented the commitments incumbent upon it in accordance
with the spirit and the letter of the    Agreement and , hence , an imbalance to the
detriment of the Community has been created ;
Whereas , in these circumstances , the formal signing and the implementation of the
Community 's obligations under the Agreement should be suspended until such time as
Norway fulfils the undertakings into which it has entered as part of the temporary
arrangement for a concerted discipline ,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                  Sole Article
The formal signing and implementation by the Community of the Agreement between
Norway and the European Economic Community comprising :
- a temporary arrangement for a concerted discipline between Norway and the European
  Economic Community concerning reciprocal trade in cheese ;
- an exchange of letters concerning the non-application of a monetary compensatory
  amount upon imports into the Community of Jarlsberg cheese ;
shall be suspended .
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The Commission is hereby instructed to continue consultations with the Norwegian
authorities with a view to bringing Norway round to implementing the Agreement in
such a way as to conform to the spirit and the letter of that Agreement .
The Commission is requssted to report to the Council on the results of the consul­
tations no later than 31  March 1983 .
Done at Brussels ,                                      For the Council ,
                                                          The President .