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Date: 1975-05-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1223/75 of the Council of 5 May 1975 on the conclusion of the interim Agreement between the European Economic Community and Greece consequent on the accession of new Member States to the Community #Interim Agreement between the European Economic Community and Greece consequent on the Accession of new Member States into the Community

15. 5. 75                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 123 / 1
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                                      (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                           REGULATION ( EEC) No 1223/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                  of 5 May 1975
             on the conclusion of the interim Agreement between the European Economic -
             Community and Greece consequent on the accession of new Member States to
                                                 the Community
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                       Art iclc 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        The interim Agreement between the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113            Economic Community and Greece consequent on the
thereof ;                                                    accession of new Member States to the Community is
                                                             hereby concluded on behalf of the Community .
Having regard to the recommendation from the                 The text of the Agreement is annexed to this Regula­
Commission ;                                                 tion .
Whereas the Community and Greece have negotiated                                       A rt iclc 2
an Additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing         The President of the Council shall notify the other
an Association between the European Economic                 Contracting Party that the procedures necessary for
Community and Greece consequent on the accession             the entry into force of the Agreement have been
of new Member States to the Community ;                      completed , on the part of the Community (').
Whereas, pending the entry into force of this                                          Article 3
Protocol , certain of its provisions relating to trade       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
should be implemented as soon as possible by means           following its publication in the Official journal of
of an interim Agreement,                                     the European C.onnnunities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 5 May 1975 .
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                          G. FITZGERALD
                                                             (') The date of the entry into force of the interim Agreement
                                                                 will he published in the Officii il Journal of the Enro­
                                                                 hean Communities.
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                                                  INTERIM AGREEMENT
              between the European Economic Community and Greece consequent on the
                                accession of new Member States to the Community
              THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
              of the one part, and
              THE GOVERNMENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,
              of the other part,
              WHEREAS the adjustments to the Agreement establishing an association between the European
              Economic Community and Greece, hereinafter called the 'Agreement of Association', which are
              necessary consequent on the accession to the Community of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland and
              the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, hereinafter called the 'new Member
              States', were laid down in an additional Protocol signed at Brussels on 28 April 1975.
              WHEREAS, pending the entry into force of this Protocol , certain of its provisions relating to trade
              should be implemented as soon as possible by means of an interim Agreement ;
              HAVE DECIDED to conclude this Agreement and to this end have designated as their Plenipotenti­
              aries :
              THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES :
              THE GOVERNMENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC :
              WHO, having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form,
              HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS :
                          Art it'll' 1                             The rates ot duty on the basis of which the new
                                                                   Member States apply such reductions to Greece shall
                                                                   be those actually in force on 1 January 1972.
The provisions of the Agreement of Association shall ,
in so far as they relate to trade, apply to the new
Member States and Greece, save as otherwise provided               2 . Subject to the effect to be given by the Commu­
in Articles 2 to 15 of this Agreement.                             nity to Article 39 (5) of the Act concerning the condi­
                                                                   tions of accession and the adjustments to the Treaties,
                                                                   hereinafter called the 'Act of Accession ', in respect of
                                                                   the specific duties or the specific part of the mixed
                          Artiac 2                                 duties of the customs tariffs of Ireland and the United
                                                                   Kingdom , paragraph 1 shall be applied by rounding
                                                                   to the fourth place of decimals .
1.    During the period ending on 31 December
1977, the new Member States shall apply to Greece
the reductions in customs duties and charges having
                                                                                            ArticIc 3
equivalent effect provided for by the Agreement of
Association , at the same rates and dates as they adopt
for the elimination of customs duties and charges                   1.   In the case of customs duties comprising a
having equivalent effect in regard to the Community                protective element and a fiscal element, Article 2 shall
as originally constituted .                                        apply to the protective element .
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2.     Ireland and the United Kingdom shall replace            annexed to the Agreement of Association and which
customs duties of a fiscal nature or the fiscal element         are referred to in Article 113 of the Act of Accession .
of such duties by an internal tax, in accordance with
Article 38 of the Act of Accession and shall apply to
Greece the same treatment as they apply to the other                                     Article 8
Member States .
                                                                1 . During the period referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ),
                                                                Greece shall reduce in regard to the new Member
                          Article 4                             States the differences between the customs duties and
                                                                charges having equivalent effect which Greece applies
The import arrangements in force in Ireland for the             to third countries and those which Greece applies, in
products listed in the Annex shall be abolished as              pursuance of the Agreement of Association, to the
regards Greece not later than on the dates provided             Community as originally constituted, at the same rates
for in Protocols 6 and 7 to the Act of Accession , in           and dates as the new Member States adopt for the
accordance with procedures to be determined by the              elimination of customs duties and charges having
Council of Association , account being taken of these           equivalent effect in regard to the Community as origi­
Protocols .
                                                                nally constituted .
                          Article 5
                                                                2.      In the event of any amendment to the rates and
                                                                dates adopted by the new Member States for the elimi­
                                                                nation of customs duties and charges having equiva­
The effective date for the implementation of the rules
laid down in Article 37 (2) (a) and (b) of the Agree­           lent effect in regard to the Community as originally
                                                                constituted , the Council of Association shall take the
ment of Association by the new Member States as
regards agricultural products not listed in Annex III to        necessary measures to take account of such an amend­
                                                                ment .
the Agreement of Association shall be 1 January 1972.
The Council of Association can take any measures to             3.       However, the Council of Association may adopt
harmonize       the different  levels  of customs      duties   appropriate measures with a view to making the reduc­
arising from the rules mentioned in the previous para­          tions to be applied by Greece in regard to the new
graph .                                                         Member States coincide with the timetable prescribed
                                                                by the Agreement of Association .
                          Article 6
                                                                                         Article 9
 1.     For the products falling within Common
Customs Tariff heading No 22.05, the new Member                  1 . For the purposes of Articles 18 (2) and (5) (c), 23
States shall open annual import tariff quotas for the           ( 1 ) (b) and 26 of the Agreement of Association , the
benefit of Greece equal to the quantities set out below         volume of imports from the Community shall include
and to the duties applied by those Member States on 1            those effected by Greece, during the period in ques­
January 1975 to imports from the Community as orig­              tion , from the new Member States .
inally constituted :
                                                                 However, the implementation of this provision shall
          United Kingdom :                  6 000 hi             not lead to the removal of products from the consoli­
          Denmark :                           500 hi
          Ireland :                           500 hi .
                                                                 dation lists notified by Greece under Article 23 (3) of
                                                                 the Agreement of Association .
 2. The arrangements laid down in paragraph 1 shall
                                                                 2 . The volume of Community imports from third
be applicable in 1975 and 1976 .
                                                                 countries in respect of which the Community may
These arrangements could be reviewed before the end              open tariff quotas under paragraph (3) (b) of Protocol
 of 1975, should such revision appear useful in the               10 , annexed to the Agreement of Association , shall
 light of developments in the wine sector and of                 include such imports effected by the new Member
                                                                 States from third countries .
 progress made in harmonizing agricultural policies in
 that sector.
                                                                                         Article 10
                          Article 7
                                                                 For trade in goods between the new Member States
The Community shall , before the end of the first year           and Greece, Article 7 of the Agreement of Association
 after the entry into force of this Agreement, communi­          shall apply only to goods exported from a new
 cate to Greece the provisions relating to the special           Member State or from Greece on or after 28 April
 arrangements which are defined in Protocol 5                     1 975 .
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                         Article 11                            such periods as are strictly necessary in order to attain
                                                               the objectives referred to in those paragraphs .
 Goods obtained or produced in the original Member
 States of the Community or in Greece, the manufac­            4. Priority shall be given to such measures as will
 ture of which involved the use of products from a new         least disturb the functioning of the Association .
 Member State that were not in free circulation either
                                                               5.    The measures taken and the manner in which
 in the original Member States or in Greece, shall also
                                                               they are to be put into effect, shall be notified forth­
be admitted to the arrangements provided for by the            with to the Council of Association . Consultations on
Agreement of Association .
                                                               these measures may be held within the said Council .
 However, the admission of the said products to the
above arrangements may be subject to the charging of                                    Article 15
a levy in the exporting country so long as duties and
charges having equivalent effect governing trade                1 . This Agreement shall apply, in the manner laid
between the new Member States and Greece remain                down in the Treaty establishing the European
different from those applied in trade between the orig­        Economic Community, to the European territories of
inal Member States and Greece .                                the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of Denmark,
                                                               the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Repu­
Article 8 of the Agreement of Association shall be             blic, Ireland , the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy
applied .                                                      of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and
                                                               the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
                         Article 12                            Ireland, and to the other European territories whose
                                                               external relations are administered by a Member State,
The     Council   of  Association   shall  determine   the
                                                               on the one hand, and to the territory of the Hellenic
methods of administrative cooperation for the imple­           Republic on the other.
mentation of Articles 7 and 8 of the Agreement of
Association in trade between the Community and                 2 . The Agreement shall also apply to the territories
Greece, taking into account the methods adopted by             specified in the first subparagraph of Article 227 (2) of
the Community in respect of intra-Community trade.             the Treaty establishing the European Economic
                                                               Community concerning the fields covered by this
                         Article 13                            Agreement which are listed in the same subparagraph .
                                                               The conditions for applying to those territories the
Before the end of the first year after the entry into
                                                               provisions of this Agreement relating to other fields
force of this Agreement, the Community and Greece              shall be decided at a later date by agreement between
may, as regards trade between the new Member States
                                                               the Contracting Parties .
and Greece, exercise the option provided for in Article
10 (4) of the Agreement of Association , with regard to                                 Article 16
any disparities in customs duties resulting from the
application by the new Member States of the transi­            This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day
tional provisions of the Act of Accession .                    of the second month following the day on which the
                                                               Contracting Parties have notified each other of the
                         Article 14                            completion of the necessary procedures .
1.     Until 31 December 1977 , if in a new Member             It shall be applicable until the entry into force of the
State difficulties arise which are serious and liable to       Additional Protocol or       until  31 December       1976
persist in any sector of the economy or which could            whichever is the earlier.
bring about serious deterioration in the economic situ­        From that date it shall be tacitly extended for periods
ation of a region , the Community may adopt safe­
                                                               of one year, unless one of the Contracting Parties
guard measures in order to rectify the situation .             expresses its disagreement one month before its
2.     In the same circumstances Greece may adopt              expiry date .
safeguard measures in respect of one or more new
Member States .                                                                        Article 17
3 . The measures taken under paragraphs 1 and 2                This Agreement is drawn up in two copies in the
may involve derogations from the provisions of the             Danish , Dutch , English , French , German , Italian and
Agreement of Association , to such an extent and for           Greek languages, each of these texts being authentic.
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                                                     ANNEX
                                    List of products referred to in Article 4
                      CCT
                     heading                                 Description of goods
                       No
               ex 60.03 ,    Tights and stockings other than knee-length stockings entirely or mainly made
               ex 60.04      of silk or man-made fibres, of a value of not more than £ 2-50 per dozen pairs
               ex 73.35      Laminated springs of iron or steel, for use as parts of vehicles, and leaves for
                             these springs
               ex 85.08 D    Sparking plugs and metal component parts
               ex 96.01 ,    Brushes and brooms
               ex 96.02
                             Private cars and commercial vehicles referred to in Protocol 7 to the Act of
                             Accession