CELEX: 51998PC0736
Language: en
Date: 1998-12-11
Title: Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken by the Community within the Association Council established by the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, which entered into force on 1 February 1995, concerning the export of certain steel products from Romania to the Community

•"TV.1*
                                 COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
 «
                                                                    Brussels, 11.12.1998
                                                                    COM(199)736 final
                                                                    98/0340 (ACC)
 -•M
  'Va*
    ;. .ft
                                                     Proposal for a
                                                COUNCIL DECISION
                on the position to be taken by the Community within the Association Council established
   "4 * ' . * £
                by the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States,
                 of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, which entered into force on 1 February
                 1995, concerning the export of certain steel products from Romania to the Community
 ~£v
                                            (presented by the Commission)
'"%«
    «•>
 '•<&
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                                   EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The aim of the double-checking system is to improve transparency and to avoid possible
diversions of trade. It is founded on the provision in the EC-Romania Europe Agreement1
which allows either Party to introduce an administrative procedure having as its purpose
the rapid provision of information on the trend of trade flows. The Parties agreed to
establish such a system in 1998 in respect of certain ECSC steel products by means of
Association Council Decision N° 3/972. Council Regulation (EC) N° 84/983 established
the corresponding implementing legislation for the Community.
At its meeting on 14 October 1998, the Contact Group agreed to recommend that the
Association Council should extend the double-checking system for the period between 1
January and 31 December 1999.
The attached proposal consequently seeks to extend Association Council Decision N°
3/97 for the period between 1 January and 31 December 1999.
 ' O J N ° L 357, 31.12.94, p. 2.
2
   O J N ° L 13, 19.01.98, p. 57.
-*OJN°L 13, 19.01.98, p. I.
 ---pagebreak---                                  Proposal for a Council Decision
on the position to be taken by the Community within the Association Council established
  by the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States,
   of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, which entered into force on 1 February
   1995, concerning the export of certain steel products from Romania to the Community
The Council of the European Union,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular
Article 113 together with Article 228, para 2, first sentence,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the Decision of the Council and the Commission of 19 December 1994
on the conclusion of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and
their Member States, of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, and in particular
Article 2(1) thereof,
Whereas the Contact Group referred to in Article 11 of Protocol 2 of the Europe
Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States of the one part
and Romania of the other part, which entered into force on 1 February 19951, met on 14
October 1998 to discuss trends in imports of ECSC products from Romania into the
Community and recognised the need to find appropriate solutions in the framework of
Article 34.2 of the Agreement in order to ensure that the attainment of the objectives of
the Agreement will not be jeopardised;
Whereas the Contact Group therefore agreed to recommend to the Association Council
established under Article 106 of the Agreement that the double-checking system
introduced in 1998 by Association Council Decision N° 3/972 should be renewed for the
period between 1 January and 31 December 1999;
Whereas the Parties are desirous to promote the orderly and equitable development of
trade in steel between the Community and Romania;
Whereas the Association Council, having been supplied with all relevant information, has
determined that the solution acceptable to the two parties which least disturbs the
functioning of the Agreement is the renewal of the double-checking system, without
quantitative limits, for the import into the Community of certain steel products covered
by the ECSC Treaty between I January and 31 December 1999,
1
   O J N ° L 357, 31.12.94, p.2
2
  O J N ° L 13, 19.01.98, p. 57.
 ---pagebreak--- HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
The position to be taken by the Community within the Association Council established
by the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States,
of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, concerning the export of certain steel
products from Romania to the European Communities, and in particular the renewal of
the double-checking system, shall be based on the draft decision of the Association
Council annexed to this Decision.
Done at Brussels
                                                                           For the Council
 ---pagebreak---                      Decision N°      /98 of the Association Council,
                         established under the Europe Agreement,
    between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and
                                 Romania, of the other part
                                   of              1998
      extending the double-checking system established by Decision N° 3/97 of the
            Association Council for the period 1 January to 31 December 1999
                                       (98/    /EC)
THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL
Whereas the Contact Group referred to in Article 11 of Protocol 2 of the Europe
Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their
Member States, of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, which entered into force
on 1 February 1995, met on 14 October 1998 and agreed to recommend to the
Association Council established under Article 106 of the Agreement that the double-
checking system introduced in 1998 by Association Council Decision N° 3/97 should be
extended for the period between 1 January and 31 December 1999;
Whereas the Association Council, having been supplied with all relevant information, has
agreed with this recommendation,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                         Article 1
The double-checking system established by Association Council Decision N° 3/97 for the
period 1 January to 31 December 1998 shall continue to apply for the period between 1
January and 31 December 1999. In the Preamble and Article 1 (1) and (3) of the
Decision, references to the period 1 January to 31 December 1998 are hereby replaced by
references to 1 January to 31 December 1999.
 ---pagebreak---                                           Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1999.
Done at
For the Association Council
The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                                  ISSN 0254-1475
                                                            COM(98) 736 final
                                              DOCUMENTS
EN                                                            11 02 08 06
                                    Catalogue number : CB-CO-98-736-EN-C
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
L-2985 Luxembourg
                                             1-