CELEX: 31976D0972
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 21 December 1976 authorizing prolongation or tacit renewal of certain Trade Agreements concluded between the Member States and third countries

31 . 12. 76                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 366/21
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                                                         COUNCIL
                                                      COUNCIL DECISION
                                                       of 21 December 1976
               authorizing prolongation or tacit renewal of certain Trade Agreements
                             concluded between the Member States and third countries
                                                            (76/972/EEC)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                          1972 ( 12), 28 April 1973 ("), 21 March 1974 ( 14), 17
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         February 1975 ( 15) and 24 February 1 976 ( l6) ;
                                                                     Whereas the Member States concerned have again,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               with a view to avoiding interruption in their trade rela­
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                    tions with the third countries concerned, based on
 thereof,
                                                                     Agreements, requested authorization to prolong or
                                                                      tacitly renew the abovementioned Agreements ;
 Having regard to the Council Decision of 16
 December 1969 on the progressive standardization of                 Whereas authorization should be granted to maintain
 Agreements concerning commercial relations between                   trade relations between the Member States and the
 Member States and third countries and on the negotia­               third countries concerned, on the basis of Agreements,
 tion of Community Agreements ( 1), and in particular                 pending their replacement by a Community conven­
 Article 3 thereof,                                                  tional or autonomous system ; whereas such authoriza­
                                                                     tion should not, therefore, adversely affect the obliga­
                                                                     tion of the Member States to avoid and, where appro­
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   priate, to eliminate any incompatibility between such
                                                                     Agreements and the provisions of Community law ;
 Whereas prolongation or tacit extension beyond the
 end of the transitional period has already been autho­              Whereas the provisions of the instruments to be
 rized in the case of the Agreements listed in the                   either prolonged or tacitly renewed would not, further­
Annex hereto by the Council under its Decisions of                   more, during the period under consideration, consti­
 28 January 1969 (2), 12 May 1969 (*), 8 June 1969(4),               tute an obstacle to the implementation of the
 26 June 1 969 (5), 30 June 1 969 (6), 15 September                  common commercial policy ;
 1 969 (7), 20 December 1969(8), 8 June 1970 (9), 29
 September 1970 ( 10), 1 March 1971 ( u ), 25 April                  Whereas the Member States concerned have stated
                                                                     that the prolongation or tacit renewal of these Agree­
(!) OJ No L 326, 29 . 12. 1969 , p . 39 .                            ments would not be likely to constitute an obstacle to
  2) OJ No L 43, 20 . 2. 1969, p. 15.                                either the opening of Community negotiations with
  3) OJ No L 117, 16 . 5. 1969 , p. 9 .                              the third countries concerned or the transfer of the
  4) OJ No L 133, 28 . 5 . 1969 , p. 14.                             commercial fabric thereof to Community Agreements,
  5) OJ No L 159, 1 . 7. 1969, p. 20 .
  *) OJ No L 169, 10 . 7 . 1969 , p . 2.
  7) OJ No L 238 , 23 . 9 . 1969 , p. 9 .                            ( 12)  OJ No  L 112, 14.    5 . 1972,  p. 10 .
  8) OJ No L 6, 9. 1 . 1 970, p. 1 .                                 ( 13)  OJ No  L 124, 10 .   5 . 1973,  p. 22.
 9) OJ No L 133, 18 . 6. 1970, p . 14.                               (>«)   OJ No  L 93, 4. 4.    1974, p . 23 .
( 10) OJ No L 225, 12. 10 . 1970 , p. 24.                            ( 15 ) OJ No  L 62, 7. 3 .   1975, p.  32.
(") OJ No L 56, 1 . 3 . 1971 , p. 8 .                                ( 16)  OJ No  L 58 , 5. 3 .  1976, p.  14.
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nor would it, during the period under consideration,        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
hinder the adoption of the necessary measures to                                   Article 1
complete the standardization of the import systems of
the Member States ;                                         The Trade Agreements between Member States and
                                                            third countries listed in the Annex hereto may be
Whereas, at the conclusion of the consultations             prolonged or tacitly renewed up to the dates specified
provided for in Article 2 of the Decision of 16             in each case .
December 1969, it was established, as the aforesaid
                                                                                   Article 2
declarations by the Member States confirm, that the
provisions of the statements by the Member States do        This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
not, therefore, during the period under consideration,
constitute an obstacle to the implementation of the         Done at Brussels, 21 December 1976.
common commercial policy ;                                                               For the Council
Whereas, in these circumstances, the Agreements may                                        The President
be either prolonged or tacitly renewed for a period not
exceeding one year,                                                                A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE
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                      BILAG — ANHANG — ANNEX — ANNEXE — ALLEGATO — BIJLAGE
        Medlemsstat            Tredjeland                         Aftalens art og datering                  Udløb efter forlængelse eller
                                                                                                                 stiltiende videreførelse
        Mitgliedstaat           Drittland                    Art und Datum des Abkommens                   Ablauf nach Verlängerung oder
                                                                                                           stillschweigender Verlängerung
       Member State           Third country                    Type and date of Agreement                          Prolonged or tacitly
                                                                                                                       renewed until
        État membre             Pays tiers                       Nature et date de l'accord                  Échéance après prorogation
                                                                                                                 ou tacite reconduction
       Stato membro            Paese terzo                       Natura e data dell'accordo                   Scadenza dopo la proroga
                                                                                                                   o il tacito rinnovo
                                                                                                             Vervaldatum na al dan niet
          Lid-Staat            Derde land                     Aard en datum van het akkoord
                                                                                                                stilzwijgende verlenging
BENELUX                   Honduras                 Handelsakkoord                           30 .  1 . 1959            27. 5. 1978
                                                   Accord commercial
                          Joegoslavië              Handelsakkoord                           18 .  6 . 1958            30 . 6 . 1978
                          Jougoslavie              Accord commercial
                          Marokko                  Handelsakkoord                            5.   8 . 1958            30 . 6. 1978
                          Maroc                    Accord commercial
DANMARK                   Indonesien               Handelsaftale                             9.   9. 1952             30. 6 . 1978
                          Madagaskar               Handelsaftale                            10 . 12. 1965             25. 6. 1978
                          Marokko                  Handelsaftale                            26.   7. 1961             30 . 6 . 1978
                          Senegal                  Handelsaftale                            11 .  4. 1962             10 . 7. 1978
                          Spanien                  Handelsaftale                             1.   7. 1960             30 . 6. 1978
                          Tunesien                 Handelsaftale                             8.   6 . 1960            31 . 5 . 1978
DEUTSCHLAND               Afghanistan              Handelsabkommen                          31 .  1 . 1958            31 . 5. 1978
                          Island                   Handelsabkommen                          20 .  5. 1954             30 . 6. 1978
                          Jugoslawien              Handelsabkommen                          11 .  6. 1952
                                                                                                                      30 . 6. 1978
                                                   Protokoll                                16 .  7 . 1964
                          Philippinen              Handelsabkommen                          28 .  2. 1964             12. 8 . 1978
                          Schweden                 Abkommen über Warenverkehr 26.                 1 . 1951            30 . 6. 1978
                          Türkei                   Abkommen über Warenverkehr 16 .                2. 1952             30 . 6 . 1978
FRANCE                    Grèce                    Accord commercial                         9.   6 . 1962            30 . 6 . 1978
                          RAE (république)         Accord commercial                        10 .  7 . 1964            10 . 7 . 1978
                          arabe d'Égypte
ITALIA                    Austria                  Accordo commerciale                      19 . 6 . 1949
                                                                                                                      30 . 6 . 1978
                                                   Scambio di lettere                       14. 11 . 1961
                          Colombia                 Modus vivendi                            19 .  6 . 1952            19 . 6 . 1978
                          Grecia                   Accordo commerciale                      10 . 11 . 1954            30 . 6 . 1978
                          Somalia                  Accordo commerciale e di
                                                   cooperazione economica e tec­
                                                   nica                                      1.   7. 1960             30 . 6. 1978
                          Spagna                   Accordo commerciale                      28 .  6 . 1960
                                                                                                                       8 . 6 . 1978
                                                   Processo verbale                          1.   4. 1967
                          Turchia                  Accordo commerciale                      24 .  1 . 1952            31 . 5 . 1978