CELEX: 51979PC0135
Language: en
Date: 1979-03-22
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION AUTHORIZING EXTENSION OR TACIT RENEWAL OF CERTAIN TRADE AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BETWEEN MEMBER STATES AND THIRD COUNTRIES. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                           PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
                      AUTHORIZING EXTENSION OR TACIT RENEWAL OF
                     CERTAIN TRADE  AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BETWEEN
                          MEMBER STATES AND THIRD COUNTRIES
                   ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0MC79 ) 135 final
 ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.                 In implementation of Article 3 of the Council Decision of
16 December 1969 ( l ) on the progressive standardization of agreements     concerning
commercial relations between Member States and third     countries and on negotiation
of Community agreements , the Commission proposes to the Council that the Member
States should be authorized to extend , expressly or tacitly , the trade agreements
annexed to the attached proposal for a Council decision . The agreements in ;
cruestion constitute the second batch for 1979 and expire or are due to be
terminated between 1 May and 31 July 1979 *
                    The prior consultation specified in Article 2 of this Decision was
executed by written procedure . The outcome was the recognition on 15 February 1979
that the conditions under which the agreements could be extended for a further
year had been fulfilled .
2.                  The Commission considers it appropriate   to point out , moreover ,
that the proposals for authorizing the Member States to renew or extend ,
expressly or taciUy , certain agreements in this batch for a further one-year
period are by no means indicative of any position it might adopt next time
these agreements come up for renewal .
 ( 1 ) OJ No L 326 of 29.i2.i969 , p. 39 .
 ---pagebreak---                                  Proposal for a
                                COUNCIL DECISION
     \
          authorizing extension or tacit renewal of certain Trade
       Agreements concluded between Member States and third countries
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 113 thereof ^
Having regard to the Council Decision 69/494/EEC of 16 December 1969
on the progressive standardization of agreements concerning commercial
relations between Member-States and third countries and on the negotiation
of Community Agreements , and in particular Article 3 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commissions
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Whereas extension or tacit renewal beyond the end of the transitional
period has already been authorized in the case of the Agreements and
Protocols listed in ihe Annex by Council Decision 78/419/ CEE *-
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( 1 ) OJ No L 326 , 29.12.1969 , p. 39
( 2 ) OJ No L 123 , ll.O5.i978 , p. 23
 ---pagebreak---  Whereas the Member States concerned have requested authorization to extend or
 renew these Agreements with a view to avoiding interruption in their commercial
relations with the third countries concerned "based on agreement ;
 Whereas authorization has to be granted only for the maintenance of 'trade
 relations between the Member States send the third countries concerned , based on '
 agreements , pending their replacement by Community Agreements to be negotiated ;
 whereas such authorization would , not , therefore in any way modify the obligation
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 of the Member States to avoid and , where appropriate , eliminate any incompatibility
 between such agreements and the provisions of Community law ;
 Whereas furthermore,' the provisions of the instruments to be either extended or .
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 renewed should not , during the period under consideration , . constitute .an
 obstacle to' the implementation of the common commercial policy ;
 Whereas the Member States concerned have declared that the extension or tacit
 renewal * of these Agreements would prevent neither the opening of Community
 negotiations with the third countries concerned nor the transfer of the
 commercial fabric thereof to Community Agreements ,- nor would it', during the
 period envisaged , hinder the adoption of the measures necessary to complete the
 standardization of the import systems of the Member States ;
 Whereas , at the conclusion of the consultations provides for in Article 2 of
 the          Decision 69/494/ EEC , ;        it was established, as the aforesaid
 declarations by the Member States confirm , that the provisions of the Agreements
 to be extended or renewed would not , during the period envisaged , constitute an
 obstacle to the implementation of the common commercial policy ;
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 Whereas , in these Circumstances , the Agreements may be either extended or
 tacitly renewed for a limited period ,
        I
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 ---pagebreak---                             Article 1
The trade Agreements and Protocols listed in the Annex hereto between Member
States and third countries may be extended or tacitly renewed up to the dates
specified in each case in the said Annex .
                            Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Done at .                                     For the Council
                                                The President
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