CELEX: 31976R1522
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-24 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1522/76 of 24 June 1976 on imports into the Community of prepared and preserved sardines originating in Morocco

28 . 6. 76                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 169/45
                                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1522/76
                                                           of 24 June 1976
                 on imports into the Community of prepared and preserved sardines originating in
                                                              Moroecco
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                           sardines until an exchange of letters has been
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         concluded ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                          Whereas, in order to avoid any interruption in trade
European Economic Community, and in particular                        in the said products between the Community and
Article 43 thereof,                                                   Morocco pending the conclusion of that exchange of
                                                                      letters, the arrangements laid down by Regulation
                                                                      (EEC) No 111 /76 should continue to apply on a
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    transitional basis to prepared and preserved sardines ,
Having regard to the opinion of the European
Parliament ( 1 ),
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 111 /76 of
 19 January 1976 concerning imports into the Com­
munity of fishery products originating in Morocco (2 )                                        Article 1
established transitional arrangements for imports of
 carp, trout and preserved sardines and tunny orig­
 inating in that country ;                                            1 . Member States shall maintain in force the import
                                                                      arrangements applied on 31 January 1972 to prepared
                                                                      and preserved sardines falling within subheading
 Whereas those arrangements apply until the entry                      16.04 D of the Common Customs Tariff originating
 into force of a new Agreement between the Com­                       in Morocco .
 munity and Morocco ;
                                                                      2. However, Member States which open tariff
 Whereas a Cooperation Agreement and an Interim                       quotas under the arrangements referred to in
 Agreement (3) between the European Economic                          paragraph 1 may increase the quantity of such quotas
 Community and the Kingdom of Morocco were                             by not more than 30% .
 signed on 27 April 1976 ;
                                                                       3 . The import arrangements applied to the products
 Whereas, therefore, from the time of entry into force                 specified in paragraph 1 originating in Morocco shall
 of the Cooperation Agreement or the Interim Agree­                    in no case be less favourable than those applied to
 ment on the advance implementation of certain                         like products originating in third countries .
 provisions "relating to trade in goods, the transitional
 arrangements referred to above shall no longer apply ;
                                                                                              Article 2
 Whereas the Cooperation Agreement and the Interim
 Agreement contain provisions relating to imports of                   1 . This Regulation shall apply until the arrange­
 the fishery products in question, which will not,                     ments laid down in the exchange of letters referred
 however, apply to imports of prepared and preserved                   to in Article 12 (4) of the Interim Agreement and
                                                                       Article 19 (4) of the Cooperation Agreement between
                                                                       the Community and Morocco become applicable or
                                                                       until 31 December 1976, whichever is the earlier.
 (J) Opinion delivered on 18 June 1976 and not yet
       published in the Official Journal.
  ( 2) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 51 .                              2. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July
  (3) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1976, p. 98 .                              1976.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 24 June 1976.
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                    G. THORN