CELEX: 51975PC0130
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-26 00:00:00
Title: RECOMMENDATION FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL on the conclusion of an Interim Agreement between the European Economic Community and Greece conseuqnet on the accession of new Member States to the Community (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak---   COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                        COM(75) 130 final
                                                       Brussels . 26 March 1975
                              RECOMMENDATION FOR A
                       REGULATION ( EEC) OF THE COUNCIL
            on the conclusion of an Interim Agreement "between the
           European Economic Community and Greece conseuqnet on the
              accession of new Member States to the Community
                  ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
COM(75) 130 final
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        Following to the authorisation of the Council    given
 on the 25 march 1975 f      "the Commission and Greece
negotiated the 26 march 1975               an Interim Agree­
ment consequent on the accession of new Member States to
the Community.
        Since both Parties approved the draft of an Interim
Agreement , the Commission submits to the Council :
- a recommandation for a regulation of the Council on the
   conclusion of an Interim Agreement between the European
  Economic Community and Turkey consequent on the accession
   of new Member States to the Community (Annex I )
– the text of the Interim Agreement® (Annex II)
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                        RECOMTTOTDATION ,FOR A
                 REGULATION C'SEC ) 07 TH1?! COUNCIL                  ''
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                                                                 *
          on the conclusion of an Interim Agreement "between the
          Eavopcan "Economic Community and Greece consequent on the
          accession of now IIember States to the Community
   THE COUNCIL 01? THE EUROPEAN COMIUITITIES ,
> Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economio
  Community, and in particular Article 113 thereofj
  Ilnving regard to the Recommendation of the Commission}
   "..liereao the Community and Greece have negotiated a Protocol
  laying down the adjustments to the Association Agreement between
   the European Economic Community and Greece consequent 'on the
  accession of new . Member States to the' .Community J. r
  ! Jheros,s , ponding the entry into force of that Protocol , it is
  desirable to implement as soon as possible "by means of an
  Interim Agreement cex-tain provisions of that Protoool
  concerning trade}
  HAS ADOPTED TFIIS REGULATION:
                                   Article 1
  The Interim Agreement between the European Economic Community
  and Greece , the te:;t of which is annexed hereto , is oonoludod
  on behalf of tho Community#
                                  Article 2
  The President of the Council shall issue the notification that
  the procedures necessary for the entry into force of that
                                     1
  Agreement have been completed •
                                                      • • •/• • • 1
      The date of the entry into force of the Interim
     Agreement will be published in tho "Official
     Journal of the European Communities".                          '
 ---pagebreak---                            Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
that of its publication in the "Official Journal of tho European
Communities ".
This Regulation is binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at
                                      For the Coùncil
                                      ïho Président
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                        INTERIM AGRE0ŒNT
      between the European Economic Community and Greece concerrnent
         on the Accession of new Member States to the Community
    THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
    of the one part ,
    and.
    THE GOVERNMENT OP 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 "Association Agreement ", 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 1*, were laid down in an
   Additional Protocol signed at Frussels on                          j
   Whereas , pending the entry into force of this latter Protocol ,
    certain of its provisions relating to trade should be put into force
   as soon as possible by means of an interim agreement ; '
               (
   HAVE DECIDED to conclude this Agreement and to this end have desier.ed
   as their Plenipotentiaries :
   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 :
                                 Article 1
           The provisions of the Association Agreement
                         _J 'shall , in so far as they relate to trade ,
  apply to the new Member States and Greece , save as otherwise provided
• in Articles 2 to 45 of this Agreement .                  ■
 ---pagebreak---                                            Article 2
         1 » During the period ending on 31 Deooraber 1977 » "tho «ew Member States
        shall apply to Creece the reductions in customs duties and charges having
        equivalent effect provided for in the Agreement of Association, at the sane
        rates and dates as they adopt for tlie elimination of customs duties and ■
        charges having equivalent effect in regard to the Community as originally
        constituted ,         ■          .   •
                                                }   ... 1 *
                                                                   '■
                                                                   ...   ■   . •
                                                                                 • ^ *
                                                                                       i '
        The rates of auty on the basis of which the new Member States apply
        such reductions to Greece shall "be those actually in force on 1 January 1972.
        2*    Subject to the effect to "be given by the Community to Article 3?(5)
        of the Act concerning the conditions of Aocession and the Adjustments to
        the Treaties , attached to the Treaty bf Acoession, in respect of the
        specific duties or the specifio part of the mixed duties of the customs
        tariffs of Ireland and the United Kingdon, the provisions of paragraph 1
        shall "be applied "by rounding to the fourth plaoe of decimals .                   ...
                                      Article 3
    1 . In the case of customs duties comprising a protective element
    and a fiscal element , the provisions of Article 2 shall apply to
    the protective element .
    2 . Ireland and the United Kingdom shall replace customs duties of
    a fiscal nature or the fiscal element of such duties by an internal
    tax , in accordance with Article 38 of the Act annexed to the Treaty
    of Accession and shall apply to Greece the same treatment as they
    apply to the other Member States . .
                                      Article
       The quantitative restrictions in force in Ire land . for the products
listed in Annax I shall bo abolished' as regards Greece not later than
on the datos provided for in Protocols 'tfbs. 6 and 7 of th3'Aci annexed
to the 'Iraaty of Accession in accordance with procedures to be determined
by the Counoil of Association^ aocoUnt being taken of the above mentioned
Protocols..     .                   *             '                    :   '
                                       Artide 5
   The effective date for the implementation of Article 37(2a) and (b)of *
   the Agreement of Association- "by the new : Member States as ragarcis agri­
   cultural products not listed i.r Annex III to the Agreement chall be
   1 January 1972 .
       The Association Council can take every measure to harmonise the
   different levels of customs duties arising from the regulation mentioned
 ' in the previous paragraph.     .
 ---pagebreak---                                                • Article G
      , nl . : For the products of Common Customs . Tariff heading N° 22.05, the new
      ; Ifember .States' shall open annual import tariff quotas for the benefit of
          Greece equal to the -tjuantitiea set out below and to the dutioi; applied by
          those Member States on 1 January 1975 to imports from the Community as
    " Originally constituted :
         „ -                           United Kingdom         6.000 hl
    • "'y .         '   '4«v  v?; ' ' Denmark                   500 hl
     • ; '• ».        O'' - 1 .• l"' • ireland                  500 hl •
             • The arrangements laid down in the preceding paragraph shall be appli­
          cable in 1975 and 1976 .                '                                •
          They could be reviewed before the end of 1975, should suoh revision appear
          useful in the light of developments in the wine sector and of progress made
          in harmonizing agricultural policies in that sector.        '
                                                 Artide 7-
        The Community shall , before the end of the first year after the entry
        into forco of this ftqreerriint, conuaunicate to Greece tiia provisions
       relating to the special arrangements which are the subject of Protocol
       No 5 annexed to the Agreement of Association and which are referred to in
       Artiole 113 of the Act concerning the Conditions of Accession and tho
       Adjustments to the Treaties , annexed to the Treaty of Accession.
                                               Article S
   1.         During the period referred to in Artiole 2 ( l ), Greece shall reduoe
   in regard to the new Member States the differences between tho cr.ist o:ns
   duties and charges having equivalent effect whioh Greece applies to
   third countries and those which Greece applies , in pursuance of tho '
  Agreement of Association, to the Community as originally constituted , at
  the same rates and date3 as the new Member States adopt for the elimination
   of customs duties and charges having equivalent effect in rogard to the
.. Conmunity as originally constituted .
  2.          In the case of modification of the timetable and rhythia for the
 elimination of customs and taxos of the equivalent effect applied by tha
 new I'.orabor States in respeot of the Community in its original composition ,
 the Association Council takes the nocessary measures to take account of
 this modification.
  3. However, the Council of Association may adopt appropriate measures
  with a view to making tho reductions to be applied by Croeoe ia rogard to
   the now Member States coincide with the timetable prescribed by the
   Agreement of Association .
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                                                             %
                                - •                              .
 1 » Imports from -the Community for the purposes of Article 18(2) and (5o),
Artiole 23(lb), and Artiole 26 of the Agreement of Aeaooiation shall
include those effected by Greece , during tho period in question, from the
nev; Member States «                                                     . •  *
However, the application of this rule shall not lead to the removal of
products from the consolidation lists notified by Greece under Article
23(3) of the Agreement .                                . •    .       •
2 . The volume of Community imports from third countries in respect of
which the Community may open .tariff quotas under Protocol ITo»10(3b)
                               Association .
annexed to the Agreemeirrj^Tfaall include such imports effected by the new
Member States from third countries .
                                          Article 10
    In the exchange of goods between the new Member States and Greece , the provisions
    of art 7 of the Association Agreement apply only to goods exported froma new
    member State or from Greece on or after the ••••• ( date of the signature of the
    present agreement ).
                                          Article -47
 As regards goods obtained or produced in the original Member States
 of the Community or in Greece , in the manufacture of which there entered
 products from a new Member State that were not . in free circulation
 either in the original Member States or in Greece , the Council of
 Association may make their admission to the            •   arrangements
provided for "by the Agreement of Association subject to the charging of
a levy in the exporting country so long es duties and changes having
equivalent effect governing trade between the new Member States and Greece
remain different from those applied in trade between the original Member
States and Greece .
                                    ' -             » -            • >
The provisions of Article 8 of the Agreement of Association shall be
applied mutatis           s. .
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               The Council of Association shall detezsdne the method                                       '|
               cooperation for the implementation of Articles 7 and 8- in the exchange of goods betweei
                                                          fh"cSnmmity in respect, , Jf tetxe-Oo-anity
               trade .                                              -,            –
                                                                               A
                                                 Art i rie Ai
•Eofore the end of the first yea? after the entry into force of this
 0<jrceT>}tnfc.j the Consnunity and Greece may, as regards trade between the new
 Member States and Greece , exercise the option provided for in Article 10(4)
 of the Agreement of Association , with regard' to any disparities in easterns
duties resulting frcra the application by the new lumber States of the
transitional provisions of the Treaty of Accession in respect of cus ton3
duties .                                                                                  . .
                                                         Article AH             <
              1 * Until 31 December 1977 , if in a new Member State difficulties arise                1
              which are serious and liable to persist, in any sector of the economy or which
          . . could bring about serious deterioration in the economics situation of . a region,
              the Community may adopt safeguard measures in order to rectify the situation.
              2» 'In the same circumstances Greece may adopt safeguard measures in respect
              of one or' more new Member States .                                           '
                                                                                                   *
                                        er
              3. The measures taken under paragraphs 1 and 2 may involve derogations from
                                                                                                        b.
              the rules of the Agreement establishing an Association between the EEC and
           .. Greece , to suoh an extent and for such periods as are strictly necessary in
       ..j.vorder to attain the objectives referred to in thosa paragraphs*
"1 .
        « <4* / Priority shall be given to such treasures as will least disturb the functioning
             of the Association. .                                                             •
                                   * ■
         . 5 » The measures taken and the manncir in which they are to be put into effect , "
             shall be notified forthwith to the Council of Association. Cousul t<it i oris may
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              be held within the Council of Association on the measures adopted .
 ---pagebreak---   1 , This Agreement shall apply, in the manner laid down in the Treaty
establishing the European Economic Comnmnity, to the European territories
of the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdon of Denmark, the Federal Kepublic
of Germany, the French Republic , Ireland , the Italian RopubliCj the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdon of the Netherlands and the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and northern Ireland , and to the other European
territories whose external relations are administered by £. Member .State ,.
and to the territory of the Republic of Greece#
 2.      ino Agreement shall also apply to the territories listed in the first
 subparagraph of article 227 (2 ) of the Treaty establishing the Community
concerning the fields of the present Agreement corresponding to those lis^ei
in the same subparagraph .
        Ths conditions for applying to those •territories the provisions of this
Agreement relating to other fields shall te decided at a later date by
agreement between the Contracting Parties .
                                      Article 46
                                                                       second
       'i'ias Agreemer.t shall enter into force on the first day of the/month lollowm^
 the da,y • on which the Contracting Parties notify each other that the procedures
 necessary to this end have been completed .
       it shall be applicable uni;il the entry into force of the Additiojir.l t~. otonol
 or until 31 December 1976 whichever is the earlier .
     -.b'rom that date it shall be tacitly extended for periods of one year , unless
one oi the Contracting Parties expresses its disagreement oner month       ciore its
      rj date#
                                       Λτ+Ιοΐβ ί %
   This Agreement is draxn up in two oopiea in the Danish, Dutch, English, .
   French, German, Italian and Greek languages , each of these texts
   beinsr antheirtio .           ;                               '
 ---pagebreak---                                          AîiNi'lX I
                      List of products referred to in article H
        Comroori
 Customs Tariff                                         Description
     heading l\f° "
                           I
                           i
                                      ...             ,
   ■ ex 60.03 ,              T\ijhta and stockings other than knee-len/jth stockings
     ex 60.04                entirely 'or mainly made of silk or man-made fibres , of
                             a value of nob more than iC 2.'j0 per dozen pairs .
     ex 73.35                laminated sprin-'p of i:-cri or
                             steel , for use as parts of vehicles , and
                             leaves for these sprinta .
     ex 85.03 D          |   Sparking plug's arid metal component parts               j
 •:              .       I
 . ex 96.01 ,           j    Brushes and brooms of a value of not less than
; ex95.02           '   |    £ 1.50 per dozen
                                                    /
       < ■              *
                       *
                       I
                             Private cars and commercial vehicles mentionned in
                      'i     Protocol 7 of the Act of adhesion
            *          «
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            •                                    •
    In witness whereof, the undersigned I'lcrJpr fiitiarie* have affixed rheir signatures below
   this Interim Agreement.       •
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