CELEX: 51975PC0318
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-30
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION authorizing prolongation or tacit renewal of certain trade agreements concluded between the Member States and third countries (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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                                        COM(75)318 final
                                        Brussels , 30 June 1975
                        Proposal for. a
                       COUNCIL DECISION
     authorizing prolongation or tacit renewal of certain
     trade agreements concluded between the Member States
     and third countries
         ( submitted to the Council by the Commission-)
COM(75 ) 318 final
 ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.     In implementation of Article 3 of the Council Decision of lb
December 1969 ( 1 ) on the progressive standardization of agreements
concerning commercial relations between Member States and third
countries and on the negotiation of Community agreements , the
Commission proposes to the Council that the Member States should be
authorized to extend , expressly or tacitly 4 the trade agreements
annexed to the attached proposal for a Council decision . The agree­
ments in question constitute the third batch for 1975 ana expire or
are due to be terminated between 1 August and 31 October 1975 *
       The prior consultation specified in Article 2 of this Decision
took place on 16 {fey 1975 . The outcome was the recognition 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 tpcitly , certain agreements in this batch for
a farther one-year period are by no means indicative of any position
it might adopt next time these agreements come up for renewal *
1 ) O.J. n° L 326 of 29.12.1969 , P*39
 ---pagebreak---                                Proposal for a
                               COUNCIL DECISION
          authorizing prolongation or tacit renewal of cortain trade
          agreements concluded "between the Member States and third countries
THE COUNCIL CP THE EUROPEAN COfftlUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 113 thoreofi
Having regard to the Council Decision of 16 December 1969 ( l ) on the progressive
stcuidardization of agreements concerning commercial relations between Member
States and third countries an on the negotiations of Community Agreements ,
and in particular Article 3 thereof :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commissions
Whereas tacit extension beyond the end of the transitional period has already-
been authorized in the case of the Agreements listed in the Annex hereto by
the Council under its Decision of 28 January 1969 ( 2 ), 26 Juni 1969 ( 3 )» 30
June 1969 (4 ), 15 September I969 ( 5 )» 17 October 1969 ( 6 ), 8 December I969 (7 ),
20 December 1969 ( 8 ), 6 February 1970 ( 9 ), 8 Juno 1970 ( 10), 13 July 1970 ( ll ),
29 September 1970 ( 12 ), 23 November 1970 ( 13), 25 October 1971 ( 14 ), 18 October
1972 ( 15), 22 October 1973 ( l6) and 2 October 1974 ( 17 );
                                                                     •  • •
 Tpxr No L 326 , 29.12.1969 , p. 39
 2 ) OJ No L 43 , 20.2.1969 , p. 15
 3 ) OJ No L 159 , 1.7.1969 , p. 20
 4 ) OJ No L I69 , IO.7.I969 , p. 2                                *
 5 ) OJ No L 238 , 23.9.1969 , p. 9
 6)  OJ No L  2 66 , 24.lO.i969 , p. 32
 7)  OJ No L  323 , 24.12.1969 , p. 10
 8)  OJ No L  6 , 9.1.1970 , p. 1
 9)  OJ No L  36 , 14.2.1970 , p. 29
 10) OJ No L 133 , 18.6.1970 , p. 14
 11 ) OJ No L 157 , 18.7.1970, p. 29
 12 ) OJ No L 225 , 12.10.1970, p. 24                     '
 13 ) OJ No L 262 , 3.12.1970 , p. 18 '
 14 ) OJ No L 248 , 9.11.1971 , p. 7
 15 ) OJ No L 250 , 6.11.1972 , p. 1
 16 ) OJ No L 301 , 30.10.1973 , p. 30                      l
 17 ) OJ No L 276 , 11.10.1974, p. 37
 ---pagebreak---   Whereas the Member States concerned have , with a view to avoiding inter-                                                  ,
  ruption in their commercial relations with the third countries concerned
  "based on agreement , requested authorization to prolong or renew the abovementio–
  nod Agreements ;                             .      '                ' ''               ''' ■ ' ■            < ' .
                                                                     .   »•   .                              1
  Whereas authorization has to be granted only to maintain commercial relations
  between the Member States and the third countries concerned on the basis of
  Agreements , pending their replacement by Community agreements to be negotiated!
  whereas such authorization should not , thereforo , adversely affect the obli­
  gation incumbent upon the Member States to avoid, and, where appropriate to .
  eliminate , any incompatibility between such agreements and the provisions of
  Community law :                     v.--;' .          -. 'v .-                                           v >:           ■'
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  Whereas the provisions of the instruments to be either prolonged or renewed
  would not> furthermore, during the period under consideration, constitute an • ,
  obstacle to the implementation of the common oommeroial policyj                                                                k
  Whereas the Member States concerned have declared that the prolongation
; or tacit renewal of these Agreements would not constitute an obstacle either
  to the opening of Community negotiations with the third tfountries oqncemed ,
  or to the transfer of the commercial fabric thereof to Community Agreements ^
  nor would it , 'during the 'period under consideration, hinder the adoption .,
  of the measures necessary to oomplete the standardization of the import
  arrangements applied by the various Member States :
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  Whereas at the conclusion of the consultations provided for in Article . 2 *
  of the Decision of 16 December 1969 it was established, as the aforesaid ^                                                     /
  declarations by the Member States confirm, that the provisions of the (                                                        \
                                                                       "    '        ■                      'o      ■ '
  agreements listed in the Annex to be prolonged or renewed would not , during
  the period under consideration, constitute an obstacle to the implementation
  of ,the common commercial policyj               v                                         v! :         V            v' : '
                                        : ■ ■: ■ ■ :· '·<■··             . ;                                    7<·;;· "■
  Whereas , in these ciroumstance, the Agreements concerned'-'may be either prolonged
  or tacitly renewed for a period not exceeding.,a year: <' f                                             \ f /V ;
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  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION                      :'r\                             X                 -■■■ p.) ! ' v             1
 ---pagebreak---                                   Article 1
 The trade agreements "between Member States and third countries listed in the
 Annex hereto may ho prolonged or tacitly renewed up to thfe 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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                                                               v25.il.i957       31.12.1976
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            Turquie        Accord commercial „             31 . 8.1946' 31.l2.197f
            Yougoslavie    Acoord commercial               25 . 1.1964 ;
                           Protocole                        6 . 5.1970; 31.12.1975
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                Aocordo commerciale
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                 e scambio di note               25.11.1957 3i.i2.i976
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                 Scambio di note n         •      23„. 6.1953}                 *
                                                  31.12.1969 30 . 9.1976
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                  Accordo commerciale        1 1 30 .     9.1963 30.11.1976
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                  Acoordo commerciale         •    28 .   7.1967 31.12.197.6
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 ---pagebreak---                       - 5 -
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        Finlande   Accord commercial            8.11.1955 30 . 9.197$
        Pakistan   Accord commercial           15 . 3.1952  31.12.1976
UNITED  Camproon  Agreement on commercial
KINODOM            and economic cooperation
                  with protocol raid exchange
                   of letters                  29 . 7.1963  31.12.1976
        Spain     Trade and payments agree­
                  ment
                  extended by exchanges of
                                               23. 6.1948|4
                  iiotes ending with that of 19/25.6.1952?  31.12.1976