CELEX: 41976D0564
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-29 00:00:00
Title: 76/564/ECSC: Decision of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting within the Council, of 29 June 1976 opening tariff preferences for products covered by that Community and originating in Tunisia

1.7. 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 175 /7
                                                             II
                                        (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                    COUNCIL
                                                        DECISION
              OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER
              STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING
                                                WITHIN THE COUNCIL,
                                                      of 29 June 1976
              opening tariff preferences for products covered by that Community and originating
                                                        in Tunisia
                                                      (76/564/ECSC)
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS                           HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN
COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING WITHIN
THE COUNCIL,                                                                              Article 1
Whereas the Member States have concluded among                   With effect from 1 July 1976, the duties applicable in
themselves the Treaty establishing the European                  the Community to imports of products covered by
Coal and Steel Community;                                        the European Coal and Steel Community and
                                                                 originating in Tunisia shall be suspended.
Whereas the Interim Agreement between the
European Economic Community and the Republic of
Tunisia (1), signed in Tunis on 25 April 1976, is to
enter into force on 1 July 1976;                                                          Article 2
Whereas the Agreement between the Member States                  The provisions laying down the rules of origin for
of the European Coal and Steel Community and the                 the implemention of the interim Agreement between
Republic of Tunisia is subject to the approval of                the European Economic Community and the
each signatory State in accordance with its own                  Republic of Tunisia shall apply to the products
constitutional rules ;                                           referred to in Article 1 .
Anxious to apply autonomously and concomitantly
the tariff reductions laid down in that Agreement;
                                                                                          Article 3
In agreement with the Commission,
                                                                 The Member States shall decide by common accord
                                                                 on any contingent protective measures suggested by
(!) OJ No L 141, 28. 5. 1976, p. 195,                            one or more Member States or by the Commission,
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                      Article 4                                                    Article 5
                                                              Member States shall adopt all the measures necessary
This Decision shall expire on the entry into force of         for the implementation of this Decision.
the Agreement between the Member States of the
European Coal and Steel Community and the
Republic of Tunisia, and no later than 30 June 1977.          Done at Luxembourg, 29 June 1976.
                                                                                           The President
                                                                                            G. THORN