CELEX: 31989D0634
Language: en
Date: 1989-11-06 00:00:00
Title: 89/634/EEC: Council Decision of 6 November 1989 on the conclusion of an arrangement and a consensus with the United States of America concerning trade in certain steel products

No L 368 / 96                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                    18 . 12 . 89
                                                                 II
                                          (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                   COUNCIL AND COMMISSION
                                                    COUNCIL DECISION
                                                     of 6 November 1989
                 on the conclusion of an Arrangement and a Consensus with the United States of America
                                           concerning trade in certain steel products
                                                         ( 89 / 634 / EEC )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                              Arrangement and Consensus should be approved to the
                                                                       extent that they relate to products covered by the Treaty
                                                                       establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community , and in particular Article 113
thereof,                                                               HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
        '      f
Having regard to the recommendation from the
Commission,                                                                                     Article 1
                                                                       1 . The Arrangement and the Consensus with the United
Whereas, following the Council Decision of 6 October
                                                                       States of America concerning trade in certain steel products
1989 , the Commission opened negotiations with the
                                                                       are hereby approved on behalf of the European Economic
United States of America culminating in an Arrangement
and a Consensus concerning trade in certain steel
                                                                       Community , Jto the extent to which the Arrangement and
                                                                       the Consensus relate to products covered by the EEC
products;                                                              Treaty .
Whereas the Arrangement will make it possible to                       2 . The texts of the Arrangement and the . Consensus are
safeguard the essential interests of Community producers               attached to this Decision .
exporting the products in question to the United States
market;
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas the Consensus will provide a transition towards
the more liberal conditions in steel trade which will result           The President of the Council is hereby authorized to
from the general rules and disciplines of the GATT                     designate the person empowered to sign the Arrangement
negotiated in the Uruguay Round and reduce trade                       and the Consensus in order to bind the European
distorting practices in , and establish an open trading                Economic Community.
environment for , steel ;
                                                                       Done at Brussels, 6 November 1989 .
Whereas the Commission Decision , pursuant to the Treaty
establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, on                                                     For The Council
the conclusion of the Arrangement and the Consensus has                                                     The President
received the assent of the Council in accordance with that
Treaty;    whereas,       therefore, the    abovementioned                                                    R. DUMAS