CELEX: 51991PC0517
Language: en
Date: 1991-12-11
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) extending Regulation ( EEC ) No 715/90 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products originating in the African, caribbean and Pacific States ( ACP States °) or in the overseas countries and territories ( OCT )

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                        C0MC91) 517 final
                                        Brussels, 11 December 1991
                            Proposal for a
      extending Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 on the arrangements
        applicable to agricultural products and certain goods
       resulting from the processing of agricultural products
          originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                States (ACP States) or in the overseas
                    countries and territories (OCT)
                     (presented by the Commission)
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                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. With Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 the Community agreed to apply the
   arrangements laid down in the Fourth ACP-EEC Lomé Convention signed on
   15 December 1989 for agricultural and processed products from ACP States or
   the OCT before the date of entry into force of the Convention and the new
   Decision on the association of the overseas countries and territories (OCT).
2. However, the Community limited the application of the Regulation to
   29 February 1992.
   Meanwhile the Convention has entered into force.
   The new Decision on the association of the overseas countries and territories
   of 25 July 1991 has also entered into force. It provides that all products
   originating in the OCT shall be totally exempt from customs duties and
   charges having equivalent effect when imported into the Community. As a
   result, so far as the OCT are concerned, the provisions of Regulation (EEC)
   No 715/90 have become obsolete. The applicability of Regulation (EEC) No
   715/90 for the ACP States should therefore be extended beyond
   29 February 1992 for the period of validity of the Convention.
   The purpose of the attached proposal for a regulation is such an extension,
    limited to the ACP States.
3. The financial implications fall within the framework of the financial
    implication of the Commission proposal on the introduction of the
   arrangements concerned in 1990 (C0M(90) 213 final).
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                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No
                                           Of
             extending Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 on the arrangements
               applicable to agricultural products and certain goods
              resulting from the processing of agricultural products
                 originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                        States (ACP States) or in the overseas
                            countries and territories (OCT)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 715/90( 1 ), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 523/91< 2) , and in particular Article 31 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas at present the application of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 is limited to
29 February 1992; whereas, however, the Fourth ACP-EEC Convention, signed at Lomé
on 15 December 1989, entered into force on 1 September 1991(3> and applies until
29 February 2000; whereas, as a result, the application of Regulation (EEC) No
715/90 should be extended to the latter date as far as products originating in
the ACP States are concerned;
Whereas, moreover, with Decision 91/482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of
the overseas countries and territories (OCT) with the European Economic
Community<4>, the Community adopted special arrangements for products
originating in the OCT; whereas these new arrangements which entered into force
on 20 September 1991 provide that all products originating in the OCT shall be
totally exempt from customs duties and charges having equivalent effect when
imported into the Community; whereas, as a result, as far as the OCT are
concerned, the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 have become obsolete;
whereas, as a result, Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 should be extended exclusively
for products originating in the ACP States;
(1) OJ No L 84. 30.3.1990, p. 85.
(2) 0J No L 58, 5.3.1991, p. 1.
(3) 0J No L 229, 17.9.1991, p. 287.
(4) 0J No L 263, 19.9.1991, p. 1.
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                                     Article 1
Articles 1 to 25 and 27 to 30(1) and (2) as well as Article 31 and Annex I to
Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 are extended until 29 February 2000, insofar as
agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of
agricultural products originating in the ACP States are concerned.
                                     Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in
the Official Journal of the European Communities.
 It shall apply with effect from 20 September 1991.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States.
Done at                                           For the Council
                                                  The President
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