CELEX: 51983PC0568
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Date: 1983-09-30
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION authorizing extension 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
                                                 COM (83) 568 final
                                                 Brussels, 30 September 1983
                                 Proposal for a
                                COUNCIL DECISION
      authorizing extension or tacit renewal of certain trade agreements
            concluded between the Member States and third countries
                  (submitted to the Council by the Commission)
 COM(83) 568 final
 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. In implementation of A r t ic le 3 of the Council Decisiort of 16 December
1969 (1) on the progressive standardization of agreements concerning
commercial r e la tio n s between Member States and t h ir d countries and on
negotiation of Community agreements, the Commission proposes to the Council
that the Member States should be authorized to extend, expressly or t a c i t l y ,
the trade agreements annexed to the attached proposal for a Council decision.
The agreements in question constitute the fourth batch for 1983 and expire
or are due to be terminated between                1  November 1983 and 31 January 1984.
   The p r io r consultation specified in A r t ic le 2 of th is Decision was
executed by w ritte n procedure. The outcome was the recognition on '16 September
1983 that the conditions under which the agreements could be extended for
a fu rth e r year had been f u l f i l l e d .
2. The Commission considers i t appropriate to point out, moreover, that
the proposals for authorizing the Member States to renew or extend,
expressly or t a c i t l y , c e rta in agreements in th is batch for a further oneyear
period are by no means i n d i c a t i v e fof any position i t might adopt next time
these agreements come up fo r renewal.
(1) O . J . no L 326 o f 2 9 . 1 2 . 1 9 6 9 , p . 3 9 .
 ---pagebreak---                                                Proposal for a
                                             COUNCIL DECISION
      authorizing extension or t a c i t renewal of certain trade agreements concluded
                                    between the Member States and th ir d countries
 THE COUNCIL OF' THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in
 p a r t ic u la r A r t i c l e 113 th e re o f,
 Having regard to Council Decision 69/494/EEC of 16 December 1969 on the
 progressive standardization of agreements concerning commercial relatio n s between
 Member States and t h ir d countries and on the negotiation of Community agreements
  ( 1 ) , and in p a r t ic u la r A r t i c l e s ' thereof,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
 Whereas extension or t a c i t renewal beyond the end of the tr a n s itio n a l period was
 last authorized in the case of the Agreements and Protocols lis te d in the Annex
 by Council Decision 82/8554CEE ( 2 ) ;
 Whereas the Member States concerned have, with a view to avoiding disruption of
 t h e ir commercial re la tio n s with the t h ir d countries concerned based on agreement,
 requested a u th o riza tio n to extend or renew the abovementioned Agreements;
 Whereas, however, most of the areas covered by these national agreements are
 henceforth the subject of Community agreements; whereas in th is s itu a tio n there
 should be a u th o riza tio n fo r the maintenance of national agreements only for
 those areas not covered by Community agreements; whereas, in a d d itio n , such
 au th o riza tio n should not, th e re fo re , adversely a ffe c t the o b lig a tio n incumbent
upon the Member States to avoid and, where                    appropriate, to elim inate any
 in c o m p a tib ility between such agreements and the provisions of Community law;
Whereas the provisions of the instruments to be e ith e r prolonged or renewed
should not furthermore, during t h e ^ e r io d under consideration, con stitute an
obstacle to the implementation of the common commercial policy;
Whereas the Member States concerned have declared that the extension or t a c i t
renewal of these agreements whould neither constitute an obstacle to the
opening of Community negotiations with the t h ir d countries concerned and the
tra n s fe r of the commercial substance thereof to Community agreements nor,
during the period under consideration, hinder the adoption of the measures
necessary to complete the standardization of the import arrangements applied
by the Member States;
Whereas at the conclusion of the consultations provided fo r in A r t ic le 2 of
Decision 69/494/EEC i t was established, as the aforesaid declarations by the
Member States concerned confirm, that the provisions of the agreements to be
prolonged or renewed would not, during the period under consideration, con stitute
an obstacle to the implementation of the common commercial policy;
Whereas, in these circumstances, the agreements concerned may be e ith e r extended
or t a c i t l y renewed for a lim ite d period,
                                        ■i                                                   ./.
( 1)     O.J.   N° L 3 2 6 , 2 9 . 1 2 . 1 9 6 9 , p . 3 9 .
( 2)     O.J.   N° L 35 7, , 1 & 1 2 . 1 9 8 2 , p. 2 3 .
 ---pagebreak---                                      - 2 -
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                    A rtic le 1
The Trade Agreements and Protocols between Member States and t h i r d countries
l is t e d in the Annex hereto may be extended or t a c i t l y renewed up to the
dates indicated fo r each o f them fo r those areas not covered by agreements
between the Community and the t h ir d countries concerned and in so fa r as t h e i r
provisions are not contrary to e x is tin g common p o l ic ie s .
                                    A rtic le 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States,
Done at Brussels,                                              For the Council
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