CELEX: 51993PC0005
Language: en
Date: 1993-01-14
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3568/90 on the introduction of transitional tariff measures for Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the USSR and Yugoslavia until 31 December 1992 to take account of German unification

No C 46 / 14                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                18 . 2 . 93
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              Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 3568/90 on the intro­
              duction of transitional tariff measures for Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania,
                the USSR and Yugoslavia until 31 December 1992 to take account of German unification
                                                            (93 /C 46/ 18)
                                                          COM(93) 5 final
                                         (Submitted by the Commission on 18 January 1993)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                             that of the former Yugoslavia, and the formation of
                                                                      States that that implies ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 28 , 43                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and 113 thereof,
                                                                                                 Article 1
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European                          Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3568 /90 is
                                                                      amended as follows :
Parliament,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3568 /90 (J)                      — in the first sentence, '31 December 1992' is replaced
introduced transitional tariff measures for Bulgaria,                     by ' 31 December 1993', and 'the USSR' is replaced
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Soviet                      by 'Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine , Belarus ,
Union and Yugoslavia, to take account of German unifi­                     Moldova, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
cation ; whereas those measures apply until 31 December                    Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan , Tajikistan ,
1992 ;                                                                    Kyrgyzstan',
                                                                      — the following sentence is inserted at the end of the
Whereas in a letter to the Commission, dated 4                            third indent :
November 1992, Germany requested that the measures
introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 3568 /90 be                             'They shall not apply to products of Chapters 7, 8 or
extended until 31 December 1994 ;                                          20 of the Common Customs Tariff.'
Whereas the precarious situation of the economies of the                                         Article 2
former German Democratic Republic and the countries
which had been its trading partners , and notably their               The provisions of this Regulation shall apply to goods
high unemployment rates , require that particular                     from the territory of the former Yugoslavia only if they
attention be paid to the survival of small firms ; whereas            originate in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
the survival of such firms could be facilitated by main­              Croatia or Slovenia, or the former Yugoslav Republic of
taining traditional flows of trade ;                                  Macedonia.
Whereas Community commercial policy with regard to                                               Article 3
the countries in question is, in part, still emerging ;
whereas it would seem advisable to extend the tariff                  The Commission shall report to the European
measures concerned for one year, except for certain                   Parliament and to the Council by 1 October 1993 on the
sensitive agricultural products, pending finalization of              operation of the system established and on the quantities
that policy and in order to avoid disturbing the trade                of products which have benefited from it.
established between those countries and the territory of
the former German Democratic Republic ; whereas                                                  Article 4
account should nevertheless be taken of political devel­
opments in the territory of the former Soviet Union and               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1993.
                                                                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
(') OJ No L 353 , 17 . 12 . 1990, p. 1 .                              directly applicable in all Member States .