CELEX: 51984PC0723
Language: en
Date: 1984-12-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2151/84 ON THE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF THE COMMUNITY

No C 17/8                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               18. 1. 85
 decisions, regarding products subject to the common               2.    The provisions of this Regulation may be
organisation of the market in fishery products, which              applied to goods which comply with the provisions of
 may be taken on the basis of Regulation (EEC)                    Article 1 (3) and which on 1 January 1985 are either
 N o . . . in order to ensure compliance with the                  in transit or are in the Community or in Greenland in
 conditions laid down in the Protocol annexed to the              temporary storage, in bonded warehouses or in free
Treaty       introducing    special   arrangements       for       zones, subject to submission to the customs auth-
 Greenland, annexed to the Treaty amending the                     orities of the importing State within four months of
Treaties establishing the Communities so that they                that date of a certificate EUR. 1 endorsed
cease to apply to the territory of Greenland.                     retrospectively by the competent authorities of
                                                                  Greenland.
2.      Imports of the products referred to in Article 3 (2)
of Decision 80/1186/EEC shall be effected in
accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No
435/80 or with any Regulation that may replace it.                                          Article 3
3.      For the purposes of applying this Article, the            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of
concept of originating products and the methods of                its publication in the Official Journal of the European
administrative cooperation related there to shall be               Communities.
those defined in Annex II to Decision 80/1186/EEC.
                          Article 2                               It shall apply from 1 January 1985 until the entry into
                                                                  force of the arrangements laid down by the Treaty
 1.     Goods accompanied by an internal Community                amending the Treaties establishing the Communities
transit document or a document equivalent to an                   so that they cease to apply to the territory of
internal Community transit document or a document                 Greenland.
T2M issued before 1 January 1985 shall be admitted
for import into the Community by virtue of this
Regulation on the basis of that documentation, until              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
30 June 1985.                                                     directly applicable in all Member States.
                Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 2151/84 on the
                                            customs territory of the Community
                                                     COM(84) 723 final
                           (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 12 December 1984)
                                                        (85/C 17/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       for ratification of that Treaty had not been completed
COMMUNITIES,                                                      by 1 January 1985, the Council would adopt interim
                                                                  measures which would correspond as far as possible
                                                                  with the provisions laid down for the new relationship
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                      between Greenland and the European Economic
European Economic Community, and in particular                    Communities;
Article 235 thereof,
                                                                  Whereas under the terms of that Treaty it is specified
                                                                  that on ceasing to belong to the European Economic
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                Community Greenland shall be added to the list of
                                                                  overseas countries and territories contained in Annex
                                                                  IV of the EEC Treaty; whereas the rules governing
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                 the association with the EEC of the overseas
liament,                                                          countries and territories as defined in the fourth part
                                                                  of the EEC Treaty shall apply to that territory,
                                                                  subject to the provisions particular to Greenland in
Whereas, when the signature took place in Brussels                the Protocol on the special arrangements applicable
on 13 March 1984 of the Treaty amending the                       to Greenland annexed to the Treaty;
Treaties establishing the European Communities as
regards Greenland, the representatives of the Member              Whereas it is necessary for that purpose to amend
States' Governments declared that if the procedures               Council Regulation (EEC) No 2151/84 of 23 July
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1984 on the customs territory of the Community ('),            — the territory of the Hellenic Republic,
in order to exclude Greenland from that customs
territory from 1 January 1985,                                 — the territory of the French Republic, except for
                                                                  the overseas territories,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                   — the territory of Ireland,
                                                               — the territory of the Italian Republic, except for the
                         Article 1
                                                                  communes of Livigno and Campione dTtalia and
Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2151/84 is                   the national waters of Lake Lugano which are
hereby replaced by the following:                                 between the bank and the political frontier of the
                                                                  area between Ponte Tresa and Porto Ceresio,
'1.    The customs territory of the Community shall
comprise the following:                                        — the territory of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,
— the territory of the Kingdom of Belgium,                     — the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
                                                                  in Europe,
— the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, except
    for the Faroe Islands and Greenland,                       — the territory of the United Kingdom of Great
                                                                  Britain and Northern Ireland and of the Channel
— the German territories to which the Treaty                      Islands and the Isle of Man.'
    establishing the European Economic Community
    applies, except for the Island of Heligoland and                                     Article 2
    the territory of Busingen (Treaty of 23 November
    1964 between the Federal Republic of Germany                  This Regulation     shall enter into force on 1
    and the Swiss Confederation),                                 January 1985.
                                                                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety
(') OJ No L 197, 27. 7. 1984, p. 1.                               and directly applicable in all Member States.