CELEX: 21985D0323(01)
Language: en
Date: 1984-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Decision No 3/84 of the EEC-Jordan Cooperation Council of 23 October 1984 replacing the unit of account by the ECU in the Protocol on the definition of 'originating products' and methods of administrative cooperation to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

No L 81 /8                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              23 . 3 . 85
                DECISION No 3/84 OF THE EEC-JORDAN COOPERATION COUNCIL
                                                  of 23 October 1984
              replacing the unit of account by the ECU in the Protocol on the definition of
              'originating products' and methods of administrative cooperation to the
              Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the
                                           Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
THE COOPERATION COUNCIL,                                           Up to and including 30 April 1983, the ECU to be
                                                                  used in any given national currency of a Member
Having regard to the Cooperation Agreement between                State of the Community shall be the equivalent in
the European Economic Community and the Hashe­                    that national currency of the ECU as at 1 October
mite Kingdom of Jordan, and in particular Title I                  1980. For each successive period of two years it
thereof,
                                                                  shall be the equivalent in that national currency of
Having regard to the Protocol concerning the defini­              the ECU as at the first working day in October in
tion of the concept of 'originating products' and                 the year immediately preceding that two-year
methods of administrative cooperation, hereinafter                period.
called the 'Protocol', and in particular Articles 6 (1 )          Revised amounts replacing the amounts expressed
and 25 thereof,                                                   in ECU in this Article and in Article 17 (2) may be
Whereas, since the unit of account is not appropriate             introduced by the Community at the beginning of
to the current international monetary situation, it is            any successive two-year period, if necessary, and
necessary to adopt a new common value basis for                   shall be notified by the Community to the Customs
determining when forms EUR 2 may be used instead                  Cooperation Committee not later than one month
of movement certificates EUR 1 and when no docu­                  before they come into force. These amounts shall
mentary evidence of origin is required ;                          be, in any event, such as to ensure that the value of
                                                                  the limits as expressed in the currency of any
Whereas the European Communities introduced the                   Member State shall not decline .
ECU as from 1 January 1981 ;                                      If the goods are invoiced in the currency of another
Whereas it is convenient to use the ECU to serve as a             Member State of the Community the importing
common value basis ;                                              Member State shall recognize the amount notified
                                                                  by the Member State concerned.'
Whereas, for administrative and commercial reasons,
the common value basis must remain fixed for periods          3 . In Article 17 (2), '60 units of account' and '200
of at least two years ; whereas the ECU to be used                units of account' are replaced by ' 105 ECU' and
must in consequence be exceptionally fixed at a base              '325 ECU' respectively.
date to be updated every two years,
                                                                                       Article 2
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :                                      This Decision shall enter into force on 23 October
                                                              1984 .
                         Article 1
The Protocol is hereby amended as follows :                   Done at Luxembourg, 23 October 1984.
1 . In the second subparagraph of Article 6 ( 1 ) '1 000
    units of account' is replaced by '1 620 ECU.'                                    For the Cooperation Council
                                                                                             The President
2. In Article 6 ( 1 ), the third subparagraph is deleted
    and the following inserted :                                                               P. BARRY