CELEX: 51981PC0599
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Date: 1981-10-26
Title: DRAFT DECISION NO 1/81 of the EEC-Switzerland EEC-Austria Joint Committee - Community transit - amending Appendix II to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Switzerland and Austria on the application of the rules on Community transit#Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the application of Decision No 1/81 of the EEC-Switzerland EEC-Austria Joint Committee - Community transit - amending Appendix II to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Switzerland and Austria on the application of the rules on Community transit (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                COM(81)599 final
                                                Brussels . 26 October 1981
                      DRAFT DECISION NO 1 / 81 of the
                             EEC-Switzerland
                               EEC-Austria \
                                         - A
                 Joint Committee ^- Community transit -
                                   , ^    «
                               . •         h»
    amending Appendix II to the Agreement! between the European
                                       «      i
        Economic Community and Switzer land and Austria on the
            application of the ru lesion Community transit
          ;                  Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
  on the application of Decision No 1 / 81 of the EEC-Switzerland
    EEC-Austria Joint Committee - Community transit - amending
    Appendix II to the Agreement between the European Economic
     Community and Switzerland and Austria on the application
                   of the rules on Community transit
             ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0M(81 ) 599 final
 ---pagebreak---                        Explanatory memorandum
 Subject : Application in the Community of Decision No 1 /31 of the
           EEC –Switzerland and EEC–Austria Joint Committees
           -Community transit– amending Appendix II to the
           Agreements on transit
                                             1
Commission Regulation ( EEC ) Ho 223/77           on provisions for the implementation
 of the Community transit procedure         and for certain simplifications of
 that procedure was amended recently to permit the guarantor , under the
flat–rate guarantee system , to limit the extent of the risk he accepts
"by issuing flat–rate guarantee vouchers .
                                          i           ■                       »
 This change in the Community rules makes it necessary to amend Appendix II
 to the Agreements between the EEC and Switzerland , and between the ESC
                                                                            2
 and Austria , on the application of the rules on Community transit .
 Such is purpose of ' the attached draft decision of the Joint Committees .
 It is purposed that the draft be adopted as representing the Community' s
                                               " t
 agreed position within the EEC-Austria and EEC–Switzerland            Joint Committee
 -Community transit–.
 Once it has been adopted by the Joint Committees , this decision will have
 to be brought into effect in the Community by way of a Council Regulation
 the draft of which is also attached .
. QJ-NO L 33 . 9.2.1977 , P - 20 .
  0J No L 294 , 29.12 . 1972 , pp . 1. and 87 .
 ---pagebreak---                     DRAFT DECISION NO 1 / 81 of the
                             EEC-Switzerland
                                EEC-Austria
                Joint Committee - Community transit -
    amending Appendix II to the Agreement between the European
       Economic Community and Switzerland and Austria on the         '
           application of the rules on. Community transit'             ~    -•
  THE JOINT COMMITTEE ,                                       *
  Having regard to the Agreement between the European Economic Community
  and Switzerland and Austria on the application of the rules on Community
  transit , and in partaicular Article 16(3 ) ( a ) thereof .
  Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 223 / 77 of 22 December 1976 on pro­
  visions for the implementation of the Community transit procedure and
                                                      1
  for certain simplifications of that procedure         has been amended by Regu-
                              2
  lation ( EEC ) No 1604 / 81    in order to permit the guarantor , under the
  flat-rate guarantee system , to limit , at the time of issuing flat-rate
  guarantee vouchers , the extent of the risk which 'Ke thereby accepts ; .
                                                                                  1
  Whereas the said Regulation appears in Appendix II to the Agreement and
  whereas that Appendix should be amended to take account of the changes
, thus made in the rules on Community transit ,
  HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                      «             -       -            >•     I
           X.
                                -       Arti.cJ.e_1
  Appendix II to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and
  Switzerland and Austria on the application of the rules on Community
  transit is hereby amended as follows :
  1 0J No L 38, 9.2.1977, p. 20
  20J No L
 ---pagebreak---                                                                         ANNEX
 The     following subparagraphs are               be inserted after the first subparagraph
 of Article 23 ( l)s
 "The guarantor may issue flat-rate guarantee vouchers :
 – which are not valid for a Community transit operation in respect of
     goods which are listed in Annex XIII , and
 – which may be used in multiples_qf jip to seven vouchers per                    means of •
     transport as referred to in. Article 16 ( 2 ) of Regulation ( EEC ) To 222/77 '
     for goods other, than those referred to in the previous indent .
 For this purpose the guarantor shall mark such flat–rate guarantee vouchers
 diagonally in capital letters with one of the following statements :
               / '                 .
                   'LIMITED VALIDITY – REG . (EEC) 223/77, .
                   APPLICATION ART. 23 ( 1 ), 2ND SUBPARA.
                    BEGRÆNSET GYLDIGHED – ANV. AF ART. .
                   23 . STK . 1 , 2. AFS. FO (EØF) 223/77                     ;
                    BESCHRANKTE GELTUNG – ANWENDG.
                   ΑΚΤ. 23 ΑΒ5 . I υΝΤΕΚΑΒ5. 2 νθ (Ε^ΚΌ) 223/77
       ■            ΠΕΡΙΟΡΙΣΜΕΝΗ ΙΣΧΥΣ – ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗ                                 '
                    AP0PO 23 nAP. I EAAO. 2 KAN . ( EOK ) 223 /77
                   VALIDITÉ LIMITÉE – APPLICATION ART. 23,
                    PAR . I , AL. 2, REGL. (CEE) 223/ 77 .
                    VALIDITÀ LIMITATA – APPLICAZIONE ART.
                    23 , PAR. 1 , 2o COMMA; REG. (CEE) 223/77
                    BEPERKTE GELDIGHEID – TOEPASSING               ,
          )         ART. 23, LID 1 , 2 E AL.j VER. (EEG) 223/77'.
Article 23 ( 3 )." is                replaced by the following :
" 3 . VJithout prejudi ce to the provisions in the second and third subpara-
graphs of paragraph 1 and in Article 24 , the principal may carry out one
Community transit operation under each flat–rate guarantee voucher . ■
The voucher shall be delivered to the office of departure , where it shall
be retained ".
                                         Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 19°2 .
                               ,       '                          ' /
  It shall apply until 30 June 1982 .
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Done at Brussels .                                           For the Joint Committee
                                                             The Chairman
 ---pagebreak---                           Proposal for a
                     COUNCIL_REGULAIION_(EEC )
on the application of Decision No 1 / 81 of the EEC-Switzerland
  EEC-Austria Joint Committee - Community transit - amending
  Appendix II to the Agreement between the European Economic
   Community and Switzerland and Austria on the application
                of the rules on Community transit
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,     '
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 113 thereof ,                       ,         .
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, *       .
Whereas Article 16 of the Agreement "between the European Economic Community
      Switzerland and
and / Austria on the application of the rules on Community transit ( l ), signed
on November 1972 , empowers the Joint Committee set up under that Agreement
to adopt decision? making certain amendments to the Agreement and to its
Appendices ;                                        '
Whereas the Joint Committee has decided to amend Appendix II to the Agreemen
in order to permit the guarantor , under the flat–rate guarantee system to
limit , at the time of issuing flat–rate guarantee vouchers , the extent of
the risk which he thereby accepts ;
Whereas this amendment is the subject of Decision Ho 1/31 of the Joint
Committee ; whereas it is necessary to take the ipeasures required to
implement the above mentioned Decision ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
'1 )
v ;0J No L 294 , 29.12.1972 , p
 ---pagebreak---                                 Article 1
  Decision No 1 / 81 of the EEC-Switzerland , EEC-Austria Joint Committee -
  Community transit - amending Appendix II to the Agreement between
  the European Economic Community and Switzerland and Austria on the
  application of rules on Community transit shall apply in the
  Community .
   The text of the Decision is annexed to this Regulation .
                   *           Article   2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication
   in the Official Journal of the European Communities .              -
                                                   «
   This Regulation shall be binding in its -entirety and directly applicable -
> ~in all Member States .                      -                   -
   Done at                                        Por the Council
                                                   The President