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Date: 1975-04-08 00:00:00
Title: RECOMMENDATION for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the negotiation of a legal instrument permitting the European Economic Community to become a Contracting Party to a European Agreement on the Exchange of Tissue-typing Reagents (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                           COM(75)144 final
                                                          Brussels , 8 april 1975
                       RECOMMENDATION for a coure il DECISION
                 concerning the negotiation of a legal instrument
               permitting the European Economic Community to "become
                   a Contracting Party to a European Agreement
                     on the Exchange of Tissus-typing Reagents
                      ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
  CCK(75 ) 144 final
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                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
       The attention of the Commission has recently been drawn to the
fact that a European Agreement on the Exchange of Tissue-typing
Reagents was open to signature to the member countries of the Council
of Europe on 1? September 197^»
       This agreement , created in a spirit of European solidarity ,
is the logical outcome of other agreements prepared under the aegis
of the Council of . Europe with . the same objectives (l ). There is
provision , inter alia , in Article 5 thereof , for each Contracting
Party to .take all necessary jneasure ^ to exempt from all import
charges the tissue-typing reagents placed at their disposal by the
other Parties . Such procedure stems from highly humanitarian motives
which are most laudable .
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       Independently from these considerations , it should be
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noted that Article 5 of this Agreement includes .customs
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provisions which are the exclusive province of the Community ,
since tae purport is to renounce by conventional means the application
of the customs duties of the common customs tariff (12 % ) on products
at present falling within the heading 30.05 of this tariff .
       However , Article 113 of the EEC Treaty lays down that only
the Community is competent to conclude the part of the Agreement
which includes customs regulations .
       To this end , it is desirable that the Community should conclude
the Agreement in question    independently from the Member States , in
order to deal with Article 5 thereof .
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(l ) - European Agreement on the Exchange of Therapeutic Substances
       of Human Origin - signed in Paris in 195$
     - European Agreement on the Exchange of Reagents for Determining
       Blood Groups - signed in Strasburg in 1962 .
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      It must , however-, be emphasised that at the present time the
European Agreement on the Exchange of Tissue-typing Reagents is only
open for the accession of the Member States of the Council of Europe .
      Thus it is neciessary for provision to be made for a legal
instrument which will also permit the Community to become a Con­
tracting Party to the Agreement .
      For this purpose the Commission recommends to the Council ,
pursuant to Article 11J of the EEC Treaty , to authorise it to negotiate
a legal, instrument which, will permit the ; European Economic Community
to conclude , independently from the Member States , the European    .
Agreement on the Exchange of Tissue-typing .
      The text of Article 5 of the Agreement is shown, in annex to
this draft Council Decision .
 ---pagebreak---                    Recommendation for a Council Decision
               concerning the negotiation of a legal" instrument
               permitting the European Economic Community to be­
               come a Contracting Party to a European Agreement
               on the Exchange of Tissue-typing Reagents
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITES ,       ...■•■■
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic          ''
Community , and in particular Article 113 thereof ,.
Having regard to the Recommendation of the Commission ,
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Whereas the European Agreement on the Exchange of Tissue-typing
Reagents , prepared at the initiative of the Council of Europe , aims
at establishing mutuel assistance between member countries of that
organization with a view to the reciprocal supply of these reagents ;
Whereas one of the necessary oonditions for obtaining an effective
system of mutual assistance lies in allowing these reagents in
question to benefit from exemption from customs duties , as laid
down in Article 5 of this Agreement ;
Whereas the granting of exemption from customs duties by conventional
means must take into account requirements which are within the pro­
vince of the customs union , and in particular the existance of the
common customs tariff ; whereas any derogation from the common
customs tariff comes within the exclusive competence of the Community
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whereas , therefore , it proves necessary for the Community to conclude
this Agreement , independently from the Member States , in order to
deal with Article 5 thereof ,         v
HAS DECIBED ÀS FOLLOWS :
                             Sole Article
The Commission shall be authorised to conduct negotiations before
the Council of Europe , in order to have inserted in the European
Agreement on the Exchange of Tissue-typing Reagents , a legal instru­
ment permitting the European Economic Community to become a Contrac­
ting Party to the said Agreement . .... .
The Commission shall conduct these negotiations with the Special
Committee , for which provision is made in Article 113 , which shall ,
assist it in this task .
                                              Done at Brussels
                                              For the Council
                                          ,   The President
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                             " Artide 5
1 . The Contracting Parties shall take all necessary measures to
    exempt from all import duties the tissue-tying reagents placed
    at their disposal by the other Parties .
2 . They shall also take all necessary measures to provide for the
    speedy delivery of these substances , by the most direct route ,
    to the consignees referred to in Article 3 of this Agreement ."