CELEX: 51979PC0061
Language: en
Date: 1979-02-22 00:00:00
Title: Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorizing the Commission to participate on behalf of the Community in the negotiations for the renewal of the International Olive Oil Agreement (submitted to the Commission to the Council)

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                                             COM ( 79) 61 final
                                             Brussels ^ 22 February 1979
                          Recommendation for a
                            COUNCIL DECISION
     authorizing the Commission to participate on behalf of the
         Community in the negotiations for the renewal of the
                    International Olive Oil Agreement
             ( submitted to the Commission to the Council )
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 COM ( 79) 61 final
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    1 . The Community as such has been a provisional rhember of the International
         Olive Oil Agreement since 1 January 1978 .
    2. Since the Agreement , as last prolonged by the Protocol of 7 April 1978 ,
         expires on 31 December 1979, a United Nations Conference is to be held in
         Geneva under the auspices of UNCTAD during the period from 20 March to
         6 Aprii 1979 to negotiate a new agreement .
   3 . A Special Committee for the preparation pf the new agreement to enter into
        force on 1 January 1980 was set up under a Resolution adopted in Madrid on
        8 May 1978 on the occasion of the 38th meeting of the International Olive
        Oil Council and following the Final Resolution adopted on 7 April 1978 by
        the United Nations Conference on Olive Oil .                                ,
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   4 . The Community participated ••    in the work of the Special Committee , which
       met in Madrid from 19 to 25 October and from 11 to 13 December 1978 and
       produced a draft negotiating text . This has been forwarded by the Interna­
       tional Olive Oil Council to the Director General of UNCTAD for use as the
       basis of the negotiations .
       A copy is annexed for information .
                                 Recommendation
  V The Commission recommends that the Council authorize it , pursuant to
       Article 113 of the EEC Treaty , to participate on behalf qf the Community
       in the United Nations Conference to negotiate a new International Olive
       Oi I Agreement .
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  2.   The Commission will conduct the negotiations in consultation with the
       committee provided for in Article 113 of the Treaty , on the basis of
       the guidelines set out in paragraph 3 below .
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  On the basis of S / 1690/ 78
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3. ( a ) In the light of the existing market surplus situation , the expansion
            of production should cease to be an objective of the Agreement ;
  : < b ) The Community considers that the setting up of a buffer stock of
            olive oil would not resolve the problems of the existing market surplus
            situation . It therefore opposes this proposal .
    < c ) The Community proposes to participate as such in the Publicity Fund
           set up under the Agreement .
           The internal rules relating to Its financial contribution to this Fund
           will   at    the appropriate time be decided . by the Council .
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    ( d ) The Community supports the proposal to promote technical improvements
           in olive-growing through the introduction into the administrative bud­
          get of the Olive Oil Council of a special chapter for this purpose of
          up to & 100 000, it being understood that such technical improvements
          should be directed to quality improvement and cost reduction and should
          not contribute to increased production .
   ( e ) The Community accepts the widening of the scope of the Agreement to
          include table olives , provided that additional expenditure does not
          resuit therefrom .
   ( f ) Questions of a technical administrative or drafting nature and other
          questions which may arise will be dealt with on the basis of Community
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