CELEX: 51981PC0646
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Date: 1981-11-09
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION authorizing prolongation or tacit renewal of certain Trade Agreements concluded between the Member States and third countries (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                 Proposal for a
                                COUNCIL  DECISION
       authorizing prolongation or tacit renewal of certain Trade Agreements
       concluded between the Member States and third countries
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0M(81 ) 646 final
 ---pagebreak---                               EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 1 . In implementation of Article 3 of the Council Decision of 16 December
 1969 ( 1 ) on the progressive standardization of agreements concerning
 commercial relations between Member States and third countries and on
 negotiation of Community agreements , the Commission proposes to the
 Council that the Member States should be authorized to extend,' expressly or
'tacitly , the trade agreements annexed to the attached proposal for a
 Council decision , The agreements in' question constitute the fourth batch
 for 1981   ancV ; expi re or are due to be terminated between 1 November 1981
and 31 January 1982 .                                                  "       .
      The prior consultation specified in Article 2 oftthis Decision was
executed by written procedure * The outcome was the recognition on 21 October
1981 that the conditions under which the agreements could be extended for
a further year had been fulfilled .
2 „ The Commission considers it appropriate to point out , moreover , that
the proposals for authorizing the Member States to renew or extend ,
expressly or tacitly , certain agreements in this batch for a further
oneyear period are by no means indicative of any position-it might adopt
next time these agreements come up for renewal .
 ( 1 ) OJ No L 326 of 29.12.1969 , p. 39 .
 ---pagebreak---                               Proposal for a
                              COUNCIL DECISION
               authorizing prolongation or tacit renewal of certain
              Trade Agreements concluded between the Member States
              and third countries                        ■ . ■ •
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
 and in particular Article 113 thereof ,
 Having regard to Council Decision 69/ 494 / EEC of 16 December 1969 on the
 progressive standardization of Agreements concerning commercial relations
 between Member States and third countries and on the negotiation of Community
 Agreements ( 1 ), and in particular Article 3 thereof ,
 Having regard to' the proposal from the Commission,
 Whereas extension or tacit renewal beyond the end of the transitional period
has already been authorized in the case of the Agreements and Protr><-~ - listed
 in the Annex by Council Decision 80 / 1045 / EEC ( 2 );
Whereas the Member States concerned have , with a view to avoiding interruption
 in their commercial relations with the third countries concerned based on
agreement , requested authorization to prolong or renew the abovementioned
Agreements ;
 Whereas , however , most of the areas covered by these national Agreements
 are henceforth the subject of Community Agreements ; whereas in this situation
 there should be authorization for the maintenance of national Agreements
 only for those areas not covered by Community Agreements ; whereas , in addition ,
 such authorization should not , therefore, adversely affect the obligation
 incumbent upon the Member States to avoid and , where appropriate , to eliminate
 any incompatibility between such Agreements and the provisions of Community
 Uw;
 Whereas the provisions of the instruments to be either prolonged or renewed
should not furthermore , during the period under consideration , constitute
 an obstacle to the imolementation of the common •^,T.o r cial policy ;
 ( 1 ) OJ N° L 326 , 29.12.1969 , p. 3<
 ( 2 ) OJ N° L 307 , 18.11.1980 , D. 2'
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Whereas the Member States concerned have declared that the prolongation .
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or tacit renewal of these Agreements would neither constitute an obstacle
         to the opening of Community negotiations with the third countries
concerned and the transfer of the commercial substance thereof to Community
Agreements , nor              during the period under consideration , hinder
the adoption of the measures necessary to complete the standardization
of the import arrangements applied by the various Member States ;
Whereas at the conclusion of the consultations provided for in Article 2
of Decision 69 / 494 / EEC it was established , as the aforesaid declaration*
by the Member States confirm , that the provisions of the Agreements to
be prolonged or renewed would not , during the period under consideration,
constitute an obstacle to the implementation of the common commercial
policy ;
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Whereas , in these , circumstances , the Agreements concerned may be either
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extended br tacitly renewed for a limited period,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : ,                                                        '           .
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                                Article 1
The Trade Agreements and Protocols between Member States and third countries
listed in the Annex hereto may be prolonged or tacitly renewed up to the
dates indicated for each of 'them for those areas not covered by Agreements
between the Community and the third countries concerned and in so far as
their provisions are not contrary to existing common policies .
                                Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Done at Brussels ,:                           For the Council
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