CELEX: 51976PC0079
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-09
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION authorizing extension or tacit renewal of certain trade agreements concluded between Member States and third countries (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION .OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                         COM(76)79 final.
                                                         Brussels . 9 March 1976*
                                     Proposal for a
                                    COUNCIL DECISION
               authorizing extension or taci   renewal of certain trade
            agreements concluded between Member States and third countries
                      ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
 COM(76 ) 79 final
 ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
  1.           In implementation of Article 3 of the Council Decision of
  16 December 1969 ( l ) on the progressive standardization of agreements
  concerning copnercial relations between Member States and third countries
  and on the 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 attache - proposal ,
  for a Council decision . The agreements in question constitute ';v £ so-. ond
f batch for 1976 and expire or are due to be terminated between 1 May and
  31 July 1976 .
              The prior consultation specified in Article 2 of th? s Decision
  was excecuted by written procedure . The outcome was the recri -        :i on
  15 February 197 that the United Kingdom will denounce her ^ 'vrr'.cat of
  17»l»196l with Tunisia and that the conditions under which '
  agreements could be extended for a further year had been fulfilled .
  2.          The Commission considers it aprro- irate "to poi^t c-";t , moreover,
  that the proposals for authorizing the M&nbe -" Siatos to             «•?. iend,
  expressly or tacitly , certain agreements in this "batch £oi- a f
  one-year perio'd are by no means indicative of any position it              adopt
 next time these" agreements come up for renewal .
  ( 1) OJnoL 326 of 29.12.1969 , p. 39
 ---pagebreak---                                    Proposal for a
                                  COUNCIL DECISION
                                   of
                authorizing jextension or tacit renewaL-of" certain trade
,m 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 Council Decision of 16 December 1969 ( l ) on the pro­
gressive standardization of agreements concerning commercial relations
between Member States and third countries and on the negotiation of
Community agreements , and in particular Article 3 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas tacit extension beyond the end of the transitional period has al­
ready been authorized in the case of the agreements listed in the Annex
hereto by the Council in its Decisions of 30 June .19 69 ( 2), 15 September
1969 ( 3), 20 December 1969 (4 ), 8 June 1970 ( 5 ), 13 July 1970 ( 6), 25 May
1971 ( 7 ), 6 June 1972 (8), 18 June 1973 ( 9), 17 September 1974 ( 10) ;<nd
16 June 1975 ( 11 )? .
( 1) OJ No L 326, 29^12.1969 ,- P. 39
m OJ No L 169 , 10.7.1969 > P - 2
( j ) ùT Ho L 238 , 23.9.1969 , p . 9
( 4' ul l»o L 6 , 9.1.1970, p . 1
(5) UJ I'MO L 133, 18.6.1970, p. 14                                        • •
( 6 ) - jJ lio L 157 , 18.7.1970, p . 29                            •     . .
M >1 KO L :. 22 f 4.6.1971 » p. 24
FB ; OJ :.JO L J-33 , 10.6.1972 , p. 61
( 9 ) OJ JE T. 189 , 11.7.1973 , p. 45
10) 0J 1 /0 L >.66, 2.10.1974, p. 1
11 ) OC- No L 162 , 25.6.1975 , P. 10
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas the Member States concerned have requested authorization
to extend or renew these agreements so as to avoid interrupting
their commercial relations with the third countries concerned based
on agreement ;
Whereas authorization to maintain trade relations , between the Member .
States and the third countries concerned , based on agreements , is
only required until they are replaced by Community agreements to be
negotiated ; whereas such authorization would in no way lessen the
duty of Member States to avoid and , if appropriate , eliminate any
incompatibility which may exist between such agreements and. the >
provisions of Community law ; /
Whereas , furthermore , the provisions of the agreements to be , extended
or renewed would not , during the period in question , hinder the
implementation of the common commercial policy ;
Whereas the Member States concerned have declared that the extension
or tacit renewal of these agreements would prevent neither the
opening of Community negotiations with the third countries concerned
nor the transfer of the commercial matters covered by these
agreements to Community agreements , nor would it , during the period
in question , hinder the adoption of the measures necessary to
complete the standardization of the import systems of the Member
States ; .
Whereas , at the conclusion of the consultations provided for in
Article 2 of the Decision of 16 December 1969 ,     was established ,
as the said declarations by the Member States confirm , that the
provisions of the agreements to be extended or renewed would not ,
during the period in question , hinder the implementation of the
common commercial policy ;
Whereas , in these circumstances , the agreements may be either
extended or tacitly renewed for a limited period ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 ---pagebreak---                               Article 1
The trade agreements listed m the Annexe hereio -between Member
States and third countries- may" "be- extended or tae i tly~rengwed~
until the dates specified therein in each case .
                              Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Done at
                                        Por the Council
                                        The President
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                  Spam             Trade agreement       I9.i2.i95i        31.12.1977
                  Switzerland      Trade agreement       26.12.1951         31.12.1977
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