CELEX: 51988PC0020
Language: en
Date: 1988-02-02 00:00:00
Title: Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION authorizing the Commission to take part in the negotiations for the provisional accessions of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (submitted by the Commission)

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                                                  COM(88 ) 20 final
                                                  Brussels , 2 February 1988
                                Recommendation for a
                                  COUNCIL DECISION
authorizing the Commission to take part in the negotiations for the provisional
      accessions of Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras to the
                     General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
                          ( submitted by the Commission )
 ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Provisional accession to the GATT of Costa Rica , El Salvador ,
Guatemala and Honduras
1 . Applications for provisional accession to the General Agreement on
    Tariffs and Trade , pursuant to Article XXXIII thereof , were made by :
    - Costa Rica on the 15 June 1987
    - El Salvador on the 24 April 1987
    - Guatemala on the 14 May 1987
    - Honduras on the 30 April 1987
2 . Working parties for each application , membership of which is open to all
    contracting parties , are in the process of being established by the
    Council of GATT .
3 . The Community intends to enter into negotiations relating to these
    provisional applications for accession in order to ensure that its trade
    is not negatively affected by the rights these applicants will acquire
    through their provisional accession to the GATT .
4 . These countries are long standing beneficiaries of the Community 's
    Generalized System of Preference which offers duty free access to the
    Community for their industrial exports , within certain quantitative
    limits , and reduced tariffs for some processed agricultural exports . In
    addition the Community has signed in November 1985 an Economic
    co-operation Agreement with six countries party to the General treaty of
    Central American Economic Integration of which these countries are
    members . In the chapter on commercial co-operation , the signatories
    grant each other most-favoured nation treatment .
5 . In view of the above , the Commission proposes that the Council authorise
    it to enter into negotiations with Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala
    and Honduras concerning their accession to GATT .
 ---pagebreak---                    Kl COMMI NI)A I I UN IIIK A CHIINI'II DM'IMIIN
THE COUNCIL OF THE EURÜPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the Recommendation from the Commission ,
Whereas Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras have submitted
applications for provisional accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade ,
Whereas these reguests should be given a favourable response ,
HAS DECIDED AS F0LL0WS :
                                      Sole Article
The Commission is hereby authorised to take part in the negotiations for
the provisional accessions of Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala and
Honduras to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade .
The Commission shall conduct these negotiations in consultation with the
Special Committee provided for in Article 113 of the Treaty , which will
assist it in this task .
                                                                  Done at Brussels ,
                                                                  For the Council
                                                                  The President