CELEX: 51980PC0820
Language: en
Date: 1980-12-05
Title: Draft DECISION of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community meeting within the Council, opening tariff preferences in Greece for products covered by that Community and originating in Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland (submitted to the Concil by the Commission)

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                                               COM(80 ) 820 final
                                               Brussels , 5 December 1980
                                 Draft
                               DECISION
 of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of
 the European Coal and Steel Community meeting within the Council ,
 opening tariff preferences in Greece for products covered by that
 Community and originating in Austria , Finland , Norway , Sweden and
                             Switzerland
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 ---pagebreak---                      Explanatory memorandum
The additional protocols to the Free Trade Agreements signed between
the ECSC and the EFTA States in order to take account of the Greek
accession , provide for a first tariff reduction by Greece for ECSC
products on 1 January 1981 . However , these ECSC protocols have to be
ratified by the national parliaments before formally entering into
force . These ratification procedures will not be completed before
1 January 1981 .                               -
In order to assure that the intended tariff reductions can nonetheless
be carried out , the representatives of the Member States of the ECSC
meeting within the Council will have to decide the adoption of the ne­
cessary autonomous Community measures .
The EFTA States will have to assure reciprocity by adopting analogous
autonomous measures . .                          -
The present proposition does not include Iceland , as that Agreement does
not provide for the abolition of tariffs by the Community because Iceland
is no producer.
The present decision must be taken before 1 January 1981 . Greece would
apply it as from that date on the basis of Article 1 , paragraph 1 of the
Treaty of Accession.
 ---pagebreak---                                  Draft
                             - DECISION
     of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States
     of the European Coal and Steel Community meeting within the Coun­
     cil , opening tariff preferences in Greece for products covered by
     that Community and originating in Austria, Finland , Norway , Sweden
                              and Switzerland
THE KEPEESEITTATI V2S CF THE GOVERNMENTS CP THE MEMBER STATES OP THE EUROPEAN
COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY ,               -             -
Whereas the Member States have conoluded among themselves the Treaty
establishing the European Coal and Steel Community }
Whereas Greece will accede to this Community on 1 January 1981 ;
                                                                \
Whereas the additional protocols to the Agreements concluded between the
European Economic Community and the Republic of Austria , the Republic of
Finland , the Kingdom of Norway , the Kingdom of Sweden and the Swiss Con– '
federation will enter into force on 1 January 1981 ?
Whereas the additional protocols to the Agreements concluded between the
Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European
Coal and Steel Community of the one part and the Republic of Austria , the
Republic of Finland , the Kirigdom of Norway and the Kingdom of Sweden of
the other part , as well as the additional protocol to the Agreement con­
cluded between the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community
and the Swiss Confederation are subject to the approval of each Contracting
Party in accordance with its own procedure :
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 Anxious to apply autonomously and concomitantly the tariff reductions on
 imports and the reductions of other import charges laid down in these
                    /                       •                             .
 additional protocols :         ,
                              '
 In agreement with the Commission .
HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                             Article 1
                                                           / • .
1 . With effect from 1 January and until 31 December 1981 , the duties
    applicable in Greece on imports of products covered "by the European
    Coal and Steel Community and originating in Austria , Finland , Norway ,
    Sweden and Switzerland shall be reduced to 90 $ of the basic duty, or
    levied at the rate of 90 % of the basic duty. The basic duties referred
    to shall be those duties actually applied by "Greece on
    1 July 1980 .
    The charges having equivalent effect to customs duties on imports
    applied by Greece to imports from the countries mentioned
    in the preceding paragraph , shall be reduced to 90 % of the basic rate
    or levied at the rate of 90 $ of the basic rate . The basic rates referred
    to shall be those rates actually applied by Greece on
    31 December I98O .
2 . All charges having equivalent effect to customs duties on imports
    introduced as from 1 January 1979 in commerce between Greece and the
    countries     Listed in paragraph 1 shall be eliminated on 1 January
    1981 .
3 . If, in the course of the year 1981 , Greece suspends or
  , reduces duties or charges having equivalent effect on products imported -
    from the Community of Nine more quickly than under the timetable
    fixed by the Act of Accession, Greece shall also suspend or reduce , to -
    the same level , the duties or charges of equivalent effect applicable
    to products originating in the countries listed in paragraph 1 .
                                                              • • •/• • •
 ---pagebreak---                             Article 2
1 . The import deposits and cash payments in force in Greece on 31 December
    1980 with regard to imports of products originating in the countries
    listed in Article 1(1),,shall be reduced by 25 % with effect from
    1 January 1981 .
2 . If , in respect of the Community of Nine , Greece reduces, -
    in the course of the year 1981 , the import deposits
    and cash payments by a higher rate than that set out in paragraph 1 , the
    Hellenic Republic shall make the same reduction with regard to imports
    originating in the countries listed in Article 1(1 ).
                            Article 3
The modifications of the origin rules which have become necessary owing to
the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the European Communities and which
were introduced by the Joint Committees provided for in the Agreements between the
European Economic Community and the countries listed in Article 1(1 ), and
come into force on 1 January 1981 , shall be applicable to the products to
which this Decision refers .
                            Article 4
The Member States shall decide by mutual agreement on any contingent protective
measures suggested by one or more Member States or the Commission .
                            Article 5
This Decision shall expire on the entry into force of the additional proto­
cols to the Agreements between the Member States of the European Coal and
Steel Community and the European Coal and Steel Community of the one part ,
and the countries listed in Article 1(1 ) of the other part , and at the latest
on 31 December 1981 .
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                           Article 6
Member States shall adopt all the measures necessary for the implementation
of this Decision .
Done at Brussels ,                    1980
                                             The President .