CELEX: 51981PC0007
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Date: 1981-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION on the conclusion of the Protocols extending for the fourth and fifth times the Wheat Trade Convention and the Food Aid Convention constituting the International Wheat Agreement, 1971 (submitted to the Council by the Comission)

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                         Recommendation for a
                              COUNCIL DECISION
on the conclusion of the Protocols extending for the fourth and fifth
times the Wheat Trade Convention and the Food Aid Convention constituting
                the International Wheat Agreement - 1971
            ( submitted to the Council by the Cc omission )
C0M(81 ) 7 final .
 ---pagebreak--- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL
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RECOMMENDING THAT THE COUNCIL CONCLUDE THE . 1978
AND 1979 PROTOCOLS EXTENDING THE INTERNATIONAL
WHEAT AGREEMENT , 1971 ,                 'i
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1 . The Community has. not yet deposited the instruments of conclusion "by the
     Council of the 1978 Protocol extending until 30 June 1979 "the International           i
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     Wheat Agreement , 1971 » and the 1979 Protocol extending the same Agreement         ,|
     until 30 June 19&0 , because one Member State had not deposited its instruments
     of ratification of the said Protocols .                              . .   . .           ■
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2m Since Italy has now fulfilled its obligations '(all the . other Member States had
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     already done so ),, there is no longer any obstacle to the conclusion "by the               !
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     Council of the 197° and 1979 Protocols extending the International Wheat
     Agreement , 1971 »
3 . Italy has not yet deposited its instrument of ratification of the 1979 Protocol
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     Nevertheless , the Commission takes the view that the Community as such can
     conclude this Protocol as well since the procedures for ratification "by Italy
     are already under way and no problems of substance are likely to be
     encountered .
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FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS
4 « The conclusion by the Council of the 197° and 1979 Protocols extending the
     International Wheat Agreement will not entail any expenditure additional to'
     that already committed by the decisions taken in 1974 , 1975 and 1976 to
     apply the Protocols provisionally.
RECOMMENDATIONS               -
5 . The Commission therefore recommends that the Council approve the draft
     Decision attached hereto .
 ---pagebreak---                          Recommendation for a
                           COUNCIL DECISION
on the conclusion of the Protocols extending for the fourth and fifth times
the Wheat Trade Convention and the Food Aid Convention constituting the
International Wheat Agreement , 1971
THE 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 Recommendation from the Commission ,
HAS DECDIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                             Article 1
The Protocols extending for the fourth and fifth times the International Wheat
Agreement , 1971 » i s hereby approved on "behalf of the European Economic
Community .
                             Article 2
The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the person
 empowered to deposit the instruments of conclusion of the abovementioned
 Protocols with the Government of the United States of America .
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 Done at Brussels ,                                        For the Council
                                                           The President