CELEX: 31972D0310
Language: en
Date: 1972-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 13 July 1972 concluding the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters extending the Agreement on Trade and Technical Cooperation between the European Economic Community and the Member States, of the one part, and the Lebanese Republic, of the other part

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No L 201/ 12                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  2.9.72
                                                   COUNCIL DECISION
                                                       of 13 July 1972
               concluding the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters extending the Agreement on
               Trade and Technical Cooperation between the European Economic Community and the
                        Member States, of the one part, and the Lebanese Republic, of the other part
                                                        (72/310/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Lebanese Republic, extending the Agreement on Trade
                                                                  and Technical Cooperation signed at Brussels on 2 1 May
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              1965, is concluded on behalf of the European Economic
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                 Community. Text of the Exchange of Letters is annexed
thereof;                                                          to this Decision.
Having regard to the recommendation from the Com­
mission;                                                                                  Article 2
                                                                  The President of the Council is hereby authorized to de­
Whereas it is appropriate to extend for a period of one
                                                                  signate the persons empowered to sign the Agreement
year, with the possibility of further extension in accord­
                                                                  and to confer on them the powers required in order to
ance with Article XII thereof, the Agreement on Trade
                                                                  bind the Community .
and Technical Cooperation between the European Eco­
nomic Community and the Member States, of the one
part, and the Lebanese Republic of the other part,
                                                                  Done at Brussels, 13 July 1972.
HAS DECIDED :
                         Article 1                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                                     The President
The Agreement, in the form of an Exchange of Letters
between the European Economic Community and the                                                     N. SCHMELZER
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                                                 AGREEMENT
in the form of an Exchange of Letters, extending the Agreement on Trade and Technical Cooperation
between the European Economic Community and the Member States, of the one part, and the Lebanese
                                           Republic, of the other part.
                                      A. Letter to the Lebanese Authorities
Your Excellency,
With reference to Article XII of the Agreement on Trade and Technical Cooperation between the Euro­
pean Economic Community and the Member States, of the one part, and the Lebanese Republic, of the
other part, signed at Brussels on 21 May 1965, we have the honour to inform you, on behalf of the Euro­
pean Economic Community and the Member States, that the Council and the Governments of the
Member States agree to an extension of that Agreement for a period of one year beginning on 1 July
1972.
The Council of the European Communities will notify the Government of the Lebanese Republic of the
completion of the international procedures required in the European Economic Community and in the
Member States for the entry into force of this Agreement.
The Agreement will enter into force on the first day of the month following that notification.
The Governments of the Member States and the Council of the European .Communities declare their
readiness to put this Extension Agreement into provisional effect as from 1 July 1972, each in so far as
it is concerned and in accordance with its own provisions, on condition that the Government of the
Lebanese Republic makes an identical declaration.
Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration.
                                                                          On behalfof
                                                           the Council ofthe European Communities
                    B. Letter to the President ofthe Council ofthe European Communities
Sir,
You were good enough to make the following communication to me in your letter of today's date on
behalf of the European Economic Community and the Governments of the Member States :
     'With reference to Article XII of the Agreement on Trade and Technical Cooperation between the
      European Economic Community and the Member States, of the one part, and the Lebanese Re­
      public, of the other part, signed at Brussels on 21 May 1965 , we have the honour to inform you, on
      behalf of the European Economic Community and the Member States, that the Council and the
      Governments of the Member States, agree to an extension of that Agreement for a period of one
      year beginning on 1 July 1972.
      The Council of the European Communities will notify the Government of the Lebanese Republic
      of the completion of the international procedures required in the European Economic Community
      and in the Member States for the entry into force of this Agreement.
      The Agreement will enter into force on the first day of the month following that notification.
      The Governments of the Member States and the Council of the European Communities declare
      their readiness to put this Extension Agreement into provisional effect as from 1 July 1972, each in
      so far as it is concerned and in accordance with its own provisions, on condition that the Govern­
      nvwt of the Lebanese Republic makes an identical declaration.'
On behalf of the Government of the Lebanese Republic, I have the honour to inform you that the latter
also agrees to the extension of the aforesaid Agreement for a period of one year, and declares its readi­
ness to put this Extension Agreement into provisional effect as from 1 July 1972, in so far as it is con­
cerned and in accordance with its own provisions.
Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
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                                                    TRANSLATION
       Letter from Ambassador Sachs communicated to the Contracting Parties at the time of Ae signature of
      the Agreement, in the form of an Exchange of Letters, extending the Agreement on Trade and Technical
       Cooperation between the European Economic Community and the Member States, of the one part, and
                                        the Lebanese Republic, of the other part.
       THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE
    OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
        TO THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                                        Brussels, 26 July 1972
       Sir,
      With reference to the Exchange of Letters of today's date on the extension of the Agreement on Trade
      and Technical Cooperation, I have the honour to make the following declaration on behalf the Govern­
       ment of the Federal Republic of Germany :
      The Agreement on Trade and Technical Cooperation between the European Economic Community and
      the Member States, of the one part, and the Lebanese Republic, of the other part, shall continue to apply
      equally to the Land Berlin, unless the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany makes a declar­
      ation to the contrary to the other Contracting Parties within the three months following the entry into
       force of this Extension Agreement.
       I have sent identical declaration to the Representatives of the other Contracting Parties.
       Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
                                                                                                  H. G. SACHS
      Notice concerning the signature of the Agreement between the European Economic Commu­
          nity and the Member States, of the one part, and the Lebanese Republic, of the other part.
      The Agreement extending the Agreement on Trade and Technical Cooperation between the
      European Economic Community and the Member States, of the one part, and the Lebanese
      Republic, of the other part, concluded by the Decision of 13 July 1972, was signed at Brussels
      on 26 July 1972 :
      - of the one part, on behalf of the Council of the European Communities by their Excellen­
           cies Mr. E. M. J. A. Sassen, Chairman in office of the Committee of Permanent Represen­
          tatives, and Mr. Helmut Sigrist, Director General for External Relations of the Commis­
          sion of the European Communities, and, on behalf of the Governments of the Member
          States, by their Excellencies Mr. Joseph Van Der Meulen, Permanent Representative of
          Belgium, Mr Hans-Georg Sachs, Permanent Representative of Germany, Mr Etienne Burin
          des Rosiers, Permanent Representative of France, Mr Giorgio Bambassei Frascani de Vet­
          tor, Permanent Representative of Italy, Mr Jean Dondelinger, Permanent Representative
          of Luxembourg, and Mr E. M. J. A. Sassen, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands,
      - of the other part, by his Excellency Mr Kesrouan Labaki, Head of the Lebanese Mission to
           the European Communities.
      The date of entry into force of this Agreement will be published in the Official Journal of the
      European Communities.