CELEX: 51983PC0533
Language: en
Date: 1983-09-15
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) extending the arrangements applicable to trade between Greece and the ACP States#DECISION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL extending the period of validity of the provisional arrangements applicable to trade between Greece and ACP States for products covered by that Community

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                                                               COM (83) 533 final
                                                               Brussels, 15 September 1983
                                        Proposal for a
                                 COUNCIL REGULATIO N (EEC)
           extending the arrangements applicable to trade between
                                Greece and the ACP States
  DECISION OF THE REPRESENTAT IVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STAT ES
  O F T H E EU R O P E A N COA L A N D ST E E L COM M UN I T Y M E E T I N G WIT H I N T H E COUNCIL
   extending the period of validity of the provisional arrangements
            applicable to trade between Greece and ACP States for
                           products covered by that Community
   COM(83) 533 f i n a l
 ---pagebreak---                          Explanatory memorandum
Until such time as definitive arrangements are made for trade between Greece
and the ACP States, the Community Member States have decided that measures
will be applied provisionally and autonomously to products originating in
the ACP States to ensure that these products receive special treatment when
they are imported into Greece.    Council Regulation (EEC) No 439/81 and the
Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the ECSC Member States
of 20 January 1981, which establish this special treatment, entered into force
on 28 February 1981 and were due to expire on 30 April 1981, which was the
date on which they were to be replaced by the definitive arrangements.
The provisional    measures were extended for two months initially, and then
for successive six-month periods until 30 June 1983.
Two additional Protocols to the second ACP-EEC Convention were signed on
8 October 1981, one laying down general trade arrangements and the other
 arrangements applicable to ECSC products.    They should enter into force as
 soon as the ratification procedures have been completed.     When the Council
 examined the latest proposal for an extension, which was for a further
 six-month period, it agreed to a three-month extension only (until September
 1983) and along with its decision sent the Chairman of the ACP Committee
 of Ambassadors a letter stressing how important it was that the two Protocols
 enter into force as soon as possible and pointing out that the delay on the
 ACP side in signing the Protocols was a source of disappointment and concern
 to the Community.
 If the Protocols were signed by 30 September, the ratification procedures
 could be undertaken by the Member States and, in this event, the provisional
 measures would be extended once again until such time as the Protocols entered
 into force.
 Should there be a further delay in signing the Protocols, the Community has
  reserved the right to suggest that the situation be examined jointly by
 the Community and the ACP States.    An extension of three months after
 30 September is therefore proposed, so that this examination can take
  place, should it prove necesse.y without disturbing the present trade arrangements
  between Greece and the ACP States.   The attached   proposal for a Regulation
  covers both possibilities.
 ---pagebreak---                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
extending the arrangements applicable to trade between Greece and the
ACP States
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 113 thereof,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
 Whereas the additional Protocol to the second ACP-EEC Convention consequent
 on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the European Economic Community
 was signed on 8 October 1981;
 Whereas, pending the entry into force of that Protocol, the Community should,
  in the light thereof, extend autonomously from 1 October 1983 the arrangements
  applicable to trade between Greece and the ACP States as provided for by
                             1                                                  2
  Regulation (EEC) No 439/81 , as last extended by Regulation (EEC) No 1808/83 ,
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                Article 1
  /From 1 October until 31 December 1933^7
   /From 1 October 1983 until the date of entry into force of the additional
   Protocol to the second ACP-EEC Convention consequent on the accession of
   the Hellenic Republic to the European Economic Community,  1
   the arrangements applicable to trade between the Hellenic Republic and the
   ACP States shall be those resulting from the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
   No 439/31.
                                 Article 2
    This Regulation shall enter in'-j force on the day of its publication in the
    Official Journal of the Eu opear Communities.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States.
I one at Brussels,
                                               For the Council
    OJ No L 53, 2 7 . 2 . 1 9 8 1 , p. 19
 2 OJ No L 177, 1 . 7 . 1 9 3 3 , p. 4
 ---pagebreak--- D E C I S I O N OF T H E R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S OF T H E G O V E R N M E N T S OF T H E M E M B E R STAT E S
OF T HE E U R O P E A N C O A L A N D S T E E L C O M M U N I T Y M E E T I N G W I T H I N T HE C O U N C I L
extending the period of validity of the provisional arrangements applicable to
trade between Greece and the ACP States for products covered by that Community
 THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN
 COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL,
 Whereas the Member States have concluded among themselves the Treaty establishing
 the European Coal and Steel Community;
  Whereas a Protocol to the Agreement between the Member States of the European
  Coal and Steel Community and the ACP States consequent on the accession
  of the Hellenic Republic to the Community was signed on 3 October 1981;
  Whereas,pending the entry into force of that Protocol, the Community should,
   in the tight thereof, extend autonomously from 1 October 1983 the provisional
   arrangements applicable to trade between Greece and the ACP States as established
   for the products covered by that Community by Decision 31/57/ECSC                                              , as last
                                                          (? I
   extended by Decision 33/327/ECSC                            ,
    In agreement with the Commission,
    HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
                                                      Article 1
    The provisional arrangements laid down in Decision 81/57/ECSC for trade
    between Greece and the ACP States shall remain in force /from 1 October until
     31 December 1933_7.
     /Until the date of entry into force of the Protocol to the Agreement between
     the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community and the ACP States
     consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the Community, which
     was signed on 8 October 1981._/
 ---pagebreak---                                            -2-
                                        ArticLe 2
 Member States shall take the measures necessary to implement this Decision.
 D>ne at Brussels,
                                                   For the Council,
   OJ No L 53, 2 7 . 2 . 1 9 8 1 , p. 65
2 OJ No L 177, 1 . 7 . 1 9 8 3 , p. 7