CELEX: 31970D0179
Language: en
Date: 1970-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 3 March 1970 on the conclusion of an Agreement with Canada negotiated under Article II (5) of GATT

260                                         Official Journal of the European Communities
No L 54/ 16                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                     9.3.70
                                                         COUNCIL DECISION
                                                             of 3 March 1970
                   on the conclusion of an Agreement with Canada negotiated under Article II (5) of GATT
                                                              ( 70/ 179/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                   HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                              Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 113,                       The Agreement negotiated with Canada under Article II
 1 14 and 228 thereof;
                                                                          (5) of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is
                                                                          concluded on behalf of the European Economic Commu­
Having regard to the Council Decision of 5 December                       nity ; the text of the Agreement is annexed to this Deci­
1961 ;                                                                    sion.
                                                                                                   Articled
Having regard to the report from the Commission ;
                                                                          The Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on
Whereas the Government of Canada has, through a tariff                    Tariffs and Trade shall be notified of the conclusion of
reclassification, modified the scope of a concession af­                  this Agreement.
fecting the European Economic Community; whereas
that modification has been the subject of negotiations for
                                                                           Done at Brussels, 3 March 1970.
compensatory adjustment under Article II (5) of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade;                                                              For the Council
Whereas the concessions offered by Canada in compen­                                                   The President
sation for the modified concession are satisfactory ,                                                   Ch . HEGER
                                                                  ANNEX .
                                                 ARTICLE II : 5 NEGOTIATIONS - 1969
                                                         SCHEDULE V - CANADA
                The Delegations of the Commission of the European Communities and Canada have concluded nego­
                tiations under Article 11:5 for compensatory adjustment in connection with the impairment of the
                concession on flash guns in Schedule V resulting from the decision of the Tariff Board of 17 May 1965
                on the classification of electronic flash apparatus.
               For the Delegation ofthe Commission                        For the Delegation ofCanada
               ofthe European Communities
               Geneva, Switzerland
               25 August 1969
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Compensation negotiated with the European Economic Community as adjustment under Article 11:5 for the
impairment of the concession on flash guns in the schedule of the Government of Canada resulting from the
                               Decision of the Tariff Board of 17 May 196S
                      NEW CONCESSIONS NOT IN EXISTING SCHEDULE
   Tariff item                                                                         Rates of duty
      No                                    Description of products                     to be bound
43130-1              Engineers', surveyors' or draftsmen's precision instruments
                     and apparatus, namely :
                    Alidades ;
                    Altazimuths ;
                    Aneroid barometers ;
                    Boards, military sketching ;
                    Clinometers ;
                    Compasses ;
                    Cross staff heads ;
                    Curves, adjustable, irregular, railroad and ship ;
                    Curvimeters ;
                    Dipping needles ;
                    Distance measuring apparatus using light, radio or sound
                    waves ;
                    Drafting instruments of all kinds ;
                    Drafting machines ;
                    Gyro converters ;
                    Heliographs ;
                    Integrators ;
                    Levels ;
                    Liners, section ;
                    Meters, portable for hydraulic engineering ;
                    Pantographs ;
                    Parallel rules ;
                    Parallel ruling attachments ;
                    Pedometers and paceomete/r ;
                    Plane tables, military and topographic ;
                    Planimeters·;
                    Poles, ranging ;
                    Prisms, angle ;
                    Protractors ;
                    Rods, levelling ;
                    Scales, flat and triangular ;
                    Sextants ;
                    Slide rules ;
                    Splines ;
                    Straight edges ;
                    Subtense bars ;
                    Tacheometers ;
                    Tallying machines, pocket ;
                    Tee squares ;
                    Telemeters ;
                    Theodolites ;
                    Transits ;
                    Traversing targets ;
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    Tariffitem                                                               Rates of duty
                                        Description of products
        No                                                                    to be bound
    43130-1    Triangles of all types ;
    (cont'd)
               Parts, attachments, tripods, base plates and fitted cases for
               all the foregoing                                                      5%
    46200-2    Electronic flash apparatus designed to be hand held or
               mounted on hand cameras, including self-contained battery­
               operated power supplies for use therewith ; parts of the
               foregoing                                                            10%