CELEX: 51996PC0233
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-29
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) extending the period during which transitional measures may be adopted under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 on the adjustments and transitional arrangements required in the agricultural sector in order to implement the agreements concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                  Brussels, 29.05.1996
                                                  COM(96) 233 final
                                   Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
    extending the period during which transitional measures may be adopted under
     Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 on the adjustments and transitional
arrangements required in the agricultural sector in order to implement the agreements
        concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations
                          (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The Community's undertakings in the agricultural sector under the Uruguay Round
negotiations were essentially implemented by Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94.
Article 3 of that Regulation provides that the Commission, acting according to the
management committee procedure, may, up to 30 June 1996, adopt the measures
necessary to facilitate the switch-over from the old to the new arrangements and that these
measures may not apply beyond that date. The Commission has used that power to ensure
a smooth transition to the arrangements introduced as a result of the Uruguay Round in
the common market organisations concerned. It also used Article 3 to ensure that the
undertakings entered into by the Community in certain preferential agreements with third
countries (for example, the Lomé Convention, association agreements with Mediterranean
countries, etc.) were respected pending the adjustment of those agreements to the results
of the Uruguay Round negotiations. Some of those agreements are currently being
adjusted, but the process is unlikely to be completed before 30 June 1996, so the Council
is requested to extend by one year the period during which the Commission may adopt
transitional measures.
 ---pagebreak---                                         Proposal for a
                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No                   /96
     extending the period during which transitional measures may be adopted under
      Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 on the adjustments and transitional
 arrangements required in the agricultural sector in order to implement the agreements
         concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 of 22 December 1994 on the
adjustments and transitional arrangements required in the agricultural sector in order to
implement the agreements concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade
negotiations1, and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 authorises the Commission to adopt
the measures required to facilitate the switch-over from the arrangements existing before
implementation of the results of the Uruguay Round negotiations to those resulting from
the adjustments to agricultural legislation provided for in the above-mentioned Regulation;
whereas such measures may only be adopted up to 30 June 1996 and may not apply
beyond that date; whereas it transpires that certain matters which are currently regulated
by transitional measures cannot be settled definitively before the above date; whereas
these matters concern in particular certain arrangements entered into with third countries;
whereas it is therefore necessary to extend by one year the period during which the
Commission may adopt transitional measures,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
 1
         OJ No L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105.
                                               3
 ---pagebreak---                                          Article 1
The period laid down in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 is hereby extended
to 30 June 1997.
                                         Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal
of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 July 1996.
 fhis Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels,                                    For the Council
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