CELEX: 51998PC0321
Language: en
Date: 1998-05-18
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending 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, 18.05.1998
                                                       COM(1998) 321 final
                                        Proposal for a
                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
amending 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 on agriculture under the Uruguay Round negotiations
were essentially implemented by Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94. Article 3 of the
original version of that Regulation provides that the Commission, acting according to the
management committee procedure, may, up until 30 June 1996, adopt the transitional
measures necessary to facilitate the switch-over from the old to the new arrangements
and that those measures may not apply beyond that date. The Council has twice extended
the period of application of the Commission's transitional powers, most recently until
30 June 1998 by Regulation (EC) No 1161/97. 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 has 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 the Mediterranean countries, etc.) are respected pending 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 1998, so the draft extends by a further year the period during which the
Commission may adopt transitional measures.
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                                         Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No /98
                                         of June 1998
 amending 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
negotiations', and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 3290/94, as amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1161/97, 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 said Regulation; whereas such measures may only be
adopted up to 30 June 1998 and may not apply beyond that date; whereas certain matters
which are currently regulated by transitional measures cannot be settled definitively
before the above date; whereas those matters concern in particular certain arrangements
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    OJ L349, 31.12.1994, p. 105. Regulation amended by Regulation (EC) No 1161/97 (OJ L 169,
    27.6.1997, p. 1).
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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:
                                         Article I
In Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 3290/94, '30 June 1998' is hereby replaced by
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                                         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 1998.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at               , June 1998.
                                                                     For the Council
                                                                     The President
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