CELEX: 51987PC0007(03)
Language: en
Date: 1987-01-14 00:00:00
Title: RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION ON THE CONCLUSION OF AN ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY AND THE LEBANESE REPUBLIC

No C 104/18                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                        21. 4. 87
              Recommendation for a Council Decision on the conclusion of an Additional Protocol to the
              Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Lebanese
                                                           Republic
                                                       COM(87) 7 final
                             Submitted   by the Commission   to the Council on 14 January 1987
                                                        (87/C 104/03)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Lebanese Republic is hereby approved on behalf of the
                                                                  Community. The text of the Protocol is attached to this
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Decision (2).
Economic Community, and in particular Article 238
thereof,
Having regard to the recommendation from the Com-
mission,
                                                                                              Article 2
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia-
ment,
                                                                  The President of the Council shall give the notification
Whereas it is necessary to approve an Additional Proto-           provided for in Article 5 of the Protocol.
col to the Cooperation Agreement between the Euro-
pean Economic Community and the Lebanese Repub-
lic (*), signed in Brussels on 3 May 1977,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
                                                                                              Article 3
                           Article 1
                                                                  This Decision shall take effect on the day following its
The Additional Protocol to the Cooperation Agreement              publication in the Official Journal of the European
between the European Economic Community and the                   Communities.
                                                                   (2) The date of entry into force of the Protocol will be published
                                                                       in the Official Journal of the European Communities by the
 (•) OJ No L 267, 27. 9. 1978.                                         General Secretariat of the Council.
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                                                  ADDITIONAL P R O T O C O L
             to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Lebanese
                                                              Republic
             THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,
             of the one part, and
             THE LEBANESE REPUBLIC,
             of the other part,
             HAVING REGARD TO the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Lebanese
             Republic, signed at Brussels on 3 May 1977, hereinafter referred to as the 'Agreement',
             WHEREAS the Community and Lebanon wish to strengthen still further their relations in order to take
             account of the new dimension created by the accession to the European Communities of Spain and Portugal
             on 1 January 1986; whereas Article 44 of the Agreement provides for the possibility of improvements in its
             terms;
             WHEREAS certain rules should be laid down to enable Lebanon's traditional export trade to the Community
             to be maintained,
             HAVE DECIDED TO conclude a Protocol adapting certain provisions of the Agreement, and to this end
             have designated as their Plenipotentiaries:
             THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
             THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LEBANESE REPUBLIC,
             Who, having exchanged their Full Powers, found in good and due form,
             HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
                           Article 1                                   Should the volume of imports of this product exceed
                                                                       the reference quantity, the Community, having regard
 1.    Customs duties applicable under the Agreement                   to an annual review of trade flows which it shall carry
to imports into the Community of products listed in                   out, may make the product in question subject to a
the Annex to this Protocol and originating in Lebanon                  Community tariff quota, the volume of which shall be
shall be dismantled over the same periods and at the                  equal to the reference quantity. Once the volume of
same rates as provided in the Act of Accession of Spain                imports of such products exceeds the quota, the Com-
and Portugal in respect of imports into the Community                  munity shall apply the customs duties resulting from
as constituted on 31 December 1985 of the same prod-                  the Agreement.
ucts originating in Spain or Portugal. This provision
shall be applied in accordance with the rules hereinafter              4.     Should the Community discover, in the light of
set out in this Article.                                               an annual review of trade flows which it shall carry
                                                                       out, that the volume of imports of a product listed
                                                                       in the Annex, other than the product referred to in
In the course of such dismantling, where the level of                  paragraph 3, threatens to cause difficulties on the Com-
customs duties applied to imports into the Community                   munity market, it may establish a reference quantity as
as constituted on 31 December 1985 originating in                      provided for in paragraph 3 for that product.
Spain differs from that applied to imports originating
in Portugal, products originating in Lebanon shall be
subject to the higher of the two rates.
2.     Where the customs duty on a product listed in the                                         Article 2
Annex is lower for Lebanon than for Spain, Portugal
or both, elimination of the duty shall commence once                    1.    A Trade and Economic Cooperation Committee
the duty on that product from both Spain and Portugal                  shall be set up for the purpose of improving the oper-
 has fallen below that applied to imports originating in               ation of the institutional mechanisms of the Agreement.
 Lebanon.
                                                                       The Committee shall facilitate:
                                                                       — the regular exchange of information on trade and
3.     For the purposes of dismantling customs duties for                   production data and forecasts,
dried leguminous vegetables falling within subheading
07.05 B of the Common Customs Tariff and originating                   — the regular exchange of information on the oppor-
 in Lebanon, a reference quantity of 2 200 tonnes is                        tunities for cooperation in areas covered by the
 hereby established.                                                        Agreement.
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The Committee shall be chaired alternately by a rep-                                   Article 5
resentative of the Commission of the European Com-
munities and a representative of Lebanon.                      1.    This Protocol shall be ratified, accepted or
                                                               approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with
2.    The Cooperation Council shall decide as soon as          their own procedures; the Contracting Parties shall
possible on the composiiton of this Committee and how          notify each other of the completion of the procedures
it shall function, in accordance with Article 38 (2) of        necessary to that end.
the Agreement. It may also decide, where appropriate,
that the Committee should submit a report.                     2.    This Protocol shall enter into force on the first
                                                               day of the month following such notification.
                        Article 3
From 1995 onwards the Community and Lebanon shall                                     Article 6
examine the results of cooperation between the Con-
tracting Parties in order to appraise the situation and        This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the
the future development of their relations in the light of
                                                               Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Portu-
the objectives defined in the Agreement.
                                                               guese, Spanish and Arabic languages, each of these texts
                                                               being equally authentic.
                        Article 4                              In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries
                                                               have hereunto set their hands.
This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Cooper-
ation Agreement between the European Economic
Community and the Lebanese Republic.                           Done at Brussels,
                                    For the Council of the        <ean Communities
                                               For the Lebanese   Republic
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                                                              ANNEX
                     CCT                                                  Description
                  heading No
                       07.04           Dried, dehydrated or evaporated vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in
                                       powder, but not further prepared:
                                           A. Onions
                                       ex B. Other:
                                                — Garlic
                       07.05           Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or splir.f1)
                                       B. Other
                       08.01           Dates, bananas, coconuts, Brazil nuts, cashew nuts, pineapples, avocados, man-
                                       goes, guavas and mangosteens, fresh or dried, shelled or not:
                                       H. Other
                       08.02           Citrus fruit, fresh or dried:
                                       D. Grapefruit
                       08.05           Nuts other than those falling within heading No 08.01, fresh or dried, shelled
                                       or not:
                                       B. Walnuts
                   ex 08.09            Other fruit, fresh:
                                       — Water melons, from 1 April to 15 June
                       09.09           Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway and juniper
                       12.03           Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing:
                                       E. Other
                       12.08           Chicory roots, fresh or dried, whole or cut, unroasted; locust beans, fresh or
                                       dried, whether or not kibbled or ground, but not further prepared; fruit kernels
                                       and other vegetable products of a kind used primarily for human food, not
                                       falling within any other heading:
                                       B. Locust beans
                                       C. Locust bean seeds:
                                            I.  Not decorticated, crushed or ground
                                            II. Other
                                       D. Apricot, peach and plum stones, and kernels thereof
                                       E. Other
          (') Reference quantity of 2 200 tonnes.
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                     Joint Declaration by the Contracting Parties on Article 1 of the Protocol
                                     (to be annexed to the Additional Protocol)
          The Contracting Parties agree that should the entry into force of the Protocol not coincide
          with the start of the calendar or seasonal year, as the case may be, the quantitative limits
          referred to in Article 1 of the said Protocol shall be applied on a pro rata basis.
          The Contracting Parties further agree that the charging against quantitative limits of Com-
          munity imports of the product originating in Lebanon which are subject to such limits under
          the Protocol shall begin on 1 January of each year.