CELEX: 51992PC0447
Language: en
Date: 1992-11-20
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 4007/87 extending the period referred to in Articles 90(1) and 257(1) of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal

No C 329 / 6                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 15 . 12 . 92
question, having due regard to the actual circumstances             the Council on its application and shall propose any
which may justify that obligation.                                  change which it feels is appropriate. Member States shall,
                                                                    for the purpose of drawing up that report, provide the
                          Article 11                                Commission with all the information relating to the way
                                                                    in which they apply the Regulation, in particular as
Each Member State shall, within one month of the entry              regards the effectiveness of the checks carried out and
into force of this Regulation, notify the Commission of             the corresponding statistics.
the administrative provisions it has adopted with a view
to its implementation. The Commission shall                                                   Article 13
communicate those provisions to the other Member
States .
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
                                                                    following that of its publication in the Official Journal of
                          Article 12
                                                                    the European Communities.
Within two years of the entry into force of this Regu­              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
lation, the Commission shall report to Parliament and to            directly applicable in all Member States .
             Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 4007/87, extending
             the period referred to in Articles 90 ( 1 ) and 257 ( 1 ) of the Act of Accession of Spain and
                                                             Portugal
                                                          (92/C 329/04)
                                                        COM(92) 447 final
                                       (submitted by the Commission on 20 November 1992)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                           Whereas, despite progress made in recent years, diffi­
                                                                    culties specified to certain sectors in either Member State
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               cannot be overcome by 31 December 1992 ; whereas the
Economic Community,                                                 period in question should therefore be extended by one
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  year for Spain and for Portugal,
Portugal, and in particular Articles 90 (2) and 257 (2)
thereof,                                                            HAD ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European                                                   Article 1
Parliament,
Whereas Articles 90 ( 1 ) and 257 ( 1 ) of the Act of               Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 4007/ 87 is hereby
                                                                    amended as follows :
Accession provide for a period during which transitional
measures may be adopted to facilitate the passage from
the arrangements existing in Spain and Portugal before              1 . in the first subparagraph, '31 December 1992' for
accession to those resulting form the application of the                Spain is replaced by '31 December 1993';
common organization of the markets under the
conditions laid down in the Act of Accession and in
particular to cope with appreciable difficulties in                 2 . in the second subparagraph, '31 December 1992' for
implementing the new arrangements at the date laid                      Portugal is replaced by ' 31 December 1993'.
down ; whereas the date of expiry of that period, set at
31 December 1987 in the Act of Accession, was extended
by Regulation (EEC) No 4007/87 (*), as amended by                                              Article 2
Regulation (EEC) No 477/92 (2), to 31 December 1992
for Spain and Portugal ;                                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1993 .
O OJ No L 378 , 31 . 12 . 1987, p. 1 .                              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
O OJ No L 55 , 29. 2 . 1992, p. 1 .                                 directly applicable in all Member States .