CELEX: 51978PC0755
Language: en
Date: 1979-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Recommendation for a Council Decision Concerning the negotiation of a legal instrument enabling the European Economic Community to become a Contracting Party to the European Agreement on the Exchange of Blood-Grouping Reagents. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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             Recommendation for a Council Decision
    Concerning the negotiation of a legal instrument enabling
    the European Economic Community to become a Contracting
    Party to the European Agreement on the Exchange of Blood-
    Grouping Reagents .
        ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
    COM178 ) 755 final .
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The European Agreement on the Exchange of Blood–Grouping Reagents , open
to signature by the member countries of the Council of Europe on 14 May
1962 , was signed or ratified by the Member States between 1962 and 1970 .
This Agreement was drawn up in a spirit of European solidarity and is
inspired by highly humanitarian motives , which redound to the credit of .
the signatories .
This apart , it should be noted that Article 5 of the Agreement requires
Contracting Parties to take all necessary measures to exempt from all
import duties the blood-grouping reagents placed at their disposal by the
other Parties . This means in practice that the Member States forgo the
application of CCT duties ( 12% ) on these products , which currently come
under subheading 30.05 of the Tariff .
As , in particular , responsibility for tariff matters now lies with the
 Community and no longer with the Member States , it is desirable that
 the Community should conclude the Agreement independently of the Member .
 States , in respect of Article 5 .
However , as accession to the European Agreement on the Exchange of Blood-
Grouping Reagents is open only to member states of the Council of Europe ,
provision should be made for a legal instrument enabling the Community
 itself to become a Contracting Party to the Agreement .
 ---pagebreak--- The Commission therefore recommends to the Council that it be authorized
under Article 113 of the Treaty to negotiate a legal instrument enabling
the European Economic Community to conclude , independently of the Member
States , the European Agreement on the Exchange of Blood-Grouping Reagents
The text of Article - 5 of the Agreement is annexed to this draft Council
decision .
 ---pagebreak---                                  Recommendation
            for a Council decision on the negotiation of a
            Legal instrument enabling the European Economic
            Community to become a Contracting Party to the
            European Agreement on the Exchange of Blood-
                            Grouping Reagents
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
in particular Article 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the recommendation of the Commission ,
Whereas the European Agreement on the Exchange of Blood-Grouping Reagents
drawn up on the initiative of the Council of Europe aims to promote mutual
assistance between the Member countries of that organization in supplying
one another with the reagents in question ;
Whereas one of the conditions necessary for achieving effective mutual
assistance , is exemption of the said reagents from customs duties , as
provided for in Article 5 of the above mentioned Agreement ;
Whereas the Agreement was signed by all the Member States of the Community
between 1962 and 1970 ; whereas since that time the Community has in
particular taken over responsibility for tariff matters from the Member "
States ; whereas it is therefore desirable that the Community should
conclude the Agreement independently of the Member States , in respect
of Article 5 thereof ,                 ~
 ---pagebreak---   HAS DECIDED as follows
                               Sole Article
             The Commission is hereby authorized to conduct , within the
  framework of the Council of Europe , negotiations for the inclusion in the
  European Agreement on the Exchange of Blood-Grouping Reagents of a legal
  instrument enabling the European Economic Community to become a Contracting
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  Party to that Agreement .
             The Commission shall conduct the negotiations with the Special
  Committee provided for in Article 113 , which shall assist the Commission
. in this task .
                                      Done at Brussels,
                                      By the Council
                                      The President
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                                Article 5
             The Contracting Parties shall take all necessary measures to
exeript from all import duties the blood-grouping reagents placed at their
disposal by the other Parties .
             They shall also take all necessary measures to provide for the
speedy delivery of these substances , by the most direct route / to the con­
signees referred to in Article 3 of this Agreement .