CELEX: 51979PC0775
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Date: 1980-01-10
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION AUTHORIZING THE EXTENSION OR AUTOMATIC RENEWAL OF CERTAIN TRADE AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BETWEEN MEMBER STATES AND THIRD COUNTRIES (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                          PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
               AUTHORIZING THE EXTENSION OR AUTOMATIC RENEWAL OF
                     CERTAIN TRADE AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BETWEEN
                         MEMBER STATES AND THIRD COUNTRIES
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
COM ( 79 ) 775 final
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                               EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.       In implementation of Article 3 of the Council Decision of 16
December 1969 ( 1 ) on the progressive standardization of agreements
concerning commercial relations between Member States and third countries
and on negotiation of Community agreements , the Commission proposes to
the Council that the Member States should be authorized to extend , expressly
or tacitly, the trade agreements annexed to the attached proposal for a
Council decision . The agreements . in question constitute the first batch
for 1980 and expire or are due to be terminated between 1 February and
30 April 1980 .
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        ' The prior consultation specified in Article 2 of this Decision was
executed by written procedure . The outcome was the recognition on 18 October
1979 that the conditions under which the agreements could be extended for
a further year had been fulfilled .
          The trade Agreements and Protocols between certain Member States and
Greece listed in the Annex hereto may be extended or tacitly renewed for a
period ending on the date of entry into force of the Treaty concerning the
accession of Greece to the European Economic Community or until to the dates
specified in each case in the said Annex .
2.        The Commission considers it appropriate to point out , moreover , that
the proposals for authorizing the Member States tp renew or extend , expressly
or tacitly , certain agreetoents in this batch for a further one-year period
are by no means indicative of any position it might adopt next time these
agreements come up for renewal .         - " * ;
 (1 ) 0J No L 326 of 29.12.1969, p. 39
 ---pagebreak---                                Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL DECISION
           authorizing the extension or automatic renewal of certain trade
        agreements concluded between Member States and third countries
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                •
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 113 thereof .
Having regard to       ; Council Decision 69/494 / EEC of 16 December 1969 on
the progressive standardization of agreements concerning commercial
relations between Member States and third countries and on the negotiation
of Community agreements ( 1 ), and in particular Article 3 thereof , .
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas extension or automatic renewal beyond the          end of the - transit ional
period       was last       authorize^ in thtf*<ase of the agreements and
  rotocols - listed in the Annex by Council Decision 79/ 171 / EEC ( 2 );
      *  i                   '
Whereas the Member States concerned have requested authorization to extend
or renew those Agreements - in order to avoid interrupting their commercial
relations , based on agreements with the third countries concerned ;
Whereas authorization      is required        x only for the maintenance of trad?
relations between the Member States and the third countries concerned ^ based
on agreements , only pending their replacement by Community agreements to be
negotiated , and whereas such authorization does not , therefore, in any way modil
the obligation on the part of the Member States to avoid and, where appropriate,
eliminate any incompatibility between such agreements and the provisions of
Community law ; -
( 1 ) OJ No L 326, 29.12.1969, p . 39
< 2 > OJ No L 37 , 13.02.1979, p . 31
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  Whereas furthermore , the provisions of the agreements to be extended
  or renewed should not , during the period under consideration, constitute an
  obstacle to the implementation of the common commercial policy;
  Whereas the Member States concerned have declared that the extension or automatic
  renewal of those agreements would prevent neither the opening of Community
  negotiations with the third countries concerned nor the transfer of the
  commercial fabric of such agreements to Community agreements , nor would it ,
  during the period envisaged, hinder the adoption of the measures necessary to
  complete the standardization of the import systems of the Member States ;
  Whereas , at the conclusion of the consultations provided for in, Arti cle 2
  of Decision 69 / 494 / EEC it was established , as the aforesaid declarations by
  the Member States confirm , that the provisions of the agreements to be extended
  or renewed would not , during the period envisaged , constitute an obstacle to
  the implementation of the common commercial policy;
  Whereas , in these circumstances , the Agreements may be either extended or automatical ly
~ renewed for a limited period ;
  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                 Article 1
  1,    The trade agreements and protocols listed in the Annex hereto between Member
  States and third countries may be extended or , automat i cal ly renewed up to the dates
  specified in each case in the said Annex .
  2.    The trade agreements and protocols between certain Member States and Greece
  listed in the Annex hereto may be extended or automatically renewed for a period ending
  on the date of entry into force of the Treaty concerning the accession of Greece
  to the European Economic Community or at the latest until the dates specified in
  each case in the said Annex .
                                  Article 2
  This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
  Done at ,                                                   For the Counci l
                                                                            y
                                                               The President
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