CELEX: 51992PC0286
Language: en
Date: 1992-07-01
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the approval of the international Agreement on Jute and Jute Products, 1989

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                   COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                          C0M(92) 286 finaI
                                                          Brussels, 1 July 1992
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                                          Proposal for a
                                         CQUNCIL DECISION
              i-Ji         on the approval of the InternatIonal Agreement
                                  on Jute and Jute Products. 1989
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                                  (presented by the Commission)
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                            Explanatory memorandum
Council Decision 91/51/EEC of 18 December 1990 authorized the Community and
its Member States, acting simultaneously, to sign the International
Agreement on Jute and Jute Products, 1989, by 31 December 1990 at the
latest.1
The Community and most Member States signed the Agreement before that date
and notified their intentlon to apply the Agreement provisionaIly on its
entry into force.
Since the requirements of Article 40 regarding the number of governments
and the percentage of net imports needed for the Agreement to enter into
force had not been met by the end of 1990, those governments which had
signed decided, at a conference convened by UNCTAD in Geneva on 12 ApriI
last year, to apply the Agreement provisionally from that day.
Other governments have since signed the Agreement and lodged their
instruments of acceptance or ratification, bringing the number of
governments and the percentage of net imports up to the levels specified in
Art icle 40.
The Commission therefore proposes that the Council approve the Agreement
and decide that the Community and its Member States, acting simultaneously,
notify their approval of the Agreement, thereby permitting the Agreement to
enter into force definitively.
1    OJ No L 29, 4.2.1991, p.1
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                                  PROPOSAL                 '
                           FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
               on the approval of the International Agreement
                      on Jute and Jute Products, 1989
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Articles 113 and 116 thereof,
Having regard to the Commission proposal,
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Whereas, pursuant to Council Decision 91/51/EEC of 18 December 1990, the
European Economic Community and its Member States signed the International
Agreement on Jute and Jute Products, 1989, and, with the exception of
Portugal, notified its provisional application pending the completion of
the internal procedures required for its approval;
Whereas the required number of governments and the percentage of net
 imports specified in Article 40(1) for the definitive entry into force of
 the Agreement have now been exceeded;
 Whereas the Agreement should now be approved and the Community and its
 Member States should, acting simultaneously, notify the Secretary-GeneraI
 of the United Nations of their approval of the Agreement,
  HAS DECIDED AS F0LL0WS:
   1  0J No L 29, 4.2.1991, p.1
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                                 Article 1
The International Agreement on Jute and Jute Products, 1989,is hereby
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approved on behalf of the Community.
Acting simultaneously, the Community and its Member States shall, upon
completion of the requisite internal procedures, notify the Secretary-
General of the United Nations of their approval as importers of the
International Agreement on Jute and Jute Products, 1989, in accordance with
Article 37 thereof.
The text of the Agreement is annexed to Decision 91/51/EEC.
                                 Art icle 2
The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the person
empowered to deposit the instrument of approval on behalf of the Community.
Done at Brussels,                               For the Council
                                                The President
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