CELEX: 11957E/PRO/MARCH
Language: en
Date: 1957-03-25 00:00:00
Title: TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, PROTOCOL ON GOODS ORIGINATING IN AND COMING FROM CERTAIN COUNTRIES AND ENJOYING SPECIAL TREATMENT WHEN IMPORTED INTO A MEMBER STATE

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11957E/PRO/MARCH

TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, PROTOCOL ON GOODS ORIGINATING IN AND COMING FROM CERTAIN COUNTRIES AND ENJOYING SPECIAL TREATMENT WHEN IMPORTED INTO A MEMBER STATE  

++++THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES  DESIRING to define in greater detail the application of this Treaty to certain goods originating in and coming from certain countries and enjoying special treatment when imported into a Member State ,  HAVE AGREED upon the following provisions , which shall be annexed to this Treaty :  1 . The application of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community shall not require any alteration in the customs treatment applicable , at the time of the entry into force of this Treaty , to imports :   ( a ) into the Benelux countries of goods originating in and coming from Surinam (*) or the Netherlands Antilles ; (**)   ( b ) into France of goods originating in and coming from Morocco , Tunisia , the Republic of Vietnam , Cambodia or Laos . This shall also apply to the French Settlements in the Condominium of the New Hebrides ; (***)   ( c ) into Italy of goods originating in and coming from Libya or the Trust Territory of Somaliland currently under Italian administration . (****)  2 . Goods imported into a Member State and benefiting from the treatment referred to above shall not be considered to be in free circulation in that State within the meaning of Article 10 of this Treaty when re-exported to another Member State .  3 . Before the end of the first year after the entry into force of this Treaty , Member States shall communicate to the Commission and to the other Member States their rules governing the special treatment referred to in this Protocol , together with a list of the goods entitled to such treatment .  They shall also inform the Commission and the other Member States of any changes subsequently made in those lists or in the treatment .  4 . The Commission shall ensure that the application of these rules cannot be prejudicial to other Member States ; to this end it may take any appropriate measures as regards relations between Member States .  (*) The provisions of Part Four of the Treaty were applied to Surinam , by virtue of a Supplementary Act of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to complete its instrument of ratification , from 1 September 1962 to 16 July 1976 .  (**) In accordance with Article 1 of the Convention of 13 November 1962 amending the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ( Official Journal of the European Communities , No 150 , 1 October 1964 , p . 2414 ) , the protocol no longer applies to the Netherlands Antilles .  (***) The provisions of Part Four of the Treaty apply to this Condominium ( see Annex IV , p . 454 ) .  (****) These two countries have become independent .