CELEX: 21970A1214(01)
Language: en
Date: 1970-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Agreement on trade with the Overseas Countries and Territories in products within the province of the European Coal and Steel Community

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                                                  TRANSLATION
                                                  AGREEMENT
         on trade with the Overseas Countries and Territories in products within the province
                                   of the European Coal and Steel Community
                                               (14 December     1970)
         HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS,
         THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,
         THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,
         THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,
         HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG,
         HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS,
         Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, signed
         at Paris on 17 April 1951, whose States are hereinafter referred to as 'Member States',
         HAVING REGARD to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community;
         HAVING REGARD to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in
         particular to Article 232 thereof;
         CONSIDERING the fact that the association arrangements between the European Economic
         Community and the Overseas Countries and Territories associated with that Community,
         hereinafter referred to as 'Countries and Territories', does not apply to products within the
         province of the European Coal and Steel Community;
         DESIRING nevertheless to maintain and increase trade in those products between the Member
         States and the Countries and Territories;
         HAVE DESIGNATED as their Plenipotentiaries:
         HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS:
         Mr Pierre HARMEL,
         Minister for Foreign Affairs;
         THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY:
         Mr Walter SCHEEL,
         Minister for Foreign Affairs;
         THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC:
         Mr Maurice SCHUMANN,
         Minister for Foreign Affairs;
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              THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC:
              Mr Aldo MORO,
              Minister for Foreign Affairs;
              HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG:
              Mr Gaston THORN,
              Minister for Foreign Affairs;
              HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS:
              Mr J. M. A. H. LUNS,
              Minister for Foreign Affairs;
              WHO, having exchanged their Full Powers, found in good and due form,
              HAVE AGREED the following:
                         Article 1                                                    Article 4
Save where measures are taken pursuant to Chapter             This Agreement shall not affect the provisions of
X of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and             the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel
Steel Community, products within the province of               Community, nor the powers or jurisdiction conferred
that Community shall, when they originate in the               by that Treaty.
Countries and Territories, on importation into the
Community be admitted free of customs duties and
charges having equivalent effect; however, the treat-                                 Article 5
ment applied to these products shall not be more
favourable than that applied by the Member States              This Agreement shall be approved by each Signatory
among themselves.                                              State in accordance with its own constitutional
                                                               requirements. The Government of each State shall
                                                               notify the Secretariat of the Council of the European
                         Article 2                             Communities of the completion of the procedures
                                                               required for the entry into force of this Agreement.
The products mentioned above shall, when they                 This Agreement shall enter into force on the first
originate in the Member States, on importation into            day of the month following the date on which the
the Countries and Territories, be admitted free of             Member States deposit their instruments of ratifica-
customs duties and charges having equivalent effect            tion.
and free of quantitative restrictions and measures
having equivalent effect, under similar conditions to
 those to be laid down in Title I, Chapter I, and Ar-                                 Article 6
ticle 15 (1) of the Decision on the Association of
the Overseas Countries and Territories with the                This Agreement shall expire on 31 January 1975.
European Economic Community and in Annexes II
and III thereto.
                                                                                       Article 7
                                                               This Agreement, drawn up in a single original in
                         Article 3                             the Dutch, French, German and Italian languages,
                                                              each of these texts being equally authentic, shall be
Consultations shall take place between the Parties             deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the
concerned in all cases where, in the opinion of one            Council of the European Communities, which shall
of them, the implementation of the above provisions            transmit a certified copy to the Government of each
 calls for such consultations.                                 of the Signatory States.
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         In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Agreement.
         Done at Brussels this fourteenth day of December in the year one thousand nine
         hundred and seventy.
         For His Majesty the King of the Belgians:
         P. HARMEL
         For the President of the Federal Republic of Germany:
         W. SCHEEL
         For the President of the French Republic:
         M. SCHUMANN
         For the President of the Italian Republic:
         A. MORO
         For His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Luxembourg:
         G. THORN
         For Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:
         J. M. A. H. LUNS