CELEX: 51980PC0007
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Date: 1980-01-09
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ON TRADE ARRANGMENTS BETWEEN SOUTHERN RHODESIA AND THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (Communication from the Commission to the Council)

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                              I
                         PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
               ON TRADE ARRANGMENTS BETWEEN SOUTHERN RHODESIA AND
                          THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
                 ( Communication from the Commission to the Council )
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Explanatory memorandum                  -
     Following Southern Rhodesia 's return to legality as a territory
having a special relationship with the United Kingdom and due to
become independent , it would appear advisable to take immediate steps
to re-establish economic relations between the Community and that
territory in order to assist the return to normal of its external
economic relations and thus help facilitate the institutional developments
scheduled to come about in 1980 .
     To this end , on the basis of Articles 43 and 113 of the EEC Treaty ,
the Commission proposes that Southern Rhodesia be granted access to the
Community market , on an autonomous and provisional basis in generally the
same way as access is accorded to the OCT . These arrangements would
apply to the territory under its present status and also under that
resulting from the scheduled institutional developments .
     Accordingly the Commission proposes that the Council adopt ,
after obtaining the opinion of Parliament , the regulation of which
the draft is annexed hereto .
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                            Proposal for
                           Council Regulation ...
on trade arrangments between Southern Rhodesia and the European Economic
                                Community
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
i.jving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
<ard in particular Articles 43 and 113 thereof ,
 -. avmg regard to the proposal from the Commission ,      -
Having regard to the Opinion of the         European Parliament ,
Whereas Southern Rhodesia 's return to legality will contribute greatly
 towards political and economic stability in that region of Africa and
whereas it is the Community 's duty to help achieve that objective ; ,
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whereas trade arrangements should therefore be established on an autonomous
  i-a provisional basis , like those applied in trade with the overseas
countries and territories ( OCT ), which is at present governed by
Council Decision 76 / 568 / EEC of 29 June 1976 on     the association of the
OCT ( 1 ) and by Council Regulation ( EEC ) n° 706 / 76 of 30 March 1976 on the
arrangements applicable to agricultural products and certain goods
resulting from the processing of agricultural products originating in
the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries
and territories     ( 2 ).                                        *
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION         :
                                 Article 1
      Products originating in the territory of Southern Rhodesia shall
be admitted for , importation into the Community in accordance with
the provisions of Article 2 of Decision 76 / 568 / EEC or any corresponding
provisions that may replace them .
2 . Imports of the products referred to in Article 2 ( 2 ) of the said
Decision shall be effected in accordance with Council Regulation ( EEC )
:M° 706 / 76 or with any Regulation that may replace "it .                    -
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3 . For the purposes of applying this Article , the concept of originating
products and the methods of administrative cooperation related thereto
shall be those defined in Annex II to Decision 76 / 568 / EEC of 29 June 1976 .
 For the purpose of determining the originating status of products from
Southern Rhodesia , however , products wholly obtained or processed in the
African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and .
territories shall not be taken into account .
 ( 1 ) 0J N° L 176 , 1.7.1976 , p. 8            -
 ( 2 ) 0J N° L 85 , 31.3.1976 , p. 2
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 ---pagebreak---                         Article 2
   Articles 3 to 7 and Article 12 of Decision 76 / 568 / EEC or any corresponding
provisions that may replace them shall be applicable .
                        Article 3
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication
in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
   It shall apply until 31 December 1980 .
   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States .