CELEX: 51978PC0384
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-31
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION, authorizing extension or tacit renewal of certain trade Agreements concluded between Member States and third countries (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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COM (78) 384
Vol. 1978/0145
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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                COM(78)384 final.
                                                Brussels , 31 July 1978
                            Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL DECISION ,
 authorizing extension or tacit renewal of certain trade Agreements
         concluded between Member States and third countries
            ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
 COM(78) 384 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                  EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
          ,        In implementation of Article 3 of - the Council Decision of
■*-- . December 1969 ( 1 ) on the progressive standardization of agreements concerning
 c -- nercial relations between Member States and third countries and on negotiation
 o - Community agreements , the Commission proposes to the Council that the Member
 r rotes - 'should be authorized to extend ,, expressly or tacitly / the trade agreements
 • " 'ucd to the attached proposal for a Council decision . The agreements . in
 Ciostion constitute the forth batch for 1978       ar,d expire or are due to be
 terminated between 1 Nt .»,>;ber 1978 and 31 January 1979 .,
                   The prior consultation specified in Article 2 of this Decision was
executed by written procedure . The outcome was the recognition on 15 Jul.i 1978
tl . at the conditions under which the agreements could be extended for a further
year had been fulfilled .
2.                 The Commission considers it appropriate-to point out , moreover /
th-;t the proposals for authorizing the Member States to renew . or extend ,         '
expressly or tacit ly, certain agreements in this batch for a further one-year
period are by no means indicative of any positidn It might adopt next time
these agreements come up for renewal.'
< 1 ) OJ No L 326 of 29 . 12.1969/ p. 39 .
 ---pagebreak---                                ;  Proposal for a
                                 COUNCIL DECISION
          authorizing extension or tacit renewal '-of certain Trade
       Agreements concluded between Member States and third countries
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to th'e Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in parti cular" Arti cle 11.3 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 tacit renewal beyond the end of the transitional ■
period has already been authorized in the case of the Agreements and
Protocols listed in the Annex by Council Decision 77 / 657 / EECof 18 October
1977 (2 );                                                                  ' •
( 1 ) OJ No L 326 , 29.12.1969 , p. 39
( 2 ) OJ No L 270, 22.10.1977 , p. 15
 ---pagebreak---   Wreroas the Member States concerned have requested authorization to extend or
  renew these Agreements with a view to avoiding interruption in their commercial
  relations with the third countries concerned based on agreement ;
  Whereas authorization has- to be granted -only for the maintenance of trade
  relations between the Member States and the third countries concerned , based on
  s^reenents , pending their replacement by Community Agreements to be negotiated ;
  whereas such authorization would not , therefore in any way modify the obligation
  of the Member States to avoid and , yhere appropriate , eliminate any incompatibi.li
  between such agreements and the provisions of Community law ;.
'Wftereas furthermore , the provisions of the instruments to be either 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 tacit
 renewal of these Agreements would prevent neither the opening of Comnun'ity         ~
 negotiations with the third countries concerned nor the transfer of the
 c .v^erciat fabric thereof 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 ;
W'-ereas , at the conclusion . of the consultations provides for in Article 2 of
tr.e                Decision 69 / 494 / EEC, .V    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 .
o'- stacle to the implementation of the common commercial policy ;          'r
i.' .1_ .» reas,in these circumstances , the Agreements may be either extended or
tocitly renewed for a limited period ,
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 ---pagebreak---                                 Article 1
The trade Agreements and Protocols Listed in the Annex hereto between Member
States and third countries may be extended or tacitly renewed up to the dates
specified in each case in the said Annex .
                                Article 2
Tnis Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Done at ,                                    For the Council
                                              The President
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