CELEX: 51980PC0809
Language: en
Date: 1980-12-11
Title: Proposal for a Council Decision setting up an information and consultation procedure for relations and agreements with third countries in the field of transport by rail, road and inland waterway

31. 12. 80                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               No C 350/23
 Whereas Article la of Council Directive 74/651/EEC (*)           European units of account' is hereby replaced by '70
 as last amended by Directive 78/1034/EEC (2) stipulates          ECU'.
 that the equivalent in national currency of the tax relief
 provided for in the said Directive and expressed in
 European units of account shall be fixed once a year;
                                                                                            Article 2
 Whereas such fixing should not result in a reduction in
 terms of national currency in the tax relief applicable in
 any Member State and whereas, in order to prevent any            1.    Member States shall bring into force the measures
such reduction, the amounts of tax reliefs expressed in          necessary to comply with this Directive with effect from
 European units of account should be increased,                   1 January 1981.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:                                       2.    Member States shall inform the Commission of the
                                                                  provisions which they adopt to implement this Directive.
                         Article 1
In Article 1 (2) (d) of Directive 74/651/EEC, '60
                                                                                            Article 3
H OJ No L 354, 30. 12. 1974, p. 57.
(2) OJ No L 366, 28. 12. 1978, p. 33.                            This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
              Proposal for a Council Decision setting up an information and consultation procedure for
              relations and agreements with third countries in the field of transport by rail, road and inland
                                                          waterway
                         (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 19 December 1980)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        third countries concerned and whereas therefore an
                                                                 information procedure should be instituted;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                 Whereas the conclusion by Member States of bilateral or
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 75
                                                                 multilateral agreements with third countries in the field
 thereof,
                                                                 of transport by rail, road or inland waterway and the
                                                                 implementation of national provisions laid down by law
                                                                 or regulation may influence the development of the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               common transport policy and interfere with its
                                                                 implementation;
 Having regard      to the opinion     of the     European
                                                                 Whereas, in addition to the consultation procedure set
 Parliament,
                                                                 up by the Council Decision of 21 March 1962 (*),
                                                                 specific preliminary consultations before the conclusion
                                                                 and implementation of these agreements is required to
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social          ensure that they conform to the provisions of
Committee,                                                       Community law and the objectives of the common
                                                                 transport policy,
Whereas it is desirable to facilitate the exchange of
                                                                 (*) Council Decision of 21. 3. 1962 instituting a procedure for
information and views in the field of relations with third           prior examination and consultation in respect of certain
countries concerning transport by rail, road or inland               laws, regulations and administrative provisions concerning
waterway in order to identify matters of common                      transport proposed in the Member States (OJ No 23,
interest and promote coordination, where necessary, of               3.4. 1962) amended by Council Decision 73/402 of 22
the action taken by the Member States with regard to the             November 1973 (OJ No L 347, 17. 12. 1973).
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:                                                                Article 4
                                                                  1.    The communication of an agreement which a
                          Article 1                               Member State proposes to conclude with a third country
                                                                  as laid down in Article 2 shall take place before the
1.     The Member States and the Commission shall keep            agreement is initialled or, in the absence of initialling,
each other informed and undertake exchanges of views              before the completion of negotiations.
on the various aspects of actual or prospective
developments in relations between Member States and               2.    If, within one month of receiving this
third countries concerning transport by rail, road or             communication, a Member State requests consultation
inland waterway and on the working of bilateral or                or the Commission considers it appropriate, the
multilateral agreements in this field.                            Commission shall arrange for consultation with all the
                                                                  Member States on the agreement in question.
In particular, Member States shall inform the
Commission and the. other Member States of any                    For this purpose the Commission shall arrange a meeting
agreements with third countries which they intend to              of representatives of the Member States, chaired by it,
negotiate, amend or renew.                                        within two months of receiving the communication.
2.     The aims of the information and exchanges of              3.     Following consultation the Commission shall
views mentioned in paragraph 1 shall be:                          address an opinion or recommendation to the Member
                                                                  State not more than two months after receiving the
(a) to identify matters of common interest;                       communication and shall inform the other Member
                                                                 States of it, at the same time. During this period, the
(b) to examine the implications of the information
                                                                  Member State may not conclude the agreement in
     provided for the common transport policy and its
                                                                 question without the opinion or recommendation of the
     development;
                                                                 Commission.
(c) to seek convergence of views on relations with third
    countries; and                                               4.    If consultation has not taken place, the
                                                                 Commission may, if it considers it appropriate, deliver
(d) to facilitate where necessary coordination of the            an opinion or recommendation not more than two
     action taken by Member States with regard to the            months after receiving the communication. During this
     third countries concerned and to consider any               period the Member State may not conclude the
     expedient policy towards them.                              agreement concerned without an opinion or
                                                                 recommendation from the Commission. Once the above
                                                                 period of two months has elapsed, and if there is still no
                                                                 opinion or recommendation, the agreement with the
                          Article 2                              third country or countries shall be deemed not to be
                                                                 subject to any objection from the Commission or the
When a Member State intends to conclude or amend an              Member States.
agreement with one or more third countries in the field of
transport by rail, road or inland waterway which may             5.    The Member States shall inform the Commission of
interfere with the implementation of the common                  the texts of agreements concluded with third countries
transport policy, it shall send the complete draft in good       which come within the scope of this Decision.
time to the other Member States and to the Commission.
If appropriate, there will then be consultation, the
purpose of which is to ensure that the agreement
contemplated conforms to Community law and the
objectives of the common transport policy.                                                Article 5
                                                                 Past or future developments and agreements and
                                                                 conventions concluded or to be concluded within
                                                                 international organizations are excluded from the scope
                          Article 3
                                                                 of the present Decision.
1.     The exchanges of views and information provided
for in Article 1 shall take place at meetings of
representatives of each Member State arranged by the
Commission and under the chairmanship of its
representative.                                                                           Article 6
2.     The Commission shall furthermore arrange a                The Commission may decide that the Decision does not
meeting of national representatives within one month of          apply to certain categories of development in relations
receiving a request from a Member State.                         with third countries and agreements with them.
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                          Article 7                                                         Article 8
 The information and consultations provided for in the             This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
 Decision shall be covered by professional secrecy.
               Proposal for an estimate
                I. of supply and demand for beef and veal in the processing industry for the period 1 January
                   to 31 December 1981
               II. concerning young male bovine animals weighing 300 kg or less and intended for fattening
                   for the period 1 January to 31 December 1981
                          (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 15 December 1980)
                                                               I
               Proposal for an estimate of supply and demand for beef and veal in the processing industry for
                                        the period 1 January to 31 December 1981
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          This estimate shall mention separately the qualities of
                                                                  meat
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  (a) intended for the manufacture of preserved food
                                                                      which does not contain characteristic components
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68
                                                                      other than beef and jelly;
of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the
market in beef and veal (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 2966/80 (2), and in particular                (b) intended for the processing industry for the
Article 14 (2) thereof,                                               manufacture of products other than preserved food
                                                                      referred to in (a).
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
HAS ADOPTED THIS ESTIMATE:                                                                Introduction
                                                                  1.    In the establishment of the level of imports in the
                        FOREWORD                                  balance sheets of beef for processing put forward for the
                                                                  years following 1980, the balance sheet will be drawn up
Article 14 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68
                                                                  and administered by the Commission in conformity with
provides that each year before 1 December, the Council,
                                                                  the Commitment assumed by the Community in the
acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the
                                                                  GATT exchange of letters in such a way as to ensure the
Commission, shall draw up an estimate of meat which
                                                                  regular supply of the Community market and permit an
may be imported under the arrangements laid down in
                                                                  increase in imports in proportion to the increase in
that Article. This estimate shall take account, on the one
                                                                  Community consumption taking into account the
hand, of the expected Community supplies of meat of a
                                                                  foreseeable expansion of the market, and with the
quality and type of cut suitable for industrial use and, on
                                                                  expectation that the annual level of imports of frozen
the other, of industrial need.
                                                                  beef for the processing industry under the balance sheet
                                                                  will increase, year by year, in proportion to the increase
(') OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.                              in Community consumption, over the current level of
(2) OJ No L 307, 18. 11. 1980, p. 5.                              imports at the time of the 1979 exchange of letters.