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Date: 1985-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 229/85 of 29 January 1985 on the application of Decision No 2/84 of the EEC-Switzerland Joint Committee - Community transit - adapting the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on the application of the rules on Community transit #Decision No 2/84 of the EEC-Switzerland Joint Committee - Community transit - of 14 December 1984 adapting the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on the application of the rules on Community transit

No L 26/8                          Official Journal of the European Communities                             31 . 1 . 85
                                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 229/85
                                                 of 29 January 1985
              on the application of Decision No 2/84 of the EEC-Switzerland Joint Committee
              — Community transit — adapting the Agreement between the European
              Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on the application of the
                                            rules on Community transit
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   to take the measures required to implement the above­
COMMUNITIES,                                                  mentioned Decision,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
thereof,                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Article 16 (3) (d) of the Agreement between                                   Article 1
the European Economic Community and the Swiss
Confederation on the application of the rules on              Decision No 2/84 of the EEC-Switzerland Joint
Community transit (') empowers the Joint Committee            Committee — Community transit — adapting the
set up under the Agreement to adopt Decisions                 Agreement between the European Economic Commu­
making any adjustments to the definition of the ECU           nity and the Swiss Confederation on the application of
in Article 1 3 (3) of the Agreement which may be made         the rules on Community transit shall apply in the
necessary by amendments to the Community rules                Community.
relating thereto ;
                                                              The text of the Decision is attached to this Regulation.
Whereas the Joint Committee has decided to adapt
Article 13 (3) of the Agreement in order to take                                      Article 2
account of a recent change in the Community rules on
the definition of the ECU ;
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
Whereas this adaptation is the subject of Joint               following its publication in the Official Journal of the
Committee Decision No 2/84 ; whereas it is necessary          European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 29 January 1985.
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                          G. ANDREOTTI
(') OJ No L 294, 29 . 12. 1972, p. 2.
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               DECISION No 2/84 OF THE EEC-SWITZERLAND JOINT COMMITTEE
                                            — Community transit —
                                               of 14 December 1984
             adapting the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the
               Swiss Confederation on the application of the rules on Community transit
THE JOINT COMMITTEE, .                                             0,719   German mark,
                                                                   0,0878  pound sterling,
Having regard to the Agreement between the Euro­                   1,31    French francs,
pean Economic Community and the Swiss Confedera­               140         Italian lire,
tion on the application of the rules on Community                  0,256   Dutch guilder,
transit, and in particular Article 16 (3) (d) thereof,             3,71    Belgian francs,
Whereas for purposes of the Agreement the ECU is
                                                                   0,14    Luxembourg franc,
                                                                   0,219   Danish krone,
defined in the same way as it is in the Community
rules ;
                                                                   0,00871 Irish pound,
                                                                   1,15    Greek drachmas .
Whereas those rules were recently changed, so that the         The value of the ECU in a given currency shall be
ECU has been composed differently since 17                     equal to the sum of the exchange values in that
September 1984 ; whereas the Agreement should                  currency of the amounts set out in the previous
therefore be adapted to take account of the new                subparagraph.'
composition of the ECU,
                                                                                    Article 2
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :                                    This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January
                                                            1985 .
                       Article 1
                                                            Done at Brussels, 14 December 1984.
In Article 13 of the Agreement, paragraph 3 is hereby
replaced by the following :
                                                                                   For the Joint Committee
    '3. In the application of the provisions of this
                                                                                         The Chairman
    Agreement, the ECU means the total of the
    following amounts :                                                                    R. GIORGIS