CELEX: 41975D0090
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-30 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community as originally constituted, meeting within the Council of 30 January 1975 opening tariff preferences for the products covered by that Community and originating in the Associated African States and Madagascar and the overseas countries and territories

No L 26/ 10                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               31 . 1 . 75
               DECISION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE
               MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY
                    AS ORIGINALLY CONSTITUTED, MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 30 January 1975
               opening tariff preferences for the products covered by that Community and originating
               in the Associated African States and Madagascar and the overseas countries and
                                                          territories
                                                        (75/90/ECSC)
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS                              products covered by the European Coal and Steel
OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN                                Community and originating in the Associated
COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY AS ORIGINALLY
                                                                    African States and Madagascar or the overseas
CONSTITUTED , MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL,                           countries and territories, or the levying of such
                                                                    duties, shall be suspended.
Whereas the Member States have concluded with
each other the Treaty establishing the European Coal                                        Article 2
and Steel Community;
Whereas the Agreement relating to the products                      The provisions laying down the rules of origin for
covered by the European Coal and Steel Community                    the application of the Convention of Association
concluded on 29 July 1969 between the Member                        between the European Economic Community as
States of that Community and the Associated African                 originally constituted and the African States and
States and Madagascar and the Agreement concluded                   Madagascar associated with that Community and for
on 14 December 1970 between the Member States of                    the implementation of Council Decision No 70/549/
that Community relating to trade with the overseas                  EEC of 29 September 1970 on the association of the
countries and territories in products covered by the                overseas countries and territories with the European
European Coal and Steel Community expire on 31                      Economic Community shall be applicable to the
January 1975 ;                                                      products referred to in Article 1 .
Whereas* in accordance with Article 109 ( 1 ), second                                       Article 3
subparagraph and Article 117 (2) of the Act of
Accession, the new Member States were not required                  The Member States shall decide by mutual
to accede to these Agreements ;                                     agreement on any safeguard measures as may be
                                                                    suggested by one or more Member States or by the
Having regard to Decision No 48/75 of the EEC­                      Commission .
AASM Association Council on transitional measures
to be applied after 31 January 1975 and Council
Decision No 75/89/EEC (*) of 30 January 1975 on                                             Article 4
transitional measures to be applied after 31 January
1975 in relations with the overseas countries and                   This Decision shall expire at the same time as the
territories ;                                                       transitional measures provided for in Decision No
                                                                    48 /75 of the EEC-AASM Association Council and in
                                                                    Decision No 75/ 89/EEC.
Desiring to continue to apply the existing tariff
suspensions autonomously and concurrently;
                                                                                            Article 5
In agreement with the Commission,
                                                                    The Member States shall take all the measures
                                                                    necessary to implement this Decision.
HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                           Article 1                                Done at Brussels, 30 January 1975 .
                                                                                                 The President
From 1 February 1975, the duties applicable in the
Community as originally constituted to imports of                                               G. FITZGERALD
 (*) See page 9 of this Official Journal.