CELEX: 41975D0373
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting within the Council of 26 June 1975 opening tariff preferences for products covered by that Community and originating in Israel

No L 165/76                        Official Journal of the European Communities                               28 . 6 . 75
                                                      DECISION
              OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER
              STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING
                                             WITHIN THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 26 June 1975
              opening tariff preferences for products covered by that Community and origi­
                                                   nating in Israel
                                                     (75/373/ECSC)
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF                      — for the Community as originally constituted :
THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL                             those duties actually applied in respect of Israel on
AND STEEL COMMUNITY,                                               1 January 1974 ;
Whereas the Member States have concluded among                 — for Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom :
themselves the Treaty establishing the European Coal               those duties actually applied in respect of Israel on
and Steel Community ;                                              1 January 1972.
Whereas the Agreement between the European
                                                                                       Article 2
Economic Community and the State of Israel is to
enter into force on 1 July 1975 ;                              The provisions laying down the rules of origin for the
Whereas the Agreement between the Member States                implementation of the Agreement between the Euro­
of the European Coal and Steel Community and the               pean Economic Community and the State of Israel,
State of Israel is subject to the approval of each signa­      which is to enter into force on 1 July 1975, shall
tory State in accordance with its own constitutional           apply to the products to which this Decision refers.
rules ;
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Anxious to apply autonomously and concomitantly
the tariff reductions laid down in that Agreement ;            The Member States shall decide by common accord
In agreement with the Commission,                              on any contingent protective measures suggested by
                                                               one or more Member States or by the Commission .
HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
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                         Article 1                             This Decision shall expire on the entry into force of
                                                               the Agreement between the Member States of the
 1 . With effect from 1 July 1975, the duties appli­           European Coal and Steel Community and the State of
cable in the Community to imports of products                  Israel, and no later than 30 June 1976.
covered by the European Coal and Steel Community
and originating in Israel shall be reduced to 40 % of
                                                                                       Article 5
the basic duty or levied at the rate of 40 % of the
basic duty.
                                                               Member States shall adopt all the measures necessary
With effect from 1 January 1976, the duties appli­             for the implementation of this Decision .
cable in the Community to imports of products
covered by the European Coal and Steel Community
and originating in Israel shall be reduced to 20 % of           Done at Luxembourg, 26 June 1975.
the basic duty or levied at the rate of 20 % of the
basic duty.                                                                                   The President
2.    The basic duties referred to in this Decision
shall be :                                                                                     P. BARRY