CELEX: 51993PC0658
Language: en
Date: 1993-12-10
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) ON THE SUSPENSION OF THE ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES AGAINST EFTA COUNTRIES

39)             COMMISSION OF THE EUKOPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                               COM(93) 658 final
                                                               Brussels. 10 December 1993
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                       ON THE SUSPENSION OF THE ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES AGAINST EFTA COUNTRIES
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 ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The attached draft Council Regulation concerns the application of article
26 of the EEA Agreement, which provides that anti-dumping measures,
countervailing duties and measures against illicit commercial practices
shall not be applied between the contracting parties. To this effect it
is proposed that the anti-dumping duties and undertakings in force with
regard to EFTA countries are suspended with effect from the date of entry
into force of the EEA Agreement.
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                                       Proposal for a
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
   ON THE SUSPENSION OF THE ANT I-DUMPING MEASURES AGAINST EFTA COUNTRIES
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
 Having   regard     to   the   Treaty    establishing    the   European    Community   in
 particular art 113.
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas     the    Agreement     on    the   European   Economic     Area,   subsequently
modified by an Adjusting Protocol, has been signed                   in Oporto on 2 May
 1992 (hereinafter referred to as "the EEA Agreement"),
Whereas certain products originating in member countries of the European
Free Trade Association are currently subject upon                  importation   into the
Community    to anti-dumping measures adopted             in accordance     with Council
Regulation (EEC) No 2423/88,
Whereas    Article     26   of   the    EEA  Agreement   provides     that   anti-dumping
measures, countervailing duties and measures against                  illicit commercial
practices     attributable       to   third   countries    shall    not  be   applied  in
relations between the Contracting Parties unless otherwise specified in
the Agreement,
Whereas Protocol 13 of the EEA Agreement provides that the application of
Article   26    is   limited   to the areas covered         by  the provisions of     the
Agreement and in which the Community acquis is fully integrated into the
Agreement,
Whereas the products originating in member countries of the European Free
Trade   Association      which    are   currently   subject    to   the  above-mentioned
anti-dumping      measures     belong     to   sectors  which     are   covered   by  the
provisions of the EEA Agreement,
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Whereas the relevant Community acquis in these sectors has been fully
integrated into the EEA Agreement; whereas the countries concerned have
undertaken, in the framework of the EEA Agreement, to apply this acquis
from the date of the entry into force of this Agreement,
Whereas it appears necessary to suspend the antidumping measures in force
on goods originating in EFTA countries from the date of the entry into
force of the EEA Agreement,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                    Article 1
The antidumping duties      imposed by Council Regulations or undertakings
accepted by Commission Decisions on the following imports:
     container corner fittings originating in Austria (Commission Decision
     (EEC) N°313/92) ( 1 )
     silicon   carbide   originating  in Norway  (Commission  Decision  (EEC)
     N°497/86) (2)
     urea originating in Austria (Commission Decision (EEC) N°l43/89) *3)
     ferrosilicon   originating    in  Sweden, Norway  and  Iceland  (Council
     Regulation (EEC) N°34l/90) < 4)
     diesel engines originating in Sweden and Finland (Commission Derision
      (EEC) N°138/90)(5)
are suspended with regard to these countries; duties on these products
shall no longer be collected.
 (1) OJ No L 165, 19.6.92, p.37
 (2) OJ No L 287, 10.10.86, p.25
 (3) OJ NO L 52, 24.2.89, p.37
 (4) OJ No L 38, 10.2.90, p.l
 (5) OJ No L 76, 22.3.90, p.28
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This  Regulation  shall  enter  into  force  on  the   day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply with effect from
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States.
Done at Brussels,
                                       For the Council
                                       The President
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