CELEX: 41975D0371
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-24 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting in Council of 24 June 1975 opening tariff preferences for products within the province of that Community originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and in the overseas countries and territories associated with the Community

28 . 6. 75                           Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 166/83
                                                            II
                                      (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                  COUNCIL
                                                       DECISION
               OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES
                            OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY,
                                               MEETING IN COUNCIL
                                                    of 24 June 1975
               opening tariff preferences for products within the province of that Community originating
               in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and in the overseas countries and territories
                                            associated with the Community
                                                     (75/371/ECSC)
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS                          Whereas a Council Regulation is envisaged to define
OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN                            the interim arrangements for trade with the overseas
COAL      AND    STEEL    COMMUNITY        MEETING     IN       countries and territories associated with the Euro­
COUNCIL,
                                                                pean Economic Community; whereas it will not
                                                                apply to products within the province of the Euro­
Whereas the Member States have concluded with
                                                                pean Coal and Steel Community, and whereas the
                                                                 association's arrangements should nevertheless be
each other the Treaty establishing the European Coal            extended to these products ;
and Steel Community ;
Whereas the Agreement on products within the                    Whereas, until the rules of origin which will be laid
province of the European Coal and Steel Community,              down by the abovementioned Regulation enter into
hereinafter called the 'Agreement', between the                 force, the rules of origin laid down in Regulation
Member States of that Community and the African,                 (EEC) No 1598/75 should be applied to products
Caribbean and Pacific States, hereinafter called the            imported from the 'countries and territories'
'ACP States', was signed on 28 February 1975 at the             mutatis mutandis with products imported from the
same time as the ACP-EEC Lome convention and                    ACP States, and whereas thereafter the rules of origin
whereas that Agreement is being submitted for                   laid down by the Regulation on the interim arrange­
ratification ;                                                  ments    for trade with the 'countries and territories'
                                                                should be applied ;
Whereas when the Agreement was signed, the
European Economic Community, its Member States                  In agreement with the Commission,
and the ACP States agreed in an exchange of letters
to apply autonomously from 1 July 1975 certain                  HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
provisions of the convention relating to trade in
goods ;
                                                                                       Article 1
Desiring to apply likewise autonomously and
concurrently the tariff suspensions contained in the            From 1 July 1975, the duties applicable in the
Agreement;                                                      Community to imports of products within the
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province of the European Coal and Steel Community,               entry into force of that Regulation, its provisions
originating in the ACP States listed in Annex I or in            on origin shall apply to products imported from the
the ' overseas    countries    and territories'  listed in       said 'countries and territories '.
Annex II, and charges having equivalent effect, or
the levying of such duties and charges, shall be
suspended. The treatment applied to such products                                        Article 3
may not be more favourable than that accorded by
the Member States among themselves.                              The Member States shall decide by mutual agreement
                                                                 on any safeguard measures suggested by one or more
For purposes of the implementation of the first                  Member States or by the Commission.
subparagraph, account shall not be taken of residual
customs duties and charges having equivalent effect
arising from the application of Articles 32 and 36                                       Article 4
of the Act of Accession.
                                                                 This Decision shall remain applicable until the entry
                                                                 into force of the Agreement and at the latest until
                                                                 29 February 1976.
                         Article 2
                                                                 Where necessary, the representatives of the
 The provisions defining the rules of origin provided            Governments of the Member States of the European
 for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1598/75 (x) of               Coal and Steel Community, meeting in Council, may
 24 June 1975 on the advance implementation of                   decide to keep this Decision in force beyond that
 certain provisions of the ACP-EEC Lomé convention               date and until the entry into force of the Agreement
                                                                 aforesaid .
 relating to trade in goods shall apply to products
 referred to in Article 1 imported from the ACP
States .
                                                                                         Article 5
 They shall apply mutatis mutandis to products                   The Member States shall take all the measures
 referred to in Article 1 imported from the 'countries           necessary for the implementation of this Decision.
 and territories' until the entry into force of the
 Council Regulation on the interim arrangements for              Done at Luxembourg, 24 June 1975 .
 trade with the 'countries and territories'. After the
                                                                                                       The President
 (*) See page 1 of this Official Journal.                                                            G. FITZGERALD
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                                                     ANNEX I
                             List of States referred to in Article 1, first subparagraph
           Bahamas                                          Liberia
           Barbados                                         Malagasy Republic
           Botswana                                         Malawi
           Burundi                                          Mali
           Cameroon                                         Mauritania
           Central African Republic                         Mauritius
           Chad                                             Niger
           People's Republic of the Congo                    Nigeria
           Dahomey                                          Rwanda
           Equatorial Guinea                                Senegal
           Ethiopia                                          Sierra Leone
           Fiji                                              Somali
           Gabon                                             Sudan
           Gambia                                            Swaziland
           Ghana                                             Tanzania
           Grenada                                           Togo
           Guinea                                            Tonga
           Guinea Bissau                                     Trinidad and Tobago
           Guyana                                            Uganda
           Ivory Coast                                       Upper Volta
           Jamaica                                           Western Samoa
           Kenya                                             Zaire             '
           Lesotho                                           Zambia
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                                                          ANNEX II
                   List of the 'countries and territories' referred to in Article 1, first subparagraph
            1 . Overseas countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands :
                — Surinam ,
                — The Netherlands Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire, Cura9ao and St Martin, Saba, St Eustatius)
            2. Overseas territories of the French Republic :
                — Saint Pierre and Miquelon ,
                — The Comoro Archipelago ,
                — The Territory of the Afars and Issas,
                — New Caledonia and Dependencies,
                — Wallis and Futuna Islands ,
                — French Polynesia,
                — French Southern and Antarctic Territories .
            3. Overseas countries and territories of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire­
                land :
                — Belize,
                — Brunei,
                — Associated States in the Caribbean : Antigua, Dominica , St Lucia, St Vincent,
                    St Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla,
                — Cayman Islands,
                — Falkland Islands and Dependencies,
                — Gilbert and Ellice Islands ,
                — British Solomon Islands ,
                — Turks and Caicos Islands,
                — British Virgin Islands ,
                — Montserrat,
                — Pitcairn,
                —   St Helena and Dependencies,
                —   The Seychelles,
                —   British Antarctic Territory,
                —   British Indian Ocean Territory.
            4. Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides.