CELEX: 51980PC0085
Language: en
Date: 1980-03-03
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION AUTHORIZING EXTENSION OR TACIT RENEWAL OF CERTAIN TRADE AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BETWEEN MEMBERS STATES AND THIRD COUNTRIES (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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                                               Brussels . 3rd March 1980
                    PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
          AUTHORIZING EXTENSION OR TACIT RENEWAL OF CERTAIN
               TRADE AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BETWEEN MEMBERS
                      STATES AND THIRD COUNTRIES
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 ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.      In implementation of Article 3 of the Council Decision of 16 December
1969 ( 1 ) on the progressive standardization of agreements concerning commercial
relations between Member States and third countries and on negotiation of
Community agreements , the Commission proposes to the Council that the Member
States should be authorized to extend , expressly or tacitly, the trade agreements
annexed to the attached proposal for a Council decision.'    The agreements in
question constitute the second batch for 1980 and expire or are due to be
terminated between 1 May and 31 July 1980 .
        The prior consultation specified in Article 2 of this Decision was       ,
executed by written procedure* The outcome was the recognition on 15 February
1980 that the conditions under which the agreements could be extended for a
further year had been fulfilled .
2.      The Commission considers it appropriate to point out , moreover , that the
proposals for authorizing the Member States to renew or extend , expressly or
tacitly , certain agreements in this batch for a further one-year period are
by no means indicative of any position it might adopt next time these agreements
come up for renewal .
( 1 ) 0J No L 326 of 29.12.1969, p. 39 .
 ---pagebreak---                                    Proposal for a
           *                     COUNCIL DECISION
             authorizing extension or tacit renewal of certain Trade Agreements
             concluded between Member States and third countries
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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and
in particular Article 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the Council Decision 69 / 494 / EEC of 16 December 1969 on the
progressive standardization of agreements concerning commercial relations between
Member States and third countries and on the negotiation of Community Agreements
( 1 ), and in particular Article 3 thereof .
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas extension or tacit renewal beyond the end of the transitional period has
already been authorized in the case of the Agreements and Protocols listed in
the Annex by Council Decision 79 / 434 / CEE ( 2 ).
Whereas ttie Member States concerned have requested authorization to extend or
renew these Agreements with a view to avoiding interruption in their commercial
relations with the third countries concerned based on agreement ;
Whereas authorization has to be granted only for the maintenance of trade
relations between the Member States and the third countries concerned , based on
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agreements , pending their replacement by Community Agreements to be negotiated ;
whereas such authorization would not , therefore in any way modify the obligation
of the Member States to avoid and , where appropriate , eliminate any incompatibility
between such agreements and the provisions of Community law ;
( 1 ) OJ No L 326 , 29.12.1969, p. 39 .
( 2 ) OJ No L 111 , 4 . 5.1979, p. 33 .
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas furthermore , the provisions of the instruments to be either extended or
 renewed should not , during the period under consideration, constitute an obstacle
to the implementation of the common commercial policy ;
Whereas the Member States concerned have declared that the extension or tacit
renewal of these Agreements would prevent neither the opening of Community
negotiations with the third countries concerned nor the transfer of the
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commercial fabric : thereof to Community Agreements , nor would it , during the
period envisaged , hinder the adoption of the measures necessary to complete the
standardization of the import systems of the Member States ;
Whereas , at the conclusion of the consultations provides for in Article 2 of
the Decision 69/ 494/ EEC it was established , as the aforesaid declarations by
the Member States confirm , that the provisions of the Agreements to be extended
or renewed would not , during the period envisaged , constitute an obstacle to
the implementation of the common commercial policy ;
Whereas , in these circumstances , the Agreements may be either extended or tacitly
renewed for a limited period ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                      '
                                  Article 1
The trade Agreements and Protocols listed in the Annex hereto between Member
States and third countries' may be extended or tacitly renewed up to the dates
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specified in each case in the said Annex .
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This Decision is addressed to the Member States *
Done at ,                                            For the Council
                                                        The President
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UEBL                I         Mexique                  Accord commercial       11.09.1950            ! 11.09.1981
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