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Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION amending regulations (EEC) Nos 109/70 and 1439/74 on common rules for imports from State-trading countries and other third countries. (Submitted by the Commission to the Council)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                 COM (75 ) 695 final
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                                                 Brussels. 9 January 1976
                      PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
                 amending regulations (EEC ) Nos 109/70 and
                 1439/74 on common rules for imports from
                 State-trading countries and other third
                                  countries .
                 ( Submitted "by the Commission to the Council )
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                                                                     /
COM (75 ) 695 final
 ---pagebreak---                    Bxplanatory Mémorandum
                                     (1)
       Regulation ( ESC ) No . 1439/74 on common rules for imports and
Regulation (EEC ) NO . 109/70       establishing common rule3 for imports from
state-trading countries must be revised by 31 December 1975 » ** "th®
latest , with a view to a greater standardisation of the import rules            1
whioh they lay down .
       Having regard to both the positive and the negative experiences
gained in the application of these Regulations , the Commission considers that
their revision should take the following lines :
       Firstly , certain basio modifications should ba introduced into
Regulation (EEC) No . 1439/74 including an extension of the common
rules established under this Regulation to all the produots covered by
the EEC Treaty, whioh makes necessary a new conception of Annex I
of the Regulation .    Seoondly, certain technical improvements of both
Regulations should be effected inoluding a- simplication of the consultation
procedure , a rationalisation of the surveillance prooedure and an improve­
ment of the safeguard measures .
                   A. B6.SIC MODIFICATION f Regulation (EEC ) NO . 1439/74)
                    Extension of the common rules to all products
     *
       The Community liberalisation rules established by this Regulation only
                                                                         \
cover , at present , $26 entire positions and 63 partial positions out of the
1,097 positions in the C O 0.T®
       For the other products the import rules vary from one Member State to "
another ; whilst they are under quota in some Member States they are
liberalised in others . This residual portion is , in the main, governed
by the Counoil Decision of 19*12.1972 laying down certain transitional
measures for the progressive standardisation of the import terms of Member
                                      (3)
States as regards third countries N       . Taken literally, that deoision fixes
a minimum of common rules for the modification of different import rules
which remain , finally, largely national .
( 1 ) b.J. No . L 159 of 15 . 6.1974 , p.l
( 2 ) O.J. No . L 19 of 26. I.I570, p.l
 ( 3) OJ. No . L 299 of 31.12.1972 , p * 46
 ---pagebreak---         Its pifdd-fcioal application has ehewnj &9W*}V§?, that this wiftiRUW
 procedure does not permit of any real progress towards standardisation of
                                                 I
 commercial policy and has , in fact , caused certain difficulties , particularly
                           (1)
 in the textiles field ^ .
       The continued existenoe , five years after the end of the transition
 period , of two separate sets of rules , communitarian for liberalised produots
 and essentially national for sensitive products seem3 , furthermore , to be
 out of steg if the progress made in other similar fields is considered :
 the strict communitarisation of the conventional commercial policy confirmed by the
                                    (2
 Council Decision of 16.12.19"9         on the standardisation of trade agreements
 and the increased standardisation of the autonomous commercial policy with
 regard to state-trading countries bought about by Council Deoisions of
 2.12.1974^^ and of 27.3o1975^4' .
       Guidance can be taJcen from the two above mentioned Council Decisions ,
whilst bearing in mind the difference in political context between the
countries to which Regulation (EEC) No. 1439/74 relates find the state-trading
countries .     For the former group of countries , therefore , the Community
stress should be on liberalisation rather than on the restrictive aspect
which is at the heart of the Decisions of 2.12.1974 end 27«3«1975 *
                                     i
       In. that context , the following solution could be envisaged for those
products which , up to now , have not been included in the common liberalisation
list under Regulation (EEC) No , 1439/74 *
      « liberalisation maamires existing in Member States would be consolidated
           at Community level®                                                      __
           The establishment of surveillance or protective measures vrith regard
           to those products would , therefore , follow the procedure in Titles
           II 4snd III of the Regulation. These procedures have , in the recent
           past , shown their effioency at Community level and , furthermore , they
           allow for initiative to be taken at national level (the system of
           national launching)*
(1 ) With a view to resolving these difficulties th© Commission has proposed
      to the Council th© adoption of a Regulation on protective measxxres provided
      for in the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in Textiles and
      emending Regulation (EEC) TSo , 1439/74
( 2 ) O.J. No . L 326 of 29.12,1969 »" P- 39                      1      .
(3) 0„J. No . L 358 of 31.12.1974 , P. 1
(4) O.J, No , L 99 of 21 . 4,1975 , p. .7
 ---pagebreak---                                     I
–    With regard to quantitative^ restrict       existing in other Member States
     for th« otuQa products , they could "be maintained, in effect and consolidated b;
   • means of a negative list setting out the Member States and the produots
     concerned ( see annex ). The procedure for any modification of these
     restrictions would follow the model of the Deoieion of 19.12.1972 .
      In order to aohieve this objective the present liberalisation list
oould be revised and simplified .                                               .-  .
      In its present version Annex I of Regulation (EEC ) Uo . 1439/ 74 contains
four columns .   While it seems necessary to retain the first one , as a common
liberalisation list , the eeoond could bo abolished.      This column , in effect ,
sets out those produots for which liberal is at ion depends solely on origin .
However , it was always understood between the Commission and the Member
States that these products would oorrespond to those liberalised erga omnes
that is , vis-a-vis both QATT countries and sta-ie-trading countries . It would
suffice to restate this principle in the Regulation itself rather than to
enumerate all the products in a separate list .
      Column 2 could therefore be used for the negative list of residual
quantitative restrictions maintained in effect in one or other Member State .
      The present columns 3 end 4 could be otuzfoined into one single column
"Import Surveillance " which would indicate both measures established nationally
and those established by the Community.
      Finally column 4 would set out the protective measures established
by the Community*^.
      The import rules would therefore be as follows i
(l ) See annexed model
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 1.      The importation of Pi'&duots included in the 0<?i.ua<jn liberalisation
 lie* ia eslumn 1 ©? Annex X and ei'igiHfirSing in any of the third countries
 included in the list of oountries Bet out in Annex II would be free , that
 is to Bay not subjeot to any quantitative restriction in the Community.
 (Text of Article I practically unchanged).
 2.       The importation of the products set out in column 2 of the said
 list originating in any of the above mentioned third countries would be free
 in the Member States other than those set out in the column with regard
 to those products . TheBe Membor States would be authorised to maintain
 quantitative restrictions , the modification of whioh would be effected in
 accordance with the Decision of 19.12.1972.        '
                                                  %
       This method of proceeding would not require any modification of the
 import terms existing in Member States and would permit a global view of
the situation in the Community.
                      B.  TECHMCAL IiïPROVE.EÎTTS
       The revision oould include a certain number of technioal improvements
applicable in general to the two Regulations ooncerned.
l)     Simplication of the conoutfation procedure ( Regulation (EEC ) NOS . 1439/74
       In its present form. Title II of each of tlv-e Regulations provides that
all oounsultations between the Member States and the Commission necessarily
take the form of a meeting of experts , normally in Brussels .
       However , in certain cases , particularly where national surveillance
measures are concerned , the holding of such meetings seems to be not only
burdensome but also superfluous .
       It would, therefore , seem desirable to follow the recent modification
of the Anti-Dumping Regulation and provide that , in certain cases , consultations
could take place in writing (Artiole 6 of Regulation (EEC) Nos. 201l/73)^^«
(1 ) 0„J„ No . L 206 of 27.7.1973jp. 3
     V
 ---pagebreak---                                     - 5 -
2 ) fiati.onaX jg                        3AQ3_J3£g c fi dure ( e.s.p.e c jal ly . Eç^lflliPn
    (EEC ) No . 1439/74 )
                                                          i
     At present , Regulation (EEC) No . 1439/74 provides that the surveillance
procedure must "be both anterior (by means of import documents ) and
posterior (by means of a check on imports effected). Conversely,
Regulation (EEC) NO. 109/70 allows a distinction and a choice between
the two methods of surveillance , whioh, in some cases , is more practical .
It would be useful , therefore , to have this possibility of choice inserted
into Regulation (EEC ) No . 1439/74 *
       t would also be useful , in order to make for more precise control
and easier use of the data extraoted , to provide that separate import
documents would be required for each product under surveillance .
      Finally, it should bo made clear that , where a surveillance measure
concerns a product which is subject to quota in one or more Member States ,
the document used for the purposes of the quota could also be used for the
surveillance .    (Regulation (EEC ) No . 1439/74 and Regulation (EEC) No .
109/70 . )
3 ) Improvement of safeguard clauses ( Régulations (ESC ) Nos . 1439/74 and
    109/70
      In spite of the fears' expressed during the discussions which preceded
the adoption of those two Regulations , experience haa shown that the general
conception of the safeguard measures was reas enable , including the compromise
solution for the national launching of these measures .                 The existence of this
solution , although it has been used only once , has played a moderating and
balancing role between the Commission, on the one hand, and the Member '
States , on the other .
      The maintenance of the genral lines of this system seems , therefore ,
to be necessary and this would entail a new extension of the"national
launching raechanismwwhich would normally expire on 31.12.1975®
 ---pagebreak---    However , it might ba desirable to modify it on thaoa points :
                                /
   oonsultation of the Commission and the other Member States would be
   necessary before any surveillance or "national launching" of a measure
   by any Member State , even in cases of urgency (repeal of Artiole 9(2 )
■ of Regulation (EEC) No . 1439/74 and of the end of Article 14(2) of Reg^-
   ulation No , 1439/74 and of Article 9(2) of Regulation (EEC) NO . 109/70*
                                  1                                        ■    •
   The special procedure for the national launching of measures flowing
   from saffr /ruard clauses contained in bilateral agreements could be ended .
                              l
                                                    '
   In the context of Regulation (EEC) NO. 1439/74 this procedure could be
   replaced by the normal procedure applicable in other cases i.e. in the
   case of an autonomous intervention not based on a bilateral safeguard
   clause .
   Another provision , which has recently been the cause of serious difficulties
   and aocording to which products already on their way to the Community
   are not affected by proteotive measures , could also be revised. This
   rule , the use of which by importers in the textiles sector has led to
   quota measures being deprived of much of their efficacity, could be made
   more flexible , by providing that , while protective measures would not
   prevent the putting into free circulation of goods on their way to the
   Communityp it would be possible to decide,! in accordance with Artiole XIII
   GATT , that those products should be counted against the quota fixed
 ■ for
    '
        the period of application of the measure and, where necessary, *
   against the quotas for the following period or periods .
    Experience has shown that the necessity in all cases for the
    Counoil to confirm interim" protective measures taken by the
    Commission constitutes a considérable procédural and administrative           • .
    complication for all concernecij "the Commission) the Mesaber
    States and the Council . This complication , which is based on
    an essentially formalistic conception is superfluous in those
     cases where the Commission 's measures are not contested by any
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 MonVb^r State# Ths Commission! therefore^ proposes that it 1>© provided
 thai 1fh§ intei*vent ton of "fcho Council would, only tos obligatory where , a
                                                                            U
 Member State contests the Commiss ion 's measures#
                                 *
                                      *                                         -
                                                                                  ■ «
      In the circumstances , the Commission proposes to the Council that
it should adopt the following amendments to the texts of Regulations (EEC)
Nos . 1439/74 and IO9/7O, the amendments "being underlined in the text
tansmitted to the Council .      The passages which ore not underlined correspond
to the present text of the Regulations which the Commission does not wish
to place in discussion .    They are reproduced only to facilitate understanding
of the proposed innovations .      With regard to the list in Annex I of
Regulation (EEC) No . 1439/74 the Commission proposes that it should "be
amended in accordance with the model which Is annexed and that , after
the adoption of this proposal that it should' "be completed by the addition
of the various products affected*
 ---pagebreak---                          PR0P05AL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
amending Regulations (EEC) Nos 109/ 70 and 1439/74 on common rules for impcrts
from State-trading countries and other third countries.
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 113 thereof ;
Having regard to the instruments establishing common organisation of
agricultural markets and to the instruments concerning processed agricultural
products adopted in pursuance of Article 235 of the Treaty, in particular
the procisions of those instruments which allow for derogation from the
general principle that all quantitative restrictions or measures       having
equivalent effect may be replaced solely by the measures provided for in
those same instruments ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas Article 14(6 ) and Article 15(l ) of Council Regulation (EEC )
No 1439/74 of 4 June 1974 on common rules for imports^ ^ and amended Article
3(6 ) and amended Article 11 ( l ) of Council Regulation (EEC ) No 109/70 of
19 December 1969 establishing common rules for imports from State-trading
           (2)
countries     ' provide that the council shall by 31 December 1975 a* 'the
latest decide on the adjustments to be made to those Regulations ;
Whereas any amendment of Regulation (EEC ) No 1439/74 must be concerned ,
above all , with increased standardisation of import terms , in particular
with regard to those imports which up to now have not been included in
the common liberalisation list ; and whereas , to this end , it is necessary
to provide that these imports shall be free except in those Member States
where they are still subject to quantitative restrictions and which are
authorised to maintain these restrictions provisionnaly, every modification
of these measures being carried out in accordance with the Decision of
19 December 1972 ^ laying down certain transitional measures for the
( 1 ) O.J. No . L 159 of 15.6.1974, p.l
(2 ) O.J. No . L 19 of 26.1.1970, p.l
(3 ) O.J. No . L 299 of 31.12.1972 , p.46
 ---pagebreak---                                     - 2 -
   progressive standardisation         the import terms of Member States as
   regarda third oountrios ;
   Whereas , also , the experience gained in the application of Regulation
   (EEC ) No . 1439/74 and Regulation (EEC) No . 109/70 shows that it is
  necessary to simplify the consultation procedures , to rationalise the
  surveillance measures and to improve , in certain respects , the safeguard
  clauses ,                                        s
  HAS ADOPTED TIIIS REGULATION :
                               Article 1
                                 I              '
     ^ The text of Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No . 1439/74 is hereby
  replaced by the following text :
  I.       Importation into the Community of the products inoluded in the
  common liberalisation list contained in column 1 of Annex 1 and originating
. in any third country included in the list of countries contained in Annex
  II , shall be free , that is to say not subject to any quantitative restriction*
                 -                                   *
  2«        Importation of other products oricinat in ? in any of tho aforesaid
  third countries g'nall "he fraa in tho Corsmmity . that ia to say not subject to
  any crucntitative restriction othor than thoso maintained in effect , in
  accordance with Articlo 16 bis of this Regulation . . for thQ products set out
  in column . 2 of the said Annes in respect of the Menbor States indicated
  theroin .                                             .      ....             –
                             Article 2                 ■
                                       1 ""               ..                »
        The text of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC)' NO . 1439/74 is hereby
 replaced by the following text :
                                   ) ,                                             •
          The Council may, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from .
 the Commission , resolve that column I of Annex 1 be extended to inoludo
 further products or that Annex II be extended to incline other third
 countries , if it considers that suoh action is not liable to create a
 situation where the application of proteotive measures vould be justified.
                                                                      /.
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                              Article }
       Paragraph 4 hereunder is hereby added to the text cf Article 5
of Regulation (EEC ) No . 1439/74 and of Regulation (ESC) NO . 109/70*
4.       Where necessary , consultations may take place in vrpiting ; in
such cases the Commission shall inform the Member States ar.d the latter
may , within a fixed time-limit , indicate their viey.-s or request an
oral consultation .
                            Article 4
       The text of Article ^      of Regulation (EEC) No. 1439/74 is hereby
replaced by the following text :
                                                                             »
1.       Where developments on the market in respect of a product originating
in a third country listed in Annex II threaten to cause injury to Cocnunity
producers of like or directly competing products and the interests of
the Community eo require , importation of that product cay be made subject
to :
a)       Posterior Community surveillance corried out in the form and manner
determined in the Decision 'mentioned in paragraph 2 ;
b)       Anterior Community surveillance carried orb in the form and manner
provided for in Article 8 :
                                                                        %
         In that event the product shall be ixdicafced by the designation
EU3 in column 3 of Annex I.
2.       Where the decision to impose surveillance is taken simultaneously
with the inolusion of the product in column 1 of Annex I , that decision
shall be taken by the Council , acting by a qualified majority on a
proposal from the Commission . In all other cases , it shall be taken
by . the Commission and Article 12 (5 ) shall apply#
                                           I
 ---pagebreak---        i-xJ.'.iJ.t 5-   t."            \jucCjj JÜ\» 2i^yi'TX ir 'aar^aCT" ztiZJCI£££
 by the following text :
      Products undor anterior Community surveillance may be put into
 free circulation only on production of a separate import docunent for each
 product *     Such document shall be issued oi1 endorsed by Member States ,
 free of charge , for any quantity requested and within a maximum of five
working days following submission of a declaration or an application
 by any Community importer , regardless of his place of business in the
 Community , without prejudice to the observance of the other conditions
required by the regulations in foroe .
                             Article 6
      The following text is hereby added to Article 8 of Regulation (EEC )
No, 1439/74 as paragraph 6 and to Artiolo 6 of Eegulatba (EEC ) No#
IO9/7O as paragraph 3 •
      "Where importation of a product under Community surveillance is
subject to a cuantitative restriction in a Mernbar State the import
authorisation frranted by ouch Member State shall replace the aforesaid
import document ".
                             Article 7
      Article 9 ( 2 ) of Régulation (EEC) NO » 1439/74 IS hereby repealed.
                                                             1
                 »    '      Article 8              ^
      The text of Article 11 ( l ) of Regulation (EEC) NO . 1439/74 is hereby
replaced by the following text :
1.    In the absence of different provisions adopted at the same time and
in accordance with the ssjs6 procedure as the imp&gj^ion of surveillance ,
Member States shall communicate to tie Commission within the first ten days of
 ---pagebreak---  each month in "the case of Community surveillance and within the first
twenty days of each quarter in the case of national surveillance ;
 ( a) in the case of anterior surveillance , details of the Bums of money
 ( calculated on the 'basis of cif prices ) and quantities of goods in respect
of which import . documents were issued or endorsed during the preceding period ;
 (b) in every car,e details of imports during the period preceding the period'
referred to in subparagraph ( a).
The information supplied "by Member States shall be broken down by product
 and by countries .                               '
                                  Article 9             .
       The texts of Articles 12(3 ) and 13(3 ) of Regulation (EEC) Ifo . 1439/74
azid of Artioles 7(3 ) and 8 ( 2 ) of Regulation (ESC ) NO . 109/70 are hereby
replaced by the following text :
 3.    " Such measures shall apoly to every •product which is put into free
c irculation after thoir entry into force .      They may be limited to imports
intended for certain regions of the Community. "
       Where such measures . institute a quantitative restriction on imports
they shall not prevent the putting into free circulation of products already
on their way to the Community , provided that the destination of such products
cannot be ohanged and that those products which under Articles 7 &n<i 8 may
be put into free circulation only on production of an import document are
accompanied by suoh a document .       In accordance with the procedure laid down
in paragraph 1 . it nay be decided to count these products , so far &3 practicable
against the quantity permitted to be imported in the rariod of application of
;; he protective measure aad also , where necessary , against the quantities
permitted to be imported in the next following period or periods" •
                                     /
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                             Artiolo 10
        The texts of Article 12 (5) and. (6) of Regulation (EEC) No . 1439/74
 and of Article ^ (5 ) and (6) of Regulation (EEC) NO . IO9/7O are hereby-
 replaced by the following text :                           '
 5.        Any decision taken by the Commission under this Article shall be
 communicated to the Counoil and to the Member States . Any Member State may,
 within ton working days following the day of communication, refer Buch
 decision to the Council .                            ,
                                                      I   .
    ■ In the event that a Member State refers to the Council a decision taken
 by the Commission , the latter shall , within ten working days folloyrin ^ the
 date on which the Council is sei.zed of the natter , m.^ke a proposal to the
 Council on appropriate measures as provided for in Article 13 *
                           Article 11
       The following text is hereby added, as paragraph 4 » to Article 13
of Regulation (EEC) No.' 1439/74 *
4 « Where measures taken under thi3 Article establish quantitative restrictions
the product affected shall be indicated in column 4 of Annex I with, where
necessary , a designation of the Member States concerned.
          4
                          Article 12                                 •     4
      The texts of Artiole 14(2 ) of Regulation (EEC) No . 1439/74 and of Article
9 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No. 109/70 are hereby replaced by the following text :
2.    The Member State shall take the measure after hearing the opinion
expressed in the Committee .
                          Article 15
a) Article 9 (b) of Regulation (EEC) NO. IO9/7O is hereby repealed.
b) The texts of Article , 14(4) of Regulation (EEC) No. 1439/74 and of
     Article 9(4 ) of Regulation (EEC) NO . 109/70 are hereby replaced by the
     following text :                 *  '
 ---pagebreak--- 4.    Suoh notification shall be equivalent to a request within the meaning of
Article 12 (4 ). The measure 6hall operate only until the coming into operation
of the deoision taken by the Commission . However , where the Commission decides
not to introduoe any measure under Article 12 , its deoision shall apply as
from the sixth day following its entry into foroo , unless the Member State
which has takon the measure refex's the deoision to the Council ;      in that
case , the national measure shall continue to operate until the entry into
force of the decision taken by the Council , but in no co-se beyond the expiry
of a period of one month following referral of the matter to tho latter#
The Council shall take a decision before tho expiry, of that period.
                               Article 14
      Article 14(3 ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No . 1439/ 74 and Article 9 (5 ) of
Regulation (ESC ) NO . IO9/7O are hereby repealed.
                               Article 15
      The date of 31 December 1975 mentioned in Articles 14 ( 6 ) and 16 ( l ) of
Regulation (EEC ) No . 1439/74 and in Articles 9 (6) sis amended and 11 (l ) aa
amended of Regulation (EEC ) No . 109/70 is hereby replaced by 31 December 1977 •
                                        1
                               Article 16
                                                                               «
      The text of Artiole 16 ( 2 ) ( a) of Regulation (EEC ) No . 1439/74 is
hereby replaced by the following text s
a)   in so fax' aa standardization between the areas of liberalisation has not
been wholly realized Member States may subject imports of products not included
 in the annex to Regulation (EEC ) No . 109./70 establishing common rules for imports
from state-trading countries to the requirement that , not only the country of
origin , but also the country of purchase or the country of consignment shall
be listed in Annex II ;   for the Federal Republic of Germany, this shall apply
 pleo to those products shown in column 2 of Annex I whose importation is not
yet exempted in respect of all third countries , under German import arrangements ,
 from the requirement of an import authorization ;
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                                  Article , *7
          The following text is hereby added, as Article lo bis , to Regulation
  (EEC ) N° 1439/74 :
  •"Rie Member States indicated in column 2 of Annex I tilth re .Ta.rd to the products
  included therein are hereby authorised to maintain the Quantitative restrictions
  vhich apply at the date of entering into force of this Regulation . Any amendments
  to such measures shall ho effected in accordance with tho provisions of tho
  Council Decision of 19 December 1972 layin ? dox.Tt certain transitional measures
  for the progressive standardisation of the import toras of Member States as
  regards third countries ".
                          Article 18
       The following text is hereby added, as paragraph 2, to Article 19
 of Regulation (EEC) No . 1439/74 :
              (
 2.      In the event that a I-fember State Bhall repeal a quantitative restriction
 included in column 2 the Commission shall , if it ascertaina that the product
 is thereby liberalised in the entire Community, transfer such product to the
 common liberalisation list .
                        Article 19             .          .
       Annex I to Regulation (ESC) No® 1439/74 is hereby replaced by the Annex to
this Regulation .                                       •                     «
                        Artiole 20
        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
  publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
                                                      1
  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety ^and direotly applicable m
• all Member States .
  Done at                                                    For the Counoil
                                                              The Président
 ---pagebreak---                             ANÎTEX I
          (To be established, later in accordance with the following design)
                         List of nroducts
Common libéralisation list I, National quantitative |j Coauaunity
                                                       IT
                                                                        I Cocxunity - I
Description of products        restrictions on imports || or national
                                                       i
                                                                          Protective
b.C.T. N O.                                               surveillance    Meaoures
                                                          on imports   j
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