CELEX: 51995PC0587
Language: en
Date: 1995-11-23
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION ON THE CONCLUSION OF THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE REPUBLIC OF ICELAND CONSEQUENT ON THE ACCESSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA, THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND AND THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                Brussels, 23.11.1995
                                                COM(95) 587 final
                                                95/0293 (ACC)
                                 Proposal for a
                            ÇQUNÇ& PECISIQN
ON THE CONCLUSION OF THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE REPUBLIC OF ICELAND CONSEQUENT ON THE ACCESSION
  OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA, THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND AND THE KINGDOM OF
                       SWEDEN TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
                        (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Following the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom
of Sweden, it is necessary to adjust the arrangements for the import into the EU of certain fish
products from Iceland.
The Council authorized the Commission to negotiate with-Iceland and the negotiations have
led to a draft Additional Protocol to the 1972 Iceland-EC trade agreement. This Protocol
includes tariff quotas based on imports into the three new Member States from Iceland.
The Council is invited to approve the conclusion of the Additional Protocol in sufficient time
to allow entry into force on 1 December 1995 with tariff quotas applicable retroactively from
1 January 1995.
                                             ?
 ---pagebreak---                                     COUNCIL DECISION
on the conclusion of the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European
Community and the Republic of Iceland consequent on the accession of the Republic of
Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article
113 thereof in conjunction with Article 228 (2) first sentence thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the Commission has negotiated on behalf of the Community an Additional Protocol
to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland
( 1 ), signed in Brussels on 22 July 1972, to take account of the accession of the Republic of
Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union;
Whereas the Additional Protocol should be approved,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
                                           Article 1
The Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Community and the
Republic of Iceland consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of
Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union is hereby approved on behalf of
the Community.
The text of the Additional protocol is attached to this Decision.
                                           Article 2
The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person empowered to sign
the Additional Protocol in order to bind the Community.
                                                            Done at Brussels,
                                                            For the Council
                                                            The President
(1)       OJ No L301, 31.12.1972, p.3
                                              3
 ---pagebreak---                                   ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL
to the agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Iceland consequent
on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of
Sweden to the European Union:
THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,
of the one part,
and
THE REPUBLIC OF ICELAND
of the other part,
HAVING REGARD to the Agreement beween the European Community and the Republic
of Iceland signed in Brussels on 22 July 1972, hereinafter called the "Agreement".
HAVING REGARD to the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and
the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union on 1 January 1995,
CONSIDERING that in order to maintain trade flows between Iceland on the one hand and the
new Member States on the other hand, it is necessary to make adjustments to arrangements
applicable to trade in fisheries between Iceland and the Community;
HAVE DECIDED to determine by common accord the adjustments to the Agreement
consequent on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the
Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union, AND TO CONCLUDE THIS PROTOCOL :
                                            Article 1
The text of the Agreement, the Annexes and Protocols, which form an integral part thereof,
the Final Act and the declarations annexed thereto shall be drawn up in the Finnish and
Swedish languages and those texts shall be authentic in the same way as the original texts.
The Joint Committee shall approve the Finnish and Swedish texts.
                                            Article 2
The special provisions applicable to imports into the Community of certain fishery products
originating in Iceland are laid down in the Annex to this Protocol.
                                             H
 ---pagebreak---                                             Article 3
The Annex to this Protocol forms an integral part thereof. This Protocol forms an integral
part of the Agreement.
                                            Article 4
This Protocol shall be approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their own
procedures. It shall enter into force on 1 December 1995 provided that the Contracting
Parties have notified each other before that date that the procedures necessary to this end have
been completed. After that date, the Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the
second month following such notification. It shall be applicable as from 1 January 1995.
                                            Article 5
This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate, in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French,
German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Icelandic languages, each of these
texts being equally authentic.
                                          X"
 ---pagebreak---                                             Annex
                         List of products referred to in Article 2
     (Products originating in Iceland for which the Community grants tariff quotas)
    CN Code          Description                                               Quota
                                                                               (tonnes)
1   0302 12 00       Salmon, fresh or chilled                                     50
    0304 10 13       Salmon fillets, fresh or chilled
    0304 20 13       Salmon fillets, frozen
2   0302 23 00       Sole, fresh or chilled                                     250
    0302 29 10       Megrim, fresh or chilled
    0302 29 90       Other flat fish, fresh or chilled
    0302 69 85       Blue whiting, fresh or chilled
    0303 32 00       Plaice, frozen
    0303 79 96       Other saltwater fish, frozen
    0304 10 19       Fillets of other freshwater fish, fresh or chilled
    0304 10 33       Fillets of coalfish, fresh or chilled
    0304 10 35       Fillets of redfish, fresh or chilled
    ex               Fillets of other saltwater fish, excluding herring and
    0304 10 38       mackerel, fresh or chilled
    0304 10 98       Meat of other saltwater fish, fresh or chilled
    0304 20 19       Fillets of other freshwater fish, frozen
    0304 90 35       Frozen meat of cod of the species Gadus macrocephaius
    0304 90 38       Frozen meat of cod of the species Gadus morhua
    0304 90 39       Frozen meat of Gadus ogac and of fish of the species
                     Boreogadus saida
    0304 90 41        Frozen meat of coalfish
    0304 90 47        Frozen meat of hake of the genus Merluccius
    0304 90 59        Frozen meat of blue whiting
    ex                Frozen meat of other saltwater fish, excluding mackerel
    0304 90 97
  3 0305 61 00        Herrings, salted but not dried or smoked and herrings in    1750
                      brine
4   0306 19 30        Norway lobsters frozen                                        50
                                   Vo
 ---pagebreak--- 5     1604 12 91       Other prepared or preserved herrings, in airtight         2400
                       containers
      1604 12 99       Other prepared or preserved herrings, other
é     1604 19 98       Prepared or preserved other fish, whole or in pieces      50
      ex               Prepared or preserved meat of other fish, excluding
      1604 20 90       herring and mackerel
These tariffs apply from 1 January to 31 December each year. For the amount indicated for
each product group, Community imports originating in Iceland can be released for free
circulation at 0% import duty.
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