CELEX: 51980PC0746
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Date: 1980-11-14
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the advance application of certain trade provisions of the second ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé in respect of Zimbabwe (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                   COM(80)746 final
                                               Brussels , 14 November 1980
                             Proposal for a
                        COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
  on the advance application of certain trade provisions of the
  second ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé in respect of Zimbabwe
                                         H
              (submitted to the Council by the Commission )
                             ^ i
  COM ( 80 ) 746 final
 ---pagebreak---                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Since 22 January 1980 Zimbabwe ( formerly Southern Rhodesia ) has been
benefiting from the special trade arrangements provided under
Council Decision ( 76/ 568/ EEC ) of 29 June 1976 on the association of
the overseas countries and territories with the European Community .
As soon as it became independent Zimbabwe apolieH for accession to
the second ACP-EEC Convention of Lome and the negotiations on the
accession resulted in the signing of an agreement on 4 November 1980 .
Pending the entry into force of that agreement , the Interim Agreement
signed on . «^/-^//5.*?9governs the trade arrang-ement s and will call for ,
in particular , certain adaptations to Counci I regulations that have been
adopted autonomously in connection with arrangements for , imports of
agricultural products originating in the ACP States , the possible
application of protective measures and imports of rum , since the treatment
accorded to Zimbabwe has been aligned on that which the ACP States enjoy .,
at present .
The following draft regulation contains the adjunctions that will have
to be made to the regulations governing the three fields referred to
above .                                                     t
 ---pagebreak---                             Proposal for
                  COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
          on the advance application of certain trade
          provisions of the second ACP-EEC Convention
          of Lome in respect of Zimbabwe
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 proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the Community and Zimbabwe signed an Interim Agreement on
1980 governing trade arrangements pendinq the entry into force of the
Agreement signed on 4 November 1980 on the accession of Zimbabwe to the
second ACP-EEC Convention , signed in Lome on 31 October 1979 ;
Whereas , consequently , the current provisions on trade between the
Community and the ACP States should be extended to apply to Zimbabwe ;
whereas the said provisions should replace those applicable by virttie
of the treatment accorded autonomously by the Community under Council
Regulation ( EEC ) N° 120 / 80 of 21 January 1980 on trade arrangements
                                                                 1
between Southern Rhodesia and the European Economic Community ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:#
  OJ N° L 16 , 22.1.19.80, p. 12 .
 ---pagebreak---                                Article 1
1 * Zimbabwe shall be added , a,fter Zambia , in Annex I to Council
      Regulation ( EEC ) N° 435/ 80 of 18 February 1980 on the arrangements
      applicable to agricultural products and certain goods resulting
      from the processing of agri cultural products originating in the
      African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries
                         2
      and territories .
2.    Council Regulation ( EEC ) N° 1470/ 80 of 9 June 1980 on the safeguard
                                                               . 3
      measures provided for in the second ACP-EEC Convention       shall also
      apply to Zimbabwe .
3 .,; Council Regulation ( EEC ) N° 1711 / 80 of 27 June 1980 opening , allocating
      and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
      rum, arrack and tafia falling within subheading 22.09 C I of the
      Common Customs Tariff iand originating in the ACP States ( 1980/ 81 )^,
      and the Regulation that will replace it , shall also apply to Zimbabwe .
                               Arti cle 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that
of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply until the Agreement whereby " Zimbabwe accedes to the second
ACP-EEC Convention enters into force .                                        '
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .         !   .
Done at '                  .     ,        ;
                                              For the Counci I
                                              The President
  0J N° L 55 , 28 . 2 . 1980 , p. 4
30J N° L 147, 13.6.1980, p. 4
40J N° L 167, 1.7.1980/ p. 45
 ---pagebreak---                                 Financi al Statement-
The reduction in returns entailed by the membership of Zimbabwe to the Lome
Conventioh cannot be evaluated a priori because they will depend on the volume
and value of the European Economic Community imports which arise .       Taking into
account the long period of embargo of importation into the Community which this
country?      experienced , since 1965 , it is not possible to give a run down of the
data at this stage .   Anyway , the agricultural products which are the subject
of the present regulation were already included in the EEC regulation 120/ 80
which has expired and the final results of the present regulation are then
negligeable .