CELEX: 51997PC0291
Language: en
Date: 1997-06-11
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 on the adjustments and transitional arrangements required in the agricultural sector in order to implement the agreements concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                     Brussels, 11.06.1997
                                                     COM(97) 291 final
                                      Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
amending Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 on the adjustments and transitional arrangements
required in the agricultural sector in order to implement the agreements concluded during
                   the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations
                             (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The Community's undertakings in the agricultural sector under the Uruguay Round
negotiations were essentially implemented by Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94.
Article 3 of the original version of that Regulation provided that the Commission, acting
according to the management committee procedure, may, up to 30 June 1996, adopt the
measures necessary to facilitate the switch-over from the old to the new arrangements
and that these measures may not apply beyond that date. Council Regulation (EC) No
1193/96 extended the period of application of the Commission's power to take
transitional measures until 30 June 1997. The Commission has used that power to ensure
a smooth transition to the arrangements introduced as a result of the Uruguay Round in
the common market organisations concerned. It also used Article 3 to ensure that the
undertakings entered into by the Community in certain preferential agreements with third
countries (for example, the Lomé Convention, association agreements with
Mediterranean countries, etc.) were respected pending the adjustment of those
agreements to the results of the Uruguay Round negotiations. Some of those agreements
are currently being adjusted, but the process is unlikely to be completed before 30 June
1997, so the purpose of this draft Regulation is to propose that the Council extend by a
further year the period during which the Commission may adopt transitional measures.
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 ---pagebreak---                                           Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No                  /97
                                      of                1997
 amending Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 on the adjustments and transitional arrangements
required in the agricultural sector in order to implement the agreements concluded during
                     the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 of 22 December 1994 on the
adjustments and transitional arrangements required in the agricultural sector in order to
implement the agreements concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade
negotiations1, and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 3290/94, as amended by Regulation (EC) No
 1193/96, authorises the Commission to adopt the measures required to facilitate the
switch-over from the arrangements existing before implementation of the results of the
Uruguay Round negotiations to those resulting from the adjustments to agricultural
legislation provided for in the above-mentioned Regulation; whereas such measures may
only be adopted up to 30 June 1997 and may not apply beyond that date; whereas it
transpires that certain matters which are currently regulated by transitional measures
cannot be settled definitively before the above date; whereas these matters concern in
particular certain arrangements entered into with third countries; whereas it is therefore
necessary to extend by one year the period during which the Commission may adopt
transitional measures,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        OJ No L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105. Regulation amended by Regulation (EC) No 1193/96 (OJ No L
         161, 29.6.1996, p. 1).
 ---pagebreak---                                          Article 1
The period laid down in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 is hereby extended
to 30 June 1998.
                                         Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal
of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 July 1997.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at           »,     ; 1997
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                              The President
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