CELEX: 31973D0105
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 28 April 1973 authorizing the tacit extension of certain trade aggreements concluded between the Member States and third countries

No L 124/22                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                               10. 5 . 73
                                                         COUNCIL DECISION
                                                            of 28 April 1973
              authorizing the tacit extension of certain trade agreements concluded between the
                                                   Member States and third countries
                                                              (73/105/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                               Whereas authorization has to be granted for the
                                                                        extension of trade agreements with third countries
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   beyond the transitional period, but without affecting
Economic Community ;                                                    the other obligations incumbent upon the Member
                                                                        States concerned under Community law ;
Having regard to the Council Decision of 16 December                    Whereas the Member States concerned have declared
1969 (*) on the progressive standardization of agree­                   that extension of these Agreements would not con­
ments concerning commercial relations between                           stitute an obstacle to the opening of Community
Member States and third                  countries and on the
                                                                        negotiations with the third countries concerned and
negotiations of Community agreements, and in par­                       that they are willing to have commercial matters
ticular Article 3 thereof ;                                             covered by their current bilateral agreements covered
                                                                        instead by such Community agreements as may be
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                     negotiated ;
Whereas tacit extension beyond the end of the tran­                     Whereas, at the conclusion of the consultations pro­
                                                                        vided for in Article 2 of the Council Decision of
sitional period has already been authorized in the case
of the Agreements listed in the Annex hereto by the                     16 December 1969, it was established, as the aforesaid
Council under its Decisions of 28 January 1969 (2),                     declarations by the Member States confirm, that the
12 May 1969 (3), 8 June 1969 (4), 29 June 1969 (5),                     provisions of the instruments to be extended would
30 June 1969 (6), 15 September 1 969 (7), 20 December                   not, during the period of extension envisaged, con­
1969 (8), 8 June 1970 (9), 29 September 1970 (10),                      stitute an obstacle to implementation of the common
1 March 1971 (n) and 25 April 1972 (12) ;                               commercial policy ;
                                                                        Whereas in these circumstances the Agreements covered
Whereas the Member States concerned have requested                      may be tacitly extended for a specified period ;
that, with a view to avoiding interruption in their com­
mercial relations with the third countries concerned
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
based on agreement, and pending finalization of
the programme for Community negotiations currently
being studied — which aims at the gradual replace­                                              Article 1
 ment of Member States' agreements by Community
agreements — thus be authorized to extend the                           The trade agreements between Member States and
abovementioned Agreements ;                                             third countries listed in the Annex hereto may be
                                                                        extended up to the date specified in each case in
                                                                        the said Annex.
   x) OJ No L 326 , 29 . 12. 1969, p . 39.
                                                                                                Article 2
   2) OJ No L 43 , 20. 2. 1969, p . 15 .
   3) OJ No L 117, 16 . 5 . 1969 , p . 9 .
   4) OJ No L 133 , 28 . 5 . 1969 , p . 14 .                             This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
   5) OJ No L 159 , 1 . 7 . 1969 , p . 20.
   6) OJ No L 169 , 10. 7 . 1969 , p . 2 .                               Done at Luxembourg, 28 April 1973 .
   7) OJ No L 238 , 23 . 9 . 1969 , p . 9 .
   8) OJ No L 6, 9 . 1 . 1970, p . 1 .
   9) OJ No L 133 , 16. 8 . 1970, p . 14.                                                               For the Council
 (10) OJ No L 225 , 12. 10 . 1970, p . 24.                                                                The President
 (u)  OJ No L 56, 1 . 3 . 1971 , p . 8 .
 (12) OJ No L 112, 14 . 5 . 1972 , p . 10 .                                                                A. LAVENS
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                                                  ANNEX
    Member State       Third Country                       Type and Date of Agreement                     Extended until
BENELUX          Honduras                    Trade Agreement                            30 . 1 . 1969         27 . 5 . 1974
                 Morocco                     Trade Agreement                              5 . 8 . 1958        30 . 6 . 1974
                 Yugoslavia                  Trade Agreement                            18 . 6 . 1958         30 . 6 . 1974
DENMARK          Indonesia                   Commercial Agreement                         9 . 9 . 1952       30 . 6 . 1974
                 Madagascar                  Trade Agreement                           10 . 12 . 1965         25 . 6 . 1974
                 Morocco                     Trade Agreement                            26 . 7 . 1961         30 . 6 . 1974
                 Senegal                     Trade Agreement                            11 . 4 . 1962         10 . 7 . 1974
                 Spain                       Trade Agreement                              1 . 7 . 1960        30 . 6 . 1974
                 Tunisia                     Trade Agreement                              8 . 6 . 1960        31 . 5 . 1974
FRANCE           ARE (Arab Republic          Trade Agreement                            10 . 7 . 1964         10 . 7 . 1974
                 of Egypt)
                 Greece                      Trade Agreement                              9 . 6 . 1962        30 . 6 . 1974
GERMANY          Afghanistan                 Trade Agreement                            31 . 1 . 1958         31 . 5 . 1974
                 Iceland                     Trade Agreement                            20 . 5 . 1954         30 . 6 . 1974
                 Philippines                 Trade Agreement                          . 28 . 2 . 1964         12 . 8 . 1974
                 Sweden                      Agreement on Movements of Goods            26 . 1 . 1951         30 . 6 . 1974
                 Turkey                      Agreement on Movements of Goods            16 . 2 . 1952         30 . 6 . 1974
                 Yugoslavia                  Trade Agreement
                                             Protocol
                                                                                        11 . 6 . 1952
                                                                                        16 . 7 . 1964   j 30. 6. 1974
ITALY            Austria                     Trade Agreement
                                             Exchange of letters
                                                                                        19 . 5 . 1949
                                                                                       14 . 11 . 1961   J 30. 6. 1974
                 Columbia                    Modus Vivendi                              19 . 6 . 1952         19 . 6 . 1974
                 Greece                      Trade Agreement                           10 . 11 . 1954         30 . 6 . 1974
                 Somalia                     Agreement on commercial ,
                                             economic and technical
                                             cooperation                                   1 . 7 . 1960       30 . 6 . 1974
                 Spain                       Trade Agreement
                                             Protocol
                                                                                        28 . 6 . 1960
                                                                                           1 . 4 . 1967 j      8. 6. 1974
                 Turkey                      Trade Agreement                            24 . I . 1952         31 . 5 . 1974
UNITED           Zaïre                       Agreement on commercial
KINGDOM                                      and economic cooperation                   18 . 3 . 1970         21 . 6 . 1974