CELEX: 51996PC0510
Language: en
Date: 1996-10-29
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) amending Regulations (EC) Nos 3355/94, 3356/94 and 3357/94 on the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of products originating in the Republics of Bosnia- Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                              Brussels, 29 10.1996
                                              COM(96) 510 final
                                              96/0246 (ACC)
                               Proposal for a
                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
    amending Regulations (EQ Nos 3355/94, 3356/94 and 3357/94
    on the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of
products originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and
        Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
                      (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                                  Explanatory memorandum
 1. The Cooperation Agreement linking the Community with the Socialist Republic of
Yugoslavia was denounced on 25 November 1991. On 2 December 1991, the Council
adopted a decision selectively applying positive measures to the parties to the conflict in
the former Yugoslavia which were held to be making a contribution to the peace process.
2. Those autonomous measures effectively applied to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia,
Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, but not to the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, the preferential trade concessions provided for in the 1980
Agreement.
3. They consist essentially of duty-free access and the elimination of quantitative
restrictions for the bulk of industrial products (apart from around thirty items subject to
tariff ceilings) and specific concessions (duty-free access, tariff quotas or reduced levies)
for various agricultural products.
4. In view of the constructive attitude displayed by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
in the peace process and the implementation of the Dayton Agreements, however, we feel
it should now be brought within the import regime established by Regulations (EC) Nos
3355/94, 3356/94 and 3357/94, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3032/95.
5. The attached proposal for a Regulation therefore extends the autonomous preferential
trade arrangements to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
 ---pagebreak---                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No...
            amending Regulations (EC) Nos 3355/94, 3356/94 and 3357/94
          on the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of
     products originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and
                Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particulai
Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Regulations (EC) Nos 3355/94,1 3356/942 and 3357/94,3 as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 3032/95,4 laying down the arrangements applicable to imports into
the Community of products originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia
and Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia do not apply to imports
into the Community from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia;
Whereas in view of the constructive attitude shown by the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia in connection with the peace process and the implementation of the peace
agreements signed in Paris on 14 December 1995, the said arrangements should be
extended to that Republic,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
                                        Article I
1.       The words "the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" shall be inserted into the titles
         of Regulations (EC) Nos 3355/94, 3356/94 and 3357/94 after the word "Croatia"
2.       The words "the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" shall be inserted into Article 1
         of the three abovementioned Regulations after the word "Croatia".
3.       The words "the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" shall be inserted into footnote 4
         to Annex D (page 53 of OJ No L 353) of Regulation (EC) No 3355/94 after the
         word "Croatia"
1
  OJNoL 353, 31.12.1994, p. 1.
2
  O J N o L 3 5 3 , 31.12.1994, p.55.
3
  O J N o L 3 5 3 , 31.12.1994, p. 63.
4
  O J N o L 3 1 6 , 30.12.1995, p. 4.
 ---pagebreak--- 4.      Textile products subject to quantitative restrictions under Council Regulation
        No 517/965 shall be imported free of duty within the quantitative limits set in
        Annexes III B and VI to that Regulation.
                                         Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official
Journal of the European Communities
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
   O J N o L 6 7 , 7.3.94, p. 1.
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