CELEX: 51981PC0070
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Date: 1981-02-25
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION on the trade arrangements applicable to African, Caribbean and Pacific States which failed to ratify the Second ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé by 1 January 1981 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                     Proposal for
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                                   COUNCIL" REGULATION
            on the trade arrangements applicable to African , Caribbean
                and Pacific States which failed to ratify the Second
                    ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé by 1 January 1981
                    ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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 ---pagebreak---                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Article 183 of the second Lome Convention , signed on 31 October 1979 ,
stipulates that the Convention " shall enter into force on the first day of
the second month following the date of deposit of the instruments of
ratification of the Member , States and of at least two-thirds of the ACP
States , and of the act of notification of the conclusion of the Convention
by the Community".    These conditions were met at the end of November 1980 ,
and the Convention entered into force on 1 January 1981 .
The Same Article also specifies the date as from which the Convention
becomes applicable to those ACP States which have not completed the above
procedures before the date of entry into force , namely , " the first day of
the second month following the completion of the said procedures ".
Some ACP States to which this applies cannot therefore be covered by the
Convention 's provisions in respect of them , particularly with regard to
Chapters 1 and 2 , with the result that products originating in those states
should , upon entry into the Community, be subject to the import arrangements
applicable under ordinary law .
As the instruments of ratification may be deposited by these states at any
time , application by the Community of third-country arrangements to such
products would give rise to temporary disturbances which would needlessly
complicate life for Community firms and the customs administrations .    It is
in order to avoid such difficulties that the Commission proposes that the
Council adopt the following regulation .
 ---pagebreak---                                      Proposal for a
                                 COUNÇIL_REGULAIION
          on the trade arrangements applicable to African , Caribbean
             and Pacific States which failed to ratify the Second
                  ACP-EEC Convention of Lome by 1 January 1981
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES /.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EEC , and in particular
Article 113 thereof .
Having regard to the proposal of the Commission ,,
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Whereas the Second ACP-EEC Convention        signed at Lome on 31 October
1979 entered into force on 1 January 1981 ;                                ~
Whereas , in order" not to distrupt trade patterns , the trade arrangements
provided for in the said Convention should be implemented autonomously
in respect of certain ACP States to which the Convention cannot be applied
from 1 January 1981 ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION ;      -
                                        Article 1
From 1 January to 30 June 1981 the trade arrangements applicable to the
ACP States listed in the Annex which have not completed the procedures
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referred to in Article 182 of the convention shale be as set out in
Chapters 1 and 2 of Title I of the Convention as well as in Council
                              2      ..        . 11   .   »  •
Regulation ( EEC ) No 435 / 80 as last amended by Regulation No 3486 / 80 .
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However , the trade arrangements between the States listed in the Annexes
hereto and Greece are those set out in Council Regulation ( EEC ) No         / 81 .
  0J No L 347 , 22.12.1980 , p . 1
 20J No t 55, 28.2.1980, p. 4
 30J No L 365 , 31.12.1980, p. 2
 40J No L
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                                  Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of 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 .
                                            Done at Brussels ,
                                            For the Counci I
                                            The President
 ---pagebreak--- List of ACP States which have not yet deposited their instruments
of ratification under the Lome Convention :                '
                         Nigeri a
                         Tchad
                         Dj ibouti
                         Mauritania