CELEX: 51972PC1537
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Date: 1972-12-06
Title: Proposal for a Council Decision authorizing the tacit extension of certain trade agreements between the Member States and third countries (submitted by the Commission to the Council)

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                                               COM(72 ) 1537 final
                                               Brussels , 6 December 1972
                         Proposal for a
                        Council Decision
           authorizing the tacit extension of certain
              trade agreements between the Member
                   States and third countries
         ( submitted by the Commission to the Council )
COM(72 ) 1537 final
 ---pagebreak---                            Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL DECISION
            authorizing the tacit extension of certain
                trade agreements between the Member
                     States and third countries
   THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economio
   Community , and in particular Article 113 thereof ;
                                                              1)
  Having regard to the Council Decision of 16 December 1969      on
  the progressive standardization of agreements concerning commercial
  relations between Member States and third countries and on the
  negotiation of Community agreements , and in particular Article 3
  thereof ;                                                       '
  Having regard -fro the Proposal from the Commission ;
  Whereas tacit extension beyond the end of the transitional period
  has already been authorized , in the case of the Agreements listed
  in the annex hereto , by the Council under its Decisions of
  28 January 1969 ^\ 26 June 1969^\ 8 December 1969^ »
  20 December 1969 ^, 13 July 1970^6 \ 29 September 1970^,
  23 November 1970^. 25 October 1971 and 28 February 1972^^;
  ^OJ No    L 326 , 29 December 1969 , p . 39.
  ^OJ No    L 43 , 20 February 1 9^9» P» 15*
  ^OJ No    L 159, 1 July 1969 , p. 20.
  ^OJ No    L 323 , 24 December 1969 » P» 10»
  ^OJ No    L 6, 9 Januaiy 1970, p. 1 .
         No L 157 , 18 July 1970 , p . 29 .
  ^OJ No L 225 , ,12 October 1970, p. 24,
  (8 W No L 262 , 3 December 1979, p. 18 .
  (^OJ No L 248 , 9 November 1971 , p. 7.
^ 10 \)J No.L 56, 7 March 1972 , p. 10.
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 Whereas the Member States concerned, have requested that , with a
 view to avoiding interruption in their commercial relations with
 the third countries concerned "based on agreement and pending
 finalization of the programme for Community negotiations currently-
 being studied - which aims at the gradual replacement of Member
 States' agreements by Community agreements - they be authorized
 to extend the above-mentioned Agreements ;
 Whereas authorization has to be granted for the extension of trade
 agreements with third countries beyond the transitional period ,
but without affecting the other obligations incumbent upon the
Member States concerned under Community law ;
Whereas the Member States concerned have declared that extension
of those Agreements would not constitute an obstacle to the opening
of Community negotiations with the third countries concerned and
that they are willing to have commercial matters covered by their
current bilateral agreements covered instead by such Community
agreements as may be negotiated ;
Whereas , at the conclusion of the consultations provided for in
Article 2 of the Council Decision of 16 December 19^9 »      was
established , as the aforesaid declarations by the Member States
confirm , that the provision of the instruments to be extended
would not , during the period of extension envisaged , constitute an
obstacle to implementation of the common commercial policy ;
Whereas in these circumstanoes the Agreements concerned may be
tacitly extended for a speoified period ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                          Article 1
The trade agreements between Member States and third countries
listed in the Annex hereto may be extended up to the dates specified
in each case in the said Annex .
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                           Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States *
Done at                  ,           19  •
 ---pagebreak---                                                                ANNEX
Member       Third                  Type and Date                    Extended
State        Country                of agreement                     until
BENELUX     Austria                 Trade Agreement    29 . 6.1957   31 . 3.1974
            Bulgaria*               Extension for 1973
                                    of the Protocol
                                   annexed to the
                                    Trade Agreement of 13 . 5.1970   31.12.1973
            Czechoslovakia*Extension for 1973
                                   of the Protocol
                                   annexed to the
                                   Trade Agreement of   6 . 4.1972   31.12.1973
            Hungary*               Extension for 1973
                                   of the Protocol
                                   annexed to the
                                   Trade Agreement
                                    signed             23.11.1971    31 . 12.1973
            Norway                 Trade Agreement     28 . 5.1957   30 . 4.1974
            Poland*                Extension for 1973
                                   of the Protocol
                                   annexed to the
                                   Trade Agreement of  25.11.1971    31.12.1973
            Rumania*               Extension for 1973
                                   of the Protocol
                                   annexed to the
                                   Trade Agreement of   8.12.1970 31 . 12.1973
            Spain                  Trade Agreement      2 . 6.1960 14 . 4.1974
            Sweden                 Trade Agreement     27 . 4.1957 28 . 2.1974
            Switzerland            Trade Agreement of  21 . 6.1957 . 31 . 3.1974
                                   and Exchange of Notes of 5«5«i96î
            Tunisia                Trade Agreement       1 . 8.1953  31 . 3.1974
FRANCE      Albania*               Extension for 1973
                                   of the Protocol
                                   annexed to the
                                   Trade Agreement of   7 . 4.1972   31.12.1973
            Bulgaria*              Extension for 1973
                                   of the Protocol
                                   annexed to the
                                   Trade Agreement of  23 . 1.1970   31 . 12.1973
            Ecuador                Trade Agreement     20 . 3.1959   20 . 3.1974
            Hungary*               Extension for 1973
                                   of the Protocol
                                   annexed to the
                                   Trade Agreement of   5 . 1.1970   31.12.1973
                    1)
            India                  Trade Agreement and
                                   Exchange of Letters 19.10.1959    31 . 12.1973
            Iraq                   Trade Agreement     25 . 9.1967   25 . 3.1974
            Lebanon                Trade Agreement     25 . 3.1955   10 . 4.1974
            Paraguay        r * \ Trade Agreement      11 . 9.1956   12 . 4.1974
            South Africa \         Exchange of Letters 18 . 4.1964
                               ' / T7V...~'U     T
                                                                     31 . 12.1973
            South Korea            Exchange of Letters 12 . 3.1963   31 . 3.1974
GERMANY     Indonesia              Trade Agreement     22 . 4.1953   31 . 3.1974
            South Korea            Trade Agreement      8 . 4.1965    7 . 4.1974
            Spain                  Trade Agreement     20 . 6.1960   30 . 4.1974
(1)
    Extended by Exchange of Notes .
(*)
\– / A..X1. ^   L •    _ r»   .
    Authorization of extension will become void if a new protocol for
     1973 is concluded before 31 December 1972 .
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  Member    Third.        Type and Date                    Extendeà
  State    Country        of agreement                     Tint il
  ITALY    Dominican
           Republic       Trade Agreement      18 . 2.1954 11 . 3.1974
           El Salvador    Trade Agreement      30 . 3.1953
                          Additional Protocol 21.12.1955   31 . 3.1974
           Indonesia      Trade Agreement      23 . 3.1951 31 . 3.1974
           Iran           Exchange of Notes    29 . 1.1958
                                         and   23 . 3.1961   9 . 2.1974
           Israel         Trade Agreement       5 - 3.1954
                          Exchange of Letters   5 . 1.1956
                          Procés–verbaux       21.10.1956
                                        and    11 . 2.1964 31 . 3.1974
           Norway         Trade Agreement      20 . 5.1953
                          Protocol             31 . 8.1959
                          Exchange of Notes    10 . 5.1962 31 . 3.1974
           South Korea    Trade Agreement       9 . 3.1965   8 . 3.1974
           Yugoslavia     Trade Agreement       1 . 7.1967
                          Protocol and
                          subsequent
                          Exchange of Letters 30 . 4.1969  31.12.1973
  THE      Pinland        Trade Agreement       8.12.1956  31 . 3.1974
 NETHER-   USSR*          Agreement on Trade
, LANDS                   and Payment and
                          later Protocols       2 . 7.1948 31.12.1973
 *The authorization for extension become void if a new protocol for
   1973 is concluded before 31 December 1972 .
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