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Language: en
Date: 1989-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 12 June 1989 totally suspending certain customs duties applicable in the Community of Ten to imports from Spain of products covered by the ECSC Treaty

No L 164/46                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               15. 6. 89
                                                  COUNCIL DECISION
                                                     of 12 June 1989
                 totally suspending certain customs duties applicable in the Community of Ten
                         to imports from Spain of products covered by the ECSC Treaty
                                                       (89/372/ECSC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         EEC Treaty for the purposes of application of residual
                                                                 customs duties to imports from Spain ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Coal and Steel Community,                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                                      Article 1
Portugal, and in particular Article 33 thereof,                 The collection of customs duties applicable in the
                                                                 Community of Ten, pursuant to the Act of Accession of
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               Spain and Portugal, to imports from Spain of products
                                                                 covered by the ECSC Treaty shall be totally suspended.
Whereas the progressive dismantling of Spanish customs                                  Article 2
duties has notably improved access to the hitherto heavily
protected Spanish market : whereas, however, the                 This Decision shall apply from 1 July 1989 ;
economic impact of the progressive reductions in the
customs duties applied by the Community of Ten to                                       Article 3
imports of Spanish industrial products is reltively modest
because of the low level of the basic customs duties ;           This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Whereas measures should be taken to improve Spain's              Done at Luxembourg, 12 June 1989.
trade deficit ;
                                                                                             For the Council
Whereas, in the interests of simplification and uniformity,                                   The President
the products covered by the ECSC Treaty should be
subject to the same provisions as products covered by the                              F. FERNANDEZ ORDONEZ