CELEX: 41976D0250
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-23 00:00:00
Title: 76/250/ECSC: Decision of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting within the Council of 23 February 1976 extending Decision 75/371/ECSC opening tariff preferences for products within the province of that Community originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and in the overseas countries and territories associated with the Community

26 . 2 . 76                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 50/23
                                                              II
                                         (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                     COUNCIL
              DECISION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE
              MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY
                                          MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 23 February 1976
              extending Decision 75 /37 1 / ECSC opening tariff preferences for products within
              the province of that Community originating in the African , Caribbean and
              Pacific States and in the overseas countries and territories associated with the
                                                        Community
                                                       (76/ 250/ECSC)
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF                         and Pacific States and the overseas countries and terri­
THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL                            tories associated with the Community (2), the tariff
AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING WITHIN THE                           suspensions contained in the Agreement have been
COUNCIL,
                                                                  applied autonomously ;
Whereas the Member States have concluded among                    Whereas this Decision also applies to the overseas
themselves the Treaty establishing the European Coal              countries and territories ;
and Steel Community ;
                                                                  Whereas, since the Agreement will not enter into
Whereas the Agreement on products within the                      force on 1 March 1976, the Community and the ACP
province of the European Coal and Steel Commu­                    States have decided to continue autonomously to
nity ('), hereinafter called the 'Agreement', between             apply certain provisions thereof beyond 29 February
the Member States of that Community and the                        1976 ;
African , Caribbean      and    Pacific States, hereinafter
called the 'ACP States', was signed on 28 February                Whereas the tariff suspensions in favour of the over­
 1975 at the same time as the ACP-EEC Convention                  seas countries and territories should also continue to
of Lome and whereas that Agreement is subject to rati­            be applied autonomously ;
fication ;
                                                                  In agreement with the Commission ,
Whereas when the Agreement was signed the Euro­
pean Economic Community, its Member States and                    HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
the ACP States agreed in an exchange of letters to
apply autonomously, from 1 July 1975 and until the                                        Sole Article
entry into force of the Convention or until 29                    In the first paragraph of Article 4 of Decision 75/371 /
February 1976 at the latest certain provisions of the             ECSC the date '29 February 1976' shall be replaced by
Convention relating to trade in goods ;                           the date '31 July 1976'.
Whereas by virtue of Decision 75/371 / ECSC of the
representatives of the Governments of the Member                  Done at Brussels, 23 February 1976 .
States of the European Coal and Steel Community,
meeting within the Council , of 24 June 1975 opening                                               The President
tariff preferences for products within the province of
that Community originating in the African , Caribbean                                                G. THORN
(') OJ No L 25, 30 . 1 . 1976 , p. 144 .                          (2 ) OJ No L 166, 28 . 6 . 1975, p. 83 .