CELEX: 51976PC0040
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-06 00:00:00
Title: RECOMMENDATION FOR REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL concluding the Agreement extending the provisions governing the first stage of the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Malta. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                         j       . COM(76)40 final.
                                                   Brussels , 6 February 1976 *
             RECOMMENDATION FOR REGULATION ( EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
         concluding "the Agreement extending the provisions governing
         the first stage of the Agreement establishing an association
              between the European Economic Community and Malta.
                 ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
                .    . \
 COM(76 ) 40 final .
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                                                        \
 ---pagebreak---                    Commission Communication to the Council
               on the extension of the provisions governing the
               first stage of the Agreement establishing an
               assooiation between the European Eoonomio
              Community and Malta
 1 . Hi® provisions governing the first stage of the Agreement establishing
an association between the European Eoonomic Community and Malta and those
of the Protoool laying dpwn certain provisions relating to the Agreement
establishing an association between the European Eoonomio Community and Malta
expire on 31 March 1976#
2 . The Maltese Delegation has requested that the provisions of the first
stage be extended pending the conolusion and entry into force of the Becond
Btage *
3 * Sinoe negotiations for the definition of the second stage have not yet
been opened ; the Commission oonsiders that the provisions of the first stage
and of the Protoool should be extended unohanged until the entry into force
of the Beoond stage or until 30 June 1977 » whichever is the earlier*
4 » Ibe Commission accordingly proposes that the Councils
       adopt the draft Agreement extending the provisions governing the
       first stage of the Agreement establishing an assooiation between
       the EEC and Malta and those of the Protoool laying down oertain
                                                   i        >
       provisions relating to the Agreement establishing an assooiation
       between the EEC and Malta .
 ---pagebreak---                      COIINCIL REGULATION (SEC ) Mo    /76
                        of
        concluding the Agreement extending the provisions governing
        the first stage of the Agreement establishing an association
        between the European Economic Comircurtity and Malta
                                                              !
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                     J
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economio Community,
and in particular Article 233 thereof ,
Having regard to the recommendation from the Commission ,
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ,
Whereas the provisions governing the first stage of the Agreement establishing
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an association between the Suropean Economic Comrsunity and Malta and those of
the Protocol laying down certain provisions relating to the Agreement
establishing an association between the European Economio Community and Malta,
Bigned in                on                 1976 , expire on 31 March 1976 }
Whereas this Agreement provides for the opening of negotiations with a view
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to defining the content of the second stage of the association agreement f
Whereas, pending the conclusion and entry into force of the second stage , an
agreement should be concluded extending the provisions jjf the first stage of
the Agreement establishing an association between the Earopean Economio Community
and Malta and those of the Protocol laying down certain; provisions relating to
the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economio '
Community and Malta ,                                                    f'      p
HAS ÂDOPTKD TAIS REGULATION 8 (
                                   Article 1
The Agreement extending the provisions governing the first stage of the Agreement
establishing an association between
the European Economic Community and Malta and those of the Protocol laying down
certain provisions relating to the Agreement establishing an association between .
the European Economics Community and Malta is hereby oonoluded on behalf of the
                                                                     . . f 1 • .
Community »
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I OJ L 61 , 14 March 1971 *                                              f'
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 ---pagebreak---                                    - 2 -
                                 Article 2
The President of the Counoil of the European Communities shell make the
notification referred to in Artiole 2 of the Agreement on behalf of the
          •]
Community ,
                                 Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
                                                        I
This Ragula+ion shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at Brussels »
                                                    For the Counoil ,
                                                     The Présidant
 The date of the entry into force of the Agreement will be published in
 the Official Journal of the European Communities *
 ---pagebreak---                                       AGREERENT
                extending -the provision® governing the first stage
                of the Agreement establishing an association between
                the European Eoonomio Community and Malta
 THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
 of the one part-, and
 THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OP MALTA
 of the other part ,
CONSIDERING that the provisions governing the first stage of the Agreement
 establishing an association between the European Economic Community and M^lta,
 signed in Valletta on 5 December 1970 , and those of the Protocol laying do^pi
certain provisions relating to the Agreement establishing an association ^
between the European Economic Community and Malta , signed in                /
on                     , expire on 31 March 1 976 $
CONSIDERING that the Contracting Parties to this Agreement have made it their
aim to negotiate a second stage providing for a further elimination of obstacles
to trade between the European Economic Community and Malta and the adoption by
Malta of the Common Customs Tariff ;,
RECOGNIZING that it has proved impossible to open the negotiations for the
definition of the seoond stage within th© prescribed time ;          f,
                                                                         it
HAVE DECIDED to extend the provisions governing the first stage of the
Agreement and those of the Protocol until the entry into force of the eecon&
stage or until 30 June 1 9T7 » whichever is th« earlier , and to this end have
designated as their Plenipotentiaries t
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES i
THE GOVERNMENT OP THE REPUBLIC OP MALTA ?
WHO , having exchanged their full powers , found in good and due form ,      .
HAVE A0REED A3 FOLLOWSt
 ---pagebreak---                                      Article 1
 1.    Article 2(2 ) of Lhe Agreement establishing an association between the
 European Eoonomio Community and Malta shall be replaced by the following :
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    "2 « The Agreement provides for two successive stages .     The provisions
         governing the firot stage shall apply             until the entry
         into force cf the provisions governing the second stage or until
         30 Juno 1977 , whichever is the earlier .   The Becond stage shall
         be , in principle , of five years' duration ."
2.    The second subparagraph of Articles A ( Or 9(0 &nd 11 ( 1 ) of the Protocol
laying down certain provisions relating to the Agreement establishing an
association between the European Economic Community and Malta shall be
replaced by the following ?
   " This provision shall apply until the entry into force of the
     provisions governing the sacond stage or until 30 June 1977 ,
     whichever is the earl i sir n w
                                     Article ?
1.    This Agreement shall 'be subject to ratif ica.tion , acceptance or approval
in accordance with the Contracting Parties' own procedures ; the Contracting
Parties will notify each other of the necessary relevant acts .
2.    This Agreemont nhall enter into foroe on the first day of the month
following the date on which the Contracting Parties have notified each other
as required by paragraph 1 «
                                     Article 3
This Agreement is drawn up .in duplicate in the Danish , Dutch , English , French ,
German and Italian languages , each of these texts being authentio .