COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1343/93 of 27 May 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3568/90 on the introduction of transitional tariff measures for Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the USSR and Yugoslavia until 31 December 1992 to take account of German unification

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1343/93 of 27 May 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3568/90 on the introduction of transitional tariff measures for Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the USSR and Yugoslavia until 31 December 1992 to  take account of German unification
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 28, 43 and 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, (1)
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 3568/90 (3) the Council introduced transitional tariff measures for Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, to take account of German unification; whereas those mesures applied  until 31 December 1992;
Whereas in a letter to the Commission, dated 4 November 1992, Germany requested that the measures introduced by the said Regulation be extended until 31 December 1994;
Whereas the precarious situation of the economies of the former German Democratic Republic and the countries which had been its trading partners, and notably their high unemployment rates, require that particular attention be paid to the survival of  small firms; whereas the survival of such firms could be facilitated by maintaining traditional flows of trade;
Whereas Community commercial policy with regard to the countries in question is, in part, still emerging; whereas it would seem advisable to extend the tariff measures concerned for one year, except for certain sensitive agricultural products, pending  finalization of that policy and in order to avoid disturbing the trade established betwen those countries and the territory of the former German Democratic Republic; whereas account should nevertheless be taken of political developments in the territory  of the former Soviet Union, of former Czechoslovakia and that of the former Yugoslavia, and the formation of States that that implies,