Document ID: 31989R4061

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4061/89 of 22 December 1989 implementing certain provisions of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic on trade in industrial products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas an Agreement on trade in industrial products between the European Economic Community and the Czechoslowak Socialist Republic, hereinafter referred to as the 'Agreement', was signed in Brussels on 19 December 1988 (1);
Whereas Annexes I, II and III A to that Agreement contain lists of products identified and classified according to the 1987 NIMEXE nomenclature; whereas in the Exchange of Letters concerning the combined nomenclature, annexed to the said Agreement, the Community undertakes to amend the NIMEXE nomenclature, replacing it with the combined nomenclature, replacing it with the combined nomenclature (CN) codes; whereas Annex III B to the Agreement already identifies products according to the combined nomenclature, although for practical reasons all the Annexes to the Agreement should be reproduced togehter;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 of the Agreement, the Community undertakes to eliminate quantitative
restrictions on imports of products into regions of the Community of those products listed in Annex II to that Agreement; whereas, moreover, under Article 5 of that Agreement, the Community undertakes to suspend the application of quantitative restrictions on imports into regions of the Community of those products, listed in Annex III of that Agreement, on the terms and conditions specified therein; whereas, pursuant to Commission decisions the subjects of Communications C(88) 1478 (2) and C(88) 2245 (3), the Community has already adopted, on the one hand, the measures referred to in Annex III B to the Agreement and, on the other hand, some of the measures referred to in Annex II A to that Agreement; whereas the quantitative restrictions on imports of the other products listed in the latter Annex and now listed in Annex IV to this Regulation should therefore be abolished;
Whereas this will mean that imports into the Community of any of the products appearing in Annex II A will be free of all quantitative restrictions; whereas these products can therefore be covered by Council Regulation (EEC) No
1765/82 of 30 June 1982 on common rules for imports from
State-trading countries (4),
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annexes I, II and III to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic on trade in industrial products are hereby replaced by the corresponding Annexes to this Regulation.
Article 2
1. The quantitative restrictions on the release for free circulation in the Community of the products listed in Annex II B are hereby abolished in the Member States specified in the Annex in relation to those products.
2. The application of quantitative restrictions to the release for free circulation in the Community of products listed in Annex III A originating in Czechoslovakia is hereby suspended in France on the terms and conditions specified in that Annex.
3. The quantitative restrictions on the release for free circulation in the Community of products listed in Annex IV originating in Czechoslovakia are hereby abolished throughout the Community.
Article 3
Imports into the Community of the products appearing in Annex II A originating in Czechoslovakia shall be subject to Regulation (EEC) No 1765/82. These products shall be added to the Annex to that Regulation.
Article 4
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 December 1989.

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