COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1005/95 of 3 April 1995  amending Regulation (EEC) No 1968/93 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas  in respect of certain EEC steel products originating in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic  imported into the Community (1 June 1993 to 31 December 1995)
THE COUNCIL OF THE  EUROPEAN UNION
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 113  thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas a tariff quota system was established by Decisions No 1/93 (C)  (1) and No 1/93 (S)  (2) of  the EC-Czech Republic and Slovak Republic Joint Committee referred to in Article 37 of the Interim  Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Economic Community and the  European Coal and Steel Community, of the one part, and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, of  the other part  (3) (hereinafter referred to as the 'Interim Agreement`), signed in Brussels on 16  December 1991;
Whereas, following the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on 31 December 1992,  the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic assumed all the obligations deriving from the Interim  Agreement; whereas this has resulted in the creation of an EC-Czech Republic Joint Committee and an  EC-Slovak Republic Joint Committee;
Whereas certain amendments were made by Decisions No 1/94 and No 2/94 of the EC-Czech Republic  Joint Committee and Decisions No 1/94, No 2/94 and No 3/94 of the EC-Slovak Republic Joint  Committee;
Whereas arrangements for the implementation of the abovementioned tariff quota system were laid  down by Regulation (EEC) No 1968/93  (4); whereas, following the annual review, it is necessary to  modify further Regulation (EEC) No 1968/93 in order to take account, in particular, of the  accession of new Member States;
Whereas, following the exclusion of certain measures under the common commercial policy from the  transitional arrangements in favour of the new Laender of the Federal Republic of Germany by  Regulation (EC) No 665/94  (5), it is appropriate to suspend customs duties in respect of certain  products covered by Decisions No 1/93 (C) and No 1/94 (C) and 1/95 (C), and No 1/93 (S), No 1/94  (S), No 2/94 (S) and No 1/95 (S) for imports to the territory of the new Laender of the Federal  Republic of Germany for the year 1995 and the Czech and Slovak Republics have been informed of  this,
The limits established pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No  1968/93 for imports into the Community from 1 January to 31 December 1995 from the Czech Republic  of the products identified by the CN codes set out in the table contained therein shall be amended  as follows:
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The limits established pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1968/93 for imports into the  Community from 1 January to 31 December 1995 from the Slovak Republic of the products identified by  the CN codes set out in the table contained therein shall be amended as follows:
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1.  From 1 January to 31 December 1995, the duties applied to the products set out in  the following table originating in the Czech Republic shall be suspended up to the maximum volumes  as set out in the said table:
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2.  Paragraph 1 shall apply only if:
-  the goods in question are released for free circulation on the territory of the former German  Democratic Republic and are consumed there or undergo processing conferring Community origin  there,
and -  a licence issued by the relevant German authorities stating that the goods in question fall  within the scope of the provisions contained in paragraph 1 is submitted in support of the  declaration for release for free circulation.
3.  The Commission and the competent German authorities shall take whatever measures are needed to  ensure that the final consumption of the products in question, or the processing by which they  acquire Community origin, takes place on the territory of the former German Democratic Republic.
1.  From 1 January to 31 December 1995 the duties applied to the products set out in  the following table originating in the Slovak Republic shall be suspended up to the maximum volumes  as set out in the said table:
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2.  Paragraph 1 shall apply only if:
-  the goods in question are released for free circulation on the territory of the former German  Democratic Republic and are consumed there or undergo processing conferring Community origin  there,
and -  a licence issued by the relevant German authorities stating that the goods in question fall  within the scope of the provisions contained in paragraph 1 is submitted in support of the  declaration for release for free circulation.
3.  The Commission and the competent German authorities shall take whatever measures are needed to  ensure that the final consumption of the products in question, or the processing by which they  acquire Community origin, takes place on the territory of the former German Democratic Republic.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in  the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1995.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all  Member States.