COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) N° 2840/89
of 18 September  1989
on the implementation of Decision N° 1/89 of the EEC-Iceland Joint Committee amending Protocol  3 concerning the definition of the concept of originating products and methods of administrative  cooperation and establishing provisions for the implementation of the Joint Declaration annexed to  Decision N° 1/88 of the EEC-Iceland Joint Committee
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 the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland was  signed on 22 July 1972 and entered into force on 1 April 1973;
Whereas, by virtue of Article 28 of Protocol 3 concerning the definition of the concept of  originating products and methods of administrative cooperation, which forms an integral part of the  above Agreement, the Joint Committee has adopted Decision N° 1/89 amending Protocol 3;
Whereas the Joint Declaration annexed to Decision N° 1/88 of the EEC-Iceland Joint Committee  implemented in the Community by Regulation (EEC) N° 1957/88 (1) provides, under certain conditions,  for a review of the changes made to the rules of origin following the introduction of the  Harmonized System; whereas, by virtue of that Joint Declaration, the Joint Committee must take a  decision within a period of three months of a request being made to it by either of the parties to  the Agreement;
Whereas this review concerns cases where the transposition of the existing rules of origin into the  Harmonized System was not entirely neutral and where it is necessary to restore the substance of  previous former rules of origin;
Whereas for the purposes of the Decisions to be taken by the Joint Committee, a common position has  to be reached by the Community; whereas it is then necessary to make these Decisions applicable in  the Community;
Whereas this decision-making process makes it impossible to comply with the three-month time limit  laid down in the Joint Declaration; whereas the procedure should therefore be speeded up and the  Community's common position should be adopted by the Commission according to the procedure set out  in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) N° 802/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common definition of the  concept of
the origin of goods (2), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) N° 3860/87 (3);  whereas it is also necessary to confer on the Commission the power to adopt the necessary measures  to make the Joint Committee's Decisions applicable in the Community,
Decision N° 1/89 of the EEC-Iceland Joint Committee shall apply in the  Community.
The text of the Decision is attached to this Regulation.
The following shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 14  of Regulation (EEC) N° 802/68:
(a)  the Community's common position for the purposes of the Decisions of the EEC-Iceland Joint  Committee concerning a review of the changes made to the rules of origin following the introduction  of the Harmonized System pursuant to the Joint Declaration annexed to Decision N° 1/88 of the said  Joint Committee;
(b)  implementation in the Community of the Decisions referred to under (a).
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the  Official Journal of the European Communities.
shall apply with effect from 1 January 1988.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all  Member States.