31974R0304

No L 34/ 6 Official Journal of the European Communities 7 . 2 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 304/ 74 OF THE COUNCIL of 4 February 1974 extending the period of application of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 228 /72 on imports into the Community of certain fishery products originating in Morocco

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas provision should be made to ensure that the COMMUNITIES , arrangements applied by Member States to the impor­ tation of the products in question originating in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Morocco be no less favourable than those applied Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 from 1 January 1974 to the like products originating thereof ; in other third countries, taking account of the provi­ sions of the Act of Accession , Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­ ment ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the arrangements for the importation into the Community of fishery products originating in Article 1 Morocco, as laid down by Regulation ( EEC) No 1705/71 ('), do not cover trout, carp, preserved In Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC) No 228 / 72, the date sardines or tunny, since no Community import ar­ '31 December 1973' shall be replaced by the date '31 rangements have as yet been established for such December 1974 '. However, the arrangements applied products ; to the import of those products originating in Whereas by Regulation ( EEC) No 228 / 72 (2 ) the Morocco to which Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No Council laid down transitional arrangements for the 228 /72 applies may in no case be less favourable than importation of such products originating in Morocco ; those applied to the like products originating in other third countries . Whereas by Regulation ( EEC) No 2828 / 72 ( 3 ) the Council , in order to avoid disrupting trade in these products between the Community and Morocco , Article 2 extended these transitional arrangements ; whereas there are still no Community arrangements in force The import arrangements provided for in this Regula­ for the importation of the products in question into tion shall be extended for the duration of 1974 . the Community ; whereas, to avoid any disruption in the trade in these products between the Community This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day and Morocco, the transitional arrangements should following its publication in the Official Journal of therefore be again extended ; the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 4 February 1 974 . Eor the C.ounci !

The President W. SCHEEL

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