31975R2108

No L 215/2 Official Journal of the European Communities 13 . 8 . 75

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2108 / 75 OF THE COUNCIL of 6 August 1975 extending the arrangements applicable to trade with Morocco

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES , Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 The trade arrangements provided for by the Agree­ thereof ; ment establishing an association between the Euro­ Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; pean Economic Community and the Kingdom of Morocco, including the Protocol laying down certain Whereas the Agreement establishing an association provisions relating to that Agreement consequent on between the European Economic Community and the the accession of new Member States to the Commu­ Kingdom of Morocco ('), signed in Rabat on 31 March nity (3) and the Agreement in the form of an exchange 1969, expired on 31 August 1974 ; of letters on the amendment of Article 5 of Annex 1 to the Association Agreement (4), or implemented Whereas the arrangements applied by the Community to trade with Morocco under the association with this pursuant to these acts, shall remain applicable in the Community beyond 31 August 1975, until the entry country were extended until 31 August 1975 at the into force of a new Agreement or until 31 December latest by Regulation (EEC) No 1 987/74 (2), pending 1975, whichever is the sooner. conclusion of a new Agreement ;

Whereas negotiations are still in progress with a view Article 2 to concluding a new Agreement and the arrangements which the Community applies to trade with Morocco This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 1975 . should therefore again be extended,

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

Done at Brussels, 6 August 1975 . For the Council

The President

M. RUMOR

(') OJ No L 197, 8 . 8 . 1969, p. 3 . (3) OJ No L 239, 27 . 8 . 1973 , p. 2. (2 ) OJ No L 208 , 30 . 7. 1974, p. 1 . (4 ) OJ No L 34, 7 . 2. 1974, p. 2.