31976R1509

28 . 6. 76 No L 169/ 11 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1509/76

of 24 June 1976 on imports into the Community of prepared and preserved sardines originating in Tunisia

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas, in order to avoid any interruption in trade in the said products between the Community and Tunisia pending the conclusion of that exchange of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the letters, the arrangements laid down by Regulation European Economic Community, and in particular (EEC) No 112/76 should continue to apply on a Article 43 thereof, transitional basis to prepared and preserved sardines,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ( J ),

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 112/76 of Article 1 19 January 1976 concerning imports into the Com­ munity of fishery products originating in- Tunisia (2 ) established transitional arrangements for imports of 1 . Member States shall maintain in force the import carp, trout and preserved sardines and tunny arrangements applied on 31 January 1972 to prepared originating in that country ; and preserved sardines falling within subheading 16.04 D of the Common Customs Tariff originating in Tunisia . Whereas these arrangements apply until the entry into force of a new Agreement between the Com­ munity and Tunisia ; 2. However, Member States which open tariff quotas under the arrangements referred to in para­ Whereas a Cooperation Agreement and an Interim graph 1 may increase the quantity of such quotas by Agreement (3 ) between the European Economic not more than 30% . Community and the Republic of Tunisia were signed on 25 April 1976 ;

3 . The import arrangements applied to the products Whereas, therefore, from the time of entry into force specified in paragraph 1 originating in Tunisia shall of the Cooperation Agreement or the Interim Agree­ in no case be less favourable than those applied to ment on the advance implementation of certain like products originating in third countries. provisions relating to trade in goods, the transitional arrangements referred to above shall no longer apply ;

Article 2 Whereas the Cooperation Agreement and the Interim Agreement contain provisions relating to imports of the fishery products in question , which will not, 1 . This Regulation shall apply until the entry into however, apply to imports of prepared and preserved force of the arrangements laid down in the exchange sardines until an exchange of letters has been of letters referred to in Article 11 (4) of the Interim concluded ; Agreement * and Article 18 (4) of the Cooperation Agreement between the Community and Tunisia or until 31 December 1976, whichever is the earlier. (*) Opinion delivered on 18 June 1976 and not yet pub­ lished in the Official Journal. (2) OJ No L It, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 53 . 2. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July (s ) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1976, p. 195 . 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels , 24 June 1976.

For the Council The President

G. THORN