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28 . 6 . 76 No L 169/45 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1522/76

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

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN sardines until an exchange of letters has been COMMUNITIES , concluded ;

Whereas, in order to avoid any interruption in trade Having regard to the Treaty establishing the in the said products between the Community and European Economic Community, and in particular Morocco pending the conclusion of that exchange of Article 43 thereof, letters, the arrangements laid down by Regulation (EEC) No 111 /76 should continue to apply on a Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, transitional basis to prepared and preserved sardines ,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ( 1 ), HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 111 /76 of 19 January 1976 concerning imports into the Com­ munity of fishery products originating in Morocco (2 ) Article 1 established transitional arrangements for imports of carp, trout and preserved sardines and tunny orig­ inating in that country ; 1 . Member States shall maintain in force the import arrangements applied on 31 January 1972 to prepared and preserved sardines falling within subheading Whereas those arrangements apply until the entry 16.04 D of the Common Customs Tariff originating into force of a new Agreement between the Com­ in Morocco . munity and Morocco ;

2. However, Member States which open tariff Whereas a Cooperation Agreement and an Interim quotas under the arrangements referred to in Agreement (3 ) between the European Economic paragraph 1 may increase the quantity of such quotas Community and the Kingdom of Morocco were by not more than 30% . signed on 27 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 Morocco 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 1 . This Regulation shall apply until the arrange­ the fishery products in question, which will not, ments laid down in the exchange of letters referred however, apply to imports of prepared and preserved to in Article 12 (4) of the Interim Agreement and Article 19 (4) of the Cooperation Agreement between the Community and Morocco become applicable or until 31 December 1976, whichever is the earlier. ( J ) Opinion delivered on 18 June 1976 and not yet published in the Official Journal . ( 2) OJ No L 20, 28 . 1 . 1976, p. 51 . 2. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July (3) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1976, p. 98 . 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