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25 . 1 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 21 / 1

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 124/77 of 18 January 1977

concerning the import of certain wine products originating in Greece into the three new Member States

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN treatment equivalent to that provided in Article 6 of COMMUNITIES, the Interim Agreement must continue to be applied until 28 April 1977, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­ Article 1 ment (!), 1 . For products originating in Greece, falling Whereas Article 6 of the Interim Agreement between within heading No 22.05 of the Common Customs the European Economic Community and Greece Tariff, the new Member States shall open import tariff consequent on the accession of new Member States to quotas equal to the quantities set out below and at the the Community (2) provides that the new Member rates of the duty applied by those Member States on 1 States open annual import tariff quotas for the benefit January 1975 to imports from the Community as orig­ of Greece ; whereas this provision is valid only until inally constituted : 31 December 1976 ; Whereas the Community, in accordance with Article United Kingdom : 2 000 hectolitres, Denmark : 200 hectolitres, 35 of the Agreement establishing an association Ireland : 200 hectolitres . between the European Economic Community and Greece (3) declared, on 28 April 1975, that the basic 2. These quotas shall be valid for imports effected provisions for implementing the common agricultural from 1 January to 28 April 1977. policy had been laid down for the products in ques­ tion ; whereas Article 36 of the said Agreement Article 2 provides that the Association Council shall within two years of that declaration establish the rules which will This Regulation shall enter into force on the day apply to trade in the products in question ; whereas following its publication in the Official Journal of these rules have not yet been established ; the European Communities. Whereas to avoid any disturbance in exports of the products in question from Greece to the Community, It shall apply from 1 January 1977.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 January 1977.

For the Council

The President

Anthony CROSLAND

(') OJ No C 6, 10 . 1 . 1977, p . 135 . (2) OJ No L 1 23, 1 5 . 5 . 1 975, p . 2 . (3) OJ No 26, 18 . 2. 1963, p . 294/63 .