31978R0595

No L 82/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 3 . 78

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 595 /78 of 20 March 1978 extending Regulation (EEC) No 744/77 on the advance implementation of certain provisions of the ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé relating to trade in respect of certain States that have signed Accession Agreements to that Conven­ tion

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN April 1977 Regulation (EEC) No 744/77 (2) on the COMMUNITIES, advance implementation of certain provisions of the ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé relating to trade ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43 Whereas the procedures of ratification of the Acces­ and 113 thereof, sion Agreements were not completed by the Member States by 31 December 1977 ; Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas the period of validity of Regulation ( EEC) Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­ No 744/ 77 should therefore be extended beyond 31 ment ( J ), December 1977, Whereas Agreements of Accession to the ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé, in accordance with Article 90 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : thereof, were signed between the European Economic Community and the Democratic Republic of Sao Article 1 Tome and Principe, the Republic of Cape Verde and Papua New Guinea on 28 March 1977 ; In the second paragraph of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 744/77, '31 December 1977' shall be Whereas, when these Agreements were signed, the replaced by '31 December 1978'. Community and the States concerned agreed in exchanges of letters to apply unilaterally certain provi­ Article 2 sions of the ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé relating to trade, in accordance with the arrangements laid This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day down in the Accession Agreements ; following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. Whereas, in order to give effect to the abovemen­ tioned exchanges of letters, the Council adopted on 5 It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 20 March 1978 .

For the Council

The President

K. HEINESEN

(') Opinion delivered 17 March 1978 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (2) OJ No L 90 , 8 . 4 . 1977, p. 5 .