Legal provisions of COM(2005)464 - Community position within the EU-Chile Association Council concerning the liberalisation of the tariff treatment of wines, spirit drinks and aromatised drinks listed in Annex II of the Association Agreement with Chile

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5.7.2006   ENOfficial Journal of the European UnionL 183/17



DECISION No 1/2006 OF THE EU-CHILE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

of 24 April 2006

eliminating customs duties on wines, spirit drinks and aromatised drinks listed in Annex II to the EU-Chile Association Agreement

(2006/462/EC)

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part, signed in Brussels on 18 November 2002 (hereafter referred to as the ‘Association Agreement’), and in particular Article 60(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)Article 60(5) of the Association Agreement empowers the Association Council to take decisions to accelerate the elimination of customs duties more rapidly than is provided for in Article 72, or otherwise improve the conditions of access established therein.

(2)Such decisions supersede the terms established in Article 72 for the product concerned,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Chile shall eliminate the customs duties applicable to wines, spirit drinks and aromatised drinks listed in Annex II to the Association Agreement originating in the Community, as provided for in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision supersedes the terms established in Article 72 of the Association Agreement with respect to imports into Chile of the products concerned.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force sixty days after the day of its adoption.