93/732/ECSC: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council of 22 December 1993 concerning the arrangements applicable to imports into the EC of products covered by the ECSC Treaty from the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and Macedonia - Main contents

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93/732/ECSC: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council of 22 December 1993 concerning the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of products covered by the ECSC Treaty originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Official Journal L 344 , 31/12/1993 P. 0040 - 0056

DECISION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL of 22 December 1993 concerning the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of products covered by the ECSC Treaty originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (93/732/ECSC)

THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community,

Whereas Decision 92/607/ECSC of the Representatives of the Government of the Member States meeting within the Council (1) established the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of products covered by the ECSC Treaty originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the territory of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia;

Whereas these arrangements should be maintained for 1994, subject to a number of drafting amendments and adaptation of the Annexes;

Whereas the Agreement between the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Coal and Steel Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia, of the other part, signed at Luxembourg on 5 April 1993, which defines, in particular, the system of commercial exchanges between the Community and Slovenia, provides for the Community to establish the tariff system for imports as regards certain products listed in the Annex to the Agreement;

In agreement with the Commission,

HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

• 1. 

  Subject to the special provisions laid down in paragraphs 2 and 4, products originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia shall be admitted for import into the Community without quantitative restrictions or measures having equivalent effect and exempt from customs duties and charges having equivalent effect.

This paragraph shall be without prejudice to the provisions contained in Article 3 of Decision 93/235/ECSC of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council of 26 April 1993, concerning trade between the European Coal and Steel Community and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) (2).

• 2. 

  The import of goods referred to in the Annex shall be subject to a system of annual ceilings above which the customs duties actually applied in respect of third countries may be reintroduced in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3. The ceilings established for 1994 are indicated for each of them. Such ceilings shall apply as a whole to all the Republics to which this Decision refers.

• 3. 

  As soon as a ceiling set for the import of a product has been reached, the customs duties actually applicable to third countries may again be levied on imports of the product in question until the end of the calendar year.

Article 2

The provisions determining the rules of origin laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 343/92 (3) shall apply to this Decision.

Article 3

Where the offers made by economic operators in the Republics concerned are likely to cause injury to the operation of the common market and where this injury may be ascribed to a difference as regards prices in the conditions of competition, the Community may adopt such safeguard measures as it considers necessary to avoid or put an end to the injury to the operation of the common market; in...

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