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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2189/89
of 18 July 1989
amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 288/82 on common rules for imports
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the multilateral trade negotiations under the GATT, which opened pursuant to the Ministerial Declaration adopted at Punta del Este on 20 September 1986, resulted in an interim result in the Tropical Products Negotiating Group at the Montreal Mid-term Review in December 1988;
Whereas the Community's contribution to this result on tropical products consists of a significant number of tariff reductions on a most favoured nation basis, the elimination of a number of quantitative restrictions applied by Member States and a series of concessions for least-developed developing countries;
Whereas the Community has found the concessions made by other countries participating in the negotiations constitue an acceptable result;
Whereas the Ministerial Declaration adopted at Punta del Este provides for the early implementation of results obtained in the area of tropical products; whereas the Community has found it necessary, therefore, to implement its contribution on tropical products on an autonomous basis pending the end of the current round of multilateral trade negotiations within the framework of GATT;
Whereas it is therefore necessary to delete those quantitative restrictions on tropical products, set out in the Community's contribution, from Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 288/82 (1) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3982/86 (2),
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. The quantitative restrictions applied by some Member States to certain products originating in third countries as set out in the Annex shall be abolished as from 1 July 1989.
2. The products to which the quantitative restrictions referred to in paragraph 1 apply shall be deleted from Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 288/82.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 18 July 1989.