COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 3032/95 of 27 December 1995 amending Regulations (EC) No 3355/94, (EC) No 3356/94 and (EC) No 3357/94 concerning the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of products originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Regulations (EC) No 3355/94 (1), (EC) No 3356/94 (2) and (EC) No 3357/94 (3), which set out the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of products originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, expire on 31 December 1995;
Whereas these arrangements will eventually have to be replaced by provisions contained in bilateral agreements to be negotiated with the countries in question; whereas, in the meantime, these arrangements should be maintained and the ceilings provided for in the cooperation agreement between the European Community and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 2 April 1980 and denounced on 25 November 1991 should be increased;
Whereas account should be taken of the fact that the agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Slovenia on trade in textiles, initialled on 23 July 1993, expires on 31 December 1995,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. In the titles of Regulations (EC) No 3356/94 and (EC) No 3357/94, '(1995)` shall be deleted.
2. The second subparagraph of Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 3355/94 shall be replaced by the following:
'It shall be applicable from 1 January 1995`.
3. The amounts given for the ceilings listed in column 4 in Annexes C I, C III, C IV and C V of Regulation (EC) No 3355/94 shall be replaced by the amounts given in the Annex to this Regulation.
4. References to 1995 in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 3356/94 shall be deleted.
5. Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EC) No 3357/94 shall be replaced by the following:
'1. Imports into the Community of certain products originating in the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia listed in Annexes C I, C II, C III, C IV and C V to Regulation (EC) No 3355/94 shall be subject to ceilings and annual Community surveillance.
Descriptions of the products referred to in the first subparagraph, their combined nomenclature codes and ceilings or sub-ceilings are given in the abovementioned Annexes. In Annex C II these ceilings are given in column 4, point (b).` 6. The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 3357/94 shall be deleted.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 January to 31 December 1996.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 27 December 1995.