 
 RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/C/W/254 
12 March 2001 
 (01-1213) 
Council for Trade in Goods Original:   English/ 
                  French/ 
Spanish 
 
  
REQUEST FOR A WTO WAIVER 
 
New ACP-EC Partnership Agreement  
  
 The following communication, dated 12 March 2001 has been received from the Permanent 
Delegation of the European Communities. 
 
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  On 4 May 2000, the full text of the ACP-EC  Partnership Agreement as well as all Annexes 
and Protocols were the subject of a communicati on from the Permanent Delegation of the European 
Communities, contained in document G/C/W/204, which replaced documents G/C/W/187/Add 1 and 
G/C/W/187/Add. 3 in their entirety.   At this stage, the Eur opean Communities wish to notify Council Regulation (EC) 
No. 216/2001 of 29 January 2001 amending Regulation (EEC) No. 404/93 on the common 
organisation of the market in bananas (Official Journal of the European Communities L 31 of 2 February 2001, page 2).   This Regulation is also relevant to the new ACP-EC Partnership Agreement in so far as it 
establishes the tariff preference granted by the EC to the ACP countries, therefore completing their 
preferential regime of access into the EC market. 
  Specifically, Article 1 of the said Regulation modi fies Article 18, paragraph 4, of the previous 
Regulation and provides that “a tariff preference  of EUR 300 per tonne shall apply to imports 
originating in ACP countries both un der and outside the tariff quotas”.  
 
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