RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE WT/REG22/N/1
22December 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-4140)
Original: English
CUSTOMS UNION BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Communication from theParties totheCustoms Union
On22December 1995, thePermanent Delegation oftheEuropean Commission asked the
Secretariat tocirculate thefollowing communication toMembers oftheWTO andalsoinformed that
detailed documentation would follow.
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Turkey andtheEuropean Communities havethehonour toinform theMembers oftheWorld
Trade Organization thatthefinalphase oftheCustoms Union between Turkey andtheEuropean
Communitywillenterintoforceon1January1996,followingthedecisionoftheEC-TurkeyAssociation
Council of22December 1995.
Theentry intoforce ofthefinalphase completes theprogressive establishment oftheCustoms
Union inaccordance withtheAgreement establishing anAssociation between theEuropean Economic
Community andTurkey signed atAnkara on12September 1963(L/2155/Add.1, GATT 1947Working
Party Report adopted on25March 1965, 13S/59).1
TheCustoms Union concerns tradeingoods andisestablished inconformity withArticle XXIV
ofGATT 1994. Information onthetariff aspects oftheCustoms Union willbecommunicated tothe
Members atalaterdate.
1SeealsotheAdditionalProtocolsignedon23November1970(L/3554andAdds.1&2,GATT1947Working
Party Report adopted on25October 1972, 19S/102) andtheSupplementary Protocols signed on30June1973
(L/3980, GATT 1947 Working Party Report adopted on21October 1974, 21S/108).