RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/SG/W/38
18October 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-3149)
Original: French Committee onSafeguards
REPLIES FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES CONCERNING QUESTIONS
POSED BYJAPAN1CONCERNING THE NOTIFICATION OFTHE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES LAWS AND REGULATIONS2
Thefollowing communication, dated 4October 1995, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Delegation oftheEuropean Communities.
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Article 5.1oftheAgreement onSafeguards andArticle 16.1of
Council Regulation (EC) No.3285/94
onSafeguards
Article 5:1oftheAgreement onSafeguards refers tothemodalities fortheapplication of
safeguard measures. Theprovisions ofthisArticle arereflected inArticle 20ofRegulation (EC)
No.3285/94.
Article 16.1ofRegulation (EC) No.3285/94 concerns thesubstantive conditions thatmust
existforsafeguard measures tobeadopted. These conditions arethose laiddown inArticle 2ofthe
Agreement.Article16.1furthermorespecifiesthatsafeguardmeasuresareadoptedinordertosafeguard
theinterests oftheCommunity.
Itmaybesaidinageneral andpreliminary waythat,where safeguard measures areadopted,
theinterestoftheCommunityisthatofpreventingorremedyingseriousinjurytoCommunityproducers.
Theexaminationofthespecificdecisions,which,inaccordancewithCommunitylaw(Article190
oftheTreaty establishing theEuropean Community), muststatethereasons onwhich theyarebased
andtheirjustification, willshow case-by-case thereasons forwhich safeguard measures havebeen
adopted andillustrate thecriteria bywhich theconclusion wasreached thatsuchmeasures were in
theinterest oftheCommunity.
1G/SG/W/23.
2G/SG/N/1/EEC/1.