title: RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION concerning the continuation of negotiations on an additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Greece required by the accession of new / Member States to the European Economic Community (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                       COM(74) 2251 final
                                                       Brussels , 8 January 1975
                   - RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
 concerning the continuation of negotiations on an additional Protocol
         to the Agreement establishing an Association between the
 European Economic Community and Greece required by the accession of new
                                                                          /
             Member States to the European Economic Community
               ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
com(74 ) 2251 final
 ---pagebreak---                    EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
           The Commission presents to the Council its proposals for
 implementation of the decisions on Greek wines taken in the SBC-Greece
 Council of Association on 2 December , 1974*    The decisions covered
 two aspects : the Community Decision , transmitted to the Greek party ,
 to make a declaration on harmonization in the wine sector , and the
Decision of the Council of Association to retain for the Six Protocol
no . 14 annexed to the Association Agreement as the provisional arrange
ments for imports to the Community of products in this sector and to lay
down similar arrangements for the three new Member States .     As regards
the declaration on harmonization , the Commission considers that the
attached proposal , once adopted by the Council , should be officially commu
nicated to the Greek Government on the occasion of the conclusion of the
negotiations 'On the additional Protocol .
          The Commission considers that the import treatment accorded in
the three new Member States should be laid down for the whole period -
namely 2 years – referred to in Article 35 although the Council of Asso
ciation in fact mentioned 19 75 • for disparity between a two-year arran
gement for the original Members of the Community and treatment accorded
for only a few months for the new Member States , should be avoided.     Fur
thermore , the Commission thinks it appropriate to offer Greece preferential
treatment without , however , losing sight of the fact that the Community 's
position should not be weakened in case the harmonization negotiations came
to nothing and the treatment applicable to imports of Greek wine had to be
fixed for the whole Community .    It therefore proposes that , by analogy
with what was done in 1962 in accordance with Protocol no. 14 for Benelux
and for Germany the tariff treatment applied by the new Member States
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 ---pagebreak--- should be the treatment that they apply to the same products from
the Community as originally constituted.     Furthermore the tradit
ional trade patterns should be taken into account , as was done for
Germany , so as to lay down treatment which , while restricting imports
to the quantities traditionally exported by Greece , avoids the need
to have recourse , within the Community , to measures which could be
warranted by the diversity of treatment applied by the Member States .
Since the treatment in question would be accorded for a maximum of two
years , it must be emphasized that such a quantitative restriction would
not affect the normal trend of trade between Greece and the three new
Member States and that , consequently , the basic principles of the Athens
Agreement are not being ignored.
 ---pagebreak---         Recommendation for a Council decision concerning
  the continuation of negotiations on an additional Protocol
     to the Agreement establishing an Assoc iation^etween
  the European Economic Community and Greece required by the
   accession of new Member States to the European Economic
                           Community
 THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
 and in particular Article 238 thereof ;
 Having regard to the Treaty concerning the accession of new Member States
to the European Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community signed
 in Brussels on 22 January , 1972 , and in particular Article 108 of the
accompanying Act ;
Having regard to the recommendation from the Commission ;
Whereas the EEC-Greece Council of Association decided on 2 December , 1974 »
that the treatment applicable to imports into the Community of Greek wines
will be dealt with within the framework of the harmonization of agricultural
policies ; whereas the treatment applicable to imports of those wines into
the three new Member States of the Community will be similar to that applied
at present under the Athens Agreement to imports of the wines in question
into the six original Member States ;
Whereas the treatment to be applied to the new Member States should there
fore be precisely defined ;
HAS DECIDED :
                               Sole Article
          The Commission is hereby authorized to continue negotiations with
Greece , within the framework of the directives annexed hereto for the
 ---pagebreak--- conclusion of the additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing
an Association between the ESC and Greece required by the accession
of new Member States to the E3C.                   '
           The Commission shall conduct these negotiations with the
participation of the representatives of the Member States .
                                             For the Council
                                              The President
Brussels .
 ---pagebreak---                                                      ANNEX
1*    The additional Protocol shall lay down the treatment the
new Member States are to apply to imports of Greek wines during
the period referred to in Article 35 of the-'Association Agreement .
2.    Such treatment will comprise tariff quotas , the size of which
will "be determined in the light of the pattern of imports "between
each of the new Member States and Greene during the last three
years for which statistics are available .
3.   The duties applicable to those imports will for each of the new
Member States be equal to the duties applied by the latter to imports
of identical products from the Community as originally constituted .
 ---pagebreak--- Declaration "by the Community to the Greek Government on the basis
of Article 35 of the Association Agreement •-
THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,
Having regard to Articles 33 t 35 and 36 of the Agreement establishing
an Association "between the European Economic Community and Greece ;
Whereas the functioning and development of the Association in respect
of agricultural products must be accompanied by progressive harmoniza
tion of the agricultural policies of the Community and of Greece ;
Whereas the Community 's agricultural policy constitutes an indivisible
whole ;
Whereas it is incumbent upon the Community to take the initiative in
launching the procedure for harmonizing agricultural policies between
the Community and Greece ;
Declares that for the products listed in Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC )
N* 816/70 of t-he Council of the European Communities of 28 April 1970
laying down additional provisions for the common organization of the
market in wine , the basic provisions for implementing the common
agricultural policy have been laid down .