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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 744/85

of 21 March 1985

on the application of the EEC-Jordan Cooperation Council Decision No 3/84 amending the Protocol concerning the definition of the concept of 'originating products' and methods of administrative cooperation, to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal of the Commission,

Whereas the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (1) was signed on 18 January 1977 and entered into force on 1 November 1978;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 25 of the Protocol concerning the definition of the concept of 'originating products' and methods of administrative cooperation, the EEC-Jordan Cooperation Council has adopted Decision No 3/84 amending the Protocol as regards the rules of origin;

Whereas that Decision should be made to apply in the Community,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Decision No 3/84 of the EEC-Jordan Cooperation Council shall apply in the Community.

The text of the Decision is attached to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 21 March 1985.

For the Council

The President

G. ANDREOTTI

(1) OJ No L 268, 27. 9. 1978, p. 2.

DECISION No 3/84 OF THE EEC-JORDAN COOPERATION COUNCIL

of 23 October 1984

replacing the unit of account by the ECU in the Protocol on the definition of 'originating products' and methods of administrative cooperation to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

THE COOPERATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and in particular Title I thereof,

Having regard to the Protocol concerning the definition of the concept of 'originating products' and methods of administrative cooperation, hereinafter called the 'Protocol', and in particular Articles 6 (1) and 25 thereof,

Whereas, since the unit of account is not appropriate to the current international monetary situation, it is necessary to adopt a new common value basis for determining when forms EUR 2 may be used instead of movement certificates EUR 1 and when no documentary evidence of origin is required;

Whereas the European Communities introduced the ECU as from 1 January 1981;

Whereas it is convenient to use the ECU to serve as a common value basis;

Whereas, for administrative and commercial reasons, the common value basis must remain fixed for periods of at least two years; whereas the ECU to be used must in consequence be exceptionally fixed at a base date to be updated every two years,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The Protocol is hereby amended as follows:

1. In the second subparagraph of Article 6 (1) '1 000 units of account' is replaced by '1 620 ECU.'

2. In Article 6 (1), the third subparagraph is deleted and the following inserted:

'Up to and including 30 April 1983, the ECU to be used in any given national currency of a Member State of the Community shall be the equivalent in that national currency of the ECU as at 1 October 1980. For each successive period of two years it shall be the equivalent in that national currency of the ECU as at the first working day in October in the year immediately preceding that two-year period.

Revised amounts replacing the amounts expressed in ECU in this Article and in Article 17 (2) may be introduced by the Community at the beginning of any successive two-year period, if necessary, and shall be notified by the Community to the Customs Cooperation Committee not later than one month before they come into force. These amounts shall be, in any event, such as to ensure that the value of the limits as expressed in the currency of any Member State shall not decline.

If the goods are invoiced in the currency of another Member State of the Community the importing Member State shall recognize the amount notified by the Member State concerned.'

3. In Article 17 (2), '60 units of account' and '200 units of account' are replaced by '105 ECU' and '325 ECU' respectively.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on 23 October 1984.

Done at Luxembourg, 23 October 1984.

For the Cooperation Council

The President

P. BARRY