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Council Regulation (EC) No 1528/2007 of 20 December 2007 applying the arrangements for products originating in certain states which are part of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States provided for in agreements establishing, or leading to the establishment of, Economic Partnership AgreementsLegal instrument | Regulation |
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Number legal act | Regulation 2007/1528 |
Original proposal | COM(2007)717 ![]() |
CELEX number i | 32007R1528 |
Document | 20-12-2007 |
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Publication in Official Journal | 31-12-2007; OJ L 348, 31.12.2007,Special edition in Croatian: Chapter 11 Volume 055 |
Effect | 31-12-2007; Entry into force Date pub. See Art 27 01-01-2008; Application See Art 27 |
End of validity | 27-07-2016; Repealed and replaced by 32016R1076 |
31.12.2007 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 348/1 |
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1528/2007
of 20 December 2007
applying the arrangements for products originating in certain states which are part of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States provided for in agreements establishing, or leading to the establishment of, Economic Partnership Agreements
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1) |
The Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (1) (hereinafter referred to as the ‘ACP-EC Partnership Agreement’) provides that Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are to enter into force no later than 1 January 2008. |
(2) |
The ACP-EC Partnership Agreement provides for the maintenance of the trading arrangements contained in Annex V to that Agreement until 31 December 2007. |
(3) |
Since 2002 the Community has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements with the ACP Group of States in the form of six regions comprising the Caribbean, Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, the Pacific Island States, the South African Development Community and West Africa. Such Economic Partnership Agreements will be consistent with WTO obligations, support regional integration and promote the gradual integration of the ACP economies into the rules-based world trading system, thereby fostering their sustainable development and contributing to the overall effort to eradicate poverty and to enhance living conditions in the ACP countries. In a first stage, negotiations may be concluded on agreements leading to the establishment of Economic Partnership Agreements covering at least WTO compatible goods arrangements consistent with regional economic and political integration processes, to be complemented as soon as possible by complete Economic Partnership Agreements. |
(4) |
Those agreements establishing, or leading to the establishment of, Economic Partnership Agreements for which negotiations have been concluded provide that the parties may take steps to apply the agreement, before provisional application on a mutual basis, to the extent feasible. It is appropriate to take action to apply the agreements on the basis of these provisions. |
(5) |
The arrangements included in this Regulation are to be amended, as necessary, in accordance with the agreements establishing, or leading to the establishment of, Economic Partnership Agreements, as and when such agreements are signed and concluded pursuant to Article 300 of the Treaty and are either provisionally applied or in force. The arrangements are to be terminated in whole or in part if the agreements in question do not enter into force within a reasonable period of time in accordance with the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. |
(6) |
For imports into the Community, the arrangements in the agreements establishing, or leading to the establishment of, Economic Partnership Agreements, should provide for duty free access and no tariff rate quotas for all products with the exception of arms. These arrangements are subject to transitional periods and arrangements for certain sensitive products and specific arrangements for the French Overseas Departments. In the light of the specificities of the situation of South Africa, products originating in South Africa should continue to benefit from the relevant provisions of the Agreement on Trade, Development and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and South Africa, of the other part (2)... |
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