COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 743/93 of 17 March 1993 on the list of products subject to the supplementary trade mechanism as regards consignment to Portugal

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular Article 234 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),

Whereas the achievement of the Single Market requires the removal of all barriers to trade not only between the Member States of the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 but also to the greatest possible extent between those Member States and Spain and Portugal; whereas, to that end, the supplementary trade mechanism must be abolished in all cases where it is not absolutely necessary;

Whereas experience of operating that mechanism indicates that it can be abolished for products subject to classic transition without any risk of disturbing the Portuguese market;

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3659/90 of 11 December 1990 on products subject to the supplementary trade mechanism during the second stage of Portuguese accession (2), sets out the list of products subject to transition by stages to which the STM applies; whereas experience indicates that maintaining that mechanism is essential to balance on the Portuguese market only in the case of those products covered by this Regulation;

Whereas given these facts a new list of products consigned to Portugal and subject to the mechanism in question should be drawn up and Regulation (EEC) No 3659/90 to be repealed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As regards consignments to Portugal, the supplementary trade mechanism provided for in Article 249 of the Act of Accession shall apply, in accordance with the requirements of Articles 250, 251 and 252 of that Act, to the following products only:

1. Beef and veal 2. Fruit and vegetables 3. Pigs and pigmeat

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supplementary trade mechanism shall only apply up to the date on which Portugal is declared free of African swine fever.

Article 2

The Commission shall keep under review the possibility of modification of the list of products in Article 1 in line with changes in trade and shall submit the necessary proposals to the Council.

Article 3

Regulation (EEC) No 3659/90 is hereby repealed.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 17 March 1993.

For the Council

The President

B. WESTH

(1) OJ No C 21, 25. 1. 1993.

(2) OJ No L 362, 27. 12. 1990, p. 38. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 831/92 (OJ No L 88, 3. 4. 1992, p. 14).