mag. Franc But l. r.
For the European Community
dr. Franz Fischler(s)
of the one part, and
THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA,
of the other part,
WHEREAS:
(1) The Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, acting within the framework of the European Union, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia, of the other part (hereinafter referred to as “the Europe Agreement“) was signed in Luxembourg on 10 June1996 and entered into force on 1 February 1999(*1).
(2) Article 21(5) of the Europe Agreement provides that the Community and the Republic of Slovenia shall examine in the Association Council, product by product and on an orderly and reciprocal basis, the possibility of granting each other additional agricultural concessions. On this basis negotiations have been undertaken and were concluded between the parties.
(3) Two further rounds of negotiations for improved agricultural trade concessions were concluded on 22 May 2000 and 25 July 2002.
(4) From the one side, the Council decided, by virtue of Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000(*2), to apply on a provisional basis, as from 1 July 2000, the European Community concessions resulting from the 2000 round of negotiations and from the other side the Government of the Republic of Slovenia took legislative provisions to apply, as from the 1 October 2000, the equivalent Slovenian concessions published in Decree amending and supplementing the Decree on implementation of the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, acting within the framework of the EU, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia, of the other part, with regard to trade (Uradni 1. RS. No. 88/2000) (*3), as modified.
(5) The abovementioned concessions will be supplemented and replaced on the date of entry into force of this Protocol by the concessions provided for herein,
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
ARTICLE 1
The arrangements for import into the Community applicable to certain agricultural products originating in the Republic of Slovenia as set out in Annex A(a) and A(b) and the arrangements for import into the Republic of Slovenia applicable to certain agricultural products originating in the Community as set out in Annex B(a) and B(b) to this Protocol shall replace those set out in Annexes VI and VII as referred to in Article 21(2) and 21(4), of the Europe Agreement.
ARTICLE 2
The Annexes to this Protocol shall form an integral part thereof. This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Europe Agreement.
ARTICLE 3
This Protocol shall be approved by the Community and the Republic of Slovenia in accordance with their own procedures. The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary measures to implement this Protocol.
The Contracting Parties shall notify each other of the accomplishment of the corresponding procedures according to the first paragraph hereof.
ARTICLE 4
Subject to completion of the procedures provided for in Article 3, this Protocol shall enter into force on 1 January 2003. Should these procedures not be completed in time, it shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following the Contracting Parties’ notification of the accomplishment of the procedures.
Quantities of goods subject to tariff quotas and released for free circulation as from 1 January 2003 under the concessions provided for in Annex A(b) to Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000 and Annexes 1 and 2 to the Decree implementing the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, acting within the framework of the European Union, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia, of the other part, with regard to trade, and provisional application of the Agreed Minutes on trade negotiations between the Commission and the Republic of Slovenia on additional mutual agricultural concessions (Brussels, 22 May 2000) (Uradni l. RS. No. 116/2002), shall be fully counted against the quantities provided for Annex A(b) and B(b) to this Protocol, except for quantities for which import licences were issued before 1 January 2003.
ARTICLE 5
This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Slovenian languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.
Done at Brussels on the twenty-seventh day of May in the year two thousand and three.
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(*)1 OJ L 51, 26.2.1999, p. 3.
(*2) OJ L 286, 11.11.2000, p. 15.
(*3) Uradni l. No. 88 of 29.9.2000, p. 10120.
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