PROTOCOL on trade and commercial and economic cooperation between the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), on the one hand, and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, on the other

THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY (ECSC),

of the one part, and

THE CZECH AND SLOVAK FEDERAL REPUBLIC,

of the other part,

CONSIDERING the Agreement between the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade and commercial and economic cooperation concluded on 24 September 1990 (1) and covering those areas for which the said Community has responsibility,

PURSUING the same objectives and desirous of finding similar solutions for the areas which are the responsibility of the ECSC,

WISHING to supplement the abovementioned Agreement so that the same rules and principles shall apply to products covered by the ECSC Treaty,

NOTING the developments which have taken place since the conclusion of the said Agreement, and in particular the abolition by the Community of the specific quantitative restrictions on products covered by the EEC Treaty originating in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Articles 1, 2, 4 and 12 to 19 of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on trade and commercial and economic cooperation concluded on 24 September 1990 shall also apply to the areas covered by the ECSC Treaty.

Article 2

Each Contracting Party shall accord the highest degree of liberalization which they generally apply to third countries to imports of the other's products, taking into account the provisions of GATT.

To this end the quantitative restrictions on imports into certain Member States shown in the Annex of the products originating in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and covered by the ECSC Treaty which are listed in that Annex shall be abolished from the date of entry into force of this Protocol.

Article 3

This Protocol shall apply on the one hand to the territories in which the ECSC Treaty is applied, under the conditions laid down in that Treaty, and on the other hand to the territory of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.

Article 4

This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the date on which the Contracting Parties notify each other of the completion of the procedures necessary for that purpose (2). It shall cease to apply where the Agreement referred to in Article 1 expires or is denounced.

Article 5

The Annex to this Protocol shall form an integral part thereof.

Article 6

This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages, each text being equally authentic.

Done at Brussels, 11 February 1992.

For the European Coal

and Steel Community

Horst KRENZLER

Director-General

for External Relations

For the Czech and

Slovak Federal Republic

Ing. Ji Orí BRABEC

First Deputy Minister

of Foreign Trade

(1) OJ N° L 291, 23. 10. 1990.

(2) The Contracting Parties notified each other of the completion of the procedures necessary on 11 February 1992.

ANNEX

GERMANY

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BENELUX

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ITALY

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