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Document 01970A0720(01)-19861024

Consolidated text: Additional Agreement to the Agreement concerning products of the clock and watch industry between the European Economic Community and its Member States and the Swiss Confederation

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01970A0720(01) — EN — 24.10.1986 — 001.001


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ADDITIONAL AGREEMENT

to the Agreement concerning products of the clock and watch industry between the European Economic Community and its Member States and the Swiss Confederation ( 1 )

(OJ L 118 30.4.1974, p. 12)

Amended by:

 

 

Official Journal

  No

page

date

 M1

COUNCIL  Amendment of the Additional Agreement to the Agreement concerning products ofthe clock and watch industry between the European Economic Community and its Member States and the Swiss Confederation

  C 253

1

22.10.1977

 M2

COUNCIL  Amendment of the Additional Agreement to the Agreement concerning products of the clock and watch industry between the European Economic Community and its Member States and the Swiss Confederation

  C 193

1

1.8.1981

 M3

COUNCIL  Amendment of the Additional Agreement to the Agreement concerning products of the clock and watch industry between the European Economic Community and its Member States and the Swiss Confederation

  C 251

1

18.9.1984

►M4

COUNCIL  Amendment of the Additional Agreement to the Agreement concerning products of the clock and watch industry between the European Economic Community and its Member States and the Swiss Confederation

  C 94

1

7.4.1987




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ADDITIONAL AGREEMENT

to the Agreement concerning products of the clock and watch industry between the European Economic Community and its Member States and the Swiss Confederation ( 2 )



THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

of the one part, and

THE SWISS FEDERAL COUNCIL,

of the other part,

WHEREAS an Agreement concerning products of the clock and watch industry between the European Economic Community and its Member States and the Swiss Confederation was signed in Geneva on 30 June 1967;

WHEREAS it is necessary for the proper functioning of that Agreement to adopt additional provisions;

WHEREAS the ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council of 23 December 1971 governs the use of the description ‘Swiss’ for watches;

WHEREAS close cooperation exists in the clock and watch industry between the European Economic Community and Switzerland;

TAKING NOTE of the abolition, at the same time as this Agreement comes into force, of the rationalization grants accorded by Ebauches SA and ASUAG and of the simultaneous abolition of the quota referred to in point B 3 (b) of the abovementioned Agreement,

HAVE AGREED as follows:



Article 1

The tariff reductions specified in Articles 1 and 5 of the Agreement of 30 June 1967 shall enter into force at the same time as this Agreement.

Article 2

In order that a watch with a movement of Swiss manufacture as regards not less than 50 % of the value of all the constituent parts including the cost of assembly by virtue of Article 2 (2) (b) of the ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council of 23 December 1971 governing the use of the description ‘Swiss’ for watches can be considered to be Swiss, a certification procedure shall be established between Switzerland and the Community in accordance with the following rules:

1. 

Rough watch movements manufactured in the Community and listed in the Annex to the Agreement, and the regulating organs and other constituent watch-movement parts manufactured in the Community and complementary to rough movements of Swiss or Community manufacture, shall be considered to be equivalent in quality to rough movements and parts of Swiss manufacture with comparable technical characteristics. It shall be understood that watches and watch movements assembled from these rough movements and parts must satisfy the statutory technical control requirements in Switzerland.

2. 

The list specified in paragraph 1 of this Article of rough movements manufactured in the Community shall be brought up to date regularly in the following manner:

(a) 

Applications for new calibres of rough movements to be entered on the list shall be sent to the Chambre suisse de l'horlogerie by the associations of clock and watch makers in the Community or any manufacturer of rough movements established in the Community. applications shall be accompanied by a technical description of the calibre of the rough movements. The Chambre suisse de l'horlogerie shall enter the new calibre or calibres on the said list forthwith.

Should the entry be requested for a calibre of rough movements which has already been used in Switzerland and has failed to pass the statutory control in Switzerland, the Chambre suisse de l'horlogerie may contest the entry. In this event, the applicant may resort to the procedure provided for in paragraph 3 of this Article.

(b) 

The withdrawal of calibres of rough movements appearing on the list shall be communicated to the Chambre suisse de l'horlogerie by the associations of the clock and watch makers in the Community or by the manufacturer who had previously applied for the calibre to be entered on the list.

(c) 

Should the statutory technical-control requirements in Switzerland not be satisfied, the Chambre suisse d'horlogerie may request that the calibres of rough movements concerned be struck off the list and shall notify the party concerned of this request. In the event of a disagreement, the party concerned may, within two months, resort to the procedure provided for in paragraph 3 of this Article.

(d) 

All applications for amendments to the list, in accordance with subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) above, shall be notified to the Joint Committee by the Chambre suisse de l'horlogerie forthwith.

3. 

In the event of a dispute about the equivalence of quality, the matter shall be referred forthwith by any interested party to the Joint Committee provided for in Article 9 of the Agreement of 30 June 1967.

The first party so to decide shall, on its own initiative, seek a joint expert opinion from the institute for official quality control in the Swiss clock and watch industry and a corresponding qualified institute in the Community nominated by the Community interested party.

The institutes shall have three months in which to give the expert opinion requested.

For the purposes of giving this expert opinion, the institutes shall agree between themselves to take two sufficiently representative batches of watches or watch movements, each normally containing not more than 50 watches or watch movements, one in a Swiss enterprise, the other in a Community enterprise.

After testing these batches in accordance with the technical control standards statutory in Switzerland, the institutes shall compare their results and shall jointly draw up a report for the Joint Committee containing their conclusions and any proposals they may have.

The Joint Committee shall consider this report at its following meeting.

Article 3

The Agreement and the annexed list shall be published in the official journals of the contracting parties and shall be communicated to the watch and clock manufacturers by the trade associations concerned.

Changes in the annexed list shall be published and communicated in the same manner.

Every three years at least, beginning from the entry into force of the Agreement, the Joint Committee shall review the list to take into account any items which have in the meantime been entered on or struck off the list. The new list shall be published and communicated in the same manner.

Any further information can be obtained from the trade associations concerned.

Article 4

Either Contracting Party may denounce the Agreement by giving 12 months'notice.

Article 5

The Agreement shall be concluded and ratified by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their own procedures.

The Agreement shall enter into force on 1 January 1973 provided that the Contracting Parties have exchanged their instruments of ratification by that date.

Should the instruments of ratification be exchanged between 1 January and 30 November 1973, the Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following that exchange.

ANNEX



List specified in Article 2

▼M4

6¾ × 8

C 81

Quartz analogue, no second

C 86 – 800

Quartz analogue, centre second

C86 – 810

Quartz analogue, centre second, calendar

10½

C 86 – 1000

Quartz analogue, centre second

10½

C 86 – 1010

Quartz analogue, centre second, calendar

11½

C 80

Quartz analogue, centre second

11½

C 80

Quartz analogue, centre second, calendar

11½

C 86 – 1100

Quartz analogue, centre second

11½

C 86 – 1110

Quartz analogue, centre second, calendar

6¾ × 8

C 64

Pin-pallet escapement, no second, 18 000 vibrations

6¾ × 8

C 64

Pin-pallet escapement, no second, calendar, 18 000 vibrations

10½—11½

C 66

Pin-pallet escapement, centre second, 18 000 vibrations

10½—11½

C 66

Pin-pallet escapement, centre second, calendar, 18 000 vibrations

5½—6¾

ΗΡ 6553

Quartz analogue, three hands, height 2,85 mm

6¾—8

ΗΡ 6060

Quartz analogue, no second

6¾—8

ΗΡ 6653

Quartz analogue, three hands, height 2,85 mm

ΗΡ 6870

Quartz analogue, centre second

ΗΡ 6871

Quartz analogue, centre second, date

10½

ΗΡ 6881

Quartz analogue, three hands

10½

ΗΡ 6884

Quartz analogue, three hands, lunar phase

11½

ΗΡ 6640 Β

Quartz analogue, three hands

11½

ΗΡ 6641 Β

Quartz analogue, three hands

18

ΗΡ × 40

Anchor, small second, 18 000 vibrations

11

ΗΡ 740 D

Pin-pallet escapement, centre sweep second, 18 000 vibrations (1)

11

ΗΡ 741 D

Pin-pallet escapement, centre sweep second, calendar, 18 000 vibrations (1)

11½

ΗΡ 1640 D

Pin-pallet escapement, centre sweep second, 18 000 vibrations

11½

ΗΡ 1641 D

Pin-pallet escapement, centre sweep second, calendar, 18 000 vibrations

12

ΗΡ 2640 D

Pin-pallet escapement, centre sweep second, 18 000 vibrations

12

ΗΡ 2641 D

Pin-pallet escapement, centre sweep second, 18 000 vibrations

13½

ΗΡ 3640 D

Pin-pallet escapement, centre sweep second, 18 000 vibrations

13½

ΗΡ 3641 D

Pin-pallet escapement, centre sweep second, calendar, 18 000 vibrations

5½—6¾

ΡE 5020

Quartz analogue, no second

5½—6¾

FE 5120

Quartz analogue, no second

5½—6¾

FE 5130

Quartz analogue, centre second

5½—6¾

ΡE 6820

Quartz analogue, no second

6¾—8

ΡE 6320 Α

Quartz analogue, no second

6¾—8

ΡE 6120

Quartz analogue, no second

6¾—8

FE 6130

Quartz analogue, centre second

ΡE 7020

Quartz analogue, centre second

FE 7021

Quartz analogue, centre second, date

FE 7022

Quartz analogue, centre second, day and date

FE 7023

Quartz analogue, centre second, date hand

FE 7029

Quartz analogue, centre second, date and lunar phases

10½

FE 7120

Quartz analogue, centre second

10½

FE 7121

Quartz analogue, centre second, date

10½

FE 7122

Quartz analogue, centre second, day and date

10½

FE 7123

Quartz analogue, centre second, date hand

10½

FE 7129

Quartz analogue, centre second, date and lunar phases

10½

FE 10030

Quartz analogue, centre second

10½

FE 10031

Quartz analogue, centre second, date

10½

FE 10032

Quartz analogue, centre second, day and date

11½

FE 7220

Quartz analogue, centre second

11½

FE 7221

Quartz analogue, centre second, date

11½

FE 7222

Quartz analogue, centre second, day and date

11½

FE 7223

Quartz analogue, centre second, date hand

11½

FE 7228

Quartz analogue, centre second, day and date

11½

FE 7229

Quartz analogue, centre second, lunar phases and date

11½

FE 11030

Quartz analogue, centre second

11½

FE 11031

Quartz analogue, centre second, date

11½

FE 11032

Quartz analogue, centre second, day and date

22,4 mm × 20,5 mm

FE 3 DΑ

Quartz analogue, no second, digital with alarm

5½—6¾

FE 68 Α

Anchor, no second, 21 600 vibrations

6¾—8

FE 163

Anchor, no second, 21 600 vibrations

6¾—8

FE 163.3

Anchor, centre second, 21 600 vibrations

FE 163.1

Anchor, no second, date, 21 600 vibrations

FE 163.4

Anchor, centre second, date, 21 600 vibrations

10½—11½

FE 233/68 E 21

Anchor, small second, 21 600 vibrations

10½

FE 233/72 E 21

Anchor, small second, date, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 233/69 E 21

Anchor, small second, date, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 140 C

Anchor, centre second, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 140.1 C

Anchor, centre second, date, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 140.2 C

Anchor, centre second, day and date, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 5601

Anchor, centre second, date, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 5602

Anchor, centre second, day and date, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 5606

Anchor, centre second, month and date, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 5611

Anchor, self-winding, centre second, date, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 5612

Anchor, self-winding, centre second, day and date, 21 600 vibrations

11½

FE 5616

Anchor, self-winding, centre second, month and date, 21 600 vibrations

13

FE 5618

Anchor, self-winding, centre second, day and date, 21 600 vibrations

3¾ × 6

PUW 211

Quartz analogue, no second, height 1,90 mm

5½ × 8

PUW 111

Quartz analogue, no second, height 1,20 mm

6¾ × 8

PUW 432

Quartz analogue, no second, height 3,60 mm

6¾ × 8

ΡUW 900

Quartz analogue, sweep second, height 2,50 mm

6¾ × 8

PUW 910

Quartz analogue, no second, height 2,50 mm

PUW 500

Quartz analogue, sweep second, height 2,50 mm

ΡUW 510

Quartz analogue, no second, height 2,50 mm

ΡUW 512

Quartz analogue, no second, height 2,50 mm

ΡUW 920

Quartz analogue, sweep second, height 2,50 mm

ΡUW 921

Quartz analogue, sweep second, calendar, height 2,50 mm

ΡUW 922

Quartz analogue, no second, calendar, height 2,50 mm

PUW 930

Quartz analogue, sweep second, height 2,50 mm

ΡUW 931

Quartz analogue, sweep second, calendar, height 2,50 mm

ΡUW 932

Quartz analogue, no second, calendar, height 2,50 mm

10½

ΡUW 241

Quartz analogue, sweep second, calendar, height 2,50 mm

10½

ΡUW 242

Quartz analogue, no second, height 2,50 mm

10½

ΡUW 243

Quartz analogue, sweep second, day-date, height 3,00 mm

11½

ΡUW 250

Quartz analogue, sweep second, height 2,50 mm

11½

ΡUW 251

Quartz analogue, sweep second, calendar, height 2,50 mm

11½

ΡUW 253

Quartz analogue, sweep second, day-date, height 3,00 mm

(1)   

The specifications of this calibre are shown on the data sheets for calibres 1640 D and 1641 D.



( 1 ) The Agreement has been drawn up in the French language only.

( 2 ) The Agreement has been drawn up in the French language only.

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