SUPPLEMENTARY PROTOCOL

to the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey

THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,

of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY,

of the other part,

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Turkey, signed at Ankara on 12 September 1963, and the Additional Protocol thereto, signed at Brussels on 23 November 1970, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Agreement’, and Decision No 1/80 of the Association Council of 19 September 1980,

CONSIDERING THAT the Community and Turkey wish to strengthen still further their relations in order to take account of the new dimension created by the accession to the European Communities of Spain and Portugal on 1 January 1986 and that Article 56 of the Additional Protocol provides for the possibility of taking the mutual interests of the Community and Turkey as defined by the Agreement into consideration on this occasion;

CONSIDERING THAT certain rules should be foreseen to enable Turkey's traditional export trade to the Community to be maintained,

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES:

Jakob Esper LARSEN,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,

Permanent Representative of Denmark,

Chairman of the Permanent Representatives Committee;

Jean DURIEUX,

Special Adviser in the Directorate-General for External Relations of the Commission of the European Communities;

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY:

Pulat TACAR,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,

Permanent Delegate to the European Economic Community, head of the mission of the Republic of Turkey;

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

1.   For 1990 and for each successive marketing year, the Community shall decide, on the basis of the statistical review and analysis referred to in paragraph 2, and taking into account factors relevant to the objective of maintaining traditional trade flows in the context of enlargement, whether to adjust the entry price, referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, for fresh lemons falling within subheading ex 08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Turkey within a quantitative limit of 12 000 tonnes a year.

2.   From 1987 onwards and at the end of each marketing year, the Community shall carry out, on the basis of a statistical review, an analysis of the situation for lemons originating in Turkey and exported to the Community.

For this same product, from 1989 onwards and for each subsequent year, the Community shall draw up, together with Turkey, a forecast of production and deliveries.

3.   The possible adjustment provided for in paragraph 1 refers to the sum to be deducted, in respect of customs duty, from the representative prices recorded in the Community for the purpose of calculating the entry price of this product, within the limits set out in Article 152 (2) (c) of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal.

Article 2

Imports into the Community of fresh table grapes falling within subheading 08.04 A I b) of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Turkey during the period from 18 to 31 July shall be admitted under the same conditions in respect of the abolition of customs duties as provided for the same product during the period from 15 to 17 July by Article 3 of Decision No 1/80 of the Association Council and paragraph 1 of the Exchange of Letters concluded between the EEC and the Republic of Turkey on 6 February 1981 concerning Article 3 (3) of that Decision.

Article 3

This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey.

Article 4

1.   This protocol shall be ratified, accepted or approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their own procedures; the Contracting Parties shall notify each other of the completion of the procedures necessary to that end.

2.   This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the month following that in which the notification provided for in paragraph 1 was given.

Article 5

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