The enlargement of the Community could give rise to certain difficulties for the social situation in one or more Member States as regards the application of the provisions relating to the free movement of workers.

The Member States declare that they reserve the right, should difficulties of that nature arise, to bring the matter before the institutions of the Community in order to obtain a solution to this problem in accordance with the provisions of the Treaties establishing the European Communities and the provisions adopted in application thereof.

The accession of Spain and Portugal to the Communities before the expiry of the transitional measures laid down in Article 9 of the Act could require particular transitional measures on relations between these countries and Greece.

These transitional measures would have to be determined in the instruments of accession with Spain and Portugal.

In negotiations of the Protocols to be concluded with co-contracting third countries referred to in Article 118, the Community shall take as its basis for negotiation the provisions which have been agreed in the matter during the Conference between the European Communities and the Hellenic Republic.

Recognizing that the special status granted to Mount Athos, as guaranteed by Article 105 of the Hellenic Constitution, is justified exclusively on grounds of a spiritual and religious nature, the Community will ensure that this status is taken into account in the application and subsequent preparation of provisions of Community law, in particular in relation to customs franchise privileges, tax exemptions and the right of establishment.

1.   The list of aids referred to in Article 69 (2) of the Act of Accession and their amounts are as have been agreed within the Conference. These amounts may be updated, where appropriate, after implementation of the procedure laid down in paragraph 2 below.

2.   The modifications which would be envisaged by the Hellenic authorities both concerning the method of granting aid and that of updating the amount of each of the national aids granted in Greece during the period prior to accession will be the subject of a joint examination by these authorities and Community bodies.

For this purpose the Hellenic Republic and the Commission will make a joint analysis at regular intervals of the envisaged modifications both for the structure and for the level of aids granted in Greece. The Commission will report to the Council on the results of this analysis.

3.   If, after examining the above report, the Community as at present constituted so requests, the Hellenic Republic communicates such decisions as it envisages adopting on national aids in the field of agriculture for the purpose of applying the procedure, defined elsewhere, on the adoption of certain decisions and other measures to be taken during the period prior to accession.

1.   For the application of the provisions of the Act of Accession which determine the level of Greek prices which, where appropriate, must be aligned on the level of common prices, it is agreed that the prices which will be taken into account under the reference period, the duration of which is to be determined for each product during the interim period, shall be the prices resulting from records of prices made and noted in the acts of the Conference, updated on the basis of price movements that have occurred since that time or that occur between now and accession.

2.   Movements in prices to be decided by the Hellenic authorities or which result from records made of prices in Greece, shall be the subject of a joint examination by the Hellenic authorities and Community bodies.

For this purpose the Hellenic Republic and the Commission shall make a joint analysis at regular intervals of data relating to price movements that are to be decided or are recorded for the Greek market. The Commission will report to the Council on the results of this analysis.

3.   If, after examining the above report the Community as at present constituted so requests, the Hellenic Republic communicates such decisions as it envisages adopting in the area of changing agricultural prices, for the purpose of applying the procedure, defined elsewhere, on the adoption of certain decisions and other measures to be taken during the period prior to accession.

1.   In so far as a system of production quotas such as, or analogous to, that currently provided for in the context of the common organization of the market in sugar will apply at the time of the accession of the Hellenic Republic, the latter will be treated in accordance with the same criteria as the other Member States.

For this purpose the maximum quota, concerning sugar production in Greece, will be fixed at a level close to that corresponding to the quantities produced in Greece during a recent reference period, the duration of which is to be determined during the interim period; this duration may not, however, exceed the sugar marketing year 1978/79. Within this maximum quota, the distinction between quota A and quota B will be made in accordance with the rules in force in the Community as at present constituted for determining the maximum quota.

2.   In so far as the system concerning a co-responsibility levy for milk and milk products or an analogous system will apply at the date of accession, the Community provisions in force providing exemption from this levy under certain conditions will be applied to the Hellenic Republic under the same conditions as for the other Member States.

3.   Aid for the production of olive oil will be granted in Greece for areas planted with olive trees at the date of accession. The Hellenic Republic will take the necessary measures to avoid any extension of these areas between now and accession so that the number of olive trees concerned is not greater than that obtaining at the end of 1978.

4.   Article 103 of the Act of Accession applies taking into account the Community legislation in force for products processed from fruit and vegetables at the date of signature of the Treaty. If, after the examination which will be carried out by the Council before 1 October 1982 in respect of the functioning of the Community system of aid towards production for certain products of the sector in question, the rules in force are amended, Article 103 will be adapted in consequence thereof.

On the occasion of the amendment to Article 2 (2) of the Directive in question, it is stated that the Council will decide to exclude the ‘Ταχυδρομικό Ταμιευτήριο’ (Post Office Savings Bank) from the list of institutions given in this provision:

The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany reserves the right to declare, when the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the European Coal and Steel Community takes effect and upon depositing its instrument of ratification of the Treaty concerning the accession of this country to the European Economic Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community, that the Decision of the Council of 24 May 1979 concerning accession to the European Coal and Steel Community and the Treaty referred to above shall equally apply to Land Berlin.

As to the Federal Republic of Germany, the term ‘nationals’, wherever used in the Act of Accession and in the GENERALes thereto, is to be understood to refer to ‘Germans as defined in the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany’.

Under the transitional provisions on the exercise of the right of freedom of movement, the present Member States shall, when they have recourse to labour originating in third countries, which do not belong to their regular labour market, in order to satisfy their labour requirements, grant Hellenic nationals the same priority as nationals of the other Member States

If, in the context of the re-examination provided for in Article 22 of Regulation (EEC) No 724/75, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 214/79, the Council will not have succeeded in making amendments, in good time, setting out the participation of the Hellenic Republic in the resources of the Fund as from 1 January 1981, the provisions of Article 2 (3) (a) will be amended upon accession, following the procedure applicable for the adoption of this Regulation, with a view to ensuring that the Hellenic Republic will share in the benefit of these provisions.

In order that the movement of the real rate of the Greek drachma, particularly in relation to the currencies of the present Member States, may be followed on foreign exchange markets, the Hellenic Republic will, before accession to the Community:

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The Hellenic Republic shall take the necessary measures to ensure its accession to the Agreements or Conventions referred to in Articles 3 (2) and 4 (2) of the Act concerning the conditions of accession and the adjustments to the Treaties coincides so far as possible, and under the conditions laid down in that Act, with the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession.

In so far as the Agreements or Conventions between the Member States, referred to in the second sentence of Article 3 (1) and in Article 3 (2), exist only in draft, have not yet been signed, and probably cannot be signed in the period before accession, the Hellenic Republic will be invited to be associated, after the signature of the Treaty of Accession and in accordance with appropriate procedures, in the preparation of those drafts in a positive spirit and in such manner as to facilitate their conclusion.

III

With regard to the negotiation of the Protocols of transition and of adjustment with the co-contracting countries referred to in Article 118 of the Act concerning the conditions of accession, the representatives of the Hellenic Republic shall be associated with the work as observers, side by side with the representatives of the present Member States.

Certain non-preferential Agreements concluded by the Community, which remain in force after 1 January 1981, may be the subject of adaptations or adjustments in order to take account of the enlargement of the Community. These adaptations or adjustments will be negotiated by the Community in association with the representatives of the Hellenic Republic in accordance with the procedure under the preceding paragraph.

IV

The consultations between the Hellenic Republic and the Commission provided for in Article 49 (2) of the Act concerning the conditions of accession and the adjustments to the Treaties shall take place before accession.

V

The Hellenic Republic undertakes that the granting of the licences referred to in Article 2 of Protocol 6 on the exchange of information with the Hellenic Republic in the field of nuclear energy shall not be deliberately accelerated before accession with a view to reducing the scope of the commitments contained in this Protocol.

VI

The institutions of the Community shall, in due course, draw up the texts referred to in Article 147 of the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Hellenic Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties.