‘The number of representatives elected in each Member State shall be as follows:

‘The office of President shall be held for a term of six months by each member of the Council in turn, in the following order of Member States: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom.’

‘Decisions of the Council, other than those for which a qualified majority or unanimity is required, shall be taken by a vote of the majority of its members; this majority shall be considered to be attained if it represents an absolute majority of the representatives of the Member States, including the votes of the representatives of two Member States which each produce at least one eighth of the total value of the coal and steel output of the Community. However, for the purpose of applying those provisions of Articles 78, 78b and 78d of this Treaty which require a qualified majority, the votes of the members of the Council shall be weighted as follows:

For their adoption, acts shall require at least 45 votes in favour, cast by not less than six members.’

‘These amendments shall be proposed jointly by the High Authority and the Council, acting by a nine-tenths majority of its members, and shall be submitted to the Court for its opinion. In considering them, the Court shall have full power to assess all points of fact and of law. If as a result of such consideration it finds the proposals compatible with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, they shall be forwarded to the Assembly and shall enter into force if approved by a majority of three-quarters of the votes cast and tow-thirds of the members of the Assembly.’

‘Whwere the Council is required to act by a qualified majority, the votes of its members shall be weighted as follows:

For their adoption, acts of the Council shall require at least:

‘The Commission shall consist of 14 members, who shall be chosen on the grounds of their general competence and whose independence is beyond doubt.’

‘The number of members of the Committee shall be as follows:

‘The Court of Auditors shall consist of 10 members.’

‘The Committee shall consist of 28 members, appointed by the Council after consultation with the Commission.’

1.   The basic duty to which the successive reductions provided for in Articles 25 and 64 are to be applied shall, for each product, be the duty actually applied on 1 July 1980.

The basic duty used for the moves towards alignment on the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC unified tariff provided for in Articles 31, 32 and 64 shall, for each product, be the duty actually applied by the Hellenic Republic on 1 July 1980.

2.   The Community as at present constituted and the Hellenic Republic shall inform each other of their respective basic duties.

1.   Customs duties on imports between the Community as at present constituted and the Hellenic Republic shall be progressively abolished in accordance with the following timetable:

2.   Notwithstanding paragraph 1:

1.   For the purpose of the progressive introduction of the ECSC unified tariff, the Hellenic Republic shall amend its tariff applicable to third countries as follows:

The Hellenic Republic shall apply in full the ECSC unified tariff from 1 January 1986.

2.   In respect of lignite, whether or not agglomerated, falling within heading No 27.02 of the Common Customs Tariff, the Hellenic Republic shall introduce in accordance with the same timetable of progressivity as that laid down in paragraph 1 the provisions in the Common Customs Tariff for these products and shall apply a duty of 5 % by 1 January 1986 at the latest.

1.   Where duties in the customs tariff of the Hellenic Republic differ in nature from the corresponding duties in the Common Customs Tariff or the ECSC unified tariff, the progressive alignment of the former on the latter shall be effected by adding the components of the Greek basic duty to those of the Common Customs Tariff or the ECSC unified tariff, the Greek basic duty being reduced to zero progressively, in accordance with the timetable set out in Articles 31, 32 and 64, and the duty in the Common Customs Tariff or the ECSC unified tariff increasing from zero to reach the full amount progressively in accordance with the same timetable.

2.   From 1 January 1981, if any duties in the Common Customs Tariff or the ECSC unified tariff are altered or suspended, the Hellenic Republic shall simultaneously amend or suspend its tariff in the proportion resulting from the implementation of Articles 31, 32 and 64.

3.   The Hellenic Republic shall apply the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC unified tariff nomenclature from 1 January 1981.

The Hellenic Republic may include within these nomenclatures national subdivisions existing at the time of accession which are indispensable in order that the progressive alignment of its customs duties with those in the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC unified tariff be carried out under the conditions laid down in this Act.

4.   With a view to facilitating the progressive introduction of the Common Customs Tariff and the ECSC unified tariff by the Hellenic Republic, the Commission shall determine, if necessary, the implementing provisions whereby the Hellenic Republic alters its customs duties.

1.   Notwithstanding Article 35, the Hellenic Republic may retain quantitative restrictions until 31 December 1985 on products listed in Annex III to this Act coming from the present Member States.

2.   The restrictions referred to in paragraph 1 shall take the form of quotas. The quotas for 1981 are listed in Annex III.

3.   The minimum rate of progressive increase for such quotas shall be 25 % at the beginning of each year for quotas expressed in units of account, and 20 % at the beginning of each year for quotas expressed in terms of volume. Such increase shall be added to each quota and the next increase calculated on the basis of the total thus obtained.

Where a quota is expressed in terms of both volume and value, the quota relating to the volume shall be raised by at least 20 % a year and the quota relating to the value by at least 25 % a year, the succeeding quotas to be calculated each year on the basis of the preceding quota plus the increase.

However, with regard to motor coaches and buses and other vehicles falling within subheading ex 87.02 A I of the Common Customs Tariff, the volume quota shall be raised by 15 % a year and the quota relating to the value by 20 % a year.

4.   Where the Commission records by a decision that imports into Greece of a product listed in Annex III have for two consecutive years been less than 90 % of the quota, the Hellenic Republic shall liberalize imports of that product from the present Member States.

5.   Quotas for fertilizers falling within heading Nos 31.02, 31.03 and subheadings 31.05 A I, II and IV of the Common Customs Tariff shall also constitute transitional measures required in order to abolish exclusive import rights. Such quotas shall be accessible to all importers in Greece and products imported under the said quotas may not be made subject in Greece to exclusive marketing rights.

1.   Notwithstanding Article 35, the 8 % general preference applied in Greece to public contracts shall be progressively eliminated by the Hellenic Republic in accordance with the same timetable as that established in Article 25 for the abolition of customs duties on imports between Greece and the Community as at present constituted.

2.   Notwithstanding Article 35, the Hellenic Republic may, for two years from the 1 January 1981, postpone opening its lists of approved suppliers to Community suppliers.

1.   Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article, the Hellenic Republic shall, from 1 January 1981 progressively adjust State monopolies of a commercial character within the meaning of Article 37 (1) of the EEC Treaty so as to ensure that by 31 December 1985 no discrimination regarding the conditions under which goods are procured and marketed exists between nationals of the Member States.

The present Member States shall have equivalent obligations in relation to the Hellenic Republic.

The Commission shall make recommendations as to the manner in which and the timetable according to which the adjustment provided for in the first subparagraph above must be carried out, it being understood that the manner and timetable must be the same for the Hellenic Republic and the present Member States.

2.   The Hellenic Republic shall, from 1 January 1981, abolish all exclusive export rights. It shall also abolish, on the same date exclusive rights on imports of copper sulphate falling within subheading ex 28.38 A II of the Common Customs Tariff, saccharin falling within subheading ex 29.26 A I of the Common Customs Tariff and flimsy paper falling within heading No ex 48.18 of the Common Customs Tariff.

1.   The Commission shall, with due regard for the provisions in force, in particular those relating to Community transit, determine the methods of administrative cooperation designed to ensure that goods fulfilling the requisite conditions benefit, from 1 January 1981, from the abolition of customs duties and charges having equivalent effect and quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect.

2.   The Commission shall lay down the provisions applicable from 1 January 1981 to trade within the Community in goods obtained in the Community in the manufacture of which have been incorporated:

In adopting these provisions, the Commission shall take into account the rules laid down in this Act for the elimination of customs duties between the Community as at present constituted and Greece, and for the progressive introduction by the Hellenic Republic of the Common Customs Tariff and the provisions relating to the common agricultural policy.

1.   Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions in force with regard to customs legislation for trade with third countries shall apply under the same conditions to trade within the Community, for such time as customs duties are levied in that trade.

For the purpose of establishing the customs value in respect of trade within the Community, and trade with third countries, until 1 January 1986 the customs territory to be taken into consideration shall be that defined by the provisions existing in the Community and in the Hellenic Republic on 31 December 1980.

2.   The Hellenic Republic shall apply the Common Customs Tariff and ECSC unified nomenclatures in trade within the Community from 1 January 1981.

The Hellenic Republic may include within these nomenclatures national subdivisions existing at the time of accession which are indispensable in order that the progressive elimination of its customs duties within the Community be carried out under the conditions laid down in this Act.

1.   Where the compensatory amounts referred to in Article 61 are applied in trade between the Community as at present constituted and Greece on one or more of the basic products considered as having been used in the manufacture of goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 determining the system of trade applicable to certain goods processed from agricultural products, Regulation (EEC) No 2730/75 on glucose and lactose and Regulation (EEC) No 2783/75 on the common system of trade for ovalbumin and lactalbumin, the following transitional measures shall be applied:

2.   If, during the application of compensatory amounts, there should be deflections in trade in the products covered by Regulations (EEC) No 2783/75 and (EEC) No 2730/75 the Commission may take appropriate corrective measures.

3.   The customs duty constituting the fixed component of the charge applicable on importation into Greece from third countries to goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 shall be determined by excluding from the total protection applied by the Hellenic Republic on the date of accession the agricultural protection to be introduced taking into consideration the transitional measures mentioned in paragraph 1.

Each fixed component determined in accordance with the first subparagraph applied by the Hellenic Republic to imports from third countries shall be aligned upon the Common Customs Tariff in accordance with the timetable laid down in Article 31. However, if the fixed component to be applied by the Hellenic Republic upon accession is lower than the fixed component in the Common Customs Tariff, the Hellenic Republic may align upon the latter immediately upon accession. Moreover the fixed components determined in accordance with the first subparagraph shall take account, as far as possible, of any particular difficulties which the Hellenic Republic foresees for specific products.

4.   The Hellenic Republic shall, for the goods covered by Regulations (EEC) No 1059/69, (EEC) No 2682/72 and (EEC) No 2730/75, apply in full the Common Customs Tariff nomenclature upon accession.

5.   The Hellenic Republic shall upon accession abolish any customs duties or charges having equivalent effect other than those provided for in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 for products covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 and any export aid or aid having equivalent effect to export aid for products covered by Regulations (EEC) No 2682/72 and (EEC) No 2730/75.

On imports from the Community the Hellenic Republic shall upon accession abolish any quantitative restrictions as well as all measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions for products covered by Regulations (EEC) No 1059/69, (EEC) No 2730/75 and (EEC) No 2783/75.

6.   The Council shall, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, adopt provisions to implement this Article.

1.   Articles 1 to 6 and 13 to 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 on the freedom of movement of workers within the Community shall only apply in the present Member States with regard to Hellenic nationals and in Greece with regard to nationals of the present Member States as from 1 January 1988.

The present Member States and the Hellenic Republic may maintain in force until 1 January 1988, with regard to Hellenic nationals and to nationals of the present Member States respectively, national provisions submitting to prior authorization immigration undertaken with a view to pursuing an activity as an employed person and/or the taking up and pursuit of paid employment.

2.   Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 shall only apply in the present Member States with regard to Hellenic nationals and in Greece with regard to nationals of the present Member States as from 1 January 1986.

However the members of workers' families, within the meaning of Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 shall have the right to be employed in the territory of the Member State where they have settled with the worker, if they are resident for at least three years in this territory. This period of residence shall be reduced to 18 months as from 1 January 1984.

The rules of this paragraph shall not prejudice more favourable national provisions.

1.   This Article shall apply to prices in respect of which, in Chapter 2, reference is made to this Article.

2.   Before the first move towards price alignment referred to in Article 59, the prices to be applied in Greece shall be fixed, in accordance with the rules provided for in the common organization of the market in the sector in question, at a level which allows producers in that sector to obtain market prices equivalent to those obtained, for a representative period to be determined for each product, under the previous national system.

However, in the absence of price data in respect of certain products on the Greek market, the price to be applied in that Member State shall be calculated on the basis of the prices obtaining in the Community as at present constituted of similar products or groups of similar products, or products with which they are in competition.

1.   If the application of the provisions of this Title results in a price level different from that of the common prices, the prices in respect of which, in Chapter 2, reference is made to this Article shall, subject to paragraph 4, be aligned with the level of the common prices each year at the beginning of the marketing year in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3.

2.   As regards:

3.   As regards other products, the moves towards alignment shall be carried out in five stages as follows:

4.   In the interest of the smooth functioning of the process of integration, the Council, acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the EEC Treaty, may decide that, notwithstanding paragraphs 2 and 3, the price of one or more products in Greece shall for one marketing year depart from the prices resulting from the application of paragraphs 2 or 3.

This departure may not exceed 10 % of the amount of the price move to be made.

In that event, the price level for the following marketing year shall be that which would have resulted from applying paragraph 2 or 3 if the departure had not been decided upon. A further departure from this price level may, however, be decided upon for that marketing year in accordance with the conditions in the first and second subparagraphs.

The derogation laid down in the first subparagraph shall not apply to the last move towards alignment referred to in paragraph 2 or 3.

1.   In respect of products covered, on the date of accession, by a common organization of the market, the system applicable in the Community as at present constituted in respect of customs duties and charges having equivalent effect and quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect shall, subject to Articles 61, 64 and 115, apply in Greece as from 1 January 1981.

2.   In respect of products not covered, on the date of accession, by a common organization of the market, the provisions of Title II concerning the progressive abolition of charges having equivalent effect to customs duties and of quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect shall not apply to those charges, restrictions and measures if they form part of a national market organization on the date of accession.

This provision shall only apply until the common organization of the market for these products is implemented and not later than 31 December 1985 and to the extent strictly necessary to ensure the maintenance of the national organization.

3.   The Hellenic Republic shall apply the Common Customs Tariff nomenclature as from 1 January 1981, in respect of products falling within Annex II to the EEC Treaty.

To the extent that no difficulties arise in the application of the Community rules and, in particular, in the functioning of the common organization of markets and of the transitional mechanisms provided for in this Title, the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, may authorize the Hellenic Republic to include within this nomenclature such existing national subdivisions as would be indispensable for carrying out the progressive moves towards alignment with the Common Customs Tariff or the elimination of the duties in the Community under the conditions laid down in this Act.

1.   The component for protection of the processing industry which is used in calculating the charge on imports from third countries of products covered by the common organization of the markets in cereals and rice shall be levied on imports from Greece into the Community as at present constituted.

2.   For imports into Greece, the amount of that component shall be determined by separating out, from the total protection applied on 1 January 1979, the component or components designed to ensure the protection of the processing industry.

Such component or components shall be levied on imports from other Member States; they shall replace, as regards the charge on imports from third countries, the Community protective component.

3.   Article 64 shall apply to the component referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, which shall be considered as the basic component. The reductions or alignments in question shall, however, be made in five stages by 20 % at the beginning of the five marketing years following accession fixed for the basic product concerned.

1.   The provisions of this Article shall apply to aids, premiums or other analogous amounts instituted under the common agricultural policy for which, in Chapter 2, reference is made to this Article.

2.   For the purposes of introducing Community aid in Greece, the following provisions shall apply:

1.   Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 68, the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized to maintain national aids on a transitional basis and in a degressive manner until 31 December 1985. However, a derogation may be made to the principle of degressivity for Greek national aids that are to be assessed by taking into consideration the scope of the socio-structural Directives referred to in Annex IV.

2.   The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall adopt as from accession, the necessary measures for the implementation of the provisions of this Article.

These measures shall include in particular the list and the exact wording of the aids referred to in paragraph 1, the amount of the aids and the timetable of their abolition, and detailed rules necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the common agricultural policy; these detailed rules must, in addition, ensure that the means of production, whether they originate from Greece or from the present Member States, enjoy equal access to the Greek market.

1.   Until the entry into force of the supplementary provisions to be adopted by the Community, and:

the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized to maintain for these products amongst the measures in force under the previous national system in its territory for a representative period to be determined those measures which are strictly necessary in order to maintain the income of the Greek producer at the level obtained under the previous national system.

2.   The products referred to in paragraph 1 are as follows:

3.   The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall establish as from accession the measures referred to in paragraph 1 that the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized to maintain.

1.   The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall adopt the provisions necessary for implementing this Title.

2.   The Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission after consulting the Assembly, may make the adaptations to the provisions appearing in this Title, which may prove to be necessary as a result of a modification in Community rules.

1.   If transitional measures are necessary to facilitate the passage from the existing arrangements in Greece to those resulting from the application of the common organization of the markets as provided for in this Title, particularly if for certain products the implementation of the new arrangements on the scheduled date meets with appreciable difficulties, such measures shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 38 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC or, as the case may be, in the corresponding Articles of the other Regulations on the common organization of agricultural markets. Such measures may be taken during the period up to 31 December 1982, but their application may not extend beyond that date.

2.   The Council may, acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission after consulting the Assembly, extend the period referred to in paragraph 1.

1.   Notwithstanding Article 2 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 101/76 laying down a common structural policy for the fishing industry, and Article 100 of the Act of Accession 1972, the Italian Republic and the Hellenic Republic shall be authorized, until 31 December 1985, to restrict, as between each other, fishing in waters under their sovereignty or jurisdiction, situated within the areas indicated in Article 111, to vessels which traditionally fish from ports in the geographical coastal area in these waters.

2.   The provisions of paragraph 1 and of Article 111 shall not prejudice the special fishing rights which the Hellenic Republic and the Italian Republic may enjoy, as between each other, on 1 January 1981.

1.   Until 31 December 1985 the Hellenic Republic may maintain quantitative restrictions in the form of global quotas for the products and amounts listed in Annex V as temporary derogations from the common liberalization lists contained in Regulations (EEC) No 109/70, (EEC) No 1439/74 and (EEC) No 2532/78. These products shall be fully liberalized on 1 January 1986 and the quotas shall be progressively increased until that date. The procedures for the increase in the quotas shall be identical to those laid down in Article 36.

If imports made in two consecutive years are less than 90 % of the annual quota opened, the Hellenic Republic shall abolish the quantitative restrictions in force, if the product in question is at that time liberalized vis-à-vis the present Member States.

2.   Until 31 December 1985 the Hellenic Republic shall not liberalize vis-à-vis third countries, products not yet liberalized vis-à-vis the Community as at present constituted, or give third countries any other advantage over the Community as at present constituted as regards the quotas set for these products. The Hellenic Republic shall not liberalize with regard to State-trading countries referred to in Regulations (EEC) No 109/70 and (EEC) No 2532/78 products not yet liberalized with regard to the Community as at present constituted or countries to which Regulation (EEC) No 1439/74 applies or give such countries any other advantage over the Community as at present constituted or countries to which Regulation (EEC) No 1439/74 applies as regards the quotas fixed for these products.

3.   Until 31 December 1985 the Hellenic Republic shall maintain quantitative restrictions, in the form of quotas, vis-à-vis all third countries for the products listed in Annex VI which are not liberalized by the Community as at present constituted and which the Hellenic Republic has not yet liberalized vis-à-vis the former. The quotas for 1981 for countries to which Regulation (EEC) No 1439/74 applies other than those referred to in Article 120 and with regard to State-trading countries referred to in Regulations (EEC) No 109/70 and (EEC) No 2532/78 shall be the amounts shown in that Annex.

Any alteration of these quotas shall only be made in accordance with Community procedures.

1.   On 1 January 1981 the Hellenic Republic shall apply the Community system of generalized preferences for products other than those listed in Annex II of the EEC Treaty; however, as regards the products listed in Annex VII, the Hellenic Republic shall progressively align until 31 December 1985 on the rates of the system of generalized preferences. The timetable of alignment for these products shall be the same as those laid down in Article 31.

2.   In the case of products listed in Annex II to the EEC Treaty, the preferential rates provided for or calculated shall be applied to the duties actually levied by the Hellenic Republic in respect of third countries as laid down in Article 64.

In no case should Greek imports from third countries benefit from rates of duty more favourable than those applied to products from the Community as at present constituted.

1.   As from 1 January 1981 the Hellenic Republic shall apply the provisions of the Agreements referred to in Article 120.

The transitional measures and adjustments shall be the subject of Protocols concluded with the cocontracting third countries and annexed to those Agreements.

2.   These transitional measures, which shall take into account the corresponding measures adopted within the Community and which may not extend beyond the period of validity thereof, shall be designed to ensure the application by the Community of a single system for its relations with the cocontracting third countries as well as the identity of the rights and obligations of the Member States.

3.   These transitional measures applicable to the countries listed in Article 120 shall not, in any field, involve the Hellenic Republic granting them more favourable treatment than will apply to the Community as at present constituted.

In particular, all products subject to transitional measures in respect of quantitative restrictions applicable to the Community as at present constituted shall be subject to such measures vis-à-vis all the countries listed in Article 120, and for an identical period of time.

4.   These transitional measures applicable to the countries listed in Article 120 shall not result in the Hellenic Republic giving less favourable treatment to these countries than to other third countries. In particular, transitional measures in respect of quantitative restrictions cannot be envisaged for the countries listed in Article 120 in respect of products which will be free of such restrictions when imported into Greece from other third countries.

1.   As from 1 January 1981 the Hellenic Republic shall apply the Arrangement of 20 December 1973 regarding international trade in textiles as well as the bilateral Agreements concluded by the Community under this Arrangement. Protocols of adjustment of these Agreements shall be negotiated by the Community with third countries, that are parties to the Agreements, in order to provide for voluntary restraint on exports to Greece in the case of products and origins for which there are limitations on exports to the Community.

2.   Should these Protocols not have been concluded by 1 January 1981, the Community shall take measures designed to deal with this situation concerning the necessary transitional adjustments to ensure that the Agreements are implemented by the Community.