Trade in processed agricultural products: obsolete act

PURPOSE: to repeal Regulation 429/73 which has become obsolete (imports of certain goods originating from Turkey).

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) No 1228/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing Regulation (EEC) No 429/73 of the Council making special provisions for imports into the Community of certain goods coming under Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 and originating in Turkey.

CONTENT: the Council repealed regulation 429/73 making special provisions for imports into the EU of certain goods coming under regulation 1059/69 and originating in Turkey, following a first-reading agreement with the European Parliament.

Regulation 429/73 was adopted in order to determine the reduced fixed component of the import duties for processed agricultural products originating in Turkey and imported in the framework of the additional protocol to the agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Turkey, signed on 23 November 1970.

Decision No 1/95 of the EC Turkey association council of 22 December 1995 on implementing the final phase of the Custom Union lays down the rules for determining the customs duties for processed agricultural products originating in Turkey and imported into the EU.

Therefore regulation 429/73 has become obsolete.

Improving the transparency of Union law is an essential element of the better lawmaking strategy that the institutions of the Union are implementing. In that context it is appropriate to remove from the legislation in force those acts which no longer have real effect.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 11/12/2011.