Introductory text

United Kingdom

Council Regulation (EC) No 580/2007

of 29 May 2007

concerning the implementation of Agreements in the form of Agreed Minutes between the European Community and Brazil, and between the European Community and Thailand pursuant to Article XXVIII of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (GATT 1994), amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87^f1 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Combined Nomenclature’, and set out the conventional duty rates of the Common Customs Tariff.

(2)

By its Decision 2007/360/EC of 29 May 2007 on the conclusion of Agreements in the form of Agreed Minutes between the European Community and the Federal Republic of Brazil, and between the European Community and the Kingdom of Thailand^f2, the Council approved, on behalf of the Community, those Agreements with a view to closing negotiations initiated pursuant to Article XXVIII of GATT 1994.

(3)

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 should therefore be amended and supplemented accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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Footnotes

f1: OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 501/2007 (OJ L 119, 9.5.2007, p. 1).
f2: See page 10 of this Official Journal.