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8.12.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
326/17
REGULATION (EU) No 1228/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 16 November 2011
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
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
(3) Decision
No
1/95
of
the
EC-Turkey
Association
Council
EUROPEAN UNION,
of 22 December 1995 on implementing the final phase
of the Customs Union ( 3 ) lays down the rules for deter
mining the customs duties for processed agricultural
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
products originating in Turkey and imported into the
Union and in particular Article 207(2) thereof,
European Union. Therefore Regulation (EEC) No 429/73
has become obsolete.
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
(4) For
reasons
of
legal
certainty
and
clarity,
Regulation
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national
(EEC) No 429/73 should therefore be repealed,
parliaments,
HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure ( 1 ),
Article 1
Whereas:
1. Regulation
(EEC)
No
429/73
is
repealed.
(1) Improving
the
transparency
of
Union
law
is
an
essential 2. The
repeal
of
the
act
referred
to
in
paragraph
1
shall
be
element of the better lawmaking strategy that the insti
without prejudice to:
tutions of the Union are implementing. In that context it
is appropriate to remove from the legislation in force
(a) the maintenance in force of Union acts adopted on the basis
those acts which no longer have real effect.
of the act referred to in paragraph 1; and
(2) Regulation
(EEC)
No
429/73
of
the
Council
( 2 ) was
(b) the continuing validity of amendments made by the act
adopted in order to determine the reduced fixed
referred to in paragraph 1 to other Union acts that are
component of the import duties for processed agri
not repealed by this Regulation.
cultural products originating in Turkey and imported in
the framework of the Additional Protocol to the
Article 2
Agreement establishing an Association between the
European Economic Community and Turkey, signed on
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
23 November 1970.
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Strasbourg, 16 November 2011.
For the European Parliament
For the Council
The President
The President
J. BUZEK
W. SZCZUKA
( 1 ) Position of the European Parliament of 13 September 2011 (not yet
published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of
20 October 2011.
( 2 ) OJ L 59, 5.3.1973, p. 85.
( 3 ) OJ L 35, 13.2.1996, p. 1.

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