11985G/PRO/01

PROTOCOL* on special arrangements for Greenland (* Article 3 of the Greenland Treaty provide that this Protocol, attached to the latter Treaty, shall be annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (Official Journal of the European Communities, No L 29, 1 February 1985).)

Article 1

1. The treatment on import into the Community of products subject to the common organization of the market in fishery products, origination in Greenland, shall, while complying with the mechanisms of the common market organization, involve exemption from customs duties and charges having equivalent restrictions or measures having equivalent effect if the possibilities for access to Greenland fishing zones granted to the Community pursuant to an agreement between the Community and the authority responsible for Greenland are satisfactory to the Community.

2. All measures relating to the import arrangements for such products, including those relating to the adoption of such measures, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community.

Article 2

The Commission shall make proposals to the Council, which shall act by a qualified majority, for the transitional measures which it considers necessary, by reason of the entry into force of the new arrangements, with regard to the maintenance of rights acquired by natural or legal persons during the period when Greenland was part of the Community and the regularization of the situation with regard to financial assistance granted by the Communities to Greenland during that period.

Article 3

The following text shall be added to Annex I to the Council Decision of 16 December 1980 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Economic Community:

»6. Distinct community of the Kingdom of Denmark:

- Greenland.«