Decree No 74 / 1968 Coll.
Decree of the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the Geneva Protocol of 1967 to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
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Effective from 11.03.1968
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DECLARATION
Minister for Foreign Affairs
of 15 May 1968
on the 1967 Geneva Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
On 30 June 1967, the Geneva Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was negotiated in Geneva. On behalf of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, it was signed in Geneva on 11 March 1968.
The Geneva Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade entered into force for the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic on the basis of its Article 6 on the date of signature, i.e. 11 March 1968.
Discounts on the Czechoslovak duty rates resulting from the 1967 Geneva Protocol shall be effective on 1 July 1968, in accordance with paragraph 2 (b). The Geneva Protocol of 1967, two fifths of the difference between the original rate and the final rate. A reduction of the remaining three fifths shall be made after one fifth on 1 January 1970, 1971 and 1972.
The reduction in customs duties on items marked with one or two crosses († and † †) in the minutes of the tariff concessions shall be effected on a one-off basis on the date of entry into force of this instrument as the schedule of concessions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, i.e. the date of accession of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic to this Protocol.
The Czech translation of the Geneva Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is hereby declared simultaneously.
Minister:
Dr Hájek v. r.
The Geneva Protocol of 1967 to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Contracting Parties The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the European Economic Community, which took part in the Trade Conference between 1964 and 1967 (hereinafter referred to as the Participants),
after the conclusion of the negotiations referred to in paragraph 6 of Article XXIV, Article XXVIII bis and Article XXXIII, as well as other relevant provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ("the General Agreement '),
agree, through their representatives, as follows:
I. - Provisions concerning the instruments of concessions
(1) The instrument of concessions annexed to this Protocol, relating to one participant, shall become the instrument of concessions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of the participant concerned on the date on which this Protocol becomes applicable in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 6.
2. Each participant undertakes to ensure that, if any of the rates listed in the relevant column of its schedule of concessions constituting the agreed rate (hereinafter referred to as the "final rate ') do not become effective on 1 January 1968, that final rate shall become effective on 1 January 1972 at the latest. During the period between the first January 1968 and the first January 1972, such a participant shall treat the tariff reductions in a numerical manner corresponding to the amounts referred to in one of the following subparagraphs, at periods, also corresponding to one of the periods referred to in the following subparagraphs, with the exception of the clearly different provisions laid down in each of the schedules of concessions:
(a) a participant beginning to reduce the rates on the day of the first January 1968 shall reduce them by one fifth of the difference between the existing rate and the final rate on that date, and a further four fifths shall be reduced by one fifth each day on the first January 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972;
(b) a participant beginning to reduce the rates on the first day of July 1968 or on a date between the first day of January and the first of July 1968 shall reduce the rate by two-fifths of the difference between the initial rate and the final rate by that date and shall reduce the remaining three-fifths by one-fifths each on 1 January 1970, 1971 and 1972.
3. Any participant in whose concession instrument annexed to this Protocol has become the instrument of concessions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as provided for in Article 1 of this Protocol, shall be entitled at any time to suspend or revoke, in whole or in part, the concession instrument of the concession relating to a product on which another participant or government whose request for access was discussed at the Conference of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1964 to 1967 (hereinafter referred to as the "acceding Government") has a substantial supply interest, but whose concession instrument annexed to this Protocol or to the Protocol on Access by the acceding Government has not yet been annexed to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. However, the precondition for such an appeal or suspension will be that:
(a) the participant shall notify the concession in writing to the Contracting Parties within 30 days of the date of the suspension;
(b) the participant shall notify its intention to withdraw such concession to the Contracting Parties in writing no later than 30 days before such intended appeal is made;
(c) at the request of any interested party or acceding government, whose relevant concession charter has already become the instrument of concessions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and which have a substantial interest in the relevant product, consultations shall be held in this respect;
(d) However, any concession suspended or withdrawn shall become valid from the date on which the schedule of concessions of the participant or acceding government having a substantial interest in the product in question becomes the schedule of concessions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
4. (b) and (c) Article II of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade invokes the dates of this General Agreement, the dates of this Protocol shall be used without prejudice to any product which is the subject of a concession provided for in the schedule of concessions annexed to this Protocol, but without prejudice to any obligations in force at that date.
(b) For the purposes of reference in Article II (6) (b), (a) The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, on the date of this General Agreement, shall be deemed to apply to the schedule of concessions annexed to this Protocol.
II. Final provisions
5. (a) This Protocol shall be interpreted for acceptance by signature or otherwise by 30 June 1968.
(b) The period within which this Protocol may be adopted by a participant may be extended by a decision of the Council of Representatives, but not later than 31 December 1968. Such a decision shall at the same time lay down the conditions and rules for the life of the Charter of Concessions annexed to this Protocol concerning the participant.
6. This Protocol shall become valid on 1 January 1968 for those participants who accepted it before 1 December 1967. For participants who accept it after that date, the Protocol shall become valid at the date of its adoption. Participants who accepted the Protocol before the first December 1967 or who are ready to accept it at that date shall assess whether there are sufficient numbers to justify the initiation of tariff reductions in accordance with Article 2 of the Protocol. If they consider that they do not constitute a sufficient number, they shall notify the Director-General, who shall then invite all participants to examine the situation in order to ensure as many approaches as possible in the shortest possible time.
7. This Protocol shall be deposited with the Director-General of the Contracting Parties, who shall be obliged to deliver a certified copy of this Protocol without delay and to notify each access pursuant to Article 5 to each Contracting Party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as well as to the European Economic Community.
8. This Protocol shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.
In Geneva, on the 30th of June, in the year of the 1960s, in one copy, in French and English, with the exception of those referred to below in respect of each instrument of concessions, both texts are authentic.
Annexes annexed to the 1967 Geneva Protocol
| I | Austrálie |
| II | Benelux (Belgie, Lucemburk a Nizozemí) |
| III | Brazílie |
| V | Kanada |
| VII | Chile |
| X | Československo |
| XI | Francie |
| XII | Indie |
| XIII | Nový Zéland |
| XIV | Norsko |
| XVIII | Jižní Afrika |
| XIX | Spojené království |
| oddíl A - Metropole | |
| oddíl C - Hong-Kong | |
| XX | Spojené státy americké |
| XXII | Dánsko |
| XXIII | Dominikánská republika |
| XXIV | Finsko |
| XXVII | Itálie |
| XXX | Švédsko |
| XXXII | Rakousko |
| XXXIII | Německá spolková republika |
| XXXV | Peru |
| XXXVII | Turecko |
| XXXVIII | Japonsko |
| XL | Evropské hospodářské společenství |
| XL bis | členské státy Evropské uhelné a ocelářské unie |
| XLII | Izrael |
| XLIV | Portugalsko |
| XLV | Španělsko |
| LVII | Jugoslávie |
| LIX | Malawi |
| LIX | Švýcarsko |
| LX | Korejská republika |
| LXVI | Jamajka |
| LXVII | Trinidad a Tobago |
The list of concessions of the CSSR and the other documents of the concessions annexed to the Geneva Protocol of 1970 can be consulted in the Customs Political Department of the Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce in Prague. It can also be consulted on the Protocol of Accession of Argentina, Iceland, Ireland and the PLR to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 30 June 1967.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree No. 74 / 1968 Coll., on the Geneva Protocol of 1967 to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 20.06.1968 |
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| Effective from | 11.03.1968 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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