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Political agreement on the accession of Spain and Portugal (29 March 1985)
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Political agreement on the accession of Spain and Portugal (29 March 1985), in Bulletin of the European Communities. March 1985, No 3, pp. 7-9.
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| Keywords |
accession to the Community, EC transitional period, Portugal, Spain
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| Copyright |
© European Communities
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On 29 March 1985, a political agreement is reached between the ten-strong Community and the two candidate countries, Spain and Portugal, concerning the main issues under discussion: agriculture, fishing, social affairs, own resources, and the government of the Canary Islands.
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| Location in the digital library |
SPECIAL FILES >> Portugal and the European integration process >> 1978–1985 The negotiations and accession to the European Communities
SPECIAL FILES >> Spain and the European integration process >> 1975–1985 From the democratic transition to Spain's accession to the European Communities >> The Member States' reservations towards Spain's accession
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1980–1986 Enlargement to the south and the Single European Act >> Enlargement to the south >> Third enlargement: Spain and Portugal >> The reservations of France and other Member States
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| Document extract |
Political agreement on the accession of Spain and Portugal (29 March 1985)
[...]
The main points of the March agreement
Spain
1.1.3. Agriculture . Spain’s import from the Community of milk, cream, butter, cheese, beef and veal, and common wheat will be subject to a special ten-year transitional arrangement which provides for a surveillance mechanism based on ‘objective’ import volumes for each product, increasing annually at predetermined rates. The Community for its part will dismantle its customs duties on Spanish fresh fruit and vegetable exports over a ten-year period, the first four years serving to facilitate Spain’s introduction of machinery that will enable the common market organization to operate. There will be a transitional period (also of ten years) for vegetable oils and fats; Spain’s quantitative controls on imports of seeds and seed oil will remain in place for the first five of those years. Full alignment of intervention prices will be postponed until the relevant Community legislation has been amended. For sugar and isoglucose, ‘guarantee’ levels have been set at a million tonnes and 83 000 tonnes respectively. There is provision for special support measures to be applied to pigmeat (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Letter from Margaret Thatcher to Gaston Thorn (London, 5 August 1982)
The hoisting of the Spanish and Portuguese flags in Brussels (1 January 1986)
The accession of Spain and Portugal and transitional measures
Treaty on the accession of Spain and Portugal to the EEC and the EAEC (12 June 1985)
Letter from Charles Haughey to Gaston Thorn (Dublin, 31 July 1982)
'Portugal and Spain join the Community' from the EFTA Bulletin (April 1986)
Transitional Protocol to the Agreement between the EEC and Portugal (3 December 1982)
Cartoon by Hanel on the accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities (25 February 1984)
Cartoon by Plantu on the accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities (1 January 1986)
Cartoon by Plantu on the accession of Greece, Spain and Portugal to the European Communities (1977)
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