31.12.1999 Official Journal of the European Communities L 342/1 | (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2743/1999 of 17 December 1999 on administering the double-checking system without quantitative limits in respect of the export of certain steel products covered by the EC and ECSC Treaties from the Republic of Kazakhstan to the European Community 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) The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Kazakhstan (1) (the ‘Parties’) signed on 23 January 1995 entered into force on 1 July 1999; (2)  The situation relating to imports of certain steel products from the Republic of Kazakhstan into the Community has been the subject of thorough examination and, on the basis of relevant information supplied to them, the Parties have concluded an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters (%) which establishes a double-checking system without quantitative limits for the period between the date of entry into force of this Regulation and 31 December 2001, unless both Parties agree to terminate the system earlier; (3)  The measures necessary for the implementation of this instrument should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (?), HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1. For the period running from the date on which this Regulation enters into force until 31 December 2001, in () OJ L 196, 28.7.1999, p. 3. (®) See page 38 of this Official Journal. () OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. accordance with the provisions of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan establishing a double-checking system without quantitative limits in respect of the export of certain steel products covered by the EC and ECSC Treaties from the Republic of Kazakhstan to the European Community, imports into the Community of certain iron and steel products covered by the EC and ECSC Treaties originating in the Republic of Kazakhstan, as listed in Appendix [, shall be subject to the presentation of a surveillance document conforming to the model in Appendix Il issued by the authorities in the Community. 2. For the period running from the date on which this Regulation enters into force to 31 December 2001, imports into the Community of the iron and steel products originating in the Republic of Kazakhstan and listed in Appendix I shall, in addition, be subject to the issue of an export document issued by the competent Kazakh authorities. The export document shall conform to the model shown in Appendix IIL It shall be valid for exports throughout the customs territory of the Community. Presentation by the importer of the original of the export document must be effected not later than 31 March of the year following that in which the goods covered by the document were shipped. 3. An export document will not be required for goods originating in the Republic of Kazakhstan already shipped before the date on which this Regulation enters into force, provided that the destination of such products is not changed from a non-Community destination and that those products which, under the prior surveillance regime applicable in 1997, could be imported only on presentation of a surveillance document are in fact accompanied by such a document. 4. Shipment is considered to have taken place on the date of loading on to the exporting means of transport. 5. The classification of the products covered by this Regulation is based on the tariff and statistical nomenclature of the Community (hereinafter called the ‘Combined Nomenclature’, or in abbreviated form ‘CN’). The origin of the products covered by this Regulation shall be determined in accordance with the rules in force in the Community.