Translation of "temporary non-reciprocal agreement " (English → French) :

The reciprocal agreement also covers the security of cargo containers from all locations that are imported into, transhipped through, or transit the EU and the US.

It is desirable to provide for the conclusion of reciprocal agreements with one or more third countries in order to permit the relaxation of such special conditions, while observing the principle that such agencies and branches should not obtain more favourable treatment than Community undertakings.

The Council adopted the Decision concerning the approval of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Community and each of the EFTA countries that grants tariff preferences under the Generalised System of Preferences (Norway and Switzerland), providing that goods with content of Norwegian or Swiss origin shall be treated on their arrival on the customs territory of the Community as goods with content of Community origin (reciprocal agreement).

Formerly, the Community system was only open to persons who were non-EU nationals or not established in an EU Member State or a signatory state of the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property if they were covered by a reciprocal agreement between the third country concerned and the EU concerning recognition of the Community trade mark.

This right would make it possible for a manufacturer to prevent the non-authorized extraction and/or the re-utilization of the whole or a substantial part of the contents of a database - without prejudice, however, to application of the rules of competition (especially as regards the abuse of dominant positions and abusive practices. The protection granted by this right would apply for fifteen years after the completion of a database. The Member States would have the option of providing for certain exceptions to the sui generis right, in particular as regards extractions for private purposes or illustration in teaching. Under the common position, the sui generis right could be extended to databases manufactured in third countries, on the ...[+++] basis of reciprocal agreements. The Member States should transpose the Directive into their national legislation before 1 January 1998. CONVENTION ON INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS The Council - noted the agreement of fourteen delegations on the current draft text of the Convention; - instructed the Permanent Representatives Committee to continue its proceedings and seek bases for rapprochement such that unanimous agreement could be reached and to prepare the explanatory report awaited for final approval by the Council. The draft Convention is based on the principle of attenuated universality, i.e. on an approach based on main insolvency proceedings opened in the Contracting State in which a debtor has the centre of his main interests and the possibility of opening secondary or territorial proceedings wherever he is established. The main proceedings would produce effects in all the Contracting States and the territorial and secondary proceedings would produce effects restricted to the territory of the Contracting State where they were opened. This approach represents a compromise which endeavours to take into account the various legal traditions in the Member States.

Non- reciprocal agreements exist with the Maghreb and Mashreq countries, as well as with the signatories of the Lomé Convention.