Article 28

Any autonomous alteration or suspension of duties in the Common Customs Tariff  shall be decided by the Council acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission.

Article 29

In carrying out the tasks entrusted to it under this Section the Commission shall be  guided by:

a.the need to promote trade between Member States and third countries;
b.developments in conditions of competition within the Community in so far as  they lead to an improvement in the competitive capacity of undertakings;
c. the requirements of the Community as regards the supply of raw materials and  semi finished goods; in this connection the Commission shall take care to avoid   distorting conditions of competition between Member States in respect of  finished goods;
d. the need to avoid serious disturbances in the economies of Member States and  to ensure rational development of production and an expansion of consumption  within the Community.

CHAPTER 2

ELIMINATION OF QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
BETWEEN MEMBER STATES

Article 30

Quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect shall,  without prejudice to the following provisions, be prohibited between Member  States.

Article 31

Member States shall refrain from introducing between themselves any new  quantitative restrictions or measures having equivalent effect.

This obligation shall, however, relate only to the degree of liberalization attained in  pursuance of the decisions of the Council of the Organization for European  Economic Cooperation of 14 January 1955. Member States shall supply the  Commission, not later than six months after the entry into force of this Treaty, with  lists of the products liberalized by them in pursuance of these decisions. These lists  shall be consolidated between Member States.

Article 32

In their trade with one another Member States shall refrain from making more  restrictive the quotas and measures having equivalent effect existing at the date of the  entry into force of this Treaty.

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