Protocol
on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES,

DESIRING to settle certain particular problems relating to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,

HAVE AGREED upon the following provisions, which shall be annexed to this Treaty:

Article 1

1. By reason of the special position of its agriculture, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is hereby authorized to maintain quantitative restrictions on imports of the products included in the list annexed to the Decision of the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 3 December 1955 concerning the agriculture of Luxembourg.

Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands shall apply the system provided for in the third paragraph of Article 6 of the Convention on the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxembourg of 25 July 1921.

2. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg shall take all measures of a structural, technical or economic nature that will make possible the progressive integration of its agriculture in the common market. The Commission may make recommendations to the Grand Duchy concerning the measures to be taken.

At the end of the transitional period the Council shall, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, decide to what extent the derogations accorded the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg shall be maintained, altered or terminated.

Any Member State concerned may appeal against this decision to an arbitration board appointed in accordance with Article 8(4) of this Treaty.

Article 2.

When framing the regulations on freedom of movement for workers provided for in Article 48(3) of this Treaty, the Commission shall take account, as regards the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, of the special demographic situation in that country.

Done at Rome this twenty fifth day of March in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty seven.

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