SECTION 33

Non-tariff barriers to intra-Community trade 1. Subject to the provisions of this article, each Member State shall, upon the entry into force of this Treaty, progressively relax and ultimately remove, at the latest by the end of the second stage and in accordance with paragraph 2 of this article, quota restrictions, other restrictions and prohibitions in force which apply to the transfer to that State of goods originating in the other Member States and, except as may be provided or permitted by this Treaty, to refrain thereafter from imposing any further restrictions or prohibitions on such goods. 2. Subject to the provisions of this article, the Commission shall, after considering the proposals submitted to it by the Secretary-General, recommend to the Council for its approval a programme for the progressive relaxation and ultimate elimination, at the latest by the end of the second stage, of all the quota restrictions and prohibitions which apply in a Member State to imports originating in the other Member States, provided that the council may subsequently decide that all the quota restrictions, other restrictions and prohibitions be relaxed more rapidly or removed earlier than laid down in this paragraph. 3. The special provisions on restrictions, prohibitions, quota restrictions, dumping, subsidies and discriminatory practices shall be the subject of a protocol on non-tariff trade barriers attached hereto as Annex II.