RESOLUTION 24.4.75
on the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the EEC-Turkey Association adopted in Copenhagen on 24 April 1975.

The European Parliament,

• having regard to the recommendations adopted by the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the EEC-Turkey Association at its XIXth session in Copenhagen from 21 to 24 April 1975 (Doc. 107/75),
• having regard to the report by the Association Committee and to the Opinion of the Committee on Agriculture (Doc. 182/75),
  1. Approves the recommendations adopted on 24 April 1975 by the Joint Parliamentary Committee;
  2. Expresses the hope that in view of the eventual full membership of Greece and Turkey in the European Communities, lasting solutions can be negotiated to the differences between them, and welcomes in this context the willingness expressed by the Heads of Government of the two countries at their meeting in Brussels on 31 May 1975 to find a peaceful settlement to the problems confronting them;
  3. In the spirit of the declaration of the Foreign Ministers of the Nine on 13 February 1975 in Dublin, reiterates the Community's support for any just and lasting solution to the Cyprus problem based on the recognition of a sovereign, independent state and on the equality of rights of the island's two communities;
  4. Urges the responsible bodies of the Community to ensure that the Community's food aid to the populations of the island is effectively delivered and distributed, regardless of the ethnic community to which they belong or the area in which they live;
  5. Considers that in order to strengthen the links established between the Community and Turkey over the past few years, the work of the Association's organs must be intensified and their working methods and decision-making powers adapted to these new realities;
  6. Regrets, in consequence, that the Association Council has not met since 14 October 1974 and has not been able to answer the questions put to it by the members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on matters relating to the operation and development of the Association;
  7. Notes with satisfaction the new growth in trade between the EEC and Turkey in 1974;
  8. Invites the Association Council in this connection to consider ways and means of granting new concessions to be made to Turkish agricultural exports under the first and second agricultural reviews provided for in Article 35 of the Additional protocol, with a view to reducing Turkey's growing trade deficit with the EEC;
  9. With a view to bringing the economic policies of the Association partners closer together, calls for concertation between the Community and Turkey in the GATT multilateral negotiations;
  10. Hopes that in the interests of closer financial cooperation between the two parties, the obstacles to free movement of capital within the Association can be progressively reduced;
  11. Regrets that the social security measures for Turkish workers and their families moving within the Community, provided for in Article 39 of the Additional Protocol have still not been adopted by the Association Council.