27.11.2009 Official Journal of the European Union L 312/1 (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is obligatory) REGULATIONS COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1139/2009 of 20 November 2009 repealing certain obsolete Council acts THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas: 1) ( ( ( ) %) ’) Improving the transparency of Community law is an essential element of the better lawmaking strategy that Community institutions are implementing. In that context it is appropriate to remove from legislation in force those acts which no longer have real effect. Council Decision 91/373/EEC of 8 July 1991 on the conclusion by the European Economic Community of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Economic Community and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on a credit guarantee for exports of agricultural products and foodstuffs from the Community to the Soviet Union (}) and Council Regulation (EEC) No 599/91 of 5 March 1991 introducing a credit guarantee for exports of agri- cultural products and foodstuffs from the Community, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to the Soviet Union (3 dealt with a temporary situation and have therefore exhausted their effects. Council Regulation (EC) No 3093/95 of 22 December 1995 laying down the rates of duty to be applied by the Community resulting from negotiations under GATT Article XXIV.6 consequent upon the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the European Union (?) has been incorporated into Council Regulation (EEC) No 202, 25.7.1991, p. 39. 0] L 0] L 67, 14.3.1991, p. 21. 0J L 334, 30.12.1995, p. 1. 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff () and has as a result exhausted its effects. Council Decision 96/620/EC of 1 October 1996 on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Kingdom of Morocco fixing, from 1 January 1994, the additional amount to be deducted from the levy or the customs duties on imports into the Community of untreated olive oil originating in Morocco (°) imple- mented an Agreement which has been subsequently superseded and Council Decision 2002/958/EC of 28 November 2002 concerning the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Kingdom of Morocco  derogating temporarily, as regards the importation into the Community of tomatoes originating in Morocco, from Agricultural Protocol No 1 to the Euro-Mediterranean ~ Agreement  establishing  an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part (%), had a temporary character; they have therefore exhausted their effects. Council Regulation (EC) No 1804/98 of 14 August 1998 establishing an autonomous duty applicable for residues from the manufacture of starch from maize falling within CN codes 2303 10 19 and 2309 90 20 and introducing a tariff rate quota on imports of residues from the manu- facture of starch from maize (corn gluten feed) falling within CN codes 2303 1019 and 2309 90 20 orig- inating in the United States of America (7) was adopted in the framework of a trade dispute with the United States of America which has since been settled and as a result that Regulation no longer has any practical relevance. 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. 277, 30.10.1996, p. 35. () oL () O] L (® OJ L 333, 10.12.2002, p. 21. 0oL 233, 20.8.1998, p. 1.