If more time should be needed, revised dates shall be fixed by the Council acting on a  proposal from the Commission.

Elimination of customs duties and quantitative restrictions

Article 9

Subject to the special provisions contained in this Convention, Member States shall abolish all  import and export duties or charges having equivalent effect and all quantitative restrictions  on the movement of coal and steel within the Community on the dates appointed for the  establishment of the common market in coal, iron ore and scrap, and the common market in  steel, as provided in Article 8.

Transport

Article 10

A Committee of Experts designated by the governments of the Member States shall be  convened forthwith by the Commission to study the arrangements to be proposed to the  governments for the carriage of coal and steel, in order to attain the objectives set out in  Article 70 of the Treaty.

The negotiations required to obtain the agreement of the governments concerning the various  measures proposed shall, without prejudice to the last paragraph of Article 70, be initiated by  the Commission, as shall any necessary negotiations with third countries concerned.

The Committee of Experts shall study;

1 measures to eliminate discriminatory practices contrary to the second paragraph of Article  70;
2.measures to establish through international tariffs incorporating a degressive factor taking  account of total distance for carriage within the Community, without prejudice to the  apportionment of the receipts among the carriers concerned;  
3.examination of the rates and conditions of every kind for the carriage of coal and steel by  the different modes of transport, with a view to their harmonization on a Community wide  basis to the extent necessary to the proper functioning of the common market, taking account  interalia of transport costs.

The Committee of Experts shall have not more than:

• three months for its studies of the measures referred to under 1;
• Two years for its studies of the measures referred to under 2 and 3.

The measures referred to under 1 shall enter into force on the date of the establishment of the  common market in coal at the latest.

The measures referred to under 2 and 3 shall enter into force simultaneously as soon as the  governments are agreed. If, however, two and a half years after the Commission is set up the  governments of Member States are still not agreed concerning the measures referred to under

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