COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3870/91 of 16 December 1991 opening tariff quotas for the 1992 fishing year for fishery products coming from joint ventures set up between natural or legal persons from Spain and from other countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular Article 168 thereof,

Whereas Article 168 of the Act of Accession provides for the gradual elimination of the exemptions, suspensions or tariff quotas granted by Spain for fishery products coming from joint ventures set up between natural or legal persons from Spain and from other countries;

Whereas annual quotas should be opened corresponding to such progressive elimination, for each CN code, subject to the overall quantities provided for in the Act of Accession;

Whereas, within the framework of overall quantities, the quotas per CN code are allocated proportionally according to the scheme applicable in 1983;

Whereas provision should be made for the supply of information to the Commission so that it can keep watch on the management of these arrangements;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1. For the period from 1 January to 31 December 1992, tariff quotas shall be opened in Spain for the fishery products referred to in Article 168 of the Act of Accession, in accordance with the provisions of that Article and with the rules laid down in the Annex hereto.

2. The customs duties applicable shall be wholly suspended on each of the products referred to in paragraph 1, subject to each of the tariff quotas specified in the Annex.

Article 2

Distribution of the quantities referred to in Article 1 which may, where appropriate, be subject to partial allocation on a half-yearly basis, between the undertakings referred to in Annex XII to the Act of Accession, shall be undertaken by the competent Spanish authorities.

Article 3

Each quarter, not later than 15 days after the end of each quarter, Spain shall inform the Commission of the quantities actually imported under these quota arrangements. The Commission may at any time request a statement of the extent to which the quotas have been used up.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 January to 31 December 1992. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 16 December 1991. For the Commission

Manuel MARÍN

Vice-President

ANNEX

CN code Description Authorized

zero duty 0303 78 10

0304 90 47 Hake of the genus Merluccius spp., frozen 3 274 0304 20 29

0304 20 31

0304 20 43

0304 20 53

0304 20 57

0304 20 83

ex 0304 20 97 Fillets, frozen, miscellaneous 637 ex 0305 62 00

ex 0305 69 10 Certain species of cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, non-dried, salted 289 ex 0303 42

ex 0303 43

ex 0303 49 Yellowfin tunas (Thunnus albacares), skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito (Euthynnus (Katsuwonus) pelamis) and bigeye (Parathunnus obesus), frozen 288 ex 0303

ex 0304 20 13

ex 0304 90 Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp., Salmo salar, Hucho hucho) frozen, other various fish products, frozen and including livers and roes 821 ex 0302

ex 0304 10 98 Various fish, fresh 2 296 ex 0307 99 11 Illex spp., frozen 1 440 ex 0307 21

ex 0307 29

ex 0307 41

ex 0307 49

ex 0307 51

ex 0307 59

ex 0307 91

ex 0307 99 Certain molluscs, live, fresh, chilled or frozen 1 251 0306 11 00

0306 13 90

0306 14 30

0306 19 30 Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.), crabs of the species Cancer pagurus, Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus) and shrimps other than of the family Pandalidae and of the genus Crangon, frozen 1 194 ex 0306 21 00

0306 22 10

ex 0306 24 30

ex 0306 29 30 Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.), lobsters (Homarus spp.), crabs of the species Cancer pagurus and Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus), live and fresh 113 Total 11 603