COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 3380/94

of 22 December 1994

opening and providing for the administration of quotas for certain processed agricultural products originating in Hungary

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Hungary, of the other part(), came into force on 1 February 1994;

Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products() replaced the designation 'variable components' by 'agricultural components'; whereas Article 7(2) of that Regulation establishes the procedure for adopting the detailed rules for determining and managing reductions in the agricultural component of the charge where provided for by a preferential agreement;

Whereas Protocol 3 to the Europe Agreement provides for reductions in the duties, and in particular the fixed component of the charge, applied to goods listed in Table 1 of Annex II to the said Protocol within the limits of quotas established in Table 1 of Annex I to that Protocol; whereas it is necessary to specify the fixed components and the rules for managing the quotas concerned which are to apply as of 1995,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1. As from 1 January 1995 goods originating in Hungary which are listed in the Annex to this Regulation shall be subject to tariff reductions within the limits of the tariff quotas and under the conditions set out in this Annex.

2. For the purposes of this Regulation, 'originating goods' means goods meeting the conditions established by Protocol 4 to the Europe Agreement.

Article 2

1. The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be administered by the Commission, which may take all appropriate measures in order to ensure efficient administration thereof.

2. Where an importer declares a product covered by this Regulation for free circulation in a Member State and applies to take advantage of the preferential arrangements, and that declaration is accepted by the customs authorities, the Member State concerned shall, by notifying the Commission, draw an amount corresponding to its requirements from the quota volume.

Request for drawings, indicating the date of acceptance of the said declarations, must be sent to the Commission without delay.

The drawings shall be granted by the Commission by reference to the date of acceptance of the declaration for free circulation by the customs authorities of the Member State concerned, to the extent that the available balance so permits.

3. If a Member State does not use the quantities drawn, it shall return them to the corresponding quota volume as soon as possible.

4. If the quantities requested are greater than the available balance of the quota volume, the balance shall be allocated on a pro rata basis. The Commission shall inform the Member States of the drawings made.

Article 3

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

It shall apply from 1 January 1995.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 December 1994.

For the Council

The President

H. SEEHOFER

() OJ No L 347, 31. 12. 1993, p. 2.

() OJ No L 318, 20. 12. 1993, p. 18.

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