COMMUNITY PROVISIONS ON THE IMPOSITION OF QUOTAS AND FROM THE WORDING OF THOSE PROVISIONS .
10 WHEN A COMMON COMMERCIAL POLICY WAS INTRODUCED AFTER THE EXPIRY OF THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD , REGULATION NO 1023/70 OF THE COUNCIL LAID DOWN , IN THE CASE OF PRODUCTS WHOSE IMPORT WAS NOT LIBERALIZED , COMMUNITY PROVISIONS ON QUANTITATIVE IMPORT QUOTAS AND IN PARTICULAR IT SPECIFIED THE PROCEDURES BY WHICH THOSE QUOTAS ARE TO BE FIXED AND ALLOCATED BY THE COUNCIL AND ADMINISTERED BY THE MEMBER STATES . HOWEVER , SINCE IT DID NOT APPEAR POSSIBLE TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY SYSTEM IN ALL CASES , COUNCIL DECISIONS ALLOWED MEMBER STATES TO RETAIN THE RIGHT TO MAINTAIN NATIONAL QUOTA ARRANGEMENTS IN CERTAIN CASES . THAT WAS SO IN PARTICULAR IN THE CASE OF COUNCIL DECISION 75/210 OF 27 MARCH 1975 ON UNILATERAL IMPORT ARRANGEMENTS IN RESPECT OF STATE-TRADING COUNTRIES ( OFFICIAL JOURNAL 1975 , L 99 , P . 7 ), AS AMENDED BY COUNCIL DECISION 79/252 OF 21 DECEMBER 1978 , PURSUANT TO WHICH THE QUOTA IN ISSUE WAS IMPOSED IN THE NETHERLANDS . ACCORDING TO THE RECITALS IN THE PREAMBLE TO DECISION 75/210 , THOSE ARRANGEMENTS ARE TO APPLY PENDING THE CONCLUSION OF TRADE AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND THE VARIOUS STATE-TRADING COUNTRIES COVERING INTER ALIA THE ARRANGEMENTS TO BE APPLIED TO IMPORTS INTO THE COMMUNITY FROM THOSE COUNTRIES AND COMMON IMPORT ARRANGEMENTS ARE TO BE GRADUALLY INTRODUCED .
11 IT IS IN KEEPING WITH THE EXISTENCE OF TWO KINDS OF QUOTA ARRANGEMENTS THAT BY VIRTUE OF ARTICLE 1 THEREOF THE PROVISIONS OF REGULATION NO 1023/70 APPLY ' ' TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF ALL QUANTITATIVE IMPORT QUOTAS . . ., WHETHER AUTONOMOUS OR CONVENTIONAL , ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMUNITY ' ' AND THEREFORE , AS IS STATED IN THE SECOND RECITAL IN ITS PREAMBLE , TO ' ' COMMUNITY QUOTAS ' ' , WHEREAS THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF ARTICLE 1 OF DECISION 75/210 , AS AMENDED BY ARTICLE 3 OF DECISION 79/252 , PROVIDES THAT THE QUOTAS INVOLVED IN THE CASE OF MEASURES TAKEN PURSUANT TO THAT PROVISION ARE QUOTAS WHICH ' ' THE MEMBER STATES SHALL OPEN ' ' AND THEREFORE NATIONAL QUOTAS .
12 FURTHERMORE , THE SECOND PARAGRAPH OF ARTICLE 1 OF DECISION 75/210 STATES THAT ' ' MEMBER STATES ' RULES GOVERNING THE OPENING AND ADMINISTRATION OF QUOTAS ' ' ARE NOT TO BE AFFECTED . ACCORDINGLY , THE RULES AND PROCEDURES WHICH HAD TO BE OBSERVED BY THE NETHERLANDS AUTHORITIES WHEN ADOPTING THE QUOTA MEASURE IN ISSUE , PARTICULARLY THOSE CONCERNING ANY PUBLICATION OF THE MEASURE , WERE THOSE STIPULATED BY THE APPLICABLE NATIONAL LAW AND NOT THOSE LAID DOWN BY REGULATION NO 1023/70 IN THE CASE OF COMMUNITY QUOTAS .
13 THE ANSWER TO THE FIRST QUESTION PUT BY THE COLLEGE VAN BEROEP VOOR HET BEDRIJFSLEVEN SHOULD THEREFORE BE THAT ARTICLE 4 OF REGULATION NO 1023/70 OF THE COUNCIL DOES NOT APPLY TO IMPORT QUOTAS TO BE OPENED BY MEMBER STATES IN REGARD TO STATE-TRADING COUNTRIES UNDER