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Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain petroleum products, falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff and refined in Spain (1984)#Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration Community tariff quota for other woven fabrics of cotton, falling within heading No 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Spain (1984) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                     C0M(83)     456 f i n a l
                                                                     B russels,    13 J u l y   1983
                                                        Proposal       for a
                                               COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
               opening, a l l o c a t i n g     and p r o v i d i n g    f o r the a d m in is tr a tio n of a
         Community t a r i f f       quota f o r      c e r t a i n petroleum p ro d u c ts ,      fa llin g        w ith in
          C h a p t e r 27 o f t h e      Common Customs T a r i f f          and r e f i n e d in   Spai n       (1984)
                                                        Proposal f o r        a
                                               COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
      opening, a l l o c a t i n g   and p r o v i d i n g    for   the a d m in is tr a t io n  Community t a r i f f
                     q u o t a f o r o t h e r woven f a b r i c s o f c o t t o n ,    fa llin g   w ith in
               h e a d i n g No 5 5 . 0 9 o f t h e Common Customs T a r i f f               and o r i g i n a t i n g
                                                       i n S pa in    (1984)
                                (subm itted     t o t h e C o u n c i l by t h e Commi ssi on)
 C0M(83) 456 f i n a l
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                     '15,1s
                                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.   The Agreement bet ween t h e Community and S p a in o f 1970 p r o v i d e s                                 for
     t h e o p e n i n g o f Community t a r i f f              quotas f o r the im p o r t a t i o n      in to
     the     Community o f t h e f o l l o w i n g p r o d u c s ,          o rig in a tin g    i n Spain, a t
     t h e q uo t a d u t i e s   s p e c i f i e d below :
CCT h e a d i n g n°              Product                                Annual Volume                       Quota d u t y
C h a p t e r 27          C e rta in petroleum                        1 200 000 t        )
                          products                                                       )                 40 % o f t h e
                                                                                         )                 CCT d u t i e s
55.09                     Other c o t t o n        fa b rics                 1 800 t )
2.    From 1 J u l y      1977 t h e s e q u o t a vol umes have a t f i r s t                been i n c r e a s e d
      re sp e ctive ly to       1 400 000 t o n n e s and 1 900 t o n n e s , and t h e n t h e y a r e
      fix e d to      1 424 000 t o n n e s and 2 013 t o n n e s by t h e p r o t o c o l o f a d a p t a ­
     tio n      t o ta k e account       o f t h e a c c e s s i o n o f Greece t o t h e             Community.
3 . The R e g u l a t i o n s p r o v i d e ,      i n t h e u s u a l way, f o r t h e s p l i t t i n g      up o f
     t h e q u o t a vol umes i n t o          t wo p a r t s ,    o f w h i ch t h e f i r s t    w ill  be a l l o c a t e d
      among t h e Member S t a t e s as q u o t a                s h a r es and t h e second w i l l         be k e p t
      as a r e s e r v e .
4 . The a l l o c a t i o n    o f the f i r s t         p a r t o f each q u o t a has been u n d e r t a k e n
      a ccordin g to the          ru le s      g e n e ra lly applied         h ith e rto .   The t o t a l    im ports
      o f each Member S t a t e          f o r 1980 t o 1982 have been e x p r e s s e d as a
      p ro p o rtio n    of to ta l     Community i m p o r t s o v e r t h e same p e r i o d . The
      re s u ltin g     percentages          have been a p p l i e d S t a t e by S t a t e t o t h e            vol ume
      o f the f i r s t     p a rt,   the       la st    d ig it   o f t h e number o f m e t r i c t o n s b e i n g
      r o u nd ed o f f .
5 . The p r o p o s e d R e g u l a t i o n on o t h e r          cotton fa b r ic s provides            fo r a s in g le
      method o f a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ,        t o be a p p l i e d by a l l Member S t a t e s , n am el y
      the     " a s and when" m e t h o d .
 ---pagebreak---                                                            -   2    -
  However,          it     is at present          i m p o s s i b l e t o p r o v i d e f o r a s i n g l e met hod
  o f a d m in is tra tio n      ("as       and when" o r advance a l l o c a t i o n )               o f the quota
  for   c e r t a i n petroleum p ro d u c ts .              The r u l e s g o v e r n i n g t h e m a r k e t in
  these products              vary   f r o m one Member S t a t e t o a n o t h e r ,              w ith the e f f e c t
  that    t h e Member S t a t e s          r e g a r d t h e a p p l i c a t i o n o f a s i n n l e method o f
  a d m i n i s t r a t i o n as i m p o s s i b l e .   In c o n tra s t to general p r a c t i c e ,
  the re fo re,          each Member S t a t e w i l l            be empowered t o a d m i n i s t e r i t s
  own s h a r e o f t h e q u o t a a c c o r d i n g t o             its own r u l e s ,     w h ile ensuring
  that a ll         im p o rte rs o f the          re le v a n t products           have f r e e a cc es t o t h e
  quota.
Annexes     : 2 proposal           for     Council         re g u la tio n s .
 ---pagebreak---                                                   Proposal      for a
                                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
                 certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff and
                                                   refined in Spain ('1 9 8 4 )
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    Member State                    1980       1981     1982
                                                                  Benelux                                      4-5      26-9     12.4
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                Denmark                                      —          —       2.5
 thereof,                                                         Germany                                      2-0        9-8     2 .6
                                                                  Greece                                       —          —         -
                                                                  bYanee                                      2.3-0      12-2     7 .2
 H aving regard to the proposal front the C om m ission ,
                                                                   Ireland                                       -        6-1       -
                                                                  Italy                                       17-9       13-6    18.7
.Whereas an Agreement between the European Economic
                                                                   United Kingdom                             52-6       31-4    56.6
 Community and Spain (') was concluded on 29 June
 1970 and supplemented by the Protocol to the Agree­
 ment between the European Economic Community and
 Spain consequent on the accession of the Hellenic                 Whereas, in view of these factors, and of market forecasts
 Republic to the Community (2)                                     for the products concerned and in particular of the
                                                                   estimates submitted by certain Member States, initial
                                                                   quota shares may be fixed approximately at the following
                                                                   percentages:
 Whereas the Community committed itself, under this
 Agreement, to opening an annual total Community tariff                     Benelux                                 22 -0
 quota of 1 424 000 tonnes of certain petroleum products,                   Denmark                                  13-0
 falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs                            Germany                                  13-0
 Tariff and refined in Spain; whereas the quota duty is
                                                                            Greece                                    0-2
 equal to 40 % of the Common Customs Tariff duties;
 whereas this Community tariff quota should be opened                       France                                   11-0
 for 198 A;                                                                 Ireland                                   7-0
                                                                            Italy                                     8-0
                                                                            United Kingdom                          25-8
 Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure for all
 Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to
                                                                   Whereas, in order to take into account import trends for
 the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application
                                                                   the products concerned in the various Member States, the
 of the rate laid down for that quota to all imports of the
                                                                   quota volume should be divided into two instalments, the
 product concerned into all Member States until the quota
                                                                   first being shared between the Member States and the
 has been used up; whereas, having regard to the above
                                                                   second constituting a reserve to cover at a later date the
 principles, the Community nature of the quota can be
                                                                   requirements of Member States which have used up their
 respected by allocating the Community tariff quota
                                                                   initial quota shares; whereas, to give importers in each
 among the Member States; whereas, to reflect as accur­
                                                                   Member State a certain degree of security, the first
 ately as possible the true trend of the market of the
                                                                   instalment of the Community quota might under the
 products in question, such allocation should be in
                                                                   present circumstances be fixed at about 27% of the
 proportion to the requirements of the Member States,
                                                                   quota;
 calculated by reference to the statistics for imports from
 Spain over a representative period and also to the
                                                                   Whereas the Member States’ initial shares may be used up
 economic outlook for the quota period concerned;
                                                                   at different times; whereas, in order to take this fact into
                                                                   account and avoid any break in continuity, any Member
 Whereas, in respect of the last three years for which              State which has almost used up its initial quota share
 statistics are available, the corresponding imports by each        should draw an additional share from the reserve;
 of the Member States represent the following percentages           whereas this must be done by each Member State as and
 of the imports into the Community from Spain of the               when each of its additional shares is almost used up, and
 products concerned:                                               repeated as many times as the reserve allows; whereas the
                                                                    initial and additional shares must be valid until the end of
  C) OJ N o E 182, 16. 8. 1970, p. 2.                              the quota period; whereas this method of administration
  (2) OJ N o L 326, 13. 11. 1981, p. 2.                             requires close cooperation between the Member States
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and the Commission, and :.ic latter must be in a position                  stration of the quota shares allocated to that economic
to monitor the extent to which the quota volume has been                   union may be carried out by any of its members,
used up and to inform the Member States thereof;
                                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas if, at a given date in the quota period, a
substantial quantity of an initial share remains unused in                                           A rticle 1
any Member State, it is essential that that Member State
should return a significant proportion to the reserve, to                  From 1 January to 31 December 1984, and subject to the
prevent a part of any Community tariff quota from                          measures which might be taken pursuant to Article 3 (2 )
remaining unused in one Member State when it could be                      and (4) of Annex I to the Agreement between the
used in others;                                                            European Economic Community and Spain, the Com­
                                                                           mon Customs Tariff duties in respect of the products
Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of                      refined in Spain and listed below shall be suspended
the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg                          partially at the levels indicated for each of them, within
are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux                   the limits of a global Community tariff quota of
Economic Union, any operation relating to the admini­                      1 424 000 tonnes:
                   CCT                                                                                           Rate of
                  heading                                        Description                                    daty (%)
                    No
                  27.10        Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than
                              crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing not
                               less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
                               bit uminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the
                              preparations:
                              A. Light oils:
                                    III. For other purposes                                                        2-4
                              B. Medium oils:
                                    HI. For other purposes                                                         2-4
                              C. Heavy oils:
                                      1. Gas oil:
                                         c) For other purposes                                                     1-4
                                     II. Fuel oil:
                                         c) For other purposes                                                   ■1-4
                                    III. Lubricating oils; other oils:
                                         c) To be mixed in accordance with the terms of Additional
                                            Note 7 to this Chapter (a)                                             1-6
                                         d) For other purposes                                                     2-4
                  27.11       Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons:
                              B. Other:
                                      I. Commercial propane and commercial butane:
                                         c) For other purposes:                                                    0-6
                  27.12       Pe rolcum jelly:
                              A. Crude:
                                    III. For other purposes                                                        0-7
                              B. Other                                                                            2 .2
                  27.13       Paraffin wax, micro-crystalline wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax,
                              peat wax and other mineral waxes, whether or not coloured:
                              B. Other:
                                      I. Crude:
                                         c) For other purposes                                                     0-7
                                     II. Other                                                                     2-0
                  27.14       Petroleum bitumen, petroleum coke and other residues of petroleum oils
                              or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals:
                              c. Other:
                                     II. Other                                                                     0-7
             (a) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent
                 authorities.
 ---pagebreak---                                                                - 3 -       4 -                       ANNEX    A
      Within the limits of this tariff quota, Greece shall apply        might not be used up. It shall inform the Commission of
      duties calculated in accordance with the relevant                 its reasons for applying this paragraph.
      provisions in the 1979 Act of Accession and in the
     Regulation           (EEC)     No 3 5 5 9 / 8 0   C1).
                                                                                                Article 4
                                 Article 2                             Each of the additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3
                                                                       shall be valid until 31 December 1984 .
     1.      A first instalment amounting to 383 000 tonnes of
    the Community tariff qOota referred to in Article 1 shall
    be allocated among the Member States; the respective
    shares, which subject to Article 5 shall be valid until                                     Article S
    31 December 19S'j- shall be as follows:
                                                                       The Member States shall return to the reserve, not later
                                                     (tonnes)
                                                                      than 1 October 1984, such unused portion of their initial
             Benelux                                 85 000           share as, on 15 September 1984, is in excess of 20% of
             Denmark                                 50 000           the initial volume. They may return a greater quantity if
             Germany                                 50 000           there are grounds for believing that it may not be
                                                                      used.
             Greece                                    1 000
             France                                  42 000
                                                                      Member States shall, not later than 1 October 1 9 8 4 ,
             Ireland                                 25 000
                                                                      notify the Commission of the total quantities of the
            Italy                                    30 000           products in question imported up to 15 September 19 8 4
            United Kingdom                          100 000           and charged against the Community tariff quota and of
                                                                      any quantities of the initial shares returned to the
                                                                     reserve.
   2.      The second instalment of 1 041 000 tonnes shall
   constitute the reserve.
                                                                                               Article 6
                                Article 3
                                                                    The Commission shall keep an account of the shares
                                                                    opened by the Member States pursuant to Articles 2 and 3
   1.     If 90 % or more of a Member State’s initial share as
                                                                    and shall, as soon as it is notified, inform each Member
  specified in Article 2 (1), or 90 % of that share minus the
                                                                    State of the extent to which the reserve has been used
  portion returned to the reserve where Article 5 is applied,
                                                                    up.
  has been used up, then, to the extent permitted by the
  amount of the reserve, that Member State shall forthwith,
  by notifying the Commission, draw a second share equal            It shall inform the Member States, not later than
  to 15 % of its initial share, rounded up where necessary to       5 October 1984 of the amounts still in the reserve after
  the next unit.                                                    quantities have been returned thereto pursuant to Article
                                                                    5.
 2.      If, after its initial share has been used up, 90 % or
 more of the second share drawn by a Member State has              The Commission shall ensure that the drawing which uses
 been used up, that Member State shall, in accordance              up a reserve does not exceed the balance available and, to
 with the conditions laid down in paragraph 1 , draw a             this end, shall notify the amount of that balance to the
 third share equal to 7-5 % of its initial share, rounded up       Member State which makes such last drawing.
 where necessary to the next unit.
 3.      If, after its second share has been used up, 90 % or
                                                                                             Article 7
 more of the third share drawn by a Member State has been
 used up, that Member State shall, in accordance with the
                                                                   1.       Member States shall take all measures necessary to
conditions laid down in paragraph 1 , draw a fourth share
                                                                  ensure that supplementary shares drawn pursuant to
equal to the third.
                                                                  Article 3 are opened in such a way that imports may be
                                                                  charged without interruption against their accumulated
This process shall continue until the reserve is used up.         shares of the Community tariff quotas.
4.      By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 ,2 and 3, a        2.       Member States shall ensure that importers of the
Member State may draw shares smaller than those fixed             products in question                                   have
in those paragraphs if there is reason to believe that these      free access to the shares allocated to them.
( 1)    0J No L 3 8 2 , 3 1 . 1 2 . 1 9 S 0 ,        p. 71.
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                           ANNEX A
3.    Member Stores shall charge imports of the goods in                             Article 9
question against their shares as and when such goods are
entered with the customs authorities for free circula­       The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
tion.                                                        closely in order to ensure compliance with this Regula­
                                                             tion.
                         Article 8
                                                                                     Article 10
At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
inform it of imports of the products concerned actually      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
charged against their shares.                                1984.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels,
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                              The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                 Proposal       for     a
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
               opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for other
               woven fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff and
                                                 originating in Spain ( 1 9 8 4 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     Member State         1980       1981         1982
                                                                   Benelux                        1 2. 3       4.8          1 .7
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   Denmark                          0 .2       0.3          0.2
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
thereof,                                                           Germany                          4.5        3.6          5.1
                                                                   Greece                             -          -          0 .3
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 France                         75.4       7 4. 2       60.1
                                                                   Ireland                          1 .5     12.0         2 1. 2
                                                                   Italy                            2.9        3 .9         8.0
Whereas an Agreement between the European Economic
Community and Spain (') was concluded on 29 June
 1970 and supplemented by the Protocol to the Agree­
                                                                   United Kingdom
                                                                                                 I  3 '2
                                                                                                               1 .2         3.4
ment between the European Economic Community and
Spain consequent on the accession of the Hellenic                  Whereas, in view of these factors, of market forecasts for
 Republic to the Community (2) ·                                    the products in question and in particular of the estimates
                                                                    submitted by certain Member States, initial quota shares
                                                                   may be fixed approximately at the following percent­
                                                                    ages:
 Whereas the Community committed itself, under this
 Agreement, to opening an annual total Community tariff                      Benelux                                    5-2
 quota of 2 013 tonnes of other woven fabrics of cotton,
                                                                             Denmark                                    0-3
 falling within heading No 55.09 of the Common Customs
 Tariff and originating in Spain; whereas, the quota duty is                 Germany                                    5-2
 equal to 40% of the Common Customs Tariff duty in                           Greece                                     5-2
  respect of the products concerned; whereas this Commu­                     France                                   52-0
  nity tariff quota should be opened for 1984 ;                              Ireland                                   19-5
                                                                              Italy                                    11-0
  Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure to all                      United Kingdom                            1-6
  Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to
  the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application
  of the rate laid down for that quota to all imports of the         Whereas, in order to take into account import trends for
  products concerned into all Member States until the                the products concerned in the various Member States, the
   quota has been used up; whereas, having regard to the             quota volume should be divided into two instalments, the
   principles mentioned above, the Community nature of               first being shared among the Member States and the
   the quota can be respected by allocating the Community            second constituting a reserve to cover at a later date the
   tariff quota among the Member States; whereas to reflect          requirements of those Member States having used up their
   as accurately as possible the true trend of the market of          initial quota shares; whereas, in order to give importers in
   the products in question, such allocation should be in             each Member State a certain degree of security, the first
   proportion to the requirements of the Member States                instalment of the Community quota should under present
   calculated by reference to the statistics of imports from          circumstances be fixed at 77% of the quota;
    Spain over a representative period and also to the
    economic outlook for the quota period concerned;
                                                                      Whereas the Member States’ initial shares may be used up
                                                                      at different times; whereas, in order to take this fact into
    Whereas, during the last three years for which statistics
                                                                       account and avoid any break in continuity, any Member
    are available, the corresponding imports by each of the
                                                                       State which has almost used up its initial share should
    Member States represent the following percentages of the
                                                                       draw an additional share from the reserve; whereas this
    imports into the Community from Spain of the products              must be done by each Member State as and when each of
    concerned:                                                         its additional shares is almost used up, and repeated as
                                                                       many times as the reserve allows; whereas the initial and
    (>) OJ N o L 182, 16. 8. 1970, p. 2.                               additional shares must be valid until the end of the quota
     (2) OJ No L 326, 13. 11. 1981, p. 2.                              period; whereas this method of administration requires
 ---pagebreak---                                                                     -   2    -                                        ANNEX B
close cooperation between tl· Member States and the                    Economic Union, any operation concerning the admini­
Commission, and the latter must be in a position to                    stration of the quota shares allocated to that economic
monitor the extent to which the quota volume has been                  union may be carried out by any of its members,
used up and to inform the Member States thereof;
Whereas if, at a given date in the quota period, a
substantial quantity of an initial share remains unused in
a Member State, it is essential that that Member State                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
should return a significant proportion to the reserve, to
prevent a part of any Community quota from remaining                                                  Article 1
unused in one Member State when it could be used in
others;                                                                 From 1 January until 31 December 1984, the Common
                                                                        Customs Tariff duties in respect of the products origina­
Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of                   ting in Spain and listed below shall be partially suspended
the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg                       at the levels indicated for each of them within the limits of
are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux                a global Community tariff quota of 2 013 tonnes:
                    CCT                                                                                           Rate of
                   heading                                    Description                                        duty (%)
                     No
                    55.09     Other woven fabrics of cotton:
                               A. Containing 85 % or more by weight of cotton:
                                    I. Of a width of less than 85 cm                                                4 .6
                                   II. Other
                                                                                                                   4.8
                               B. Other:
                                    I. Of a width of less than 85 cm                                                4.8
                                   II. Other:                                                                       5.0
 Within the limits of this tariff quota, Greece shall apply                                            Article 3
 duties calculated in accordance with the relevant
 provisions in the 1979 Act of Accession and in the                      1.     If 90 % or more of a Member State’s initial share as
                                                                         specified in Article 2 (1), or 90 % of that share minus the
 R egulation        (EEC) No 3 5 5 9 / 8 0       (1).                    portion returned to the reserve where Article 5 is applied,
                                                                         has been used up, then, to the extent permitted by the.
                           Article 2                                     amount of the reserve, that Member State shall forthwith,
                                                                         by notifying the Commission, draw a second share equal
 1.    A first instalment amounting to 1 540 tonnes of the               to 15 % of its initial share, rounded up where necessary to
 Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1 shall be                the next unit.
 allocated among the Member States; the respective
 shares, which subject to Article 5 shall be valid until
 31 December 198/ shall be as follows:                                   2.      If, after its initial share has been used up, 90% or.
                                                                         more of the second share drawn by a Member State has
                                                  (tonnes)               been used up, that Member State shall, in accordance
        Benelux                                      80                  with the conditions laid down in paragraph 1 , draw a
                                                                         third share equal to 7-5 % of its initial share, rounded up
        Denmark                                        5
                                                                         where necessary to the next unit.
        Germany                                      80
        Greece                                       80
        France                                      800                   3.     If, after its second share has been used up, 90% or
        Ireland                                     300                   more of the third share drawn by a Member State has been
        Italy                                       170                   used up, that Member State shall, in accordance with the
                                                                          same conditions, draw a fourth share equal to the
        United Kingdom                               25
                                                                          third.
 2.     The second instalment of 473 tonnes shall consti­
 tute the reserve.                                                        This process shall continue until the reserve is used up.
 (1)   0J No L 3 8 2 , 3 1 . 1 2 . 1 9 8 0 , p .        71.
 ---pagebreak---                                                            - 3 -                                  ANNEX B
4.     J3y way of derogation from paragraphs 1 ,2 and 3, a       and, to this end, shall notify the amount of that balance to
Member State may draw shares smaller than those fixed            the Member State which makes such last drawing.
in those paragraphs if there is reason to believe that these
might not be used up. It shall inform the Commission of
its reasons for applying this paragraph.                                                   Article 7
                                                                 1.    The Member States shall take all measures neces­
                          Article 4                              sary to ensure that additional shares drawn pursuant to
                                                                 Article 3 are opened in such a way that imports may be
Each of the additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3        charged without interruption against heir accumulated
                                                                 shares of the Community quota.
shall be valid until 31 December 1 9 8 4 .
                                                                 2.    The Member States shall ensure that imp.,: tors of
                                                                 the products in question
                          Article 5                              have free access to the shares allocated to them.
The Member Slates shall return to the reserve, not later          3.    The Member Stales shall charge imports ol the said
than 1 October 198 ^ such unused portion of their initial        goods against their shares as and when the goods arc-
share which, on 15 September 1984 is in excess of 20%            entered with the customs authorities for free circula­
of the initial volume. They many return a larger quantity        tion.
if there are grounds for believing that it may not be
used.                                                             4.    The extent to which a Member State has used up its
                                                                  share shall be determined on the basis of the imports
The Member States shall, not later than 1 October 1 9 8 4 ,      charged in accordance with paragraph 3.
notify the Commission of the total quantities of the
products in question imported up to 15 September 1984
and charged against the tariff quota and of any quantities                                  Article 8
of the initial shares returned to the reserve.
                                                                 At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
                                                                 inform it of imports of the products concerned actually
                          Article 6                              charged against their shares.
 The Commission shall keep an account of the shares
opened by Member States in accordance with Articles 2                                       Article 9
 and 3 and shall, as soon as it is notified, inform each
Member State of the extent to which the reserve has been         The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
 used up.                                                        closely in order to ensure compliance with this Regula­
                                                                 tion.
 It shall inform the Member States, not later than 5
 October 1984^ of the amount in the reserve after
 quantities have been returned pursuant to Article 5.                                      Article 10
 The Commission shall ensure that any drawing which              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
 exhausts the reserve does not exceed the balance available       1984.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels,
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                    The President