CELEX: 51976PC0466
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Date: 1976-09-08
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for certain textile fibres falling within heading n° 56.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Cypres (1977)#Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for men's and boys' outer garments falling within heading n° 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Cyprès (1977) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                   COM ( 76 ) 466 final .
                                                   Brussels - 8 September 1976
                            Proposal for a
   on the opening , allocation and administration of a Community
   tariff quota for certain textile fibres falling within heading
   n° 56.04 of the Common Customs Tariff , originating in Cypres          >
                                 ( 1977 )
                            Proposal for a
                     REGULATION .(EEC) OF -THE COUNCIL
                        *
   opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a
   Community tariff quota for men 's and boys' outer garments falling
   within heading n° 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff , originating
                                in Cyprès
                                 ( 1977 )
              ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
   C0PK76 ) 466 final .       \
 ---pagebreak---                              EATLAÎTA TonY
 Tho Agreement establishing an Association botueen tho European Economic
 Community and the Republic of Cyprus (Article 3 and Article 2 of Annex l),
 together with tho Protocol laying down! certain provisions relating to
 that Agreement consequent on the accession of new. Member States to tho
 European Economic Comnynity (Article 2 ), provides for the period.untii        *
 30 June 1977 ( end of the first stage of the Agreement ) for the opening of the
 following Community, tariff quotas for products originating in Cyprus :
Common Customs'                 Description of goods               Annual
Tariff hoading                                               .     quota
56.04             • Kan-made fibres (discontinuous or waste )     100 metric tons
                    carded , coir.b'Gd or otherwise prepared                . #
                    for spin~2naf
61.01               Ken f s and "boys' outer garments             500 metric tons
A joint declaration on Article 2 of the abovementioned Protocol also provides
for those quotas to bo allocated as follows between tho Member -States :
                            V .     ••        56.04 '             61.01
(a) constituted
     to the Community as originally         70 motrio tons      100 metric tons
0>) to the new Member States •              30 metric tons      400 metrio tons
Since the Agreement does not provide for the application of the pro rata teraporis
clause for the first half-year of 1977 tariff quotas covering the whole of these
amounts have to be opened .
The duties to be applied are fixed by the Agreement at 30$ of the Common
Customs Tariff duties for tho produots concerned. Hpwevcy , Artiolcs 3 to
7 of the abovementioned Protocol also pontain special provisions concerning
viie duties to be applied by the new Member' States . Similarly, certain
provisions of the Act concerning the Conditions of Accession and tho Adjust­
ments to tho Tr.eaties roust "be oomplied with when fixing these duties.
 ---pagebreak--- In order to . fulfil the Community's obligation to Cyprus in 1977 , regulations
should ho adopted opening, allocating and providing, for the administration
of those Community tariff quotas .
                            *  ·            '   * '
This is' the purpose of the proposals annexed hereto .
                                                                  *
The following remarks are necessary concerning the quotas assigned to
the Member States of■ the Community as originally constituted :
                                                                           • I
                                        * >
  «. The regulations provide , as is the rule , fov> each of the quotas to
        "be divided into two instalments , the first of which is allocated among
        the Member States vconcernea while the second constitutes the reserve .
  _ The allocation of the first instalment , is usually "based on the statistics
    . for the previous three years and the forecasts for the quota period con­
        cerned . However , this principle cannot he applied to the products
      in question,                                  for there were no imports of
       these products during the years 1973–75          forecasts for 1977 0a,nr'° *
       "be drawn tip in either case . In these : circumstances and so that the
   • quotas assigned to the Community as originally constituted can neverthe–
     , less he equitably allocated among Member States , it appears desirable to
      provide for a significant share of the quota amount for each of the original
      Member State# Obviouslyj this formula will have to be adapted subsequently
      in the light of aotuai trade movements# •'
 Comments concerning the amounts provided for in respect of the new Member States
– It is also proposed to divide the quota amounts into two instalments as for
   the original Member States .
- Exactly the same problem as for the Community as originally constituted arises
   in connection with allocating each of the first instalments . Insignificant
   amounts were imported into the United Kingdom only (tariff heading 5^»04 )»
   Consequently the solution set out in paragraph 3 is proposed in this case
   also .       -         "
 ---pagebreak---                                                                             - 3 -
5. 1                The Member States' experts who participated in the consultative meeting
                    of the "Economic Tariff Problems" Group (27 /28 April 1976 ) expressed agree-
                'I ment in principle to the scheme for allocation of shares proposed by the' 1
                    Commission in the framework of the Regulations annexed .                                               •       :*
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                                                  Proposal for a
                               REGULATION (EEC) No . . . h6 OF THE COUNCIL
                opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota
                 or Ge- am textile fibres,falling within heading No5&.C4 of the Common
                                       Customs Tariff, originating in Cyprus (197 7 )
    SHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
                                                                          access to the abovementioned quota and uninter­
                                                                          rupted application of the rate laid down for
                                                                          that quota to all imports of the product concerned
  Having regard to the Treaty- establishing the                           into all Member States until the quota has been
  European Economic Community, and in particular                          used up; whereas, having regard to the principles
  Article 113 thereof;                                                    mentioned above, the Community nature of the
                                                                          quota can be respected by allocating the Community
                                                                          tariff quota among the Member States ; whereas, in
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                     order to reflect more accurately the actual develop­
                                                                          ment of the market in the product concerned, such
                                                                          allocation should be in proportion to the needs of
 Whereas the Agreement (») establishing an associ­                       the Member States, assessed by reference to both the
 ation between the European Economic Community                           statistics of each State's imports of the said goods
 and the Republic of Cyprus, hereinafter called 'the                     from Cyprus over a representative period and the
 Agreement', and the Protocol (2) laying down certain         "          economic outlook for the quota period concerned ;
 provisions concerning that Agreement as a result
 of tne accession of new Member States to the
 European Economic Community, hereinafter called
  the Protocol', provide for the opening of an annual                    Whereas during the past three years no such products
 Community tariff quota of lOO metric tons of                            originating in Cyprus have neither been imported into
                                                                       the Community as originally constituted
r^tde fiJreS (disc°rrfcinuou3 or waste),                               nor in                                         '
  arded, combed or otherwise prepared for                                    the new Member States ; whereas no forecast can
spumxng, falling within heading Ho 5S4                                   be made for 1977 whereas to ensure fair distribution
                                                                         of the two quota amounts between the Member
In 0~°a 0U3t<"US
OT.   Tile  ( inmmnvt                m  . ~             ^       ~
                                                                        States concerned each Member State should make
                                                                         a significative contribution to the relevant quota
                                                                        amount; whereas such contributions may
                                                                         approximately correspond to the following
                                                                        percentages :
                                                                                 Bénélux                             19
                                                                                 Germany                             27
                      whereas pursuant to the Joint"
   Declaration on Article 2 of the Protocol the tariff                           France
                                                                                                                     29
   quota should be allocated among the Member States                             Italy                               25
   as follows: 70 metric tons for the Community as                               Denmark                             33
  originally constituted and 30 metric tons for the                              Ireland                           . 27
  new Member States; whereas Annex I to the
  Agreement provides that the duties applicable                                  United Kingdom                      40 :
   to the quota shall be equal to 30% of the Common
   Customs Tariff duties; whereas, as regards the duties
  applicable to goods within the limits of the quota                    Whereas, in order to take account of import trends
  by the new Member States, the special provisions of                   for the products in question in the Member States
  the Protocol and of the Act of Accession (») should                   concerned , the quota amount should be divided
  be observed; whereas to comply with the special                      into two instalments, the first instalment being
  previsions of the Protocol, separate arrangements                    allocated among the same Member States, the second
  should be made for the Member States of the                          instalment constituting a reserve intended to cover
  community as originally constituted on the one hand,                 the later requirements of Member States which have
  and for the new Member States on the other;                          used up their initial quota shares ; whereas in order
 Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure to
 all Community importers equal and uninterrupted
 (') OJ No L 133, 21. 5. 1973, p. 1.
 ( ) OJ No L 133, 21. 5. 1973, p. 88.
 (3) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                     Article 2
to ensure a certain degree of security to importers
in each Member State, the first instalment of the       1. The Common Customs Tariff duty shall be
quota should be fixed in this case at approximately     partially suspended at the rate of 5-1% in respect or
75 and 7^% respectively ;                               70 metric tons of the quota referred to in Article 1 .
Whereas the initial quota shares of the Member
States may be used up at different times; whereas,       2. Within the limits of 30 metric tons the tariff
in order to take this fact into account and avoid any
break in continuity, it is important that any Member     quota referred to in Article 1 , the new Member
State having used up almost the whole of its initial     States shall apply the duties laid down in the relevant
quota share should draw an additional share from         provisions of the Act of Accession, the Agreement
 the reserve; whereas, this must be done by each         and the Protocol .
 Member State as and when each of its additional
 quota shares is almost entirely used up, and repeated
 as many times as the reserves allow; whereas the                                    Article 3
 initial and additional quota shares must be available
 for use until the end of the quota period ; whereas      1 . A first instalment, amounting TO £2 metric tons
 this method of administration calls for close            of the amount specified in Article 2 ( 1 ), shall be
 cooperation between Member States and the Com­          allocated among the Member States of the Com­
 mission, which must, in particular, be able to observe  munity as originally constituted; the shares, which
 the extent to which the quota amounts are used          subject to Article 6 are valid until 30 June 1977 »
  and inform Member States thereof;                       shall be as follows :
  Whereas if, at a specified date in the quota period,            Bénélux                    10   metric tons,
  a considerable balance remains in one or other
                                                                  Gerinany                   14   metric tons,
  Member State, it is essential that that Member State
  pays a large amount of it back into the reserve, in                France                  15 * metric tons,
  order to avoid a part of the Community tariff quotas               Italy                   13   metric tons .
  remaining unused in one Member State? when it could
  be used in others ;
                                                          The second instalment of 18 metric tons shall
                                                           constitute the relevant reserve.
  Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the King­
  dom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
  Luxembourg are united in and represented by the          2. A first instalment, amounting to 21 metric tons
   Benelux Economic Union, any measure concerning         of the amount mentioned in Article 2 (2), shall be
   the administration of the quota shares allocated to     distributed between the new Member States; the
   that economic union may be carried out by any of        shares, which subject to Article 6 are valid until
   its members,                                          30 June 1977 5 shall be as follows:
                                                                      Denmark                  7  metric tons,
    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                     Ireland                  6 metric tons,
                                                                      United Kingdom           8 metric tons.
                          Article 1                        The second instalment of            9   metric tons shall
                                                            constitute the relevant reserve .
Prom 1 January to 30 June 1977 a- tariff
quota of 100 metric tons shall "be opened                                              Article 4
within the Community in respect of man­
made fibres ( discontinuous or waste ),                      1 . If 90% or more of the initial share of a Member
 carded , combed or otherwise prepared for                   State, as laid down in Article 3, or 90% of that
 spinning , falling within heading Ho 56.04                  share less the amount returned into the relevant
 of the Common Customs Tariff , originating                  reserve where the provisions of Article 6 have been
 in Cyprus , This quota shall "be allocated                  applied, has been exhausted, that Member State shall
 and administered in accordance with the                     proceed without delay, by notifying the Commission,
                                                             to draw a second share, equal to 15% of its initial
 provisions set out "below .                                 share, rounded up to the next unit where appropriate,
                                                             to the extent that the relevant reserve is sufficient.
                                                             2. If, after its initial share has been exhausted, 90%
                                                             or more of the second share drawn by a Member
                                                             State has been used, that Member State shall proceed,
                                                             in accordance with the conditions laid down - in
                                                              paragraph 1 , to draw a third share equal to 7-5% of
                                                              its initial share, rounded up to the next unit.
 ---pagebreak---                                                             - 3 -
 3 . If, after its second share has been exhausted,            The Commission shall, not later than 20 Flay 1977 1
 90% or more of the third share drawn by a Member               notify the Member States of the amoums in the
'State has been used, that Member State shall proceed,          reserves after the return of shares pursuant to
 in the same way, to draw a fourth share equal to               Article 6 .
 the third.
                                                                The Commission shall ensure that any drawing which
 This process shall be applied until the relevant               uses up one or the other reserve is limited to the
  reserve is exhausted.                                         balance available and for this purpose shall specify
                                                                the amount thereof to the Member State which makes
  4. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 a Member              the last drawing.
  Stare may proceed to draw shares smaller than those
  fixed in those paragraphs if there is reason to believe                                Article 8
  that they might not be used up. They shall inform
  the Commission of the reasons which led them to                1 . The Member States shall take all appropriate
  apply this paragraph.                                          measures to ensure that when additional shares are
                                                                 drawn pursuant to Article 4 it is possible for changes
                            Article 5
                                                                 to be made without interruption against their
                                                                  accumulated shares of the Community quota.
  Each of the additional shares drawn pursuant to                 2 The Member States shall ensure that importers of
   Article 4 shall be valid until 30 June 1977 •                  the said goods established in their territory have free
                                                                  access to the share allocated to them.
                            Article 6                             3 The Member States shall charge imports of the
                                                                  said goods against their share as and when the goods
   The Member States shall return to the reserve, not              are entered for home use.
   later than 15 May 1977 > the unused portion of                  4. The extent to which a Member State used up its
• their initial share which, on 1 Hay 1977             , is
   in excess of 20% of the initial amount. They may                share shall be determined on the basis of the imports
   return a greater portion if there are grounds for               charged in accordance with paragraph 3.
   believing that such portion may not be used in full.
                                                                                          Article 9
   The Member States shall, not later than 15 Tlay
    1977, notify the Commission of the total imports               On receipt of a request from the Commission,
  _of the said goods effected up to and including 1                Member States shall inform it of imports actually
  iflay 1977          , and charged against the Com­               charged against their shares.
    munity quota and, where appropriate, the proportion
    of their initial share that is being returned to the                                  Article 10
    relevant reserve.
                                                                   The Member States and the Commission shall
                             Article 7                              cooperate closely in order to ensure that this
                                                                    Regulation is observed.
    The Commission shall keep an account of the shares
    opened by Member States in accordance with Articles                                   Article 11
    3 and 4 and shall inform each State of the extent to
    which the reserves have been used up as soon as it              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
     receives the notifications.                                    1977-
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety   and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                   Done at Brussels, .
                                                                                            For the Council
                                                                                              The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                                                    ANUEX
                                              Proposal for a
                                REGULATION (EEC) No ..                 OF THE COUNCIL
              opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota
              for men's and boys' outer garments, falling within heading No 61.01 of the Common
                                        Customs Tariff, originating in Cyprus (197H
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           access to the abovementioned quota and uninter­
                                                                   rupted application of the rate laid down for
                                                                   that quota to all imports of the product concerned
                                                                    into all Member States until the quota has been
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       used up ; whereas, having regard to the principles
European Economic Community, and in particular                     mentioned above, the Community nature of the
Article 113 thereof:                                               quota can be respected by allocating the Community
                                                                   tariff quota among the Member States; whereas, in
                                                                    order to reflect more accurately the actual develop­
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                ment of the market in the product concerned, such
                                                                    allocation should be in proportion to the needs of
Whereas the Agreement [l) establishing an associ­                  the Member States, assessed by reference to both the
ation between the European Economic Community                      statistics of each State's imports of the said goods
and the Republic of Cyprus, hereinafter called 'the                from Cyprus over a representative period and the
Agreement', and the Protocol (2) laying down certain               economic outlook for the quota period concerned ;
provisions concerning that Agreement as a result
of the accession of new Member States to the
European Economic Community, hereinafter called                    Whereas during the past three years no such products
'the Protocol', provide for the opening of an annual                originating in Cyprus have been imported into the
Community tariff quota of 500 metric tons of men's                 Community as originally constituted and whereas
and boys' outer garments, falling within heading-                   a minimal amount has been imported into only one
No 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originat­                    of the new Member States ; whereas no forecast can
ing in Cyprus;                                                      be made for 197J whereas to ensure fair distribution
                                                                   of the two quota amounts between the Member
                                                                   States concerned each Member State should make
                                                                   a significative contribution to the relevant quota
                                                                   amount;         whereas  such    contributions    may
                                                                   approximately correspond to the following
                                                                   percentages :
                                      whereas pursuant
to the Joint                                                                 Bénélux                            19
Declaration on Article 2 of the Protocol the tariff                          Germany                            28
 quota should be allocated among the Member States                           France                             28
 as follows: 100 metric tons for the Community as                            Italy                              25
originally constituted and 400 metric tons for the                           Denmark                            45
 new Member States; whereas Annex I to the
                                                                             Ireland                             3
 Agreement provides that the duties applicable
 to the quota shall be equal to 30% of the Common                          ' United Kingdom                    52
 Customs Tariff duties ; whereas, as regards the duties
 applicable to goods within the limits of the quota
 by the new Member States, the special provisions of                Whereas, in order to take account of import trends
 the Protocol and of the Act of Accession (8) should                for the products in question in the Member States
 be observed ; whereas to comply with the special                   concerned, the quota amount should be divided
 provisions of the Protocol, separate arrangements                  into two instalments, the first instalment being
 should be made for the Member States of the                        allocated among the same Member States, the second
 Community as originally constituted on the one hand,               instalment constituting a reserve intended to covet
 and for the new Member States on the other;                        the later requirements of Member States which have
                                                                    used up their initial quota shares; whereas in order
 Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure to
 all Community importers equal and uninterrupted
 («) OJ No L 133, 21. 5. 1973, p. 1.
  (*) OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 88.
 (3) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
 ---pagebreak---                                      If    - O'j 3HT 'iO
  to ensure a certain' degree of' security to importers ' •      ■ Within the limits of 400 metric tons the tariff
  in each Member State, the first instalment of the >■"' qoota referred to in Article                      the new Member
  quota should be fixed in this case at approximately : !y • States shall apply the duties laid down in the relevant
  72 and 50% respectively;                                   provisions of the Act of Accession, the Agreement
                                                             and the Protocol .
  Whereas the initial , quota shares of the Member
  States may be used up at different times; whereas,
  in order ,to take this fact into account and avoid any.                                   Article 3                   '
  break in , continuity, it is important that any Member
  State having used up almost the whole of its initial       1 . A first instalment, amounting to 72 metric tons
  quota share should draw an additional share from           of the amount specified in Article 2 ( 1),' shall be
  the reserve,; whereas, this must be done, by each          allocated among the Member States of the Com­
  Member State as and when each of its additional            munity as originally constituted ; the shares, which
  quota shares js almost entirely used up, and repeated      subject to Article 6 are valid until 30 Jujie 1977
  as many times as the . reserves allow; whereas the         shall be as follows :                      v-
  initial and additional quota shares must be available
  for use, until the. end of the quota period ; whereas                      Benelux                 14 metric tons,
  this ; method of administration calls for close
  cooperation between. Member States and the Com­                       'i' Germany                  20 metric tons,
  mission, which must, in particular, be able to observe              f       France                  20 metric tons,
  the extent to which the quota amounts are used
                                                                          ■ Italy                     18 metric tons .
   and inform Member States thereof;            . .
   Whereas if, at a 'specified date in the quqta period,      The second instalment of 28 metric tons shall '
  a considerable ■ balance remains in . one ; ; or other      constitute the relevant reserve.           '
  Member State*. it * is essential that that Member , State
   pays a large amount of it , back into the reserve, in      2. A first instalment, amounting to 200 metric tons
  .order to avoid a part of the Community tariff quotas      of the amount mentioned in Article 2 (2), shall be
   remaining unused in one Member State when it could         distributed between the new Member States; the
   be used in others; • r-', r :;:            -.m             shares, which subject to Article 6 are valid until
                                                             30 June 1977 , shall be as follows :
   Whereas, since' the Kingdorii of Belgium", the King­
   dom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of                              Denmark                 90 metric tons,
   Luxembourg are united in and represented by the                       ■'   Ireland   ' '            5 metric tons,
   Benelux Economic Union, any measure Concerning
                                                                   .,       , United Kingdom         105 metric tons.
   the administration of the quota shares allocated to
   that economic union may be carried out , by any of
   its members,                                     , ;       The second instalment of 200 metric tons shall
                                                              constitute the relevant reserve.
                                                                   V • -      '
                                                                   !            • . i,
    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : .                                •. ίι;.·:Ι ; ,?
                                                                                             Article 4
                                                               1 . . If 90% or more of the initial share of a Member
                            Article 1
                                                               Staters laid down in Article 3, or 90% of that
                                                               share less ; . the , amount returned into the relevant
    From 1 January to 30 June 1977 a tariff quota              reserve where the provisions of Article 6 have been
• of 500 metric tons shall be opened within the Com­           applied, has been exhausted, that Member State shall
 . munity in respect of men's and boys' outer garments,       proceed without delay, by notifying the Commission,
    falling within heading .No 61.01 of the Common             to draw a second share, equal to 15% of its initial
    Customs Tariff, originating in ■ Cyprus, This quota        share, rounded up to the next unit where appropriate,
    shall be allocated and administered in accordance          to the extent that the relevant reserve is sufficient. ■
    with the provisions set out below.
                                                               2. if, after its initial share has been exhausted, 90%
                             Article 2                         or more of the second share drawn by a Member
                                                               State has been used, that Member State shall proceed,
    1 . The Common Customs Tariff duty shall be                in accordance with the conditions laid down in
    partially suspended at the rate of 5-1% in respect of       paragraph 1, to draw a third share equal to 7-5% of
    100 metric tons of the quota referred to in Article 1 .     its initial share, rounded up to the next unit.
 ---pagebreak---   3 . If, after its second share has been exhausted,          The Commission shall, not later than 20 May 1977 »
  90% or more of the third share drawn by a Member            notify the Member States of the amounts in the
  State has been used, that Member State shall proceed,       reserves after the return of shares pursuant to '
 in the same way, to draw a fourth share equal to             Article 6.
  the third.
                                                              The Commission shall ensure that any drawing which
 This process shall be applied until the relevant             uses up one or the other reserve is limited to the
 reserve is exhausted.                                        balance available and for this purpose shall specify
                                                              the amount thereof to the Member State which makes
 4. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 a Member            the last drawing.
 State may proceed to draw shares smaller than those
 fixed in those paragraphs if there is reason to believe                               Article 8
 that they might not be used up. They shall inform
 the Commission of the reasons which led them to               1 . The Member States shall take all appropriate
 apply this paragraph.                                        measures to ensure that when additional shares are
          \
                                                              drawn pursuant to Article 4 it is possible for changes
                         Article S                            to be made without interruption against their
                                                               accumulated shares of the Community quota.
Each of the additional shares drawn pursuant to               2. The Member States shall ensure that importers of
 Article 4 shall be valid until 30 June 1977 •                the said goods established in their territory have free
                                                               access to the share allocated to them.
                         Article 6
                                                              3. The Member States shall charge imports of the
                                                              said goods against their share as and when the goods
The Member States shall return to the reserve, not             are entered for home use.
later than 15 May 1977 > the unused portion of
their initial share which, on 1 May 1977 » is                 4. The extent to which a Member State used up its
in excess of 20% of the initial amount. They may              share shall be determined on the basis of the imports
return a greater portion if there are grounds for             charged in accordance with paragraph 3.
believing that such portion may not be used in full.
                                                                                       Article 9
The Member States shall, not later than 15 May '
1971 , notify the Commission of the total imports             On receipt of a request from the Commission,
of the said goods effected up to and including                Member States shall inform it of imports actually
 1 liay 1977 j , and charged against the Com­                 charged against their shares.
munity quota and, where appropriate, the proportion
of their initial share that is being returned to the
relevant reserve.                                                                     Article 10
                                                              The    Member States       and   the Commission shall
                         Article 7                            cooperate closely in order to ensure that this
                                                               Regulation is observed.
The Commission shall keep an account of the shares
opened by Member States in accordance with Articles                                   Article 11
3 and 4 and shall inform each State of the extent to
which the reserves have been used up as soon as it            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
receives the notifications.                                    1977 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels,
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                         The President