Council Regulation No 492/86 of 25 February 1986 fixing, for 1986, the initial quota applicable to Portugal for certain milk products coming from the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 492/86  of 25 February 1986  fixing, for 1986, the initial quota applicable to Portugal for certain milk products coming from the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985
THE COUNCIL 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 234 (2) thereof,  Having regard to the  proposal from the Commission,  Whereas, pursuant to Article 269 of the Act of Accession and to Annex XXIII to that Act, the Portuguese Republic may, during the first stage, maintain quantitative restrictions, in the form of quotas, on imports of certain  milk products coming from the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985;  Whereas paragraph 2 (b) of that Article provides that the initial quota applicable in 1986 is to be fixed, for each product, either at 3 % of the average of Portuguese  production during the last three years before accession for which statistics are available or at the average of Portuguese imports made over the last three years before accession for which statistics are available, where this criterion results in a  greater volume;  Whereas quantitative restrictions are to be limited to certain periods of the year; whereas, therefore, for the fixing of the initial quota, account should be taken solely of the quantities of Portuguese production marketed or of the  imports made over the said periods;  Whereas the statistical data available at present show that the criterion of Portuguese imports from the Community should be applied for fixing the initial quota;  Whereas from 1 March to 31 December 1986 the quota  applicable is to be equal to the initial quota, less one-sixth,