Commission Regulation (EC) No 1375/97 of 17 July 1997 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain products originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and providing detailed rules for extending and adapting these tariff quotas

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1375/97 of 17 July 1997 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain products originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and providing detailed rules for extending and adapting these tariff quotas
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 of 25 July 1994 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain products originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and providing detailed rules for extending and adapting these tariff quotas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 592/97 (2), and in particular Articles 6 and 7 thereof,
Whereas with the amending Council Regulations (EC) No 3057/95 (3) and (EC) No 1877/96 (4), Community tariff quotas were opened in Annex IV for tomatoes, courgettes, artichokes, cucumbers, oranges and clementines originating in Morocco with the application of special entry prices in order to advance the implementation of certain provisions of the agricultural part of the future Euro-Mediterranean Agreement between the Community and Morocco;
Whereas these provisions provide that the special entry prices shall be reduced in the same proportions and at the same time as the entry prices bound within the WTO; whereas it seems therefore appropriate to amend Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 in order to publish for future marketing years, the reduced entry prices applicable within the framework of Community tariff quotas for agricultural products concerned originating in Morocco;
Whereas the Euro-Mediterranean Interim Association Agreement on trade and cooperation between the European Community and the PLO for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (5), provides no tariff quotas different from those currently applicable within the framework of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1134/91 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 539/96 (7), on the tariff arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of products originating in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; whereas it is therefore not necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 at the entry into force of the Agreement referred to;
Whereas the measures provided in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,