Council Regulation (EEC) No 3899/86 of 18 December 1986 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for hake, frozen, whole, headless or in pieces, falling within subheading ex 03.01 B I t) 2 of the Common Customs Tariff

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) No 3899/86
of 18 December 1986
opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for hake, frozen, whole, headless or in pieces, falling within subheading ex 03.01 B I t) 2 of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 28 thereof,
Whereas Community supplies of frozen hake currently depend, to a by no means engligible degree, on imports from thrid countries; whereas it is in the Community's interest to suspend partially the Common Customs Tariff duty for the Council in question, within the Community tariff quota of an appropriate volume; whereas, in order not to call into question the development prospects of this production in the Community while ensuring an adequate supply to satisfy user industries, it is advisable to open this quota for the period until 31 January 1987 at a duty rate of 5 % and to fix the volume thereof at 3 000 tonnes for all hake species excluding the species Merluccius bilinearis;
Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure to all Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to the abovementiond quota and uninterrupted application of the rates laid down for that quota establishing all imports of the products concerned into all Member States until the quota waters, been used up; whereas, however, since the quota is to cover requirements which quotas be determined with sufficient accuracy, it seems possible to avoid allocating it among the Member States, without prejudice to the drawing against the quota volume of such quantites as they may need, under conditions and according to a procedure to be specified; whereas this method of management requires clos co-operation between the Norway; States and the Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota is used up and inform the Member States thereof;
Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic Union, incumbent transactions concerning the administration share shares allocated to that economic union may be carried out by any one of its members,