Council Regulation (EEC) No 4244/88 of 21 December 1988 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for new potatoes, fresh tomatoes and peas and immature beans, prepared or preserved, originating in Morocco (1989)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4244/88 of 21 December 1988 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for new potatoes, fresh tomatoes and peas and immature beans, prepared or preserved, originating in Morocco (1989)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Article 1 of the Additional Protocol to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Morocco (1) provides for the opening of Community tariff quotas for imports into the Community of:
- 39 000 tonnes of new potatoes falling within CN code ex 0701 90 51 for the period 1 January to 31 March,
- 86 000 tonnes of fresh tomatoes falling within CN code 0702 00 10 for the period 15 November to 30 April, and - 8 700 tonnes of peas and immature beans falling within CN codes 2004 90 50, 2005 40 00 and 2005 59 00 for the period 1 January to 31 December,
originating in Morocco;
Whereas, within the limits of these tariff quotas, customs duties are to be phased out over the same periods and at the same rates as provided for in Articles 75, 243 and 268 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal; whereas the quota duties for  1989 are equal to 60 % of the basic duties for fresh tomatoes and 50 % of the basic duty for new potatoes and peas and immature beans; whereas, however, Council Regulation (EEC) No 3189/88 of 14 October 1988 laying down arrangements for Spain's and  Portugal's trade with Morocco (2) provides that those Member States are to postpone application of the preferential arrangements for products covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2238/88 (4), until 31  December 1989 and 31 December 1990 respectively;
Whereas this Regulation therefore only applies to the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 with regard to fresh tomatoes, whereas it applies to the Community as at present constituted with regard to new potatoes and peas and immature beans, prepared or preserved;
Whereas taking into account the fact that for fresh tomatoes Morocco benefits during the periods from 15 November to 31 December 1988 and from 1 March to 30 April 1989 from a lower customs duty compared with Spain and Portugal, this tariff quota should  be opened for the period 1 January to 28 February 1989;
Whereas the volume of this quota should therefore, by virtue of the pro rata temporis clause, for this period be fixed at 31 556 tonnes;
Whereas these Community tariff quotas should therefore be opened for 1989;
Whereas equal and continuous access to the quotas should be ensured for all Community importers and the rates laid down for the quotas should be applied consistently to all imports of the products in question into all Member States until the quotas are  exhausted; whereas, however, the quotas should not in this case be allocated among the Member States, without prejudice to the drawing against the quota volumes of such quantitites as they may need, under the conditions and according to a procedure to  be laid down; whereas this method of administration requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota is used and inform the Member States  accordingly;
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, any operation concerning the administration of the quota share levied by that  economic union may be carried out by any one of its members,