Council Regulation (EEC) No 3298/84 of 22 November 1984 opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community supervision of imports thereof (1985)

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) No 3298/84
of 22 November 1984
opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community supervision of imports thereof (1985)
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, pending the entry into force of the Supplementary Protocol signed in Ankara on 30 June 1973 containing the adjustments to be made to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Turkey and to the Additional Protocol (1) consequent on the accession of new Member States, the Community has undertaken, in an Interim Agreement (2) which runs only for a limited period prior to the entry into force of this Supplementary Protocol, which is applicable until 31 December 1974 but which has been extended for 1985 in accordance with the terms laid down in Article 13 thereof, to implement certain provisions of the Supplementary Protocol relating to trade in goods; whereas, under Article 6 of the Interim Agreement amending the first paragraph of the Sole Article of Annex 1 to the Additional Protocol, the Community must totally suspend the customs duties applicable to certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff, refined in Turkey, within the limit of an annual Community tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes; whereas, for the products concerned, a provisional adjustment should be made to these tariff preferences, consisting essentially of substituting for the Community tariff quota a Community ceiling which amounts, after successive increases, to 674 463 tonnes, above which the customs duties applicable to third countries may be reintroduced;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 119 of the 1979 Act of Accession, the Council adopted Regulation (EEC) No 3555/80 of 16 December 1980 determining the arrangements to be applied with regard to imports into Greece, originating in Algeria, Israel, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Syria, Tunisia or Turkey (3); whereas, as a result, this Regulation applies to the Community of Nine;
Whereas the application of the ceiling requires that the Community should be regularly informed of the trend of imports of these products refined in Turkey; whereas imports of these products should therefore be subject to a system of supervision;
Whereas this objective may be attained by means of an administrative procedure based on setting off imports of the products in question against the ceiling, at Community level, as and when these products are submitted to the customs authorities under cover of declarations that they have been made available for free circulation; whereas this administrative procedure must make provision for the reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty as soon as the said ceiling has been reached at Community level;
Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and very rapid cooperation between the Member States and the Commission, which must be able to monitor the amounts set off against the ceiling and keep the Member States informed thereof; whereas this cooperation must be all the closer to enable the Commission to take adequate measures to reintroduce the Common Customs Tariff duty whenever the ceiling is reached,