Council Regulation (EEC) No 2055/86 of 30 June 1986 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for rum, arrack and tafia, falling within subheading 22.09 C I of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in the overseas countries and territories associated with the European Economic Community (1986/87)

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) No 2055/86
of 30 June 1986
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for rum, arrack and tafia, falling within subheading 22.09 C I of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in the overseas countries and territories associated with the European Economic Community (1986/87)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and in particular Article 136 thereof,
Having regard to Council Decision 80/1186/EEC of 16 December 1980 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Economic Community (1) as last amended by Council Decision 86/46/EEC (2) and in particular Annex IX thereto,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Annex IX to Decision 80/1186/EEC provides that rum, arrack and tafia shall be imported into the Community free of customs duties within the limits of a Community tariff quota;
Whereas the Community has established by Decision 86/47/EEC (3), arrangements for trade between Spain and Portugal on the one hand and the overseas countries and territories (OCT) on the other; whereas this Decision provides for the application by the two Member States of the particular provisions concerning the quota duties to be applied on imports of products originating in the OCT;
Whereas the annual size of the quota is to be fixed on the basis of a basic annual quantity, calculated in hectolitres of pure alcohol, equal to the amount of imports during the best of the past three years for which statistics are available; whereas to this quantity a certain growth rate is applied; whereas this growth rate should be fixed at 27 %; whereas the quota period ranges from 1 July to 30 June of the following year;
Whereas Community statistics for the years 1983 to 1985 show the highest volume of imports into the Community of the products in question originating in the said countries and territories, namely 13 306 hectolitres of pure alcohol, occurred in 1983; whereas the volume of the Community tariff quota for the period 1 July 1986 to 30 June 1987 should therefore be fixed at 16 899 hectolitres of pure alcohol;
Whereas, taking into account actual trends on the markets for the products in question, the needs of the Member States and the economic prospects for the period under consideration, the percentage shares in the quota volume may be laid down approximately as follows:
Benelux: 59,99
Denmark: 7,04
Germany: 10,88
Greece: 0,51
Spain: 1,95
France: 4,02
Ireland: 4,02
Italy: 1,95
Portugal: 1,95
United Kingdom: 7,69
Whereas the development of imports into the Community of these products should be recorded and imports accordingly monitored;
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 measure concerning the administration of the share allocated to that economic union may be carried out by any one of its members,