Council Regulation (EEC) No 1868/88 of 29 June 1988 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for rum, arrack and tafia originating in the overseas countries and territories (OCT) associated with the European Economic Community (1988 to 1989)

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) No 1868/88
of 29 June 1988
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for rum, arrack and tafia originating in the overseas countries and territories (OCT) associated with the European Economic Community (1988 to 1989)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Decision 86/283/EEC of 30 June 1986 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Economic Community (1), and in particular Articles 3 and 4 of Annex V thereto,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Annex V to Decision 86/263/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 established, by Decision 86/47/EEC (2), as extended by Decision 86/645/EEC (3), arrangements for trade between the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic on the one hand and the overseas countries and territories (OCT) on the other; whereas that Decision provides for the particular provisions concerning the quota duties to be applied by those two Member States 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 this quantity should be increased by a growth rate fixed at 27 %; whereas the quota period ranges from 1 July to 30 June of the following year;
Whereas Community statistics for the years 1985 to 1987 show the highest volume of imports into the Community of the products in question originating in the OCT, namely 85,91 hectolitres of pure alcohol, occurred in 1986; whereas the volume of the quota should therefore be fixed at 109,11 hectolitres of pure alcohol;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 (3) of the Annex V to Decision 86/283/EEC, the volume of the quota in question should, however, be increased to 15 000 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: 60
Denmark: 7
Germany: 10,8
Greece: 0,2
Spain: 2
France: 4
Ireland: 4
Italy: 2
Portugal: 2
United Kingdom: 8
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 quantities allocated to that economic union may be carried out by any one of its members,