COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2106/93 of 22 July 1993 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products (third series 1993), and amending the Council Regulations (EEC) No 3913/92 and (EEC) No 3914/92, opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural, chemical and industrial products

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2106/93 of 22 July 1993 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products (third series 1993), and amending the Council Regulations (EEC) No 3913/92  and (EEC) No 3914/92, opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural, chemical and industrial products
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,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas production in the Community of certain agricultural and industrial products will remain in the course of the second half of 1993 and of the first half of 1994, unable to meet the specific requirements of the user industries in the Community  supplies of products of this type will depend to a considerable extent on imports from third countries; whereas the most urgent Community requirements for the products in question should be met immediately on the most favourble terms; whereas Community  tariff quotas at zero duty should therefore be opened within the limtis of appropriate volumes for a period from 1 July 1993, and as appropriate, until 31 December 1993 or until 30 June 1994, taking account of the need not to disturb the markets for  such products nor the starting out or development of Community production;
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 3913/92 (1), the Council opened, for 1993, Community tariff quotas for certain industrial products, and in particular ferro-chromium containing by weight more than 6 % of carbon (order No 09.2711);
Whereas current economic data suggest that Community demand for non-Community imports of the product in question could in the course of the year exceed the volume laid down in the above Regulation; whereas the same is true of synthetic  poly-alpha-olefin; whereas the volume of the quota in question should therefore be increased;
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 3914/92 (2) the Council opened, for 1993, a Community tariff quota for certain types of mushroom;
Whereas the benefit of this quota should be extended to other import needs and the description of this quota should consequently be amended;
Whereas the decision for the opening of autonomous tariff quotas should be taken by the Community; whereas, to ensure the efficiency of a common administration of these quotas, there is no reasonable obstacle to authorizing the Member States to draw  from the quota-volumes the necessary quantities corresponding to actual imports; 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 quotas are used up and inform the Member States accordingly;
Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure for all Community imports equal and uninterrupted access to the said quotas and to ensure the uninterrupted application fo the rates laid down for the quotas to all imports of the products concerned into  all Member States until the quotas have been used up;
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, all transactions concerning the administration of the quantities drawn by  that economic union may be carried out by any one of its members,