31986R4121

31 . 12 . 86 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 380 / 37

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 4121 / 86

of 22 December 1986 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for salad beetroots falling within subheading ex 07.01 G IV of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Cyprus ( 1987 )

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure to all Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the Economic Community , and in particular Article 113 products concerned into all Member States until the quota thereof, has been used up ; whereas , in the present case , it seems advisable not to allocate this quota among the Member States without prejudice to the drawing against the quota Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , volume of such quantities as they may need , under the conditions and according to the procedure specified in Whereas , in Regulation ( EEC ) No 3700 / 83 (*), the Article 1 ( 2 ); whereas this method of management requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Community laid down the arrangements applicable to trade with Cyprus for 1984 ; whereas Article 2 of that Commission and the latter must, in particular, be able to Regulation provides for the opening of a Community tariff monitor the rate at which the quota is used up and inform the Member States thereof; quota of 1 500 tonnes of salad beetroots , falling within subheading ex 07.01 G IV of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Cyprus , at a rate of customs duty equal to 50 % of the customs duty in the Common Customs Whereas , since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of Tariff; the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic Union , all transactions concerning the Whereas , pending the definition of arrangements applicable administration of shares allocated to that economic union beyond 31 December 1984 it is necessary to extend may be carried out by any of its members , provisionally for 1987 the arrangements which the Community applies currently to trade with Cyprus on the basis of the abovementioned Regulation ; whereas , therefore , the Community tariff quota in question should HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : be opened for the period from 1 January to 31 December 1987 ;

Whereas , in the absence of a Protocol such as that provided Article 1 for in Articles 179 and 366 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal , the Community must take the measures 1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1987 , on import into referred to in Articles 180 and 367 of the said Act ; whereas the Community of Ten , the customs duty for the following the tariff measure in question therefore applies to the products is suspended at a level and within the limits of a Community of Ten ; Community tariff quota as follows :

CCT Quota Order Quota volume heading Description duty No ( in tonnes ) No ( % )

09.1411 ex 07.01 G IV Beetroots , originating in Cyprus 1 500 8,5

2 . If an importer notifies an imminent importation of the inform the Commission and draw an amount product in question in a Member State and requests the corresponding to these requirements to the extent that the benefit of the quota , the Member State concerned shall available balance of the reserve permits this . » 3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be H OJ No L 369 , 30 . 12 . 1983 , p. 1 . valid until the end of the quota period .

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Article 2 Article 3 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2 ) are At the request of the Commission , Member States sha|l carried out in such a way that imports may be charged inform it of imports actually charged against the quota . without interruption against their accumulated shares of the Community quota .

Article 4 2 . Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the said goods have access to the quota so long as the residual balance of the quota volume so permits . The Member States and the Commission shall collaborate closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied with . 3 . Member States shall charge imports of the said goods against their drawings as and when the goods are entered for free circulation .

4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall Article 5 be determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance with paragraph 3 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1987 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 22 December 1986 .

For the Council

The President

G. SHAW

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