No L 173/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 30. 6. 87 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1824/87 of 25 June 1987 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 territo- ries associated with the European Economic Community (1987 to 1988) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and in particular Article 136 thereof, 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 Commu- nity (), Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas Annex V to Decision 86/283/EEC provides that rum, arrack and tafia shall be imported into the Commu- nity free of customs duties within the limits of a Commu- nity tariff quota; Whereas the Council has established by Decision 86/47/EEC (%, as last amended by Decision 87/342/ EEC (}), 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 for 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 1984 to 1986 show the highest volume of imports into the Community of the products in question originating in the said coun- tries and territories, namely 5 569 hectolitres of pure . alcohol, occurred in 1984 ; whereas the volume of the Community tariff quota should therefore be fixed at 7 073 hectolitres of pure alcohol ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 (3) of the said Annex V, the volume of the quota in question should, however, be increased to 15000 hectolitres of pure alcohol ; No L 175, 1. 7. 1986, p. 1. ) OJ No L 63, 5. 3. 1986, p. 95. No L 172, 30. 6. 1987. 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 : v 0,2 Spain : ‘ 2 France : 4 Ireland : 4 Italy - 2 Portugal : 2 United Kingdom : 8 Whereas the development of imports into the Commu- nity of these products should be recorded and imports accordingly monitored ; Whereas it is possible that during the period of validity of the said quota, the nomenclature used by the Common Customs Tariff will be replaced by the nomenclature based on the International Convention on a harmonized system of designation and codification of goods ; whereas this Regulation must take account of the possibility by using the combined nomenclature codes within which the said products fall; 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 adminis- tration of the share allocated to that economic union may be carried out by any one of its members, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1.  From 1 July 1987 to 30 June 1988 the duty appli- cable to the import of the products designated hereafter shall be suspended at the level indicated in Article 2 within the limit of the relevant Community tariff quota - mentioned (%) : (") The numbers appearing in the column ‘Combined nomencla- ture code’ will replace those in the column ‘CCT heading No’ as from the date of entry into force of the International Con- vention on a harmonized system of designation and’codifica- tion of goods.