15. 11. 86 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 320/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) -COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3477/86 of 10 November 1986 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain prepared or preserved fish, falling within heading No ex 16.04 “of the Common Customs Tariff, from Portugal (1987) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal -and in particular Article 362 thereof, Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by the Commission, Whereas Article 362 of the Act of Accession provides that during the period of progressive elimination of customs duties between the Community of Ten and Portugal, prepared or preserved sardines, prepared or preserved tunny, prepared or preserved mackerel, falling within subheadings 1604 D, E and ex F of the Common Customs Tariff from Portugal can be imported duty-free into the Community of Ten within the limits of annual Community tariff quotas of 5000 tonnes, 1 000 tonnes and 1000 tonnes respectively; whereas these quotas should be opened for 1987 ; Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure for all importers of the Community of Ten equal and uninter- rupted access to the abovementioned quotas and uninter- rupted application of the rates laid down for these quotas to all imports of the products concerned into all these Member States until the quotas have been used up; whereas having regard to the above principles, the Community nature of the quotas can be respected by allo- cating the Community tariff quotas among these Member States ; whereas, in order to reflect as accurately as possible the true trend of the market in the products concerned, such allocation should be in proportion to the requirements of the Member States, assessed by reference to the statistics of each State’s imports from Portugal over a representative reference period and also to the economic outlook for the quota period concerned; Whereas, during the last three years for which statistics are available, the corresponding imports of each Member State represent the following percentages of imports into the Community from Portugal of the product in ques- tion : Member States 1983 1984 J[ 1985 Sardines Benelux 74 6,7 6,4 Denmark 1,6 2,1 2,6 Germany 28,3 23,1 28,1 Greece : 0,2 0,1 - France ' 214 17,0 19,0 Ireland 0,2 0,1 0,3 Italy 51 45 7.1 United Kingdom 35,8 46,4 36,5 Tunny Benelux — — — Denmark — — — Germany — 1,1 0,7 Greece —_ —_ 2,1 France 29 7,2 21 Ireland — — — Italy 97,1 91,7 95,1 United Kingdom — — — Mackerel Benelux 10,3 74 57 Denmark — _ _ Germany — — — Greece — — — France _ 0,3 — Ireland _— — — Italy 89,7 90,0 943 United Kingdom — 23 — Whereas both these percentages and the estimates from certain Member States should be taken into account as well as the need to ensure that, in the circumstances the obligations provided for in the Act of Accession are allo- cated fairly among the Member States; whereas the approximate percentages of the initial quota shares may therefore be fixed as follows : Member States Sardines Tunny Mackerel Benelux 7,1 1,0 10,0 Denmark 1,9 1,0 1,0 Germany 31,1 3,0 1,0 Greece 0,2 5,0 1,0 France 15,0 10,0 1,0 Ireland 0,3 1,0 1,0 Italy 48 77,0 84,0 United Kingdom 39,6 1,0 1,0