31.12. 88. Official Journal of the European Communities No L 371/5 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4219/88 of 19 December 1988 opening, allocating and Aproviding for the administration of a Community tariff quota for fresh ) or dried hazelnuts, shelled or not, originating in Turkey (1989) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3721/84 of 18 December 1984 on imports into the Community of agricultural products originating in Turkey (1), provides that fresh or dried hazelnuts, shelled or not and originating in Turkey shall be admitted on importation into the Community at zero duty within the limits of a Community tariff quota of 25000 tonnes; whereas the Community tariff quotd concerned should therefore be opened for 1989; : Whereas the Council adopted Regulation (EEC) No 1059/88 of 28 March 1988 laying down the arrangements applicable to Greece’s trade with Turkey (2); whereas, the Council has also adopted Regulation (EEC) No 2573/87 of 11 August 1987 laying down the arrangements for trade between Spain and Portugal, on the one hand, and Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Turkey, on the " other (3); whereas the tariff quota in question applies therefore to the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985. Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should be ensured for all importers of the Member States and the rate laid down for the quota should be applied consistently to all imports of the products in question into the said Member States until the quota is exhausted; Whereas, for the period of application of this Régulation, it Member States of the quotas concerned, since the administrations of the Member States are unable to provide by 1 January 1989, the administrative and technical - conditions required for the Community management of quotas for these products originating in Turkey; whereas it does, however, seem advisable to provide for a further increase in the Community reserve; Whereas provision should be made for a mechanism to prevent, when the Community quota is not used up, goods being imported into a Member State which has used up its share only after the full application of customs duties, or after having been diverted to another Member State whose share has not yet been used up; whereas under these circumstances, if, during the quota period, the Community reserve were to be almost entirely used up, Member States should return to - the said reserve all of the unused portion of their initial shares so as to avoid part of the Community tariff quota from remaining unused in one Member State, when it could be used in others; ' Whereas, taking into account the traditional trends in trade, the allocation maintained between Member States must, so as to reflect as well as possible the acutal market trend of the products in question, be carried out pro rata the needs of the Member States, calculated, on the one hand, on the basis of the statistical data relating to imports of the said products from Turkey over a representative reference period and, on the other hand, on the basis of the economic outlook for the quota periods considered; Whereas, on the basis of the currently available statistical data, imports of the product in question from Turkey into the Member States have devgloped as follows over the years 1985, 1986 and 1987, whereas they represent the following ‘percentages of total imports into the Community from . appears necessary to maintain an allocation between the Turkey: 1985 1986 1987 Member State tonnes % tonnes % tonnes %o Benelux 5266 7,10 6202 | 8,25 6903 | 8,79 Denmark 792 1,07 868 1,15 ‘ 869 1,10 Germany . 47 225 63,65 49 716 66,12 50 513 64,29 Greece 0 0 0 0 0 0 France o 9416 12,69 9129 12,14 8 845 11,26 Ireland 28 0,03 0 0 - 20 0,02 ltaly 5206 7,02 3179 4,23 6 944 8,84 United Kingdom 6264 8,44 6 099 8,11 4 480 5,70 Total | 74197 75193 ' 78 574 (1) OJ No L 343, 31. 12. 1984, p. 6. (2) OJ No L 104, 23. 4. 1988, p. 4. (®) O] No L 250, 1.9.1987, p. 1.