24. 9. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 259/1 ‘(Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION of 27 July 1990 on import quotas to be opened by Member States in respect of State-trading countries in 1990 (90/468/EEC) 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 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3420/83 of 14 November 1983 on import arrangements for prod- ucts originating in State-trading countries, not libera- lized at Community level (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3691/89 (2), requires the Coun- cil to lay down the import quotas to be opened by the Member States in respect of the various State-trading countries for the products listed in Annex III to that Regulation; Whereas certain adjustments. should be made-to the import quotas established for 1989 in respect of State- trading countries in order to adapt them to the fore- seeable economic situation in 1990; whereas account should also be taken of the fact that the European Economic Community and the Soviet Union have signed a Textile Agreement (3) covering categories 1 to 123, MFA fibres and other, and that, therefore, imports into the Community of products from that country falling within these categories do not lie within the scope of this Decision; (1) .0J No L 346, 8. 12. 1983, p. 6. () OJ No L362, 12.12.1989, p. 1. (3) OJ No L 397, 30. 12. 1989, p. 2. Whereas, with regard to the quotas for imports under outward processing arrangements of the textiles falling within categories 4 to 8, a certain degree of flexibility should be maintained in the administration of these’ quotas by the Member States concerned by means of provision for automatic transfer of quantities from one category to another; whereas to this end the equivalences between categories provided for in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4136/86 of 22 December 1986 on common rules for imports of certain textile products originating in third coun- tries (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3531/89 (5), should be applied; Whereas the specific quantitative restrictions in-respect of Poland and Hungary have been abolished in the Member States by Regulation (EEC) No 3381/89 (6) and the non-specific quantitative restrictions in respect of the same countries were suspended for 1990 in all Member States apart from Spain and Portugal by - Regulation (EEC) No 3691/89; Whereas certain quantitative restrictions in respect of the Soviet Union were abolished by Regulation (EEC) No 1434/90(7) and the quantitative restrictions in respect of the German Democratic Republic were suspended as from 1 July 1990 by Commlssnon Regu- lation (EEC) No 1795/90 (3); (4) OJ No L387, 31. 12. 1986, p. 42. (5) OJ No L 347, 28.11. 1989, p. 4. (6) OJ No L 326, 11. 11. 1989, p. 6. (") OJ No L 138,31.5.1990, p. 1. (8 OJ No L 166, 29. 6. 1990, p. 3.