31. 12. 87 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 380/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4058/87 of 22 December 1987 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for dried grapes originating in Spain (1988) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal and in particular Articles 30 and 75 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas, according to Articles 30 and 75 of the Act of Accession, the duties applicable on the import into the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 of dried grapes falling within codes 0806 20 11 and 0806 20 19 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Spain within the limits of a Community tariff quota of 1900 tonnes shall be progressively abolished ; whereas these duties are to be reduced to 62,5 % of the basic duties on 1 January 1988 ; whereas, by derogation from Article 30 of the Act of Accession, Council Regulation (EEC) No 443/86 of 24 February 1986 concerning the basic duties to be adopted in the Community as.constituted on 31 December 19835 for the purpose of calculating the succes- sive reductions provided for in the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal (') provides that the basic duties are those which actually have been applied on 1 January 1986 ; whereas, therefore, to establish the duties appli- cable on the import of these products, a Community tariff quota should be opened for the period 1 January to 31 December 1988 for 1 900 tonnes of dried grapes origina- ting in Spain and falling within codes 0806 20 11, 0806 20 19, ex 08062091 and ex 0806 2099 of the combined nomenclature at the duty shown in the table in Article 1; Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20 December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying to trade im agricultural products between Spain and Portugal (%) provides for particular rules for the import into Portugal of the products in question, originating in Spain ; whereas, consequently, the Community tariff () OJ No L 50, 28. 2. 1986, p. 9. () OJ No L 367, 31. 12. 1985, p. 7. quotas are only applicable in the Community as consti- tuted on 31 December 1985 ; Whereas from 1 January 1988 the Nomenclature used under the Common Customs Tariff will be replaced by the combined nomenclature based on the International Convention on the Harmonized System of Commodity Description and Coding System ; Whereas this Regulation should take into account this fact by including the Combined Nomenclature Codes relevant to the products in question ; Whereas it is in particularly necessary to ensure for all Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the products concerned into all Member States until the quota has been used up; whereas having regard to the above principles, the Community nature of the quota can be respected by allocating the Community tariff quota among the Member States ; whereas, in order to reflect as accurately as possible the true trend of the market in the products in question, such allocation should be in propor- tion to the requirements of the Member States, calculated by reference to the statistics for imports from Spain over a representative reference period and also to the economic outlook for the quota period in question ; Whereas, during the last three years for which statistics are available, imports into each of the Member States wer as follows : ; (tonnes) Member States 1984 1985 1986 Benelux 2 26 6 Denmark S 3,1 —_ Germany 3 3 4 Greece — — — Spain — — — France 80 103 43 Ireland — 1 1 Italy 7 14,9 6 United Kingdom — — 1