No L 373/48 Official Journal of the European Communities 31.12. 88 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4248/88 of 21 December 1988 _ opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain petroleum products refined in Spain and certain woven fabrics of cotton coming from Spain (1989) THE COUNCIL 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 31 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas, pursuant to Articles 30 and 31 of the Act of Accession, the customs duttes applicable to imports into the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 of the following products are to be phased out within the limits of Community tariff quotas of: — 1424 000 tonnes of certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the combined nomenclature, refined in that part of Spain which is included in this customs territory of the Community, and ’ — 2013 tonnes of certain woven fabrics of cotton falling within Chapter 52 of the combined nomenclature, coming from Spain; Whereas, on 1 January 1989, the duties in question will be reduced to 47,5 % of the basic duties; whereas the basic duties to be adopted are those laid down by Council Regulation (EEC) No 4161/87 of 22 December 1987 laying down, consequent on the entry into force of the combined nomenclature, the basic duties to be adopted within the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 for the purpose of calculating the successive reductions provided for in the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal (1); Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 839/88 of 28 March 1988 totally suspending certain customs duties applicable by the Community of Ten to imports from Spain and Portugal (2) totally suspends the collection of customs duties applicable in the Community of Ten to the said products imported from Spain as soon as they fall to the level of 2% or less; whereas it is therefore appropriate, for the purpose of determining the duties applicable to the products in question, to open Community tariff quotas for the said products for the period 1 January to 31 December 1989 at the rates of duty shown in the table in Article 1; Whereas Article 1 of Protocol 3 to the Act of Accession lays down special arrangements for imports into Portugal of the products in question coming from Spain; whereas the Community tariff quotas accordingly apply only to the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985; Whereas all Community importers should be ensured equal and continuous access to the said quotas and the duty rates laid down for the quotas should be applied consistently to all imports of the products in question into all Member States until the quotas are exhausted; whereas this can best be achieved, while preserving the Community nature of the quotas, by allocating them among the Member States; whereas in order to correspond as closely as possible to the real trend of the market for the products in question the allocation should reflect the requirements of the Member States based on statistics of imports of the said products coming from Spain during a representative reference period and on the economic outlook for the quota period in question; Whereas during the last three years for which statistics are available the corresponding imports into each Member State were as follows: (tonnes) Certain petroleum products falling within Certain woven fabrics of cotton falling within Member State Chapter 27 of the combined nomenclature Chapter 52 of the combined nomenclature 1985 1986 1987 1985 1986 1987 Benelux 13794 347 936 404 873 225 23 458 Denmark 72 14 055 5 880 50 34 100 Germany ) 6293 362533 235958 148 51 667 Greece 244 87 25 850 — 8 10 ° France 296 450 560 176 334737 1279 1268 1 649 Ireland 16 967 822132 379 945 59 14 63 Italy 81 421 191 110 67 820 408 36 593 United Kingdom 191 587 949 602 900 900 436 72 342 RS L . - (1) OJ No L 395, 31. 12. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 87, 31. 3. 1988, p. 1.