20. 3. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 69/5 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 637/93 of 17 March 1993 opening and providing for the administration of a Community quota for chemically pure fructose originating in third countries not bound to the Community by a preferential trade agreement (1993) 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 Article 7a of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 of 11 November 1980 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products (*), provides that the variable component which is imposed, as from 1 July 1990, on imports of the products falling within CN code 1702 50 00, originating in third countries not bound to the Community by a preferential trade agreement, will be equal to the levy referred to in Article 16 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 (3, imposed on imports of products falling within CN codes 17023010, 170240 10, 1702 60 10 and 170290 30; Whereas, in the current context of the Uruguay Round, it is appropriate to maintain the possibility of exporting to the Community market chemically pure fructose origina- ting in third countries not bound to the Community by a preferential trade agreement; whereas this aspect is fulfilled if the possibility for individual agricultural products, originating in the aforesaid third countries, to penetrate the Community market is not less, in 1993, than the average for 1987 and 1988 ; whereas the average imports of chemically pure fructose, originating in these countries, during 1987 and 1988, amounted to 4 504 tonnes ; whereas it is therefore appropriate to open, for 1993, a Community quota, exempt from the variable component, for an amount equal to 4 504 tonnes; Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should be ensured for all Community importers and the rates laid down for the quota should be applied consistently to all imports of the product in question into all the Member States until the quota is exhausted ; ‘ Whereas the decision for the opening, in the execution of its international obligations, of a tariff quota should be taken by the Community ; whereas, to ensure the effici- ency of a comon administration of this quota, there is no obstacle to authorizing the Member States to draw from the quota-volume the necessary quantities corres- ponding to actual imports ; whereas, however, this method of administration requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota is used up and inform the Member States accor- dingly ; Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic Union, any operation concerning the adminis- tration of the drawings made by that economic union may be carried out by any one of its members, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 From 1 January to 31 December 1993, the variable component applicable to imports, into the Community, of the following product, originating in third countries not bound to the Community by a preferential trade agreement, shall be suspended totally, within the limits of a Community quota as shown below : Amount Order No CN code Description of quota Quot; duty (in tonnes) (%) 09.0091 1702 50 00 Chemically pure fructose 4 504 20 () OJ No L 323, 29. 11. 1980, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1436/90 (O] No L 138, 31. 5. 1990, 9 p. 9. (» OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3484/92 (O] No L 353, 3. 12. 1992, p. 8).