No L 112/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 4.5 91 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1135/91 ' of 29 April 1991 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3729/90 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products originating .in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia or Egypt 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 by Regulation (EEC) No 3729/90 (') the Council opened Community tariff quotas for 1991 for certain agri- cultural products originating in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia or Egypt, including a 4 900-tonne quota at 4 % for dried onions falling within CN code 0712 20 00, originating in Egypt; whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 455/91 (3, the Council opened an erga omnes 12 000-tonne tariff quota for dried onions at 10 % ; Whereas until the said 12 000-tonne tariff quota has been exhausted, the highest duty applied by the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 to imports of these products from Spain and Portugal is 2,5 % ; whereas if and when the said quota is exhausted, the duty applicable to imports from Spain will be 4 % ; whereas the same tariff treatment should be accorded to products origina- ting in Egypt, and Regulation (EEC) No 3729/90 should be amended accordingly, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1. The 4 % rate of duty shown in column 6 of the table in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3729/90 against order number 09.1701 shall be reduced to 2,5 %. 2. In the event of exhaustion of the erga omnes tariff " quota opened by Regulation (EEC) No 455/91, a quota duty of 4 % shall apply to imports into the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 of dried onions originating in Egypt. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 January 1991. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Luxembourg, 29 April 1991. () OJ No L 363, 27. 12. 1990, p. 1. () OF No L 54, 28. 2. 1991, p. 1. For the Council The President R. GOEBBELS