No L 105/2 Official Journal of the European Communities 30. 4. 93 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1014/93 of 26 April 1993 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas and ceilings for certain agricultural and industrial products originating in Romania (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 the Europe Agreement establishing an associa- tion between the European. Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Romania, of the other part, was signed on 1 February 1993 ; whereas, pending the entry into force of the said Agreement, the European Economic Community and the European Coal and Steel Community have concluded an Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related measures with the said country, which shall enter into force on 1 May 1993 ; Whereas the Interim Agreement stipulates, inter alia, that certain products originating in the country in ques- tion may attract a reduced or zero rate of duty on import into the Community, within the limits of tariff quotas or ceilings ; whereas, pursuant to the provisions annexed to the said Agreement, the volumes of the tariff quotas and ceilings established when the Association Agreement was signed must be increased from the ‘date on which the Interim Agreement enters into force by a percentage specific to each category of products; whereas, in accordance with Protocol 7 attached to the Interim Agree- ment, provision must furthermore be made for deduction of any quantities which have already benefited from generalized preference measures between 1 January 1993 and the date of entry into force of the said Agreement and for pro rata adjustments to the quantities of the agri- cultural praducts listed in Annex II to this Regulation ; Whereas the quantities in question will be known only on the day preceding the entry into force of the Interim Agreement ; whereas the Commission should be made responsible for informing the Member States and economic operators as rapidly as possible of the quantities actually available under the tariff measures described in this Regulation by means of publication in the ‘C’ series of the Official Journal of the European Communities ; Whereas it seems advisable, in the interests of clarity, to divide the products into two groups, in Annexes I and 11 to this Regulation, one for industrial products and one for agricultural products, specifying for each product the volume of its quota or ceiling and the rate of customs duty applicable ; Whereas the decision for the opening of Community quotas should be taken by the Community, in the execu- tion of its international obligations, in the case of the products listed in Annexes I and II to this Regulation ; whereas particular care should be taken to ensure that all Community importers have equal and continuous access to those quotas and that the rates laid down for the quotas are applied to all imports of the products in question into all Member States until the quotas are exhausted; whereas, to ensure the efficiency of a common adminis- tration of these quotas, there is no obstacle to authorizing the Member States to draw from the quota-volumes the necessary quantities corresponding 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 quotas are used up and inform the Member States accordingly ; Whereas, in the case of the products listed in Annex I to this Regulation which are subject to Community tariff ceilings, Community surveillance may be achieved by means of an administrative procedure based on charging imports of the products in question against the ceilings at Community level as and when those products are entered with the customs authorities for free circulation ; Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and particularly rapid cooperation between the Member States and the Commission, and the latter must in particular be able to monitor quantities charged against the ceilings and keep the Member States informed ; whereas its coope- ration has to be particularly close since the Commission must, under certain conditions, be able to take appro- priate measures to reintroduce customs duties once a ceiling is reached; 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 these tariff measures may be carried out by any one of its members, t HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1. From 1 May to 31 December 1993 imports into the Community of certain products originating in Romania which are listed in Annexes I and II shall be subject to Community tariff quotas or ceilings.