28. 4. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 108/5 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1053/90 of 25 April 1990 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76 concerning access to the market in the international carriage of goods by road THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN- COMMUNITIES, Having regard.to the Treaty establishing the European “Economic Community, and in particular Article 75 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia- ment ('), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (), Whereas under Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76 (°), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1841/88 (*), the Council is required to take a decision on the increase, from 1990, in the Community quota for the carriage of goods by road between Member States and on the measures to be taken in the event of a crisis; Whereas Article 4a of Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76 provides for abolition of all quotas, including the Community quota, from 1 January 1993; Whereas at its meeting on 30 June 1986, the Council - adopted-conclusions requiring the -Community quota to be increased by 40 % each year starting in 1987 and continuing until the implementation in 1993 of an intra- Community road haulage market free of all quantitative . restrictions ; Whereas pursuant to those conclusions the Community . quota was indeed increased by 40 % in 1987, 1988 and" 1989 ; Whereas to- ensure that the changeover to the new system applicable from 1993 is as smooth as possible and does not disturb the market, and to achieve freedom to provide road " haulage services between Member States, the Community quota should be increased by 40 % in. 1990 ; Whereas inicreases in the-Community quota for 1991 and 1992 should be adopted parallel with provisions on the measures to be taken in the event of a crisis; Whereas, as in 1989, the number of authorizations resul- ting from the increase in the. Community quota should be allocated to the Member States on-a linear basis; without () OJ No C 96, 17. 4. 1990. (3 Opinion delivered on 28 February 1990 (not yet published in the Official Journal). () OJ No L 357, 29. 12. 1976, p. 1. (9 OJ No L 163, 30. 6. 1988, p. 1. prejudice to the method to be -applied in subsequent years ; Whereas, with a view to the abolition of checks at the Community’s internal frontiers; the requirement for the customs to stamp the transport record sheet should. be abolished; whereas, consequently certain technical amendments are needed to Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1. Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76 is hereby amended -as follows : 1. Article 3 (1) and (2) shall be replaced by the following : ‘1. Por 1990, the total number of Community authorizations allocated to the Member -States as a whole in the context of the Community quota shall be 33635. The number of Community authorizations allocated to each of .the Member States shall- be as follows : Belgium 2918, Denmark 2 831, Germany 4 654, Greece 1291, Spain 3026, France . 3957, Ireland 1316, Italy 3964, Luxembourg . 1 360, Netherlands 4125, Portugal 1713, United Kingdom 2 480. 2. A Member -State may request, for 1990, the conversion into short-term Community authorizations, according to the procedures provided for in Article 3a (3) and (4), of a-maximum of 20 % of the additional number of Community authorizations resulting from paragraph 1 of this Article at the rate of eight short-. term authorizations for each of:-the abovementioned additional authorizations.’ 2. In Annexes II and Ila: (a) the following shall be deleted: — point 7 on page (b), — the last sentence on page (c), — the footnote appearing under ‘NB’ on page (d), and — the text on page (e);