No L 147/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 6. 6. 85 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1535/85 of 4 June 1985 opening, allocating and providing for the administratio;l of a Community tariff quota for cod, dried, salted or in brine, whole, headless or in pieces, falling within subheading 03.02 A I b) of the Common Customs Tariff 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 Community has undertaken to open an annual duty free Community tariff quota for 25 000 tonnes of cod, dried, salted or in brine, whole, headless or in pieces, falling within subheading 03.02 A I b) of the Common Customs Tariff; Whereas this undertaking was fulfilled in recent years through the total suspension of the Common Customs Tariff duty provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 of 29 December 1981 on the common organization of the market in fishery products (!), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3655/84(); whereas, however, this suspension comes to an end on 30 June 1985 pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3655/84 ; whereas, therefore, it is necessary to open on that date and for the remainder of the current year the tariff quota in question and to allocate it among the Member States ; Whereas, under Article 64 of the Act of Accession of 1979, Greece is required to apply in full the Common Customs Tariff duty in respect of the product in ques- tion since 1 January 1981 ; whereas, therefore, it is necessary to cover, in favour of the tariff quotas in question, the requirements of that Member State during the quota period ; Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should be ensured for all Community importers and the rate of levy for the tariff quota should be applied consistently to all imports until the quota is used up ; whereas, in the light of the principles outlined above, a Community tariff arrangement based on an allocation between the Member States would seem to preserve () OJ No L 379, 31. 12. 1981, p. 1. () OJ No L 340, 28. 12. 1984, p. 1. the Community nature of the quota; whereas, to represent as closely as possible the actual development of the market in the said goods, the allocation should follow proportionately the requirements of  the Member States calculated both from statistics of imports from third countries during a representative reference period and according to the economic outlook for the tariff year in question; Whereas, during the last three years for which complete statistics are available, the corresponding imports into each of the Member States represented the following percentages of total imports of the product in question coming from third countries which do not benefit from a preferential tariff measure having equivalent effect: 1981 1982 1983 Benelux 1,94 1,57 - 1,71 Denmark 0,32 0,47 2,29 Germany 2,77 2,31 3,19 Greece 17,96 15,22 14,16 France 26,91 2432 24,71 Ireland 0 0 0 Italy 47,88 54,81 52,45 United Kingdom 2,22 1,30 1,49 Whereas, in view of these factors and of market fore- casts for this product for 1985, the initial percentage shares in the quota volume can be expressed approxi- mately as follows : Benelux 1,74 Denmark 1,03 Germany 2,76 Greece 15,79 France 25,34 Ireland 0,01 Italy 51,65 United Kingdom 1,68 Whereas, to take account of the possible import trends for these fish, the quota volume should be divided into two instalments, the first being allocated between the Member States and the second held as a reserve -to cover any subsequent requirements of Member States