No L 333/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 21. 12. 84 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3597/84 of 18 December 1984 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for fresh or dried hazelnuts, shelled or not, falling within subheading ex 08.05 G of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Turkey (1985) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Econorhic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof, ' Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3590/82 of 21 December 1982 on imports into the Community of agricultural products originating in Turkey (') provides that fresh or dried hazelnuts, shelled or not, falling within subheading ex 08.05 G of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Turkey are admitted on importation into the Commu- nity at zero duty, within the limit of a Community tariff quota of 25 000 tonnes ; whereas the Community tariff quota concerned should therefore be opened for 1985 ; Whereas, in accordance with Article 119 of the 1979 Act of Accession, the Community adopted Council Regulation (EEC) No 3555/80 of 16 December 1980 determining the arrangements to be applied with regard to imports into Greece originating in Algeria, Israel, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Syria, Tunisia or Turkey (?) ; whereas this Regulation therefore applies to the Community of Nine; Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure equal and uninterrupted access for all Community importers to the abovementioned quota, and uninterrupted application of the rates laid down for this quota to all imports of the products concerned into the Member States until the quota has been used up; whereas, having regard to the above principles, the Community nature of the quota can be respected by allocating the Community tariff quota among the Member States; whereas, in order to reflect most accurately the actual development of the market in the products in ques- tion, such allocation should be in proportion to the requirements of the Member States, assessed by reference to both the statistics relating to imports of the said products from Turkey over a representative reference period and the economic outlook for the quota period concerned ; Whereas on the basis of the currently available statis- tical data imports of the product in question from Turkey into the Member States have developed as follows over the years 1981, 1982 and 1983 ; whereas they represent the following percentage of the total imports into the Community from Turkey: 1981 1982 1983 Member States - Tonnes % Tonnes % Tonnes % Benelux 5374 7,85 7017 9,40 6332 9,37 Denmark 785 1,15 1183 1,58 1249 1,85 Germany 47 778 69,80 49 562 66,37 45 649 67,58 France 8 889 13,00 9529 1 12,76 7 786 11,53 Ireland 92 | 013 50 | 007 30 | 004 Italy 823 1,20 2533 3,39 746 1,10 United Kingdom 4705 6,87 4798 6,44 5760 8,53 Total 68 446 74 672 67 552 () O)J No L 375, 31. 12. 1982, p. 1. () OJ No L 382, 31. 12. 1980, p. 1.