31.12.85 Official Journal of the European Communities COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20 December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying to trade in agricultural products between Spain and Portugal THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal {hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act’) and in particular Articles 88 (1) and 256 (1) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas, pursuant to the Joint Declaration attached to the Act, each of the new Member States shall apply in principle with respect to the other, the provisions and transitional mechanisms provided for in the Act under the arrangements applicable to their respective trade with the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985; whereas these arrangements are to be introduced taking into account, in the context of temporary measures, the existence of a classic transition and a transition by stages in the case of Portugal and the existence of a phase of verification of convergence in the fruit and vegetable sector in the case of Spain; Whereas, however, with regard to cereals and rice, products of first-stage processing in the cereals and rice sector, wine and tomatn-based products, the arrangements applicable to trade between the new Member States are to be adopted in accordance with the additional guidelines agreed within the negotiating conference; Whereas in the wine sector in particular, with a view to facilitating the gradual liberalization of the market, provision should be made that the quantitative restrictions on mutual trade during the first stage be replaced from the start of the second stage by the supplemenary trade mechanisni; ' Whereas, with regard to the other products subject to the supplementary trade mechanism between each of the new Member States and the Community as constituted on 31 December 19835, it is desirable to provide for the possibility of extending the said mechanism to imports into Spain; whereas in the case of Portugal, on the other hand, the mechanism should be extended automatically to include imports from Spain in view of production conditions in Portugal; ' Whereas, under Article 2 (3) of the Treaty of Accession of Spzin and Portugal, the institutions of the Communities may adopt, before accession, the measures referred to in Articles 91 and 258 of the Act, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 This Regulation lays down the arrangements to apply between 1 March 1986 and 31 December 1995 to trade in agricultural products between Spain and Portugal. Article 2 In the case of products subject to customs duties on import from third countries into the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985: 1. duties on products imported into Spain from Portugal shall be progressively abolished in the manner set out in point 1 of Arucle 75 of the Act, without projudice to points 4 and § thereof; b duties on imports into Portugal from Spain of: — products subject to classic transition under Article 235 of the Act shall be progressively abolished in the manner set out in point 1 (b), (c) and (d) of the Act, without prejudice to point 4 thereof: — products subject to transition by stages under Article 259 of the Act shall be abolished in the manner set out in Article 268 (1) and (2) (b) of the Act, without prejudice to Article 268 (4) thereof. However, in the case of the liqueur wincs referred to in the first indent of the second subparagraph of Article 268 (3), customs duties on imports into Portugal shall be progressively abolished in accordance with the following timetable: — on 1 March 1986, each duty shall be reduced to 87,5 % of the basic duty, — on 1 January 1987, each duty shali be reduced to 75 % of the basic duty, — on 1 January 1988, each duty shal! be reduced to 62,5 % of the basic duty, — on 1 January 1989, each duty shal! be reduced to 50% of the basic duty, — on 1 January 1990, each duty shall be reduced to 37,5 % of the basic duty, — on 1 January 1991, each dutv shall be reduced to 25 % of the basic duty,