No L 172/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 30. 6. 84 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1834/84 of 28 June 1984 -opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff " quota for rum, arrack and tafia, falling within subheading 22.09 C I of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) (1984/85) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN , COMMUNITIES, Member State 1981 1982 1983 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European geneluxk 31*»3 f,g f,é : H : icul icle 11 enmar K , K Filcono;mc Community, and in particular Article 113 Germany 2.6 257 244 thereol, Greece 0,0 03 0,0 France 1,8 -2, 1,8 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Ireland 18 2,0 1,8 Italy 0,2 0,3 04 _ United Kingdom 64,3 629 649 Whereas Protocol § annexed to the Second ACP-EEC Convention, signed at Lomé on 31 October 1979 (Y, provides that products originating in the ACP States which fall within subheading 2209 C I of the Common Customs Tariff shall, until the entry into force of a common organization of the market in spirits, be allowed into the Community free of customs duties under conditions such as to permit the development of traditional trade flows between the ACP States and the Community and between the Member States ; whereas the Community shall fix each year the quantities which may be imported free of customs duties on the basis of the largest quantities imported annually from the ACP States into the Community in the past three years for which statistics are available, increased by an annual growth rate of 40 % on the market of the United Kingdom and 18 % on the other markets of the Community; Whereas, having regard to the levels reached by imports of the products concerned into the Commu- nity and the Member States during the past three years for which statistics are available, the annual quota volume would amount to 173 393 hectolitres of pure alcohol ; Whereas, because the Convention is due to expire on 28 February 1985, a pro rata temporis reduction to eight-twelfths should be introduced ; whereas the size of the tariff quota for the period 1 July 1984 to 28 February 1985 should therefore be fixed at 115 595 hectolitres of pure alcohol; Whereas, during the past three years for which statis- tics are available, the corresponding imports by each of the Member States represent the following percentages of the imports into the Community from the countries in question of the products concerned : () OJ No L 347, 22. 12. 1980, p. 141. Whereas, in view of these factors, of market forecasts for the products in question and of the estimates submitted by certain Member States, quota shares may be fixed approximately at the following percentages : Benelux 4,78 Denmark 1,59 Germany 29,35 Greece 0,10 France 1,98 Ireland 1,92 Italy 0,32 United Kingdom 59,96 Whereas an arrangement for using the Community tariff quota, based on an allocation between the United Kingdom on the one hand and the other Member States on the other, would seem likely to reconcile the application of the growth rates provided for in Protocol S5 with the uninterrupted application of the duty-free entry arrangements in respect of the said quota to all imports of the products concerned into ‘the Member States until the quota is exhausted; whereas in order to reflect as closely as possible the actual trends on the markets in the products concerned, allocation of the Community tariff quota among Member States should be made in accordance with the requirements of the Member States ; whereas, in this case, the tariff quota should be allocated among the Member States on the basis of the largest quanti- ties imported annually into each Member State during the past three years and taking into account the above- mentioned growth rates ; Whereas measures should be laid down to ensure that Protocol 5 is implemented under conditions such as to permit the development of traditional trade flows between the ACP States and the Community and between the Member States ;