L 109)2 Official Journal of the European Communities 19.4.2001 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 747/2001 of 9 April 2001 providing for the management of Community tariff quotas and of reference quantities for products eligible for preferences by virtue of agreements with certain Mediterranean countries and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1981/94 and (EC) No 934/95 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas: 1) Slelrlslewe Leeeeee The Additional Protocols to the Cooperation Agree- ments between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria ("), the Arab Republic of Egypt (3, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (%), the Syrian Arab Republic (¥, of the other part, and the supplementary Protocol to the Agreement establishing an association between the Euro- pean Economic Community and Malta (%), provide tariff concessions of which some fall within Community tariff quotas and reference quantities. The Protocol laying down the conditions and procedures for the implementation of the second stage of the Agree- ment establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus and adapting certain provisions of the Agreement (%), supple- mented by Council Regulation (EC) No 3192/94 of 19 December 1994 amending the arrangements applying to imports into the Community of certain agricultural products originating in Cyprus (), also provide tariff concessions of which some fall within Community tariff quotas and reference quantities. Council Regulation (EEC) No 1764/92 of 29 June 1992 amending the arrangements for the import into the Community of certain agricultural products originating 297, 297, 21.10.1987, 21.10.1987, 297, 21.10.1987, 327, 30.11.1988, 81, 23.3.1989, p. 393, 31.12.1987, 337, 24.12.1994, |onil onll ol anll el el ol VT T TTT U1 N O — in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia (%), accelerated the tariff dismantling and provided for an increase of the volumes of the tariff quotas and reference quantities laid down in the Protocols to the Association or Cooperation Agree- ments with the Mediterranean countries in question. The arrangements for importing oranges originating in Cyprus, in Egypt and in Israel into the Community has been adjusted by the Agreements in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Cyprus (%), between the European Community and the Arab Republic of Egypt (1) and between the Euro- pean Community and Israel (). Decision No 1/98 of the EC-Turkey Association Council of 25 February 1998 on the trade regime for agricultural products (*?) provides for tariff concessions of which some are granted within tariff quotas. The Euro-Mediterranean Interim Association Agreement on trade and cooperation between the European Community, of the one part, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (%), of the other part, as well as the Euro-Mediterranean Agree- ments establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia ("), the Kingdom of Morocco (), the State of Israel (1), of the other part, provide tariff concessions of which some fall within Community tariff quotas and reference quantities. 181, 1.7.1992, p. 9. 89, 4.4.1997, p. 1. 292, 15.11.1996, p. 31. 327, 18.12.1996, p. 3. 86, 20.3.1998, p. 1. 187, 16.7.1997, p. 3. 97, 30.3.1998, p. 2. 70, 18.3.2000, p. 2. 147, 21.6.2000, p. 3.