21. 12. 84 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 333/61 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 000/00 of 19 December 1984 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76 on the Community quota for the carriage of goods by road between Member States THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 75 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ('), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas the adoption of a common transport policy involves inter alia laying down rules relating to the freedom to provide road haulage services between Member States ; whereas such rules should be drawn up in such a way as to favour the establishment of a common transport policy ; Whereas a system of Community authorizations for the carriage of goods by road between Member States promotes the establishment of such a common trans- port market by ensuring greater freedom to provide international road haulage services throughout the Community and by allowing carriers from all Member States to have equal access to the market; Whereas it is desirable that the medium-term increase in the Community quota be determined forthwith by adopting a method of adjustment which can be applied, without amendment as to the principles, for a period of five years; - Whereas the method of distributing among Member | States the authorizations resulting from the increases in the Community quota should be based on criteria which ensure that this distribution is fair; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76 (}), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3515/82 (), should be amended accordingly ; Whereas owing to their geographical situation, Greece, Ireland and the United Kingdom should be granted an additional increase in the Community quota, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76 is hereby amended as follows : () OJ No C 10, 16. 1. 1984, p. 90. () O] No C 358, 31. 12. 1983, p. 28. () OJ No L 357, 29. 12. 1976, p. 1. () OJ No L 369, 29. 12. 1982, p. 2. 1. Article 3 is replaced by the following : Article 3 1. For 1985 the Community quota shall be increased by 30 %. Each year for four vyears thereafter it shall be increased by 15 %. 2. The increase in the quota provided for in paragraph 1 shall be calculated on the basis of a quota which consists of 4 038 authorizations, the number of authorizations allocated to each Member State being as follows : Belgium : 434 Denmark : 305 Germany : 727 Greece : 88 France : 656 Ireland: 88 Italy : ' , 567 Luxembourg : : 111 Netherlands : - 626 United Kingdom : 436 3. The Community authorizations resulting from the increase in the quota shall be allocated among the Member States on the basis of 50 % allocated across the board and 50 % on the basis of the use made of the Community quota authorizations by carriers established in each Member State. The method of calculating the utilization of Community authorizations is given in Annex IV. In order to take into account their special geogra- phical situation, the number of authorizations allo- cated to Greece, Ireland and the United Kingdom shall be increased by 6,6 and 2 units respectively for 1985 and by 3,3 and 1 units for each of the subsequent four years. 4. For 1985, the number of Community authori- zations allocated to each of the Member States shall be as follows : Belgium : 570 Denmark : 469 Germany : 914 Greece : 131 France : 801 Ireland : 147 Italy : 721 Luxembourg : 179 Netherlands : 785 United Kingdom : ‘ 551