No L 129/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 15. 5. 84 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1320/84 of 7 May 1984 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for apricot pulp falling within subheading ex 20.06 B II c¢) 1 aa) of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Turkey THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic 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 certain agricultural products origina- ting in Turkey (') provides for the opening by the Community of an annual Community tariff quota of 90 tonnes at a rate of 4,7 % for apricot pulp falling within subheading ex 20.06 B II c) 1 aa) of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Turkey ; whereas such a quota has been opened for the period up to 30 June 1984 by Regulation (EEC) No 1081/83 () ; whereas the tariff quota in question should therefore be opened for the abovementioned volume for the period 1 July 1984 to 30 June 1985. Whereas, since a Protocol as provided for in Article 118 (1) of the 1979 Act of Accession does not exist, the Community adopted the measures envisaged in Article 119 of that Act in Regulation (EEC) No 3555/80 (}) determining the arrangements to be applied to imports into Greece originating in parti- cular, in Turkey ; whereas the tariff measure concerned will, therefore, apply to the Community of Nine; Whereas it is in particular necessary to guarantee all importers of the Community equal and uninterrupted access to the quota and uninterrupted application of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the product in question 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 tariff quota among () OJ No L 375, 31. 12. 1982, p. 1. () O] No L 118, 5. 5. 1983, p. 1. () O] No L 382, 31. 12. 1980, p. 1. the Member States ; whereas, to reflect most accurately the actual development of the market in the products in question, such allocation should be in proportion to the requirements of the Member States, assessed by reference both to the statistics relating to imports from Turkey over a representative reference period and to the economic outlook for the quota period concerned ; Whereas, during the last three years for which statistics are available, the corresponding imports to each Member State from Turkey have been negligible or non-existent ; whereas those data cannot therefore be considered as representative to serve as a basis for allo- cation of the quota volume among the Member States ; whereas it is difficult to estimate imports by Member States because of the absence of truly representative figures for previous years ; whereas, consequently, the only solution seems to be to allocate part of the quota volume to the Community reserve and to allocate one seventh of the balance to the Benelux countries, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom Whereas the initial shares may be used up fairly quickly ; whereas, therefore, to avoid disruption of supplies, any Member State which has almost used up its initial share shall draw a supplementary share from the Community reserve ; whereas this must be done by each Member State as each one of its supplementary shares is almost used up, and as many times as the reserve allows ; whereas the initial and supplementary shares must be valid until the end of the quota period ; whereas this form of administration requires close collaboration between the Member States and the Commission, and the Commission must be in a posi- tion to follow the extent to which the tariff quota has been used up and inform the Member States thereof ; Whereas if, at a given date in the quota period, a considerable quantity of a share remains in any Member State, it is essential that that State should return a significant proportion to the reserve in order to avoid part of the Community quota remaining unused in one Member State when it could be used in others ;