27.7.95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 176/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1808/95 of 24 July 1995 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT for certain agricultural, industrial and fisheries products and establishing the detailed provisions for adapting these quotas THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas the Community has undertaken, within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), to open ecach year, subject to certain conditions, Community tariff quotas at reduced or zero duty for a certain number of agricultural, industrial and fisheries products; Whereas the Community has concluded with Canada an Agreement on newsprint (Order No 09.0015) in the form of an exchange of letters providing for the opening of a tariff quota of 650 000 tonnes, 600 000 tonnes of which is reserved, in accordance with Article XIII of the GATT, until 30 November of each year for products from Canada alone; whereas that Agreement also provides: for a mandatory § % increase in the share of the quota reserved for imports from Canada in the event of that share being exhausted before the end of a given year; Whereas, under the Agreement with the United States on the Mediterranean preferences, citrus and pasta, the community has undertaken to suspend provisionally, within the limits of Community tariff quotas of appropriate volumes and varying duration, part of the customs duties applicable to certain fruits and fruit juices; Whereas eligibility for these tariff quotas is, however, subject to presentation to the Community customs authorities of a certificate of authenticity issued by the competent authorities of the country of origin certifying that the products comply with the specifications laid down; Whereas by its Decision of 9 March 1993 the Commission approved the agreements negotiated between the Community and the United States of America on the permanent importation, free of custom duties and agricultural levies, of certain mixtures of malt sprouts and barley screenings, within the limit of Community tariff quotas; Whereas, in the context of the Uruguay Round, it has been agreed to maintain the possibility for exports to the Community market of chemically pure fructose originating in countries not bound by a preference agreement with the Community; Whereas the Community has, in the context of its external relations, undertaken to open each year, from 1 July to 31 December and 1 September to 31 August of the following year respectively, a Community tariff quota for 5 000 tonnes of frozen hake fillets presented in the form of industrial blocks with bones (‘standard’) at a duty of 10 %, and, after various adjustments, another, at zero duty, for ECU 1 870 000 of value added for various forms of processing work carried out on textiles under the outward processing arrangements; Whereas the Community has declared its readiness to open each year, for certain handmade products, a zero-duty Community tariff quota for an overall annual amount of ECU 10 540 000, with a maximum value of ECU 1200000 for each group of products covered;