23.12. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 322/37 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 3510/93 of 10 December 1993 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain hand-woven fabrics, pile and chenille (1994) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 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, as regards hand-woven fabrics of silk, waste silk other than noil and cotton, the Community has declared its readiness to open annual duty-free Community tariff quotas up to a value (customs valuc) which, for 1993, amounted to ECU 2 316 000 for silk fabrics and to ECU 2 069 000 for cotton fabrics; whereas products may be admitted under the Community tariff quota only on production of a certificate of manufacture recognized by the relevant authorities of the Community, such products being stamped in a manner approved by those authorities at the beginning and end of each item and carried direct from the country of manufacture to the Community; whereas it is, accordingly, appropriate to open the tariff quotas in question with effect from 1 January 1994 at the levels set for 1993; Whereas equal and continuous access to the quotas should be ensured for all Community importers and the rate laid down for the quotas should be applied consistently to all imports until the quotas are used up; Whereas the decision for the opening, in the execution of its international obligations, of a tariff quota should be taken by the Community; whereas, to ensure the efficiency of a common administration of this quota, there is, however, no obstacle to authorizing the Member States to draw from the quota-volume the necessary quantities corresponding to actual imports; whereas this method of administration requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota is used up and inform the Member States accordingly; Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united within, and jointly represented by, the Benelux Economic Union, any operation relating to the administration of the quotas may be carried out by any one of its members, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1. From 1 January to 31 December 1994, the customs duties applicable to imports of the following products shall be suspended at the level indicated and within the limits of Community tariff quotas as shown herewith: Order Quota Rate of No CN code (*) Description volume duty (ECU) (%) ex 5007 Woven fabrics of silk or of silk waste: — Fabrics woven on handlooms 09.0101 § 5803 Gauze, other than narrow fabrics of heading No 5806: r 2316 000 0 ex 5803 90 10 — — Of silk or silk waste: L — — — Fabrics woven on handlooms ) ex 5208 Woven fabrics of cotton, containing 85 % or more by weight of cotton, weighing not more than 200 g/m?: -— Fabrics woven on handlooms ex 5209 Woven fabrics of cotton, containing 85 % or more by weight of cotton, weighing not more than 200 g/m?% — Fabrics woven on handlooms