4. 6. 94 Official Journal of the European Communities ‘No L 141/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1290/94 of 30 May 1994 applying supplementary generalized tariff preferences in respect of certain products originating in countries benefiting from generalized preferences and sold at the Berlin ‘Partners in Progress’ Fair 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 fairs are organized in the Community with a view to promoting partnership between economic opera- tors from developing countries and from industrialized countries at commercial, industrial or technological level and improving the access to world markets of products originating in countries -benefiting from generalized preferences ; Whereas, in view of the aims of these fairs, certain steps should be taken in the field of generalized preferences ; Whereas, in accordance with the offer made in the context of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Community opened, origi- nally in 1971, and most recently by Regulations (EEC) No 3831/90 (') and (EEC) No 3832/90 (?), as extended by Regulation (EC) No 3668/93 () and supplemented by Regulation (EC) No 3667/93 (), generalized tariff prefe- rences in particular in respect of finished and semi- finished industrial and textile products originating in countries benefiting from generalized preferences ; Whereas certain products covered by the system of fixed duty-free amount, ceilings or other tariff measures, being the subject of contracts for sale in the course of these fairs, might not be able to benefit from the preferences if the tariff quotas or fixed duty-free amounts are used up or the collection of custom duties is re-established for products subject to ceiling limits before the opening date of the abovementioned fairs; whereas it is important, () OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 1. () OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 39. () O No L 338, 31. 12. 1993, p. 22. () O No L 338, 31. 12. 1993, p. 1. therefore, to provide additional latitude to countries bene- fiting from generalized preferences to enable them to benefit from the generalized tariff preferences for products being the subject of contracts for sale at these fairs ; Whereas as this juncture the German Government has submitted a request for supplementary generalized tariff preferences to be applied in respect of certain products originating in countries benefiting from generalized preferences and sold at the Berlin ‘Partners in Progress’ Fair ; whereas, for the abovementioned reasons, additional latitude should be allowed for countries benefiting from generalized preferences to enable them to take advantage of the generalized tariff preferences for products which were the subject of sales contracts at the ‘Partners in Progress’ Fair ; whereas, however, this latitude should be limited to 6 % for the levels of the tariff measures ap- plicable to each product or group of products under the aforementioned annual Regulations, last applied for the year 1993, and this additional latitude should be allowed ; Whereas, without prejudice to the specific provisions of this Regulation, the application of the provisions of the implementing Regulations regarding generalized tariff preferences and, in particular, in respect of the beneficiary countries and the concept of originating products should be applied to the supplementary preferences in question ; Whereas as a consequence of Council Regulation (EC) No 1291/94 () the advantages accrued from the gen- eralized scheme of preferences for the Republic of Korea have been withdrawn for textile products covered by the Multifibre Agreement; Whereas it is appropriate, however, to exclude from the scope of this Regulation certain products originating in given beneficiary countries ; . (%) See page 9 of this Official Journal.