15. 8. 95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 192/1 I (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1983/95 of 24 July 1995 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas and ceilings and established Community surveillance for certain fish and fishery products originating in the Faroe Islands and establishing the detailed provisions for amending and 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 Article 3 and 8 of the Agreement between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the Government and Denmark and the Home Government of the Faroe Islands, of the other part, signed on 2 December 1991('), provided for the abolition of customs duties applicable to imports into the Community of certain fish and fishery products listed in Protocol 1 attached to the said Decision ; Whereas the abolition is subject to Community tariff quotas and ceilings and, for some of these products, Community statistical surveillance ; whereas the said Community tariff quotas and ceilings in respect of products originating in the Faroe Islands should therefore be opened for the volumes indicated respectively in Annexes I and II to this Regulation and Community statistical surveillance established in respect of the products listed in Annex III thereto; Whereas the preferential rates of duty indicated in Annexes I, II and III apply only where the free-at-frontier price determined by the Member States in accordance with Article 22 of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the common organization of the market in fishery products and aquaculture (%) is at least equal to the reference price set, or to be set, by the Community for the products or categories of products concerned ; (") OJ No L 371, 31. 12. 1991, p. 2. : () OJ No L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3318/94 (O] No L 350, 31. 12. 1994, ) p- 1 Whereas, by the Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Community and the Government of Denmark and the Home Government of the Faroe Islands amending Tables I and II of the Annex to Protocol 1 of the Agreement between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the Govern- ment of Denmark and the Home Government of the Faroe Islands, of the other part, signed on 2 December 1991 (3, certain amendments were made in the table of products listed in the Annexes to the said Agreement ; Whereas, for reasons of simplification, provision should be made to empower the Commission to give effect, fol- lowing receipt of the opinion of the Customs Code Committee set up by Article 247 of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 (%), to necessary amendments and technical adaptations to the Annexes to this Regulation arising from amendments of the combined nomenclature and Taric codes and to adaptations of volume, periods and quota rates arising from decisions by the Council or by the Commission ; Whereas this Regulation may apply in the case of any amendment of the said Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters which may specify the products eligible for tariff quotas or subject to statistical surveil- lance, quota-volumes, duties and tariff periods, and any eligibility criteria ; whereas provision should therefore be made for the Commission to make corresponding amend- ments to this Regulation and the Annexes thereto, after first having obtained the opinion of the Customs Code Committee ; Whereas the Agreement provides for tariff quotas, tariff ceilings and statistical surveillance for an indefinite period ; whereas, therefore, to make its implementation () OJ No L 54, 10. 3. 1995, p. 25. () OJ No L 302, 19. 10. 1992, p. 1.