18. 2. 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 46/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 354/94 of 14 February 1994 opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof (1994) 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 7 of the Supplementary Protocol to the Association Agreement between the European Commu- nity and Turkey consequent on the accession of new Member States to the Community ('), which was signed in Ankara on 30 June 1973 and entered into force on 1 March 1986 (%), provides for the total suspension of customs duties applicable in certain petroleum products refined in Turkey falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff within the limits of an annual Community tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes ; whereas, for the products concerned, a provisional adjustment should be made to those tariff preferences, consisting essentially of substituting for the Community tariff quota a Com- munity ceiling amounting, after successive increases, to 740 250 tonnes, above: which the customs duties ap- plicable to third countries may be re-established ; Whereas the application of ceilings requires the Com- munity to be regularly informed of the trend of imports of the relevant products originating in Turkey; whereas imports should, therefore, be made subject to a system of surveillance ; Whereas the decision for the opening of Community tariff ceilings in the execution of its international obliga- () OJ No L 361, 31. 12. 1977, p. 2. () OJ No L 48, 26. 2. 1986, p. 36. tions should be taken by the Community; whereas to ensure the efficiency of a common administration of these ceilings, the Member States might well have recourse to the means of an administrative procedure based on offsetting imports of the products in question against the ceiling at Community level as and when these products are entered with the customs authorities for free circulation ; whereas this administrative procedure must make provision for the possible re-establishment of customs tariff duties as soon as the ceiling is reached at Community level ; Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and particularly swift cooperation between the Member States and the Commission ; whereas the latter must, in partic- ular, be able to follow the progress of quantities charged against the ceiling and keep the Member States informed ; whereas this cooperation has to be particularly close since the Commission must be able to take the appropriate measures to re-establish customs tariff duties if the ceiling is reached, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1. From 1 January to 31 December 1994 the duties applicable to imports into the Community of the petro- leum products refined in Turkey and indicated in para- graph 2 shall be suspended in full within the limits of a Community ceiling of 740 250 tonnes. 2. The petroleum products to which paragraph 1 applies shall be the following: