1. 12. 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 307/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2905/94 of 23 November 1994 establishing detailed rules for the application of the trade monitoring system for certain fishery products coming from Norway THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden, and in particular Article 53 (3) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas, in order to apply the trade monitoring system provided for by the Act of Accession for consignments from Norway to the Community of certain products covered by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the common organization of the market in fishery and aquaculture products (*), reference quantities must be defined for the purpose of calculating indicative ceilings ; whereas the annual indicative ceilings must be adjusted at a rate of increase reflecting the growth of the trade concerned ; whereas it is approriate, given the seasonal fluctuations in quantity of the consign- ments in question, to provide for quarterly indicative ceilings ; Whereas, for the monitoring system to be implemented, the Norwegian authorities will have to adopt provisions for, in particular, statistical monitoring of the consign- ments concerned ; whereas these provisions should be notified to the Commission ; Whereas the quantities sent to the other Member States from Norway must be communicated to the Commission weekly so that appropriate measures may be taken without delay in cases where the circumstances justify such measures ; Whereas it is the responsibility of the Member States to carry out the appropriate inspections in order to verify (") OJ No L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1891/93 (O] No L 172, 15. 7. 1993, ) p-1 that the products concerned have been sent in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation ; Whereas procedures should be established for taking the measures provided for in Article 53 (2) of the Act of Accession and arrangements should be made for the application of this Regulation, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 ) This Regulation establishes detailed rules for applying the trade monitoring system applicable from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 1998 in respect of consignments from Norway to the other Member States of certain fishery products listed in the Annex to this Regulation and covered by Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92, as provided for in Article 53 of the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden, hereinafter referred to as the Act of Accession. Article 2 1. For each of the fishery products subject to the moni- toring systemn, an indicative ceiling shall be set by product or group of products covered by the CN codes listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92. It shall be set for each year of application of the mechanism on the basis of the total volume of imports of the said products from Norway recorded during 1994, hereinafter referred to as ‘the reference year’, adjusted by an annual rate of increase. For 1995, the import volume during the reference year shall be calculated on the basis of an estimate and adjusted as necessary when the actual import volume is confirmed. 2.  The annual rate of increase referred to in paragraph 1 shall be obtained by taking the arithmetical average of the rate of growth of imports of the products concerned from Norway during the reference year and the two years preceding it, but shall not be lower than 6 %.