23.7. 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 189/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1798/94 of 18 July 1994 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products originating in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia and establishing the detailed provisions for adapting these quotas (1994-97) 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 the ‘Europe Agreements between the European Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Hungary and the Republic of Poland, of the other part, were signed on 16 December 1991 and entered into force on 1 February 1994 ; whereas Interim Agreements on trade and trade-related measures have been applied between the Community and the two countries concerned from 1 March 1992 pending the entry into force of the Europe Agreements (') (%) ; whereas the Europe Agreements between the European Economic Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (CSFR), Romania and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the other part, were signed on 16 December 1991, 1 February 1993 and 8 March 1993 respectively ; whereas, pending the entry into force of the latter three Agreements, the Community has concluded Interim Agreements on trade and trade- related measures with those countries () (*) (%), which were signed on the same day and which entered into force, respectively, on 1 March 1992, 1 May 1993 and 31 December 1993 ; Whereas the Additional Protocols (f) to the said Agree- ments signed with- the countries in question in the light of the conclusions of the Copenhagen European Council () OJ No L 116, 30. 4. 1992, p. 2. () O] No L 114, 30. 4. 1992, p. 2. () OJ No L 115, 30. 4. 1992, p. 2. (9 OJ No L 81, 2. 4. 1993, p. 2. () O] No L 323, 23. 12. 1993, p. 2. () O] No L 25, 29. 1. 1994, p. 2, 7, 12, 17, 22 and 27. of 21 and 22 June 1993 are intended to improve access to the Community market for products originating in those countries ; whereas, in the agriculture sector, this impro- vement consists in bringing forward by six months the tariff concessions due to be opened on 1 January of each year ; whereas, therefore, it is necessary to open on 1 July 1994 the tariff quotas granted to the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (Annex XIIb of the Interim Agree- ment for products falling within tariff heading 1210), Poland (Annex Xc of the Europe Agreement) and Hungary (Annex X ¢ of the Europe Agreement) in respect of the fourth year of application, and the tariff quotas granted to Romania (Annex XII'b of the Interim Agree- ment) and Bulgaria (Annex XIII b of the Interim Agree- ment) in respect of the third year of application ; Whereas the Additional Protocols concluded between the European Economic Community and the European Coal and Steel Community, of the one part, and the Czech Republic and Slovakia, of the other part, initialled in Brussels on 18 July 1993, provide, inter alia, for the tariff quotas and ceilings granted by the Community to the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic to be shared between the successor states to the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic as from 1 January 1994 ; Whereas the Agreements in question provide through a transitional period ending on 30 June 1996 or 30 June 1997 the opening of tariff quotas; whereas the Agree- ments also set out the conditions required for granting the tariff advantages in the context of the said tariff quotas ; whereas, therefore, in the interests of rationalizing implementation of the measures concerned, the provi- sions currently contained in the various regulations covering each of the abovementioned countries should be grouped together in a single regulation, applicable for a specific period, by including in Annexes I, II and III to this Regulation the tariff quotas to be opened for the periods 1 July 1994 to 30 June 1995, 1 July 1995 to 30 June 1996 and 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997;