No L 96/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 28. 4. 95 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 934/95 of 10 April 1995 establishing tariff ceilings and a Community statistical surveillance in the framework of reference quantities for a certain number of products originating in Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Tunisia, Syria, Malta, Morocco and the Occupied Territories 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 2 of Annex I to the Agreement establi- shing an association between the European Community and Malta ('), as supplemented by the Additional Proto- col (%), the Supplementary Protocol to the Agreement () and the Protocol extending the first stage of this Agree- ment (*), exempts from duties, subject to tariff ceilings, certain products falling within Chapters 52 to 63 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Malta ; Whereas the Additional Protocols to the Agreements between the European Community, of the one part, and Cyprus (%), Egypt(®), Jordan(’), Israel(®), Tunisia (®), Syria (%), Malta and Morocco (*!), of the other part, provide for the progressive reduction, subject to reference quanti- ties and to statistical Community surveillance, of the customs duties applicable to certain agricultural products originating in those countries according to set timetables ; Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1134/91 of 29 April 1991 on the tariff arrangements, applicable to imports into the Community of products originating in the Occupied Territories ('?) provides for the elimination on 1 January 1993, according to a set timetable, of customs duties on products listed in Annex II thereto and originating in these territories, and that certain of these products should be subject to reference quantities ; Whereas, by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1764/92 of 29 June 1992 amending the arrangements for the import into the Community of certain agricultural products origi- nating in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia(*), the Community unilaterally increased the amount of the above reference quantities in ) O] No L 61, 14. 3. 1971, p. 2. ) P () O] No L 304, 29. 11. 1977, p. 2. () O] No L 81, 23. 3. 1989, p. 2. () O] No L 116, 9. 5. 1991, p. 67. ) O] No L 393, 31. 12. 1987, p. 2. () OJ No L 297, 21. 10. 1987, p. 11. ) O] No L 297, 21. 10. 1987, p. 19. o , 30. 11. 1988, p. 36. () OJ No L 327, 30 988, p. 36 ¢ o L 297, 21. 10. 1987, p. 36. ¢) O] No L 987, p. 36 (") OJ No L 327, 30. 11. 1988, p. 8. (") OJ No L 224, 13. 8. 1988, p. 18. () OJ No L 112, 4. 5. 1991, p. 1. (") OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 9. equal tranches of 3% or 5% per year starting on 1 January 1992; Whereas the abovementioned Agreements and Regulation (EEC) No 1134/91 are of indeterminate duration ; whereas the Agreements and the abovementioned Regulation (EEC) No 1764/92 lay down the rates for the annual increases in the tariff ceilings and reference quantities ; whereas, therefore, the tariff measures in question should likewise be of indeterminate duration ; whereas the appli- cation of these measures should be rationalized by grou- ping them together in a single regulation ; Whereas the tariff measures provided for in this Regula- tion should now be opened; whereas the scope and period of application of each of those measures are set out in the Annexes; whereas, in view of the negotiations under way for the renewal of some of the agreements in question, the period of validity of the measures set out in the Annexes to this Regulation should be limited to 31 December 1996 ; Whereas amendments to the combined nomenclature and Taric codes, and the extension under the present Agree- ments of the tariff measures in question, require no changes of substance; whereas, in the interests of simplification and without prejudice to the specific proce- dures laid down by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products (%), provision should be made for the Commission to make the necessary amendments and technical adaptations to this Regulation after first having obtained the opinion of the Customs Code Committee ; Whereas the decision to establish tariff ceilings and reference quantities should be taken by the Community ; whereas it is also for the Community to establish the relevant surveillance systems for these two tariff measures ; Whereas customs duties suspended within the limits of tariff ceilings may be re-established once those limits have been reached at Community level ; whereas the application of ceilings calls for a system of surveillance that enables the Commission to be kept abreast of the trend in imports of products subject to such measures ; () OJ No L 318, 20. 12. 1993, p. 18.