No L 66/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 24. 3. 95 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 629/95 of 23 March 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application to milk and milk products of certain tanff quotas for Hungary and Bulgaria opened by Council Regulatlon (EC) No 3379/94 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3379/94 of 22 ‘December 1994 opemng and admnmstenng certain Community tariff quotas in 1995 for certain agricultural products and for beer(’), and in partlcular Article 3 thereof, Whereas, as a result of the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, Regulation (EC) No 3379/94 opened autono- mous tariff quotas for 1995 in order to ensure, tempora- rily, compliance with the undertakings telating to the adjustment of the concessions granted for certain agricul- tural products to Hungary and Bulgaria (among other countries), and pending -the conclusion of additional protocols to the .Agreements with those countries; whereas the new quotas are without prejudice to the . import arrangements provided for in the said Agreements between the Community and those countries; Whereas the said Regulation introduces for 1995 arrange- ments for the reduction of or exemption from import levies on certain products, including milk and milk products ; whereas detailed rules of application should be adopted with a view to administering the arrangements concerned ; whereas those detailed rules are either supple- mentary to, or derogate from, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 of 16 November 1988 laying down common detailed- rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certifi- cates for agricultural products(’), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 340/95(%); Whereas, in order to ensure proper administration of imports, a security should be required for applications for import licences and certain conditions be laid down as regards applications for licences; whereas the fixed amounts should be staggered over the year and the proce- dure for awarding licences as well as their term of validity should be specified ; Whereas continuous access to the said fixed amounts should be ensured for all Community importers and the reduced levy should be applied consistently to all imports of the products in question in all the Member States until () OJ No L 366, 31. 12. 1994, p. 3. OJ No L 331, 2. 12. 1988, p. 1. () OJ No L 39, 21. 2. 1995, p. 1. the fixed amounts. are exhausted ; whereas the necessary measures should bé taken to ensure efficient Community administration of these fixed amounts and, because of the risk of speculation in particular, access by importers to _ the said scheme should be subject to compliance with specific conditions ; whereas this method of administra- - tion requires close cooperation between the Member " States and the Commission ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Commiittee for Milk and Milk Products, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: - Article 1 Within the framework of the arrangements provided for -in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 3379/94, all imports into the Community of milk products originating in Hungary and Bulgaria falling within the. CN codes listed in Annex I hereto shall ‘be subject to the presentation of import licences issued and applied for under the terms set out herein. . The quantities of products to which these arrangements apply and the rates of reduction in the levies shall be those listed in Annex I hereto. Article 2 The quantities referred to in Annex I shall be staggered as follows : — 33% in the period 1 April to 30 June,' — 33 % in the period 1 July to 30 September, ~— 34 % in the period 1 October to 31 December. Article 3 o For the purposes of the import arrangements referred to in Article 1, the following provisions shall apply: (a) at the time applications are submitted, applicants for import licences must prove to the satisfaction of the competent authorities of the Member State concerned that they have been trading in milk or milk products with third countries for at least the last 12 months. However, retail establishments or restaurants selling - their products to final consumers are excluded from the benefits of this regime ;