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Whereas Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 lays down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the proceedings of agricultural products; Whereas, pursuant to Annex I to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Malta, the Community must partially suspend common customs tariff duties applicable to certain products; whereas it would seem appropriate to adapt or supplement temporarily some of the tariff advantages provided for in the said Annex; whereas accordingly in respect of the products listed in Annex I to this Regulation originating in Malta the Community should from 1 January to 31 December 1995 suspend, at the levels shown next to each item, either the fixed component of the charge applicable to goods covered by Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 or the customs duty applicable to the other products;

Whereas pursuant to Annex 6 to the Additional Protocol laying down the conditions, arrangements and timetable for implementing the transitional stage referred to in Article 4 of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey and to Article 9 of the Supplementary Protocol to the Association Agreement between the European Economic Community and Turkey consequent on the accession of new Member States to the Community, signed in Ankara on 30 June 1973 and in force on 1 March 1986 the Community must totally or partially suspend the common customs tariff duties applicable to certain products; whereas in addition it would seem appropriate to adapt or supplement temporarily some of the tariff advantages provided for in the said Annex 6; whereas accordingly for the products originating in Turkey listed in Annex II to this Regulation the Community should from 1 January to 31 December 1995 suspend, at the levels shown next to each item, either the fixed element of duty applicable to goods covered by Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 or the customs duty applicable to the other products;

Whereas Article 7 of the abovementioned Supplementary Protocol to the Association Agreement between the European Economic Community and Turkey consequent on the accession of new Member States to the Community referred to above provides for full suspension of the customs duties applicable to certain petroleum products of Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff refined in Turkey, within the limits of an annual Community tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes; whereas that quota has been replaced with a Community ceiling which, following successive increases stands at 740 250 tonnes; whereas further adaptations to such tariff advantages, consisting in the full suspension, from 1 January to 31 December 1995, of customs duties applicable to products originating in Turkey and listed in Annex III hereto, should be envisaged on a temporary basis; Whereas provision should be made for the reintroduction of customs duties on the products concerned in exceptional circumstances; whereas accordingly the Commission should be informed regularly of import trends for such products; whereas to this end imports of such products should be subjected to a system of surveillance;

Whereas the tariff advantages provided for in the measures in question should at least be equivalent to those accorded by the Community to developing countries under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP); Whereas the period of validity of GSP tariff measures in respect of agricultural products is limited to one year, while GSP measures concerning petroleum products are multiannual; whereas in view of the number and the economic significance of the agricultural products concerned the period of validity of tariff measures for Malta and Turkey should be aligned with that applicable to GSP agricultural measures; whereas at the same time and for the sake of clarity such measures should be grouped together in a single regulation; Whereas it is for the Community to decide on the suspension of such duties, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: