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ACCESSION OF NEW MEMBER STATES TO THE COMMUNITIES - GREECE - PROTECTIVE MEASURES - IMPORT QUOTA - ADMINISTRATION BY THE NATIONAL AUTHORITIES - OBSERVANCE OF EXISTING TRADE PATTERNS - ALLOCATION OF SHARES TO NEW IMPORTERS

( ACT OF ACCESSION OF GREECE, ART . 130; COMMISSION DECISION 84/64/EEC, ARTS 6 AND 7 )

Summary

ARTICLE 7 OF COMMISSION DECISION 84/64/EEC AUTHORIZING GREECE TO TAKE PROTECTIVE MEASURES IN RESPECT OF CIGARETTE IMPORTS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHICH THE SHARES TO BE RESERVED FOR NEW IMPORTERS WERE NOT TO EXCEED 10% OF THE TOTAL OF AUTHORIZED IMPORTS, CANNOT BE INTERPRETED TO MEAN THAT THE ENTIRE 10% OF THE OVERALL QUOTA MUST BE ALLOCATED TO THOSE NEW IMPORTERS . ITS PURPOSE IS SIMPLY TO AVOID THE RISK THAT, IN A SITUATION WHERE IMPORTS ARE RESTRICTED, THE ACTIVITIES OF NEW IMPORTERS MIGHT INTERFERE WITH EXISTING PATTERNS OF TRADE WHICH, UNDER ARTICLE 6, ARE TO BE RESPECTED .

IN ADMINISTERING THE QUOTA SET BY DECISION 84/64/EEC, THE GREEK AUTHORITIES WERE, THEREFORE, ENTITLED, PROVIDED THAT THE WHOLE OF THE QUOTA WAS ALLOCATED, TO SET THE SHARE OF A SINGLE NEW IMPORTER AT A FIGURE LESS THAN 10% OF THE OVERALL QUOTA, THAT SHARE BEING IDENTICAL TO THE SMALLEST SHARE ALLOCATED TO EXISTING IMPORTERS, ON CONDITION THAT THAT SMALLEST QUOTA WAS NOT FOR AN INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT, IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO ENSURE THAT EXISTING PATTERNS OF TRADE WERE OBSERVED .