Council Regulation (EC) No 1920/2004 of 25 October 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 992/95 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway
EU Regulation No 1920/2004 · Adopted 25 October 2004 · Extends to United Kingdom
Council Regulation (EC) No 1920/2004
of 25 October 2004
amending Regulation (EC) No 992/95 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1)
Pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 992/95f1, Community tariff quotas were opened for such products.
(2)
Participation of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia (hereinafter ‘the acceding States’) in the European Economic Area was agreed by means of the EEA Enlargement Agreement, signed between the Community and its Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway and the acceding States on 14 October 2003.
(3)
Pending the completion of the procedures required for the adoption of the EEA Enlargement Agreement, an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters was agreed, which provides for a provisional application of the EEA Enlargement Agreement. That Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters was approved by Council Decision 2004/368/ECf2.
(4)
The EEA Enlargement Agreement provides for an Additional Protocol to the EC-Norway Free Trade Agreement of 1973 (hereinafter ‘the Protocol’), which provides for the opening of new Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products. Those new tariff quotas should be opened.
(5)
The Protocol provides that drawings on two new tariff quotas are stopped on 15 October of each year from 2005, so that any unused balance is made available exclusively to imports at the end of the year.
(6)
Regulation (EC) No 992/95 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(7)
Since the EEA Enlargement Agreement takes effect from 1 May 2004, this Regulation should be applicable from the same date and should enter into force without delay,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Annotations to the whole text
Footnotes
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OJ L 101, 4.5.1995, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1329/2003 (OJ L 187, 26.7.2003, p. 1).
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Contents
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Regulation (EC) No 992/95 is hereby amended as follows:
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The following Article 2a is inserted:
‘Article 2aFrom 2005, on 15 October of each year, drawings on the subquotas with order numbers 09.0760 and 09.0763 shall be stopped.
On the following working day, the unused balances of those quotas shall be made available for imports declared from 1 October of that year within the framework of the subquota with the order number 09.0778 for that year.
From 15 October onwards of each year, any drawings subsequently returned because they are unused shall be made available only to imports declared from 1 October of that year.’
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Annexes I and II are amended in accordance with the Annex hereto.
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For 2004, the annual volumes of the tariff quotas with order numbers 09.0752, 09.0756 and 09.0758 shall be reduced in proportion to the part of the quota period in whole weeks which has elapsed before 1 May 2004.
For 2004, the tariff quota with order number 09.0754 shall be opened, for the period from 15 June to 31 December, for a volume of 24 800 tonnes.
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This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 May 2004.
Signature
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Luxembourg, 25 October 2004.
For the Council
The President
R. Verdonk
Regulation (EC) No 992/95 is amended as follows:
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the following items are inserted in Annex I:
Entry under this subheading is subject to the conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions (see Articles 291 to 300 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 (OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1)).
See TARIC codes in Annex II.
The benefit of the tariff quota shall not be granted to goods declared for release for free circulation during the period from 15 February to 15 June.
The additional quota for frozen peeled shrimps and prawns (CN code 1605 20 10) shall be opened upon settlement of the issue of allowing for the transit, of fish and fisheries’ products landed in Norway by Community vessels, through Norway to the Community.’
Order No CN codef1 Description Amount of quotas (tonnes unless otherwise specified) Quota duty(%) ‘09.0752 ex 0303 50 00 Herrings of the species Clupea harengus or Clupea pallasii, frozen, excluding livers and roes, for industrial manufacturef2 f3 44 000 0 09.0754 ex 0303 74 30 Mackerel of the species Scomber scombrus or Scomber japonicus, frozen, excluding livers and roes, for industrial manufacture 0 15.6.-31.12.2004 24 800 from 2005 to 2009: 09.0760 ex 0303 74 30 1.1.-14.2. 7 500 09.0763 ex 0303 74 30 15.6.-30.9. 7 500 09.0778 ex 0303 74 30 1.10.-31.12. 15 500 09.0756 0304 20 75 Fillets of herring (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), frozen 67 000 0 ex 0304 90 22 Flaps of herring (butterflies), frozen, for industrial manufacture 09.0758 ex 1605 20 10 Shrimps and prawns, peeled and frozen, in airtight containersf4 2 500 0 - 2..
the following items are inserted in Annex II:
Order No CN codes TARIC codes ‘09.0752 ex 0303 50 00 0303 50 00 20 09.0754 ex 0303 74 30 0303 74 30 11
0303 74 30 91
09.0756 ex 0304 90 22 0304 90 22 20 09.0758 ex 1605 20 10 1605 20 10 20
1605 20 10 91
09.0760 ex 0303 74 30 0303 74 30 11
0303 74 30 91
09.0763 ex 0303 74 30 0303 74 30 11
0303 74 30 91
09.0778 ex 0303 74 30 0303 74 30 11
0303 74 30 91’