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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-928/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2006/928",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 928/2006 of 22 June 2006 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards certain new Community tariff quotas bound in GATT",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-928",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 928/2006\nof 22 June 2006\namending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards certain new Community tariff quotas bound in GATT\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of 17 December 1999 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other Community tariff quotas and establishing detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95, and in particular Article 9(1)(b) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nBy Decision 2006/333/EC, the Council has approved the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union.\n(2)\nThe Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America provides for new annual tariff quotas for certain goods.\n(3)\nRegulation (EC) No 32/2000 opened and provided for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations.\n(4)\nTo implement certain new annual tariff quotas for which provision is made in the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters, it is necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 32/2000.\n(5)\nCouncil Regulation (EC) No 711/2006 of 20 March 2006, concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, provides for the application of the new tariff quotas six weeks from the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, therefore this Commission implementing Regulation should apply from the same date.\n(6)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2158/2005 (OJ L 342, 24.12.2005, p. 61)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 1."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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