# Commission Regulation (EC) No 973/2006 of 29 June 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 1831/96 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound under GATT for certain fruit and vegetables and processed fruit and vegetable products from 1996, Annex II

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

‘ANNEX II
The goods descriptions in this Annex are those appearing in the Combined Nomenclature (OJ L 286, 28.10.2005), supplemented where necessary by a TARIC code.
For the purposes of this Annex:
(a) “high quality sweet oranges” shall mean oranges similar in variety characteristics, ripe, firm and of good shape, of at least good colour, of flexible unrotted structure, and without unhealed cracks in the skin, hard or dry skin, exanthemata, growth tears, contusions (except as caused by normal handling and packaging), damage caused by dryness or humidity, broad or emergent hispids, folds, scars, oil stains, scales, sun marks, dirt or other foreign matter, disease, insects or damage caused by machinery, movement or otherwise; a maximum of 15 % of the fruit in each consignment may not meet this specification, this percentage including at most 5 % of defects amounting to serious damage, and the latter percentage including at most 0,5 % rot;
(b) “citrus hybrids known as “minneolas” ” shall mean citrus hybrids of the Minneola variety (Citrus paradisi Macf. CV Duncan and Citrus reticulate blanca CV Dancy);
(c) “Frozen concentrated orange juice, of a Brix value not exceeding 50” shall mean orange juice with a density of no more than 1,229 grams per cubic centimetre at 20°C.’
Order No.
CN code TARIC subheading
Description
Quota period
Quota volume(tonnes)
Duty rate(%)
09.0025
0805 10 20 11
0805 10 20 92
0805 10 20 96
High quality sweet oranges, fresh
1 February to 30 April
20 000
10
09.0027
0805 20 90 05
0805 20 90 91
Citrus hybrids known as “minneolas”
1 February to 30 April
15 000
2
09.0033
2009 11 99 11
2009 11 99 19
Frozen concentrated orange juice, without added sugar, of a Brix value not exceeding 50, in containers of two litres or less, containing no blood orange juice
1 January to 31 December
1 500
13

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/973/annex/II (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-973/annex-II
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