Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/50 of 14 January 2015 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the introduction of new tariff quotas of the Union bound in GATT for chocolate, sugar confectionery and biscuits
EU Regulation 2015/50 · Adopted 14 January 2015 · Extends to United Kingdom
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/50
of 14 January 2015
amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the introduction of new tariff quotas of the Union bound in GATT for chocolate, sugar confectionery and biscuits
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having 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 1808/95f1, and in particular the first indent of Article 9(1)(b) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 opened and provided for the administration of Union tariff quotas bound in GATT designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations.
(2)
By Decision 2014/116/EUf2, the Council approved the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the People's Republic of China 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 Republic of Bulgaria and Romania in the course of their accession to the European Union.
(3)
The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters provides for new annual tariff quotas for chocolate, sugar confectionery and biscuits. To implement those new annual tariff quotas it is necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 32/2000.
(4)
As the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters entered into force on 1 July 2014, the relevant part of this Regulation should apply from the same date.
(5)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,
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Footnotes
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Council Decision 2014/116/EU of 28 January 2014 on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the People's Republic of China 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 Republic of Bulgaria and Romania in the course of their accession to the European Union (OJ L 64, 4.3.2014, p. 1).
Contents
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Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 July 2014.
Signature
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 14 January 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker
The following rows are inserted in the table in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000:
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09.0052 1806 20
1806 31
1806 32
1806 90
Chocolate From 1 July to 30 June 2 026 tonnes 38 09.0053 1704 Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa From 1 July to 30 June 2 289 tonnes 35 09.0054 1905 90 Other than crispbread, gingerbread and the like, sweet biscuits, waffles and wafers, rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products From 1 July to 30 June 409 tonnes 40 ’