# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1128 of 9 August 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 opening annual Union tariff quotas for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat

EU Regulation 2018/1128 · adopted 9 August 2018

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1128 of 9 August 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 opening annual Union tariff quotas for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat

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## Introductory text

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1128
of 9 August 2018
amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 opening annual Union tariff quotas for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007, and in particular points (a) and (b) of Article 187 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 provides for the opening of annual Union import tariff quotas for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat, including those originating in Iceland.
(2)
Article 4 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 provides that the tariff quotas opened by that Regulation are to be managed in accordance with Articles 49 to 54 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.
(3)
The European Union and Iceland signed an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters (hereafter ‘the Agreement’) concerning additional trade preferences in agricultural products on 23 March 2017. The signature of the Agreement on behalf of the Union was authorised by Council Decision (EU) 2016/2087 and its conclusion by Council Decision (EU) 2017/1913.
(4)
In accordance with Annex V to the Agreement, the Union amended Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/562. The amendment increased the quantities of the pre-existing duty-free quotas for Iceland for sheepmeat and goatmeat, falling within tariff headings 0204 and 0210, and furthermore opened an annual Union duty-free quota for processed sheepmeat falling within subheading 1602 90.
(5)
The quantities of the sheepmeat and goatmeat quotas managed under Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 are expressed in carcass-weight equivalent, whereas the Agreement provides for the quantities to be expressed in tonnes of products. It is therefore appropriate to provide for the management of the Union tariff quotas which are set out in the Agreement in a separate Regulation to be adopted, in order to ensure a smooth quota management pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council. As a consequence, those tariff quotas should be simultaneously removed from Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 based on Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.
(6)
It is therefore necessary to amend Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 accordingly.
(7)
The new Regulation opening the import tariff quotas for sheepmeat and goatmeat and processed sheepmeat originating in Iceland adopted pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 will apply from 1 September 2018. Therefore, the corresponding amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 should apply from the same date.
(8)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

## 1 

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1354/2011 is amended as follows:
(1) in Article 3(2), point (e) is deleted;
(2) the Annex is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

## 2 

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 September 2018.

## Signature

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 9 August 2018.
For the Commission,
On behalf of the President,
Günther Oettinger
Member of the Commission

## 

‘ANNEX
SHEEPMEAT AND GOATMEAT (in tonnes (t) of carcass weight equivalent) UNION TARIFF QUOTAS
And goatmeat of kid.
And goatmeat other than kid.
Tariff quota for Chile increases by 200 t per annum.
“Others” shall refer to all WTO members, excluding Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, Chile, Greenland and Iceland.
“Erga omnes” shall refer to all origins including the countries mentioned in the current table.
CN codes
“Ad valorem” duty(%)
Specific dutyEUR/100 kg
Order number under “first-come first-served”
Origin
Annual volume in tonnes of carcass weight equivalent
Live animals(Coefficient = 0,47)
Boneless lamb(Coefficient = 1,67)
Boneless mutton/sheep(Coefficient = 1,81)
Bone-in and carcasses(Coefficient = 1,00)
0204
Zero
Zero
—
09.2101
09.2102
09.2011
Argentina
23 000
—
09.2105
09.2106
09.2012
Australia
19 186
—
09.2109
09.2110
09.2013
New Zealand
228 254
—
09.2111
09.2112
09.2014
Uruguay
5 800
—
09.2115
09.2116
09.1922
Chile
8 000
—
09.2121
09.2122
09.0781
Norway
300
—
09.2125
09.2126
09.0693
Greenland
100
—
09.2129
09.2130
09.0690
Faeroes
20
—
09.2131
09.2132
09.0227
Turkey
200
—
09.2171
09.2175
09.2015
Others
200
—
09.2178
09.2179
09.2016
Erga omnes
200
0104 10 30
0104 10 80
0104 20 90
10
Zero
09.2181
—
—
09.2019
Erga omnes
92
’

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