# Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1977 of 11 December 2018 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2019–2020

EU Regulation 2018/1977 · adopted 11 December 2018

Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1977 of 11 December 2018 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2019–2020

## Introductory text

Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1977
of 11 December 2018
opening and providing for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2019–2020
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 31 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1)
Union supplies of certain fishery products currently depend on imports from third countries. In the last 21 years, the Union has become more dependent on imports to meet its consumption of fishery products. In order not to jeopardise the Union production of fishery products and to ensure an adequate supply to the Union processing industry, import duties should be reduced or suspended for a number of fishery products within tariff quotas of an appropriate volume. To guarantee a level playing field for the Union producers, the sensitivity of individual fishery products on the Union market should be taken into consideration.
(2)
Council Regulation (EU) 2015/2265, which was amended by Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1184, opened and provided for the management of autonomous Union tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2016–2018. Given that the period of application of Regulation (EU) 2015/2265 expires on 31 December 2018, a new Regulation providing for tariff quotas should be adopted for the period 2019–2020.
(3)
Equal and uninterrupted access to the tariff quotas provided for in this Regulation should be ensured for all Union importers, and the rates laid down for the tariff quotas should be applied without interruption to all imports of the fishery products concerned into all Member States until the tariff quotas have been used up.
(4)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 provides for a system of tariff-quota management which follows the chronological order of the dates of acceptance of the customs declarations for release for free circulation. The tariff quotas opened by this Regulation should be managed by the Commission and the Member States in accordance with that system.
(5)
It is important to ensure transparency, predictability and legal certainty for all stakeholders. Since the tariff quotas are intended to ensure adequate supply to the Union processing industry, minimum treatment or operation should be required for quota entitlement.
(6)
To ensure the efficiency of a common management of the tariff quotas, Member States should be permitted to draw from the tariff quota amount the necessary quantities corresponding to their actual imports. Since that method of management requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission, the Commission should be able to monitor the rate at which the tariff quotas are used up and should inform the Member States accordingly,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

## 1 

Import duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be reduced or suspended within the tariff quotas at the rates, for the periods and up to the amounts indicated therein.

## 2 

The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation shall be managed in accordance with Articles 49 to 54 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.

## 3 

The tariff quotas shall be subject to end-use customs supervision in accordance with Article 254 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

## 4 

1. The reduction or suspension of import duties shall apply only to products intended for human consumption.
2. The tariff quotas shall not be available for those products whose processing is carried out at retail or catering level.
3. The tariff quotas shall not be available for products intended solely for one or more of the following operations:
cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading;
cutting;
repacking of frozen IQF (individually quick frozen) fillets;
sampling, sorting;
labelling;
packing;
chilling;
freezing;
deep freezing;
glazing;
thawing;
separation.
4. Notwithstanding paragraph 3, the tariff quotas shall be available for products intended for one or more of the following operations:
dicing;
cutting into rings and cutting into strips for materials under CN codes 0307 43 91, 0307 43 92, 0307 43 99;
filleting;
production of flaps;
cutting of frozen blocks;
splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks to obtain individual fillets;
slicing for materials under CN codes ex 0303 66 11, 0303 66 12, 0303 66 13, 0303 66 19, 0303 89 70, 0303 89 90;
subjecting products under CN codes 0306 16 99 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30), 0306 17 92 (TARIC subdivision 20), 0306 17 99 (TARIC subdivision 10), 0306 35 90 (TARIC subdivisions 12, 14, 92 and 93), 0306 36 90 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30), 1605 21 90 (TARIC subdivisions 45, 55 and 62) and 1605 29 00 (TARIC subdivisions 50, 55 and 60) to processing treatment by packaging gases as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
dividing the frozen product or subjecting the frozen product to heat treatment to enable the removal of internal waste material for materials under CN codes 0306 11 10 (TARIC subdivision 10), 0306 11 90 (TARIC subdivision 20) and 0306 31 00 (TARIC subdivision 10).

## 5 

The Commission and the customs authorities of the Member States shall cooperate closely to ensure the proper management and control of the application of this Regulation.

## 6 

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 January 2019 to 31 December 2020.

## Signature

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

## 

Expressed in net weight, unless otherwise stated.
Body of cephalopod or the squid headless and without tentacle, with skin and fins.
This tariff quota (09.2784) is automatically deleted starting from 1 January of the year following that in which the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Vietnam enters into force or is applied provisionally, whichever occurs first.
For TARIC code 1604 32 00 20 this tariff quota applies from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 .
Order No
CN code
TARIC code
Description
Annual amount of quota (tonnes)
Quota duty
Quota period
09.2746
ex 0302 89 90
30
Southern red snapper (Lutjanus purpureus), fresh, chilled, for processing
1 500
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
09.2748
ex 0302 91 00
95
Hard fish roes enclosed in the ovarian membrane, fresh, chilled or frozen, salted or in brine, for processing
5 700
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0303 91 90
91
ex 0305 20 00
30
09.2750
ex 0305 20 00
ex 1604 32 00
35
20
Hard fish roes, washed, cleaned of adherent organs and simply salted or in brine, for the manufacture of caviar substitutes
1 500
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
09.2754
ex 0303 59 10
10
Anchovies (Engraulis anchoita and Engraulis capensis), frozen, for processing
500
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
09.2759
ex 0302 51 10
20
Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, excluding livers and roes, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing
95 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0302 51 90
10
ex 0302 59 10
10
ex 0303 63 10
10
ex 0303 63 30
10
ex 0303 63 90
10
ex 0303 69 10
10
09.2760
ex 0303 66 11
10
Hake (Merluccius spp. excluding Merluccius merluccius, Urophycis spp.), and pink cusk-eel (Genypterus blacodes and Genypterus capensis), frozen, for processing
12 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0303 66 12
10
ex 0303 66 13
10
ex 0303 66 19
11
91
ex 0303 89 70
10
ex 0303 89 90
30
09.2761
ex 0304 79 50
10
Blue grenadier (Macruronus spp.), frozen fillets and other frozen meat, for processing
17 500
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0304 79 90
11
17
ex 0304 95 90
11
17
09.2765
ex 0305 62 00
20
Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, salted or in brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing
3 500
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
25
29
ex 0305 69 10
10
09.2770
ex 0305 63 00
10
Anchovies (Engraulis anchoita), salted or in brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing
2 500
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
09.2772
ex 0304 93 10
10
Surimi, frozen, for processing
60 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0304 94 10
10
ex 0304 95 10
10
ex 0304 99 10
10
09.2774
ex 0304 74 15
10
North Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) and Argentine hake (Southwest Atlantic hake) (Merluccius hubbsi), frozen fillets and other meat, for processing
25 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0304 74 19
10
ex 0304 95 50
10
20
09.2776
ex 0304 71 10
10
Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus macrocephalus), frozen fillets and frozen meat, for processing
50 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0304 71 90
10
ex 0304 95 21
10
ex 0304 95 25
10
09.2777
ex 0303 67 00
10
Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma), frozen, frozen fillets and other frozen meat, for processing
320 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0304 75 00
10
ex 0304 94 90
10
09.2778
ex 0304 83 90
21
Flatfish, frozen fillets and other fish meat (Limanda aspera, Lepidopsetta bilineata, Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus, Limanda ferruginea, Lepidopsetta polyxystra), for processing
10 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0304 99 99
65
09.2785
ex 0307 43 91
10
Pod of squid (Ommastrephes spp. - excluding Todarodes sagittatus (synonym Ommastrephes sagittatus) -, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, with skin and fins, for processing
28 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0307 43 92
10
ex 0307 43 99
21
09.2786
ex 0307 43 91
20
Squid (Ommastrephes spp. - excluding Todarodes sagittatus (synonym Ommastrephes sagittatus) -, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, whole or tentacles and fins, for processing
5 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0307 43 92
20
ex 0307 43 99
29
09.2788
ex 0302 41 00
10
Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), of a weight exceeding 100 g per piece or flaps of a weight exceeding 80 g per piece, excluding livers and roes, for processing
8 000
0 %
1.10.2019-31.12.2019
1.10.2020-31.12.2020
ex 0303 51 00
10
ex 0304 59 50
10
ex 0304 99 23
10
09.2790
ex 1604 14 26
10
Fillets known as ‘loins’ of tunas and skipjack, for processing
30 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 1604 14 36
10
ex 1604 14 46
11
21
92
94
09.2794
ex 1605 21 90
45
Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis , and Pandalus montagui , cooked and peeled, for processing
7 000
0 %
1.1.2019 - 31.12.2020
62
ex 1605 29 00
50
55
09.2798
ex 0306 16 99
20
Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis and Pandalus montagui, in shells, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing
4 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
30
ex 0306 35 90
12
14
92
93
09.2800
ex 1605 21 90
55
Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus jordani, cooked and peeled, for processing
3 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 1605 29 00
60
09.2802
ex 0306 17 92
20
Shrimps and prawns of the species Penaeus vannamei and Penaeus monodon, whether in shell or not, fresh, chilled or frozen, not cooked, for processing
40 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0306 36 90
30
09.2824
ex 0302 52 00
10
Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) fresh, chilled or frozen with heads off, gilled and gutted, for processing
3 500
2,6 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0303 64 00
10
09.2826
ex 0306 17 99
10
Shrimps and prawns of the species Pleoticus muelleri, whether in shell or not, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing
4 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0306 36 90
20
09.2804
ex 1605 40 00
40
Crayfish tails of the species Procambarus clarkii, cooked, for processing
4 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
09.2762
ex 0306 11 10
10
Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.), live, chilled, frozen, for processing
200
6 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0306 11 90
20
ex 0306 31 00
10
09.2784
ex 1605 10 00
21
Crabs of the species ‘King’ (Paralithodes Camchaticus), ‘Hansaki’ (Paralithodes brevipes), ‘Kegani’ (Erimacrus isenbecki), ‘Queen’ and ‘Snow’ (Chionoecetes spp.), ‘Red’ (Geryon quinquedens), ‘Rough stone’ (Neolithodes asperrimus), Lithodes santolla, ‘Mud’ (Scylla serrata), ‘Blue’ (Portunus spp.), simply boiled in water and shelled, whether or not frozen, in immediate packings of a net content of 2 kg or more, for processing
500
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
95
09.2822
ex 0303 11 00
20
Pacific Salmon, headed and gutted, frozen, of the species Oncorhynchus nerka (sockeye salmon (red salmon)) and Oncorhynchus kisutch, for processing
10 000
0 %
1.1.2019-31.12.2020
ex 0303 12 00
20

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Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-1977
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