2000R2803 — EN — 13.10.2003 — 001.002

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2803/2000

of 14 December 2000

opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 26 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas: (1) Community supplies of certain fishery products currently depend on imports from third countries. It is in the Community's interest to suspend in part or in whole the customs duties for the products in question, within Community tariff quotas of an appropriate volume. In order not to jeopardise the development prospects of this product in the Community and to ensure an adequate supply to satisfy user industries, such quotas should be opened, applying variable customs duties in accordance with the sensitivity of the various products on the Community market. (2) Equal and uninterrupted access to the said quotas should be ensured for all Community importers and the rates laid down for the quotas should be applied without interruption to all imports of the products concerned into all Member States until the quotas have been used up. (3) The decision on the opening of autonomous tariff quotas has to be taken by the Community. However, to ensure the efficiency of a common administration of these quotas, there is no obstacle to authorising the Member States to draw from the quota amount the necessary quantities corresponding to actual imports. However, this method of administration requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and inform the Member States accordingly. (4) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code ( 1 ) codified the management rules for tariff quotas to be used by following the chronological order of the dates of acceptance of the declarations of release for free circulation, Whereas: HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1. The import duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be suspended at the indicated rates for the periods and up to the amounts indicated therein.

2. Imports of the products in question shall not be covered by the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 unless the declared customs value is at least equal to the reference prices fixed, or to be fixed, in accordance with Article 29 of Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the market in fishery and aquaculture products ( 2 ).

Article 2

The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be administered by the Commission in accordance with Articles 308a to 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

Article 3

Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 January 2001.

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

ANNEX



Order No CN code TARIC code Description Annual amount of quota (in tons) Quota duty (%) Quota period 09.2758 ex030270 00 20 Cod livers (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) and fish liver of the species Boreogadus saida, fresh or chilled, for processing () () 300 0 1.1.2001-31.12.2003 09.2759 ex030250 10 20 Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus), excluding livers and roes, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing () () 50 000 0 ►C1 13.10.2003 — 31.12.2003 ◄ ex030250 90 10 ex030360 11 10 ex030360 19 10 ex030360 90 10 09.2760 ►C1 ex030378 11 ◄ ►C1 10 ◄ Hake (Merluccius spp. excluding Merluccius merluccius, Urophycis spp.), frozen, for processing () () 20 000 0 ►C1 13.10.2003 — 31.12.2003 ◄ ►C1 ex030378 12 ◄ ►C1 10 ◄ ►C1 ex030378 13 ◄ ►C1 10 ◄ ►C1 ex030378 19 ◄ ►C1 11 81 ◄ ►C1 ex030378 90 ◄ ►C1 10 ◄ 09.2761 ex030420 91 10 Blue grenadier (Macruronus spp.), frozen fillets and other meat, for processing () () 15 000 0 ►C1 13.10.2003 — 31.12.2003 ◄ ►C1 ex030420 95 ◄ ►C1 41 81 ◄ ►C1 ex030490 97 ◄ ►C1 60 86 ◄ 09.2762 ex030611 10 10 Rock lobster (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.), frozen, for processing () () 1 500 6 ►C1 13.10.2003 — 31.12.2003 ◄ ►C1 ex030611 90 ◄ ►C1 10 ◄ 09.2765 ex030562 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 () () 10 000 0 1.1.2001-31.12.2003 25 29 ex030569 10 10 09.2785 ex030749 59 10 Tubes of squid (Ommastrephes spp. — excluding Ommastrephes sagittatus —, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, for processing () () 11 000 3,5 1.1.2001-31.12.2002 ex030799 11 10 20 000 1.1.2003-31.12.2003 09.2786 ex030749 59 20 Squid (Ommastrephes spp. — excluding Ommastrephes sagittatus —, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen whole, tentacles and fins, for processing () () 500 3 1.1.2001-31.12.2002 ex030799 11 20 1 500 1.1.2003-31.12.2003 09.2788 ex030240 00 10 Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), whole, head included, of a weight exceeding 140 g per piece or flaps of a weight exceeding 80 g per piece ), excluding livers and roes, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing () () 20 000 0 1.11.2001-31.12.2001 1.11.2002-31.12.2002 1.11.2003-31.12.2003 ex030350 00 10 ex030410 97 20 ex030490 22 10 09.2790 ex160414 16 20 Fillets known as ‘loins’ of tunas and skipjack, for processing () () 4 000 6 1.1.2001-31.12.2003 95 09.2792 ex160412 99 10 Herrings, spiced and/or vinegar-cured, in brine, preserved in barrels of at least 70 kg net drained weight, for processing () () 5 000 6 1.1.2001-31.12.2003 09.2794 ex160520 99 45 Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis; cooked and peeled, for processing () () 5 000 6 1.1.2001-31.12.2002 7 000 1.1.2003-31.12.2003 (1) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions. (2) This quota is available for products intended to undergo any operation, unless it is solely for one or more of the following operations: — cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading, — cutting (excluding dicing, filleting, production of flaps or cutting of frozen blocks or splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks), — sampling, sorting, — labelling, — packing, — chilling, — freezing, — deep freezing, — thawing, separation. The quota is not available for products intended, in addition, to undergo treatment (or operations) which gives quota entitlement, where such treatment (or operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The reduction of customs duties shall apply only to fish intended for human consumption.

( 1 ) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1602/2000 (OJ L 188, 26.7.2000, p. 1).

( 2 ) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.