Protocol

adjusting the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Poland, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the Parties on new mutual agricultural concessions

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, hereinafter referred to as "the Community",

of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND,

of the other part,

Whereas:

(1) The Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Poland, of the other part (hereinafter referred to as "the Europe Agreement") was signed in Brussels on 16 December 1991 and entered into force on 1 February 1994(1).

(2) Article 20(5) of the Europe Agreement provides that the Community and the Republic of Poland are to examine in the Association Council, product by product and on an orderly and reciprocal basis, the possibility of granting each other additional agricultural concessions. On this basis negotiations have been undertaken and were concluded between the parties.

(3) For the first time, improvements to the preferential agricultural regime of the Europe Agreement were provided for in the Protocol adjusting trade aspects of the Europe Agreement(2) to take account of the last enlargement of the Community and the outcome of the GATT Uruguay Round.

(4) Two further rounds of negotiations for improved agricultural trade concessions were concluded on 26 September 2000 and 23 December 2002.

(5) From the one side, the Council decided, by virtue of Regulation (EC) No 2851/2000(3), to apply on a provisional basis, as from 1 January 2001, the European Community concessions resulting from the 2000 round of negotiations and from the other side the Government of Poland took legislative provisions to apply, as from the same date of 1 January 2001, the equivalent Polish concessions (Ordinance No 1253/2000, No 1273/2000 and No 1274/2000(4)).

(6) The abovementioned concessions will be supplemented and replaced on the date of entry into force of this Protocol by the concessions provided for herein,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The arrangements for import into the Community applicable to certain agricultural products originating in Poland as set out in Annex A(a) and A(b) and the arrangements for import into Poland applicable to certain agricultural products originating in the Community as set out in Annex B(a) and B(b) to this Protocol shall replace those set out in Annexes VIII and IX as referred to in Article 20(2) and 20(4) to the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Poland, of the other part.

Article 2

The Annexes to this Protocol shall form an integral part thereof. This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Europe Agreement.

Article 3

This Protocol shall be approved by the Community and the Republic of Poland in accordance with their own procedures. The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary measures to implement this Protocol.

The Contracting Parties shall notify each other of the accomplishment of the corresponding procedures according to the first paragraph hereof.

Article 4

This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following the Contracting Parties' notification of the accomplishment of the corresponding procedures according to Article 3.

Quantities of goods subject to tariff quotas and released for free circulation as from 1 July 2002 under the concessions provided for in Annex A(b) to Regulation (EC) No 2851/2000 shall be fully counted against the quantities provided for in Annex A(b) to the attached Protocol, except for quantities for which import licences were issued before 1 July 2002.

Similarly, quantities of goods subject to tariff quotas and released for free circulation as from 1 July 2002 or 1 January 2003 under the concessions provided for in Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 24 September 2002(5) and Regulation of the Minister of Economy of 17 December 2002(6) shall be fully counted against the quantities provided for in Annex B(b) to the attached Protocol, except for quantities for which import licences were issued before 1 July 2002 or 1 January 2003.

Article 5

This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Polish languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

Hecho en Bruselas, el treinta y uno de marzo del dos mil tres./Udfærdiget i Bruxelles den enogtredivte marts to tusind og tre./Geschehen zu Brüssel am einunddreißigsten März zweitausendunddrei./Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις τριάντα μία Μαρτίου δύο χιλιάδες τρία./Done at Brussels on the thirty-first day of March in the year two thousand and three./Fait à Bruxelles, le trente et un mars deux mille trois./Fatto a Bruxelles, addì trentuno marzo duemilatre./Gedaan te Brussel, de eenendertigste maart tweeduizenddrie./Feito em Bruxelas, em trinta e um de Março de dois mil e três./Tehty Brysselissä kolmantenakymmenentenäensimmäisenä päivänä maaliskuuta vuonna kaksituhattakolme./Som skedde i Bryssel den trettioförsta mars tjugohundratre./Sporzadzono w Brukseli dnia trzydziestego pierwszego marca dwa tysiace trzeciego roku.

Por la Comunidad Europea/For Det Europæiske Fællesskab/Für die Europäische Gemeinschaft/Για την Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα/For the European Community/Pour la Communauté européenne/Per la Comunità europea/Voor de Europese Gemeenschap/Pela Comunidade Europeia/Euroopan yhteisön puolesta/På Europeiska gemenskapens vägnar

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(1) OJ L 348, 31.12.1993, p. 2.

(2) OJ L 27, 30.1.2002, p. 2.

(3) OJ L 332, 28.12.2000, p. 7.

(4) Published in the Polish Official Journals 119/2000, 28.12.2000 and 120/2000, 29.12.2000.

(5) Published in the Polish Official Journal 157, 24.9.2002, position 1310, p. 10111.

(6) Published in the Polish Official Journal 227, 23.12.2002, position 1897, p. 14323 and position 1898, p. 14335.

ANNEX A(a)

Customs duties on imports applicable in the Community to products originating in Poland and listed below shall be abolished

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(1) As defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1832/2002 of 1 August 2002, amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 290, 28.10.2002, p. 1).

ANNEX A(b)

Imports into the Community of the following products originating in Poland shall be subject to the concessions set out below

(MFN = Most Favoured Nation duty)

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Appendix to Annex A(b)

Minimum import price arrangement for certain soft fruit for processing

1. Minimum import prices are fixed as follows for the following products for processing originating in Poland:

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2. The minimum import prices, as set out in point 1, will be respected on a consignment by consignment basis. In the case of a customs declaration value being lower than the minimum import price, a countervailing duty will be charged equal to the difference between the minimum import price and the customs declaration value.

3. If the import prices of a given product covered by this Appendix show a trend suggesting that the prices could go below the level of the minimum import prices in the immediate future, the European Commission will inform the Polish authorities in order to enable them to correct the situation.

4. At the request of either the Community or Poland, the Association Committee shall examine the functioning of the system or the revision of the level of the minimum import prices. If appropriate, the Association Committee shall take the necessary decisions.

5. To encourage and promote the development of trade and for the mutual benefit of all parties concerned, a consultation meeting will be organised three months before the beginning of each marketing year in the European Community. This consultation meeting will take place between the European Commission and the interested European producers' organisations for the products concerned, of the one part, and the authorities', producers' and exporters' organisations of all the associated exporting countries, of the other part.

During this consultation meeting, the market situation for soft fruit including, in particular, forecasts for production, stock situation, price evolution and possible market development, as well as possibilities to adapt supply to demand, will be discussed.

ANNEX B(a)

Customs duties on imports applicable in Poland to products originating in the Community and listed below shall be abolished

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(1) As defined by the Polish Customs Tariff - Annex to Council of Ministers Regulation of 17 December 2002 (Dz.U. No. 226 item 1885, 23 December 2002).

ANNEX B(b)

Imports into Poland of the following products originating in the Community shall be subject to the concessions set out below

(MFN = Most favoured nation duty)

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