EN Official Journal of the European Union L 341/31

COUNCIL DECISION

of 13 November 2006

on the conclusion of a Protocol amending the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part, on tariff quotas for sugar and sugar products originating in Croatia or in the Community

(2006/882/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133, in conjunction with the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 300(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1) On 28 February 2005 the Council authorised the Commission to enter into negotiations with the Republic of Croatia to amend the preferential arrangements as regards imports of sugar originating in Croatia into the Community under the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part (1), approved by Council and Commission Decision 2005/40/EC, Euratom (2).

(2) The Commission has finalised negotiations for a Protocol amending the Stabilisation and Association Agreement. The said Protocol should therefore be approved.

(3) The measures necessary for the implementation of the Protocol should be adopted by the Commission according to the same procedure as that provided for as regards the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (3),

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The Protocol amending the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part, on tariff quotas for sugar and sugar products originating in Croatia or in the Community (hereinafter referred to as the Protocol) is hereby approved on behalf of the Community.

The text of the Protocol is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to sign the Protocol in order to bind the Community.

Article 3

The Commission shall adopt the detailed rules for implementing the Protocol in accordance with the procedure as laid down in Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006.

Done at Brussels, 13 November 2006. For the Council The President E. TUOMIOJA

(1) OJ L 26, 28.1.2005, p. 3.

(2) OJ L 26, 28.1.2005, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1.

EN Official Journal of the European Union L 341/33

PROTOCOL

amending the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part, on tariff quotas for sugar and sugar products originating in Croatia or in the Community

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Community’,

of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, hereinafter referred to as ‘Croatia’,

of the other part,

Whereas:

(1) The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part, (hereinafter referred to as the SAA) was signed in Luxembourg on 29 October 2001 and entered into force on 1 February 2005.

(2) Negotiations have taken place to alter the preferential arrangements in the SAA with regard to sugar and sugar products originating in Croatia or in the Community.

(3) Appropriate amendments to the SAA should be adopted,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The SAA is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 27 shall be amended as follows: (a) in paragraph 1, the first subparagraph shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. The Community shall abolish the customs duties and charges having equivalent effect on imports of agricultural products originating in Croatia, other than those of heading Nos 0102, 0201, 0202, 1701, 1702 and 2204 of the Combined Nomenclature.’; (b) the following paragraph shall be added: ‘5. Certain trade arrangements to apply to sugar and sugar products under the headings Nos 1701 and 1702 of the Combined Nomenclature are set out in Annex IV(h).’

2. The text set out in the Annex to this Decision shall be added as Annex IV(h).

3. In the table in Annex I to Protocol 3, the following references shall be deleted: ‘1702 50 00 — Chemically pure fructose’, ‘1702 90 10 — Chemically pure maltose’.

Article 2

The Parties shall meet in the second half of 2008 to review the effects of this Protocol.

Article 3

This Protocol shall form an integral part of the SAA.

Article 4

This Protocol shall enter into force on 1 January 2007.

Article 5

This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in the Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish and Croatian languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

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