Commission Regulation (EC) No 1034/98 of 18 May 1998 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 669/97 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas and ceilings and establishing Community surveillance for certain fish and fishery products originating in the Faroe Islands
Date: 1998-05-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Faroes, crustacean, fishing controls, mollusc, sea fish, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1034/98

of 18 May 1998

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 669/97 opening and providing for the
administration of Community tariff quotas and ceilings and establishing
Community surveillance for certain fish and fishery products originating in the
Faroe Islands

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 669/97 of
14 April 1997 opening and providing for the administra-
tion of Community tariff quotas and ceilings, establishing
Community surveillance for certain fish and fishery prod-
ucts originating in the Faroe Islands, defining detailed
provisions for amending and adapting these measures and
repealing Regulation (EC) No 1983/95 (1), and in par-
ticular Articles 5 and 6 thereof,

Whereas Article 36 of the Agreement between the Euro-
pean Community, of the one part and the Government of
Denmark and the Home Government of
the Faroe
Islands, of the other part, signed on 6 December 1996 (2),
provides for the possible abolition of customs duties
applicable to imports into the Community of certain fish
and fishery products listed in Protocol 1 to the said
Agreement;

Whereas Decision No 1/98 of the EC/Denmark-Faroe
Islands Joint Committee (3) extends Community tariff
concessions to certain fishery products;

Whereas abolition is subject to Community tariff quotas
and ceilings; whereas quotas should therefore be opened
and the Community tariff ceiling amended for the prod-
ucts originating in the Faroe Islands indicated respect-
ively in Annexes I and II to this Regulation;

Whereas the preferential rates of duty apply only where
the free-at-frontier price determined by the Member
States in accordance with Article 22 of Council Regula-

tion (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the
common organisation of the market in fishery and aqua-
culture products (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 3318/94 (5), is at least equal to the reference price set,
or to be set, by the Community for the products or
categories of products concerned;

Whereas this Regulation introduces changes made neces-
sary by an amendment to the EC/Denmark-Faroe Islands
Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code
Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
The tariff quotas in Annex I to this Regulation under
order numbers 09.0685 and 09.0687 shall be added to
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 669/97.

2.
The tariff ceiling in Annex II to this Regulation shall
replace that for order number 17.0029 in Annex II to
Regulation (EC) No 669/97.

Article 2

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

It shall apply with effect from 1 May 1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 May 1998.

For the Commission

Mario MONTI

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 101, 18. 4. 1997, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 53, 22. 2. 1997, p. 2.
(3) OJ L 90, 25. 3. 1998, p. 40.

(4) OJ L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 350, 31. 12. 1994, p. 15.

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ANNEX I

Fishery products subject to tariff quotas

Order
No

CN code

TARIC
subdivision

Description of goods

Rate
of duty

Quota volume
(tonnes)
(1)

09.0685

0306

Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled,
frozen, dried, salted or in brine; crustaceans,
in shell,
cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not
chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and
pellets of crustaceans, fit for human consumption:

0306 14

ex 0306 14 90

0306 24

ex 0306 24 90

– Frozen:

– – Crabs:

– – – Other:

*10

– – – – Red crabs (Geryon spp.)

– Not frozen:

– – Crabs:

– – – Other:

*10

– – – – Red crabs (Geryon spp.)

09.0687

0307

0307 31

0307 31 10

0307 39

0307 39 10

live,

Molluscs, whether in shell or not,
fresh, chilled,
frozen, dried, salted or in brine; acquatic invertebrates other
than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen,
flours, meals and pellets of
dried, salted or in brine;
acquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans, fit for human
consumption:

– Mussels (Mytilus spp., Perna spp.):

– – Live, fresh or chilled:

– – – Mytilus spp.

– – Other:

– – – Mytilus spp.

50

50

0

0

0

0

(1) Depending on the date of application of this Regulation, the quota volumes for the 1998 calendar year shall be calculated pro rata temporis.

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ANNEX II

Fishery products subject to Community tariff ceilings

Order
No

CN code

TARIC
Subdivision

Description of goods

17.0029

0305

Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not
cooked before or during the smoking process; flours, meals
and pellets of fish, fit for human consumption:

– Dried fish, whether or not salted but not smoked:

0305 59

ex 0305 59 90

–– Other:

––– Other:

Rate
of duty

Volume
(tonnes)

1 400

*10

*20

*30

–––– Of ling (Molva molva)

–––– Of bleu ling (Molva dipterygia dipterygia)

–––– Of tusk (Brosme brosme)

– Fish, salted but not dried or smoked and fish in brine:

0305 69 90

––– Other

0

0

0

0