Commission Regulation (EC) No 1406/98 of 1 July 1998 repealing the measures set out in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 703/98 suspending certain concessions set out in Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for the adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreements to take account of the Agreement on agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations
Date: 1998-07-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agreement (EU), agricultural product, import policy, tariff quota

2. 7. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 188/25

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1406/98

of 1 July 1998

repealing the measures set out in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 703/98
suspending certain concessions set out in Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 estab-
lishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain
agricultural products and providing for the adjustment, as an autonomous and
transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the
Europe Agreements to take account of the Agreement on agriculture concluded
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 703/98 of
17 March 1998 suspending certain concessions set out in
Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 establishing certain conces-
sions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain
agricultural products and providing for the adjustment, as
an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agri-
cultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agree-
ments to take account of the Agreement on agriculture
concluded during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade
negotiations (1), and in particular Article 2 thereof,

Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 (2), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1595/97 (3) establishes
certain concessions in the form of Community tariff
quotas for certain agricultural products and provides for
the adjustment
and transitional
measure of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreements to take account of the Agree-
ment on agriculture concluded during the Uruguay
Round multilateral trade negotiations;

an autonomous

as

Whereas Regulation (EC) No 703/98, in order to protect
the Community’s trade interests after the Czech Republic
increased unilaterally the import duties for certain agri-
cultural products originating in the Community, auto-
nomously suspended in an equivalent way certain of the
concessions set out in Regulation (EC) No 3066/95;

Whereas the Czech Republic has now repealed the
import duties for certain agricultural products, re-estab-
lishing the reciprocity of treatment;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committees concerned,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The measures set out in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No
703/98 are hereby repealed.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 1 July 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 98, 31. 3. 1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 328, 30. 12. 1995, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 216, 8. 8. 1997, p. 1.