Council Regulation (EC) No 1506/98 of 13 July 1998 establishing a concession in the form of a Community tariff quota for Turkey in 1998 in respect of hazelnuts and suspending certain concessions
Date: 1998-07-13
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Türkiye, fruit vegetable, nut, tariff preference, tariff quota

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1506/98

of 13 July 1998

establishing a concession in the form of a Community tariff quota for Turkey in
1998 in respect of hazelnuts and suspending certain concessions

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,

Having regard to the 1994 Act of Accession,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas under the Agreement establishing an Associa-
tion between the European Economic Community and
Turkey (1), hereinafter
referred to as ‘the Agreement',
concessions were granted to that country in respect of
certain agricultural products;

following the accession of

Whereas,
the Republic of
Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of
Sweden, the concession for hazelnuts should be adjusted
to take account of the trade arrangements for that product
which existed between Austria, Finland and Sweden, on
the one hand, and Turkey, on the other;

Whereas, in accordance with Articles 76, 102 and 128 of
the 1994 Act of Accession, the Community is required to
adopt the necessary measures to remedy this situation;
whereas those measures should take the form of auto-
nomous Community tariff quotas covering the conven-
tional preferential tariff concessions applied by Austria,
Finland and Sweden;

tial concessions for Community exports of meat and live
animals to Turkey;

Whereas Turkey has since 1996 been applying a ban on
the import of live animals of the bovine species (CN code
0102) and restrictions on the import of beef (CN codes
0201-0202); whereas those measures, being quantitative
restrictions, are incompatible with the Agreement and
prevent the Community from benefiting from the conces-
sions granted to it under Decision No 1/98; whereas,
despite talks from November 1997 to February 1998
intended to achieve a negotiated solution with Turkey to
the problem, the quantitative restrictions are still in place;

Whereas, as a result of these measures, exports to Turkey
of the products in question originating in the Community
are blocked; whereas, in order to protect the Community’s
commercial
interests, the situation should be counter-
balanced by means of equivalent measures; whereas the
concessions set out in the Annexes to this Regulation
should therefore be suspended,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The autonomous tariff quota appearing in Annex I is
hereby opened for 1998. Articles 4 to 8 of Regulation (EC)
opened
No
Community tariff quotas for certain products originating
in, inter alia, Turkey, shall apply.

the Council

by which

1981/94 (2),

Whereas Decision No 1/98 of the EC-Turkey Association
Council of 25 February 1998 concerning trade arrange-
ments for agricultural products provides for the improve-
ment and consolidation of trade preferences relating to
the import into the Community of agricultural products
originating in Turkey and establishes a series of preferen-

(1) OJ 217, 29. 12. 1964, p. 3687/64.

Article 2

The autonomous tariff quota laid down in Annex I and
the two tariff quotas laid down in Annex II are hereby
suspended.

(2) OJ L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/98 (OJ L 88, 24. 3.
1998, p. 8).

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Article 3

In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 29
of Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28 October
1996 on the common organisation of the market in fruit
and vegetables (1) or, as the case may be,
in the cor-
responding Articles of
the other Regulations on the
common organisation of markets in agricultural products,
or in Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1981/94, the

Commission shall repeal
the measures referred to in
Article 2 once the barriers to preferential exports from the
Community to Turkey have been lifted.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the day
following that of 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, 13 July 1998.

For the Council

The President
W. SCH(cid:154)SSEL

(1) OJ L 297, 21. 11. 1996, p. 1.

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ANNEX I

Serial No

CN code

Description of goods

Size of autonomous
quota
(in tonnes)

Rate of duty ap-
plicable

09.0201

0802 21 00
0802 22 00

Hazelnuts (Corylus spp.), fresh or dried, in
shell or shelled

9 060

Free

ANNEX II

Serial No

CN code

Description of goods

Size of quota per year or per
period indicated
(tonnes)

Rate of duty
applicable

09.0217

ex 0807 11 00 Watermelons, fresh:

14 000

from 16 June to 31 March

09.0207
09.0209

2002 90 31
2002 90 39
2002 90 91
2002 90 99

Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than
by vinegar or acetic acid, other than whole or
in pieces, with a dry matter content of 12 % or
more by weight:

30 000 with a dry matter
content
28-30 % by
weight

of

Free

Free