Commission Regulation (EC) No 2756/98 of 18 December 1998 opening Community tariff quotas for 1999 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 10, 0104 20 90 and 0204 and derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 as regards the import and export of products in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector
Date: 1998-12-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Central and Eastern European countries, association agreement (EU), goatmeat, liberalisation of trade, sheepmeat, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2756/98

of 18 December 1998

opening Community tariff quotas for 1999 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goat-
meat falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 10, 0104 20 90 and
0204 and derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 laying down detailed rules
for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 as regards the import
and export of products in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 of
22 December 1995 establishing certain concessions in the
form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural
products and providing for the adjustment, as an auto-
nomous 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 Nego-
tiations (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2435/
98 (2), and in particular Article 8 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 of
3 November 1998 on the common organisation of the
market in sheepmeat and goatmeat (3), and in particular
Article 17(1) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3491/93 of
13 December 1993 on certain procedures for applying the
Europe Agreement establishing an association between
the European Communities and their Member States, of
the one part, and the Republic of Hungary, of the other
part (4), and in particular Article 1 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3492/93 of
13 December 1993 on certain procedures for applying 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 (5), and in particular Article 1 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3296/94 of
19 December 1994 on certain procedures for applying the
Europe Agreement establishing an association between
the European Communities and their Member States, of
the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the other part (6),
and in particular Article 1 thereof,

the European Communities and their Member States, of
the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part (7),
and in particular Article 1 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3382/94 of
19 December 1994 on certain procedures for applying the
Europe Agreement establishing an association between
the European Communities and their Member States, of
the one part, and Romania, of the other part (8), and in
particular Article 1 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3383/94 of
19 December 1994 on certain procedures for applying the
Europe Agreement establishing an association between
the European Communities and their Member States, of
the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the other
part (9), and in particular Article 1 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1926/96 of
7 October 1996 establishing certain concessions in the
form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural
products and providing for the adjustment, as an auto-
nomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural
concessions provided for in the Agreements on free trade
and trade-related matters with Estonia, Latvia and Lith-
uania, to take account of the Agreement on Agriculture
concluded during the Uruguay Round Multilateral Trade
Negotiations (10), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

Whereas under the Agreement on Agriculture concluded
in the framework of the Uruguay Round of multilateral
trade negotiations (11), the Community has undertaken to
open a non-country-specific tariff quota; whereas the
Europe Agreements concluded between the Community
and the countries of Central Europe allow additional pref-
erential access to the Community market;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3297/94 of
19 December 1994 on certain procedures for applying the
Europe Agreement establishing an association between

Whereas, moreover, the Community has established a
tariff quota for imports of sheepmeat and goatmeat from
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by virtue of Regulation (EC)
No 1926/96;

(1) OJ L 328, 30. 12. 1995, p. 31.
(2) OJ L 303, 13. 11. 1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 312, 20. 11. 1998, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 319, 21. 12. 1993, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 319, 21. 12. 1993, p. 4.
(6) OJ L 341, 30. 12. 1994, p. 14.

(7) OJ L 341, 30. 12. 1994, p. 17.
(8) OJ L 368, 31. 12. 1994, p. 1.
(9) OJ L 368, 31. 12. 1994, p. 5.
(10) OJ L 254, 8. 10. 1996, p. 1.
(11) OJ L 336, 23. 12. 1994, p. 22.

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Whereas the tariff quotas have to be opened for 1999 by
the Commission and be managed according to the rules
laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1439/
95 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1764/
98 (2);

Whereas a carcase-weight equivalent needs to be fixed in
order to ensure a proper functioning of the tariff quotas;
whereas, furthermore, certain tariff quotas provide the
option of importing either the live animals or their meat;
whereas a conversion factor is therefore required;

Whereas Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 provided in partic-
ular, as an autonomous transitional measure, for a reduc-
tion in duty and increases in certain import quotas from
the Associated Countries of Eastern Europe; whereas it
also provided for the importation of pure-bred breeding
goats falling within CN code 0104 20 10 within the tariff
quotas for Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic
and Bulgaria; whereas it is necessary to derogate for 1999
from some of the implementing provisions laid down by
Regulation (EC) No 1439/95;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Sheepmeat and Goatmeat,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

This Regulation opens Community tariff quotas for the
sheepmeat and goatmeat sectors and provides for certain
derogations from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 for the
period 1 January to 31 December 1999.

Article 2

The customs duties applicable to imports
into the
Community of sheepmeat and goatmeat falling within
CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204
originating in the countries indicated in the Annexes and
of live pure-bred breeding goats falling within CN code
0104 20 10 for Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,
the Czech
Republic and Bulgaria shall be suspended or reduced
during the periods, at the levels and within the limits of
the tariff quotas laid down in this Regulation.

Article 3

The quantities of meat, expressed in carcase weight
1.
equivalent, falling within CN code 0204 for which the
customs duty, applicable to imports originating in specific
supplying countries, is suspended for the period between
1 January and 31 December 1999, shall be those laid
down in Annex I.

(1) OJ L 143, 27. 6. 1995, p. 7.
(2) OJ L 223, 11. 8. 1998, p. 4.

The quantities of live animals and meat expressed as
2.
falling within CN codes
carcase weight equivalent,
in
0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204 and,
the Czech
for Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,
addition,
falling within CN code
and Bulgaria
Republic
0104 20 10, for which the customs duty, applicable to
imports originating in specific supplying countries,
is
reduced to zero for the period between 1 January and 31
December 1999, shall be those laid down in Annex II.

The quantities of

3.
live animals, expressed in live
weight, falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80
and 0104 20 90 for which the customs duty, applicable to
is
imports originating in specific supplying countries,
reduced to 10 % ad valorem for the period between 1
January and 31 December 1999, shall be those laid down
in Annex III.

The quantities of

4.
live animals, expressed in live
weight, falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80
and 0104 20 90 for which the customs duty, applicable to
imports, is reduced to 10 % ad valorem for the period
between 1 January and 31 December 1999, shall be those
laid down in Annex IV, Part A.

5.
The quantities of meat, expressed in carcase weight
equivalent, falling within CN code 0204 for which the
customs duty, applicable to imports, is suspended for the
period between 1 January and 31 December 1999, shall
be those laid down in Annex IV, Part B.

Article 4

The tariff quotas provided for in Article 3(1), (2) and
1.
(3) shall be managed in accordance with the rules laid
down in Title II A of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95.

The tariff quotas provided for in Article 3(4) and (5)
2.
shall be managed in accordance with the rules laid down
in Title II B of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95.

Article 5

1.
The term ‘carcase weight equivalent' referred to in
Article 3 shall be taken to mean the weight of bone-in
meat presented as such, and also boned meat converted
by a coefficient into bone-in weight. For this purpose 55
kilograms of boned mutton or goatmeat other than kid
corresponds to 100 kilograms of bone-in mutton or goat-
meat other than kid and 60 kilograms of boned lamb or
kid corresponds to 100 kilograms of bone-in lamb or kid.

2. Where the option is available under the Association
Agreements between the Community and certain supplier
countries, of allowing imports in the form of live animals
or as meat, 100 kilograms of live animals shall be consid-
ered to be equivalent to 47 kilograms of meat.

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Article 6

The derogations from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 are as
follows:
1. Title IIA shall apply mutatis mutandis in respect of
the import of products
falling within CN code
0104 20 10 for Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech
Republic and Bulgaria;

2. in Article 14(1) the following phrase is inserted after
0104 20 90,
‘and for Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the
Czech Republic and Bulgaria CN code 0104 20 10';

3. Article 14(4) is replaced by the following:

Import licences issued in respect of the quanti-
‘4.
ties referred to in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No
1440/95 and in subsequent annual tariff quota regula-
tions shall bear in box 24 at least one of the following
entries:

— Derecho limitado a 0 [aplicación del Anexo II del
Reglamento (CE) no 1440/95 y de posteriores
Reglamentos por los que se establecen contin-
gentes arancelarios anuales]

— Told nedsat til 0 (jf. bilag II til forordning (EF)
nr. 1440/95 og efterfølgende forordninger om
årlige toldkontingenter)

— Beschränkung des Zollsatzes auf Null (Anwendung
von Anhang II der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1440/95
und der späteren jährlichen Verordnungen über die
Zollkontingente)

— Dasl(cid:149)r peqioqif(cid:149)lemor sto lgd(cid:146)m [evaqloc(cid:147) tou
paqaqt(cid:147)lator II tou jamomislo(cid:151) (EJ) aqih. 1440/95
jai tym letacem(cid:146)steqym jamomisl(cid:150)m swetij(cid:145) le tgm
et(cid:147)sia daslokocij(cid:147) pos(cid:149)stysg]

— Duty limited to zero (application of Annex II of
Regulation (EC) No 1440/95 and subsequent
annual tariff quota regulations)

— Droit de douane nul [application de l’annexe II du
règlement (CE) no 1440/95 et des règlements ultér-
ieurs sur les contingents tarifaires]

— Dazio limitato a zero [applicazione dell’allegato II
del regolamento (CE) n. 1440/95 e dei successivi
regolamenti relativi ai contingenti tariffari annuali]
— Invoerrecht beperkt tot nul (toepassing van bijlage
II bij Verordening (EG) nr. 1440/95 en van de
latere verordeningen tot vaststelling van de jaar-
lijkse tariefcontingenten)

— Direito limitado a zero [aplicação do anexo II do
Regulamento (CE) nº 1440/95 e regulamentos
subsequentes
relativos aos contingentes pautais
anuais]

— Tulli

rajoitettu 0 prosenttiin [asetuksen (EY)
N:o 1440/95 liitteen II ja sen jälkeen annettujen
vuotuisia tariffikiintiöitä koskevien asetusten sovel-
taminen]

— Tull begränsad till noll procent (tillämpning av
bilaga II i förordning (EG) nr 1440/95 i senare
förordningar om årliga tullkvoter)'.

Article 7

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

It shall apply from 1 January to 31 December 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 December 1998.

For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

QUANTITIES FOR 1999 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(1)

Order No 09.4033

Sheepmeat and goatmeat (tonnes in CWE) at zero duty

Argentina
Australia
Chile
New Zealand
Uruguay
Iceland
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Croatia
Slovenia
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

(in tonnes)

23 000
18 650
3 000
226 700
5 800
1 350
850
450
50
1 750

ANNEX II

QUANTITIES FOR 1999 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(2)

(tonnes cwe)

Duty rate zero

Poland

Romania (1)

Hungary

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Live animals

—

Meat

—

(in tonnes)

Live animals
and/or meat

9 200 (2)

2 245 (2)

352,5 (3)

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

13 967,5 (2)

5 469 (2)

2 075 (2)

4 150 (2)

(1) Possibility of converting limited quantities between live animals and meat.
(2) Order No 09.4575.
(3) Order No 09.4576.

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ANNEX III

QUANTITIES FOR 1999 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(3)

Order No 09.4035

Live sheep and goats (tonnes live weight) — Duty rate 10 %

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

215 tonnes

ANNEX IV

A. QUANTITIES FOR 1999 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(4)

Order No 09.4036

Live sheep and goats (tonnes live weight) — Duty rate 10 %

B. QUANTITIES FOR 1999 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(5)

Order No 09.4037

Sheepmeat and goatmeat (tonnes CWE) — Duty rate zero

105 tonnes

637,5 tonnes

Others:

Others:

(of which Greenland 100 tonnes, Faeroes 20 tonnes, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 117,5 tonnes and Turkey
200 tonnes).