Council Regulation (EC) No 2822/98 of 21 December 1998 temporarily suspending some or all of the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain fishery products (1999)
Date: 1998-12-21
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: CCT duties, fishery product, free-at-frontier price, reference price, suspension of customs duties

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2822/98

of 21 December 1998

temporarily suspending some or all of the autonomous Common Customs Tariff
duties on certain fishery products (1999)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 28 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas the Community relies at present on imports
from third countries for supplies of certain fishery prod-
ucts; whereas it is in the interest of the Community to
suspend partially or totally the customs duties for these
products; whereas,
in order to avoid endangering the
prospects for developing the production of competitive
products in the Community while ensuring that
the
industries concerned receive the necessary supplies, it is
advisable to adopt these suspension measures only from 1
January to 31 December 1999;

Whereas it is for the Community to decide to suspend
these autonomous duties,

Article 1

1.
From 1 January to 31 December 1999 the auto-
nomous Common Customs Tariff duties on the products
listed in the Annex shall be suspended at the level indi-
cated for each period.

Imports of

these products shall qualify for

2.
the
suspension referred to in paragraph 1 only provided that
the free-at-frontier price laid down by the Member States,
in accordance with Article 22 of Council Regulation
(EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the common
organisation of the market in fishery and aquaculture
products (1), is at least equal to the reference price fixed or
to be fixed by the Community for the products or cat-
egories of products in question.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1998.

For the Council

The President

M. BARTENSTEIN

(1) OJ L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 3318/94 (OJ L 350, 31. 12. 1994, p. 15).

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ANNEX

CN code and TARIC

Description

Rate of
autonomous
duty
(%)

0001

0302 65 20
0303 75 20
ex 0304 10 98 60
ex 0304 90 97 31

0002

ex 0302 69 99 30
ex 0303 79 96 30

Dogfish of the species Squalus acanthias fresh, chilled or frozen

Sturgeons, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing (a) (b)

0003

ex 0302 69 99 40

Lump fish (Cyclopterus lumpus), with roe, fresh or chilled, for processing (a)

Red snapper (Lutjanus purpureus), fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing (a) (c)

Hard fish roes, fresh, chilled or frozen

0004

ex 0302 69 99 50
ex 0303 79 96 40

0005

ex 0302 70 00 11
ex 0302 70 00 31
ex 0302 70 00 41
ex 0302 70 00 91
ex 0303 80 90 10
ex 0303 80 90 19

0006

ex 0303 10 00 10

Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), frozen and headless, for the processing industry
for manufacture into pastes or spreads (a)

0007

ex 0304 20 85 10
ex 0304 90 61 10

Fillets and meat of Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma), in the form of industrial
block, for processing (a) (b)

0008

ex 0305 20 00 11
ex 0305 20 00 18
ex 0305 20 00 20

Hard fish roes, salted or in brine

0009

ex 0306 19 90 10
ex 0306 29 90 10

Krill for processing (a)

0021

ex 1604 11 00 20
ex 1604 20 10 20

Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), for the processing industry for manufacture into
pastes or spreads (a)

0022

ex 1604 30 90 10

Hard fish roes, washed, cleaned of adherent organs and simply salted or in brine, for
processing (a)

0023

ex 1605 10 00 11
ex 1605 10 00 19

(Paralithodes camchaticus),

Crabs of the species ‘King'
(Paralithodes
brevipes), ‘Kegani' (Erimacrus isenbecki), ‘Queen' and ‘Snow' (Chionoecetes spp.), ‘Red'
(Neolithodes asperrimus), Lithodes antarctica,
(Geryon quinquedens), ‘Rough stone'
‘Mud' (Scylla serrata),
(Portunus spp.), simply boiled in water and shelled,
whether or not frozen, in immediate packings of a net content of 2 kg or more

‘Hanasaki'

‘Blue'

0024

ex 1605 10 00 92
ex 1605 10 00 94

Crabs of the species Paralomis granulosa

6

0

0

0

0

0

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

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(a) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions.
(b) The suspension shall apply to fish intended to undergo any operation unless they are intended to undergo exclusively one or more of the following

operations:
— cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading,
— cutting (excluding filleting or cutting of frozen blocks),
— sampling, sorting,
— labelling,
— packing,
— chilling,
— freezing,
— deep freezing,
— thawing, separation.
The suspension is not allowed for products intended, in addition, to undergo treatment (or operations) qualifying for suspension where such treatment (or
operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The suspension of customs duties shall apply only to fish intended for human consumption.

(c) However, the suspension is not allowed where processing is carried out by retail or catering undertakings.