Council Regulation (EC) No 745/1999 of 30 March 1999 opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products
Date: 1999-03-30
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: CCT duties, common organisation of markets, fishery product, import, tariff quota

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 745/1999

of 30 March 1999

opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff
quotas for certain fishery products

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas Community supplies of certain fishery products
currently depend on imports
from third countries;
whereas it is in the Community’s interest to suspend in
part or in whole the customs duties for the products in
question, within Community tariff quotas of an appro-
priate volume; whereas, in order not to jeopardise the
development prospects of
this production in the
Community and to ensure an adequate supply to satisfy
user industries,
is advisable to open those quotas,
applying customs duties varied accordingly to sensitivity
of the different products on the Community market;

it

Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure that all
Community importers have equal and uninterrupted
access to the said quotas and to ensure the uninterrupted
application of the rates laid down for the quotas to all
imports of the products concerned into all Member States
until the quotas have been used up;

Whereas it
is for the Community to decide on the
opening of autonomous tariff quotas; whereas, to ensure
the efficiency of a common administration of
these
quotas, there is no reasonable obstacle to authorising the
Member States to draw from the quota-volumes the
necessary quantities corresponding to actual
imports;
whereas, however, this method of administration requires
close cooperation between the Member States and the
Commission and the latter must in particular be able to
monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and
inform the Member States accordingly;

Community Customs Code (1) codified the management
rules for tariff quotas designed to be used following the
chronological order of dates of customs declarations,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
The import duties on the products listed in the
Annex shall be suspended at the indicated duty rate for
the periods and in the amounts indicated therein.

2.
Imports of the products in question shall not be
covered by the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 unless
the free-at-frontier price, which is determined in accord-
ance with Article 22 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the common organ-
isation of the market in fishery and aquaculture prod-
ucts (2), is at least equal to the reference price fixed, or to
be fixed, by the Community for the products under
consideration of the categories of the products concerned.

Article 2

The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be adminis-
tered by the Commission in accordance with Articles
308a to 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

Article 3

The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.

Article 4

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

It shall apply from 1 April 1999.

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2
July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the

(1) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 46/1999 (OJ L 10, 15.1.1999, p. 1).
(2) OJ L 388, 31.12.1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 3318/94 (OJ L 350, 31.12.1994, p. 15).

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

Done at Brussels, 30 March 1999.

For the Council

The President

K.-H. FUNKE

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ANNEX

CN code

TARIC
code

Description

Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macroce-
phalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida,
excluding livers and roes, presented fresh, chilled or
frozen, for processing (a) (b)

Amount of
quota
(in tonnes)

67 000

Quota
duty
(%)

3

Quota
period

1.4 to
31.12.1999

Order
No

09.2753

09.2756

ex 0302 50 10
ex 0302 50 90
ex 0302 69 35
ex 0303 60 11
ex 0303 60 19
ex 0303 60 90
ex 0303 79 41

ex 0303 60 11
ex 0303 60 19
ex 0303 60 90
ex 0303 79 41

*20
*10
*10
*10
*10
*10
*10

*10
*10
*10
*10

Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macroce-
phalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida,
excluding livers and roes, frozen, for processing (a) (c)

8 000

2,5

1.4 to
31.12.1999

09.2758

ex 0302 70 00

*20

Cod livers (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus
macrocephalus) and fish liver of the species Boreo-
gadus saida, fresh or chilled, for processing (a) (b)

300

0

09.2765

ex 0305 62 00

ex 0305 69 10

09.2773

ex 0306 13 10
ex 0306 23 10

*20
*25
*29
*10

*10
*11
*91

Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macroce-
phalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida,
salted or in brine, but not dried or smoked,
for
processing (a) (b)

8 000

2,5

Shrimps
borealis,
processing (a) (b)

and prawns of
in shell,

the species Pandalus
for

frozen,

fresh, chilled or

12 000

0

09.2779

ex 0304 90 05

*10

Surimi, frozen, for processing (a) (b)

15 000

09.2780

ex 0304 20 91
ex 0304 90 97

09.2785

ex 0307 49 59
ex 0307 99 11

*10
*60

*10
*10

Frozen blue grenadier fillets (Macruronus novaezea-
landiae), and other frozen meat of blue grenadier, for
processing (a) (b)

20 000

Tubes of squid (Ommastrephes spp. (cid:190) excluding
spp.,
Ommastrephes
Sepioteuthis
for
processing (a) (b)

sagittatus (cid:190), Nototodarus

and Illex spp.,

frozen,

spp.

09.2786

ex 0307 49 59
ex 0307 99 11

*20
*20

Squid (Ommastrephes spp. (cid:190) excluding Ommastre-
phes sagittatus (cid:190), Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis
spp.) and Illex spp. frozen whole, tentacles and fins,
for processing (a) (b)

09.2788

ex 0302 40 98
ex 0303 50 98
ex 0304 10 38
ex 0304 10 96
ex 0304 20 75
ex 0304 90 27

*10
*10
*30
*10
*10
*10

Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), whole,
fillets (6 to 12 pieces/kg)
(3 to 7 pieces/kg) or
including flaps, exluding livers and roes,
fresh,
chilled or frozen, for processing (a) (b)

3,5

3,5

11 000

3,5

500

20 000

3

0

1.4 to
31.12.1999

1.4 to
31.12.1999

1.4.1999 to
31.3.2000

1.4 to
31.12.1999

1.4 to
31.12.1999

1.4 to
31.12.1999

1.4 to
31.12.1999

1.11 to
31.12.1999

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Order
No

CN code

TARIC
code

Description

09.2790

ex 1604 14 16
ex 1604 14 16

09.2792

ex 1604 12 99

*20
*95

*10

Fillets known as ‘loins' of tunas and skipjack, for
processing (a) (b)

Herrings, spiced/vinegar cured, in brine, preserved in
barrels of at
for
processing (a) (b)

least 70 kg net drained weight

09.2794

ex 1605 20 99

*45

Shrimps
borealis; cooked and peeled for processing (a) (b)

the species Pandalus

and prawns of

Amount of
quota
(in tonnes)

Quota
duty
(%)

1 200

4 000

4 000

6

6

6

Quota
period

1.4 to
31.12.1999

1.4 to
31.12.1999

1.4 to
31.12.1999

(a) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions.

(b) This quota is available for products intended to undergo any operation, unless it is solely for one or more of the following operations:

(cid:190) cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading,
(cid:190) cutting (excluding dicing, filleting, production of flaps or cutting of frozen blocks),
(cid:190) sampling, sorting,
(cid:190) labelling,
(cid:190) packing,
(cid:190) chilling,
(cid:190) freezing,
(cid:190) deep freezing,
(cid:190) thawing, separation.

The quota is not available for products intended, in addition, to undergo treatment (or operations) which gives quota entitlement, where such treatment (or
operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The reduction of customs duties shall apply only to fish intended for human consumption.

(c) The quota is available for products destined exclusively for salting and drying.