Commission Regulation (EC) No 2582/1999 of 7 December 1999 opening tariff quotas for the year 2000 for imports into the European Community of products originating in Estonia and Lithuania
Date: 1999-12-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Estonia, Lithuania, import, originating product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2582/1999

of 7 December 1999

opening tariff quotas for the year 2000 for imports into the European Community of products
originating in Estonia and Lithuania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6
December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable
to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
products (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2491/98 (2), and in particular Article 7(2) thereof,

Having regard to Council Decision 1999/86/EC of 18 May
1998 on the conclusion of a Protocol adjusting trade aspects of
the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the
European Communities and their Member States, of the one
part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part, to take
account of
the
Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the Euro-
pean Union and the outcome of the Uruguay Round nego-
tiations on agriculture, including improvements to the existing
preferential arrangements (3), and in particular Articles 1 and 5
of that Protocol,

the Republic of Austria,

the accession of

Having regard to Council Decision 98/677/EC of 18 May 1998
on the conclusion of a Protocol adjusting trade aspects of the
Europe Agreement establishing an association between the
European Communities and their Member States, of the one
part, and the Republic of Lithuania, of the other part, to take
account of
the
Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the Euro-
pean Union and the outcome of the Uruguay Round nego-
tiations on agriculture, including improvements to the existing
preferential arrangements (4), and in particular Articles 2 and 6
of that Protocol,

the Republic of Austria,

the accession of

Protocol 2 on trade in processed agricultural products,
as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Europe Agree-
ment with the Republic of Lithuania, provides for the
granting of annual tariff quotas for imports of products
originating in Lithuania;

(3)

(4)

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
Community Customs Code (5), as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 1662/1999 (6), consolidated the arrange-
ments for managing the tariff quotas to be used in
chronological order of the dates of acceptance of the
declarations for release for free circulation;

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Commitee for horizontal questions concerning trade in
processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The annual quotas for products originating in Estonia and
Lithuania set out
in Annexes I and II respectively to this
Regulation are hereby opened from 1 January 2000 to 31
in the said
December 2000 under the conditions set out
Annexes.

Article 2

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

Whereas:

(1)

Protocol 2 on trade in processed agricultural products,
as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Europe Agree-
ment with the Republic of Estonia, provides for the
granting of annual tariff quotas for imports of products
originating in Estonia;

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 309, 19.11.1998, p. 28.
(3) OJ L 29, 3.2.1999, p. 9.
(4) OJ L 321, 30.11.1998, p. 1.

Article 3

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

It shall apply with effect from 1 January 2000.

(5) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 197, 29.7.1999, p. 25.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 December 1999.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission

ANNEX I

ESTONIA

Serial No

CN code

Description

09.6515

1704 10 11
1704 10 19

1704 90 71
1704 90 75

09.6517

ex 1806

09.6519

1905

Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated,
containing less than 60 % by weight of
sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as
sucrose)
Boiled sweets, whether or not filled
Toffees, caramels and similar sweets

and other

food preprations
Chocolate
containing cocoa other than those of CN
code 1806 10 15

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other
bakers' wares, whether or not containing
cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of
a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use,
sealing wafers, rice paper and similar prod-
ucts

Quota for 2000
(tonnes)

Rate of duty
applicable (1)

210

0 + RAC

700

0 + RAC

150

0 + RAC

09.6521

2102 10 39

Bakers' yeast, other than dried

2 800

0 + RAC

09.6523

2105 00

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or
not containing cocoa

15

0 + RAC

09.6541

2202 90 91
2202 90 95
2202 90 99

Non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit
or vegetable juices of CN code 2009,
containing products of CN codes 0401 to
0404 or fat obtained from products of CN
codes 0401 to 0404

780

0 + RAC

09.6534

2402 20 90

Cigarettes
containing cloves

containing

tobacco but not

70

31,5 % (2)

(1) RAC = reduced agricultural components (calculated in accordance with the basic amounts set out in Protocol 2 to the Agreement)
applicable within the quantitative limits of the quotas. Such reduced agricultural components are subject to the maximum duty laid down
in the Common Customs Tariff,

if any.

(2) From 1.7.2000: 28,8 %.

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ANNEX II

LITHUANIA

Serial No

CN code

Description

09.6501

1704 90 71
1704 90 75

Boiled sweets, whether or not filled
Toffees, caramels and similar sweets

09.6503

1806 90

and other

Chocolate
food preparations
containing cocoa falling within CN codes
1806 90 11 to 1806 90 90

Quota for 2000
(tonnes)

Rate of duty
applicable (1)

560

700

0 + RAC

0 + RAC

09.6534

2402 20 90

Cigarettes
containing cloves

containing

tobacco but not

56

31,5 % (2)

(1) RAC = reduced agricultural components (calculated in accordance with the basic amounts set out in Protocol 2 to the Agreement)
applicable within the quantitative limits of the quotas. Such reduced agricultural components are subject to the maximum duty laid down
in the Common Customs Tariff,

if any.

(2) From 1.7.2000: 28,8 %.