Commission Regulation (EC) No 2631/1999 of 13 December 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 2508/97 as regards the detailed rules for the application to milk and milk products of the schemes provided for in the Europe Agreement between the Community and the Republic of Lithuania
Date: 1999-12-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Lithuania, agreement (EU), liberalisation of trade, milk, milk product

14. 12. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 321/13

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2631/1999

of 13 December 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 2508/97 as regards the detailed rules for the application to milk and
milk products of the schemes provided for in the Europe Agreement between the Community and
the Republic of Lithuania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
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 (1), and in particular Article 2(1)
thereof,
Whereas:

the Republic of Austria,

the accession of

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2508/97 (2), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1643/1999 (3),
lays
down, inter alia, the detailed rules for the application to
milk and milk products of the schemes provided for in
the Europe Agreement between the Community and the

Republic of Lithuania. Because of the conclusion of the
referred to in Decision 98/667/EC, which
Protocol
replaces the combined nomenclature code applying to
cheeses originating in Lithuania, the Annex to the Regu-
lation must be amended with effect
from the next
application period for import licences.

(2)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I, part I (Lithuania), of Regulation (EC) No 2508/97 is
replaced by the Annex hereto.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2000.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 13 December 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 321, 30.11.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 345, 16.12.1997, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 195, 28.7.1999, p. 5.

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ANNEX

‘I. Products originating in Lithuania

Serial
No

CN code

Description (1)

Applicable
rate of duty
(% of MFN duty)

09.4554

0402 10 19
0402 21 19

Skimmed-milk powder
Whole milk powder

09.4567

0402 99 11 Milk or cream, condensed, with added

sugar

Butter

09.4556

0405 10 11
0405 10 19

09.4557

0406 90

Cheeses

20

20

20

20

Annual quantity (tonnes)

from 1.7.1997
to 30.6.1998

from 1.7.1998
to 30.6.1999

from 1.7.1999
to 30.6.2000

from
1.7.2000

3 850

4 025

4 200

4 375

240

260

280

300

1 320

1 380

1 440

1 500

1 540

1 610

1 680

1 750’