Commission Regulation (EC) No 2709/1999 of 17 December 1999 on opening Community tariff quotas for 2000 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat falling within CN codes 01041030, 01041080, 01042010, 01042090 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: 1999-12-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: goat, goatmeat, sheep, sheepmeat, tariff quota, trading operation

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2709/1999

of 17 December 1999

on opening Community tariff quotas for 2000 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

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 autonomous and trans-
itional 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 negotiations (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,

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 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,

(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.

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 autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Agreements on free trade and trade-related matters with
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to take account of the Agreement
on agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round multilat-
eral trade negotiations (10), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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;
the Europe
Agreements concluded between the Community and the
countries of Central Europe allow additional preferential
access to the Community market.

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.

The tariff quotas have to be opened for 2000 by the
Commission and be managed according to the rules laid
down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 (12),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 344/1999 (13).

A carcass-weight equivalent needs to be fixed in order to
ensure a proper functioning of the tariff quotas; further-
more, certain tariff quotas provide the option of
importing either the live animals or their meat; a conver-
sion factor is therefore required.

(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.
(12) OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 7.
(13) OJ L 43, 17.2.1999, p. 6.

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(5)

Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 provided in particular, as
an autonomous transitional measure, for a reduction in
duty and increases in certain import quotas from the
Associated Countries of Eastern Europe; 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; it is necessary to derogate for 2000 from some
of the implementing provisions laid down by Regulation
(EC) No 1439/95.

(6)

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 sheep-
meat and goatmeat sectors and provides for certain derogations
from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 for the period 1 January to
31 December 2000.

Article 2

sheepmeat

and goatmeat

The customs duties applicable to imports into the Community
of
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 carcass-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 2000, shall be those laid down in Annex I.

2.
The quantities of live animals and meat expressed as
carcass-weight equivalent, falling within CN codes 0104 10 30,
0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204 and,
for
Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria
falling within CN code 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 2000, shall be those laid down in Annex II.

in addition,

3.
The quantities of 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
originating in specific supplying countries, is reduced to duty
rate zero for the period between 1 January and 31 December
2000, shall be those laid down in Annex III.

4.
The quantities of 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 2000, shall be those laid down in Annex IV,
Part A.

5.
The quantities of meat, expressed in carcass-weight
equivalent, falling within CN code 0204 for which the customs
duty, applicable to imports,
the period
between 1 January and 31 December 2000, shall be those laid
down in Annex IV, Part B.

is suspended for

Article 4

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

2.
The tariff quotas provided for in Article 3(4) and (5) 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 carcass-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 kilo-
grams of bone-in mutton or goatmeat 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 agree-
ments 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 considered to be equivalent
to 47 kilograms of meat.

Article 6

The derogations from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 are as
follows:

1. Title II A 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 CN
code 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:

‘4.
Import licences issued in respect of the quantities
referred to in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1440/95 and
in subsequent annual tariff quota regulations shall bear in
box 24 at least one of the following entries:
— Derecho limitado a 0 [aplicación del anexo II del Regla-
mento (CE) no 1440/95 y de posteriores Reglamentos
por
los que se establecen contingentes arancelarios
anuales]

— Told nedsat til 0 (jf. bilag II til

1440/95 og efterfølgende
toldkontingenter)

forordning (EF) nr.
forordninger om årlige

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

— ∆ασµός περιοριζόµενος στο µηδέν [εφαρµογή του παρα-
ρτήµατος II του κανονισµού (ΕΚ) αριθ. 1440/95 και των
µεταγενέστερων κανονισµών σχετικά µε την ετήσια δασµο-
λογική ποσόστωση]

— Duty limited to zero (application of Annex II to Regula-
tariff

tion (EC) No 1440/95 and subsequent annual
quota regulations)

— Droit de douane nul [application de l'annexe II du règle-
ment (CE) no 1440/95 et des règlements ultérieurs sur
les contingents tarifaires]

— Dazio limitato a zero [applicazione dell'allegato II del
regolamento (CE) n. 1440/95 e dei successivi regola-
menti relativi ai contingenti tariffari annuali]

— Invoerrecht beperkt tot nul (toepassing van bijlage II bij
Verordening (EG) nr. 1440/95 en van de latere verorde-

ningen tot vaststelling van de jaarlijkse tariefcontin-
genten)

— Direito limitado a zero [aplicação do anexo II do Regula-
mento (CE) n.o 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 tariffi-
kiintiöitä koskevien asetusten soveltaminen)

— 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 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

QUANTITIES FOR 2000 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(1)

Order No 09.4033

Sheepmeat and goatmeat, at zero duty

Argentina

Australia

Chile

New Zealand

Uruguay

Iceland

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

Slovenia

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

23 000

18 650

3 000

226 700

5 800

1 350

850

450

50

1 750

ANNEX II

QUANTITIES FOR 2000 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(2)

Duty rate zero

Poland

Romania (1)

Hungary

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Live animals

—

2 415 (2)

—

—

—

Meat

—

367,5 (3)

—

—

—

—

Live animals and/or meat (2)

9 200

—

14 072,5

5 550

2 125

4 250

(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 2000 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(3)

Order No 09.4035

Live sheep and goats (tonnes live weight) Duty rate zero

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

215

ANNEX IV

A. QUANTITIES FOR 2000 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(4)

Order No 09.4036

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

Others

105

B. QUANTITIES FOR 2000 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(5)

Order No 09.4037

Sheep and goatmeat (tonnes CWE). Duty rate zero.

Others

642,5

(of which Greenland 100 tonnes, Faeroes 20 tonnes,
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 122,5 tonnes and
Turkey 200 tonnes).