Council Regulation (EC) No 2785/1999 of 17 December 1999 temporarily suspending some or all of the autonomous common customs tariff duties on certain fishery products (2000)
Date: 1999-12-17
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: CCT duties, crustacean, fish product, import, sea fish, suspension of customs duties

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2785/1999

of 17 December 1999

temporarily suspending some or all of the autonomous common customs tariff duties on certain
fishery products (2000)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 26 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Community relies at present on imports from third
countries for supplies of certain fishery products; it is in
the interest of the Community to suspend partially or
totally the customs duties for these products; 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 suspen-
sion measures only from 1 January to 31 December
2000;

It is for the Community to decide to suspend these
autonomous duties;

Having regard to the economic importance of this Regu-
lation for European industry and the requirement that it
enter into force by 1 January 2000, it is necessary to
invoke the ground of urgency referred to in point I(3) of
the additional Protocol to the Treaty of Amsterdam on
the role of national parliaments in the European Union,

Article 1

1.
From 1 January to 31 December 2000 the autonomous
common customs tariff duties on the products listed in the
Annex shall be suspended at
indicated for each
product.

the level

2.
Imports of the products in question shall qualify for the
suspension referred to in paragraph 1 only on the condition
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 categories of products in ques-
tion.

Article 2

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

It shall apply with effect from 1 January 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1999.

For the Council

The President

K. HEMILÄ

(1) OJ L 388, 31.12.1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regula-

tion (EEC) No 1891/93 (OJ L 172, 15.7.1993, p. 1).

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ANNEX

CN code & TARIC

Description

0001

ex 0304 10 98 60
ex 0304 90 97 31

Meat of dogfish of the species Squalus acanthias, fresh, chilled or frozen

0002

ex 0302 69 99 30
ex 0303 79 99 30

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 99 20

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 manufac-
ture into pastes or spreads (a)

Rate of
autonomous
duty
(%)

6

0

0

0

0

0

0007

ex 0304 20 85 10
ex 0304 90 61 10

Fillets and meat of Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma),
frozen, for processing (a) (b)

in the form of industrial blocks,

3,5

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)

0022

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)

0023

ex 1604 30 90 10

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

for

0024

ex 1605 10 00 11
ex 1605 10 00 19

‘Kegani’
Crabs of the species ‘King’ (Paralithodes camchaticus),
(Erimacrus isenbecki),
‘Rough
stone’ (Neolithodes asperrimus), Lithodes antarctica, ‘Mud’ (Scylla serrata), ‘Blue’ (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’ (Paralithodes brevipes),
‘Red’ (Geryon quinquedens),

‘Queen’ and ‘Snow’ (Chionoecetes spp.),

0025

ex 1605 10 00 92
ex 1605 10 00 94

Crabs of the species Paralomis granulosa

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 or splitting of frozen interleaved fillet 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.