Commission Regulation (EC) No 378/2000 of 17 February 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1494/1999 laying down the reduced agricultural components and additional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1999 inclusive to the importation into the Community of goods covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under Europe Agreements
Date: 2000-02-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, Central and Eastern European countries, agricultural product, import, tariff preference, tariff reduction

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 378/2000

of 17 February 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 1494/1999 laying down the reduced agricultural components and
additional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1999 inclusive to the importation into the
Community of goods covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under Europe Agreements

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(6)

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 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1494/1999 (3)
laid
down the reduced agricultural components and addi-
tional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December
1999 inclusive to the importation into the Community
of goods covered by Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under
Europe Agreements.

Table 3 in Annexes I and II to Council Regulation (EC)
No 377/2000 of 14 February 2000 adopting auto-
nomous and transitional measures
concerning the
importation of certain processed agricultural products
originating in Poland and Bulgaria (4)
lays down the
basic amounts to be taken into consideration in calcu-
lating the reduced agricultural components applicable on
importation from these countries from 1 January to 30
June 2000,
identical to those laid down by Council
Regulation (EC) No 27/1999 (5) for the period from 1
July to 31 December 1999.

Regulation (EC) No 377/2000 provides for application
of reduced agricultural components to imports of certain
processed agricultural products, as provided for in draft
Protocol 3 to the Europe Agreement with Bulgaria,
currently awaiting formal adoption.

therefore be
Regulation (EC) No 1494/1999 must
amended in order to extend the reduced agricultural
components and additional duties
for Poland and
Bulgaria until 30 June 2000 and to adapt the reduced
agricultural components and additional duties for certain
processed agricultural products for Bulgaria.

The duties resulting from these measures may not be
higher than the duties resulting from application of the
Common Customs Tariff.

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 309, 19.11.1998, p. 28.
(3) OJ L 173, 9.7.1999, p. 1.
(4) See page 4 of this Official Journal.
(5) OJ L 5, 9.1.1999, p. 7.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1460/96 (6),
as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2495/97 (7), establishes
the detailed rules for implementing the preferential trade
arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from
the processing of agricultural products, as provided for
in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 3448/93,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1494/1999 shall be amended as follows:

1. In Articles 1 and 3 and Annexes I to IV, the date ‘31
December 1999’ shall be replaced by ‘30 June 2000’.

2. In Annex III, Part 1, the following text shall be inserted:

‘CN code

EUR/100 kg

1704 90 30

1704 90 51

1704 90 55

1704 90 61

1704 90 65

1704 90 71

1704 90 75

1704 90 81

1704 90 99

2106 90 10

33,73

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)

35,00’

3. In Annex III, Part 1, the following text shall be deleted:

‘CN code

EUR/100 kg

3302 10 29

(*)’

(6) OJ L 187, 26.7.1996, p. 18.
(7) OJ L 343, 13.12.1997, p. 18.

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4. In Annex IV, Part 1, the following text shall be inserted:

‘CN code

AD S/Z

AD F/M

EUR/100 kg

EUR/100 kg

1704 90 30

13,76

1704 90 51

1704 90 55

1704 90 61

1704 90 65

1704 90 71

1704 90 75

1704 90 81

1704 90 99

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)

(*)’

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January to 30 June 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 February 2000.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission