Council Regulation (EC) No 655/2000 of 27 March 2000 opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products
Date: 2000-03-27
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: crustacean, fishery product, import, sea fish, security of supply, tariff quota

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 655/2000

of 27 March 2000

opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain
fishery products

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and
inform the Member States accordingly.

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

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(4)

(5)

Whereas:

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 (1), has codified the manage-
ment
tariff quotas designed to be used
following the chronological order of dates of customs
declarations.

rules

for

Having regard to the economic importance of this Regu-
lation for European industry it is necessary to invoke the
ground of urgency referred to in point I(3) of the Addi-
tional Protocol to the Treaty of Amsterdam on the role
of national parliaments in the European Union,

(1)

(2)

(3)

supplies of

Community
certain fishery products
currently depend on imports from third countries. It is
in the Community's interest to suspend in part or in
whole the customs duties for the products in question,
within Community tariff quotas of an appropriate
volume.
In order not to jeopardise the development
prospects of this production in the Community and to
ensure an adequate supply to satisfy user industries, it is
advisable to open those quotas, applying customs duties
varied accordingly to sensitivity of the different products
on the Community market.

It is necessary, in particular, to ensure for all Community
importers equal and uninterrupted access to the said
quotas and to ensure the uninterrupted application of
the rates laid down for the quotas to all imports of the
products concerned into all Member States until the
quotas have been used up.

The decision for the opening of autonomous tariff
quotas should be taken by the Community. To ensure
the efficiency of a common administration of
these
quotas, there is no reasonable obstacle to authorising the
Member States to draw from the quota-volumes the
necessary quantities corresponding to actual
imports.
However, this method of administration requires close
cooperation between the Member States
and the
Commission and the latter must in particular be able to

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
The import duties on the goods listed in the Annex shall
be suspended at the indicated duty rate for the periods and in
the amounts indicated therein.

2.
Imports of the products in question shall not be covered
by the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 unless the free-at-fron-
tier price, which is determined by the Member States in accord-
ance 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 (2), is at least equal
to the reference price fixed, or to be fixed, by the Community
for the products under consideration of the categories of the
products concerned.

Article 2

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

Article 3

The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely
to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.

(1) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regula-

tion (EC) No 1662/99 (OJ L 197, 29.7.1999, p. 25).

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

tion (EC) No 3318/94 (OJ L 350, 31.12.1994, p. 15).

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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 April 2000.

Article 4

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

Done at Brussels, 27 March 2000.

For the Council

The President

F. GOMES

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Order No

CN code

Taric code

Description

Amount of
quota
(tonnes)

Quota duty
(%)

Quota period

90 000

3

1.4. to 31.12.2000

Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)
and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, excluding
livers and roes, presented fresh, chilled or frozen, for
processing (a) (b)

09.2753

09.2756

ex 0302 50 10
ex 0302 50 90
ex 0302 69 35
ex 0303 60 11
ex 0303 60 19
ex 0303 60 90
ex 0303 79 41

ex 0303 60 11
ex 0303 60 19
ex 0303 60 90
ex 0303 79 41

20
10
10
10
10
10
10

10
10
10
10

Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)
and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, excluding
livers and roes, frozen, for processing (a) (c)

8 000

09.2758

ex 0302 70 00

20

Cod livers (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macroce-
phalus) and fish liver of the species Boreogadus saida,
fresh or chilled, for processing (a) (b)

09.2765

ex 0305 62 00

ex 0305 69 10

09.2773

ex 0306 13 10
ex 0306 23 10

20
25
29
10

10
11
91

Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)
and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, salted or in
brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing (a) (b)

Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis,
in shell, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing (a) (b)

12 000

300

8 000

3

0

0

0

1.4. to 31.12.2000

1.4. to 31.12.2000

1.4. to 31.12.2000

1.4. to 31.12.2000

09.2779

ex 0304 90 05

10

Surimi, frozen, for processing (a) (b)

16 000

3,5

1.4. to 31.12.2000

09.2780

ex 0304 20 91
ex 0304 90 97

09.2785

ex 0307 49 59
ex 0307 99 11

10
60

10
10

09.2786

ex 0307 49 59
ex 0307 99 11

20
20

Frozen blue grenadier fillets Macruronus novaezealan-
diae) and other frozen meat of blue grenadier, for
processing (a) (b)

20 000

3,5

1.4. to 31.12.2000

squid (Ommastrephes

Tubes of
excluding
Ommastrephes sagittatus, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis
spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, for processing (a) (b)

spp.

Squid (Ommastrephes spp. excluding Ommastrephes
sagittatus, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex
for
spp.,
processing (a) (b)

frozen whole,

tentacles

fins,

and

11 000

3,5

1.4. to 31.12.2000

500

3

1.4. to 31.12.2000

09.2788

ex 0302 40 00
ex 0303 50 00
ex 0304 10 97
ex 0304 90 22

10
10
20
10

Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), whole,
head included, of a weight exceeding 140 g per
piece or flaps of a weight exceeding 80 g per piece),
excluding livers and roes, fresh, chilled or frozen, for
processing (a) (b)

20 000

0

1.11. to 31.12.2000

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Description

09.2790

ex 1604 14 16

09.2792

ex 1604 12 99

20
95

10

Fillets known as ‘loins’ of tunas and skipjack, for
processing (a) (b)

Herrings, spiced/vinegar cured, in brine, preserved in
barrels of at least 70 kg net drained weight, for
processing (a) (b)

Amount of
quota
(tonnes)

4 000

5 000

09.2794

ex 1605 20 99

45

Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis,
cooked and peeled, for processing (a) (b)

5 000

Quota duty
(%)

Quota period

6

6

6

1.4. to 31.12.2000

1.4. to 31.12.2000

1.4. to 31.12.2000

(a) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions.

(b) This quota is available for products intended to undergo any operation, unless it is solely for one or more of the following operations:

— cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading,
— cutting (excluding dicing, filleting, production of flaps or cutting of frozen blocks or splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks),
— sampling, sorting,
— labelling,
— packing,
— chilling,
— freezing,
— deep freezing,
— thawing, separation.

The quota is not available for products intended, in addition, to undergo treatment (or operations) which gives quota entitlement, where such treatment (or operations) is
(are) carried out at retail or catering level. The reduction of customs duties shall apply only to fish intended for human consumption.

(c) The quota is available for products destined exclusively for salting and drying.