Commission Regulation (EC) No 2808/2000 of 21 December 2000 opening Community tariff quotas for 2001 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 (EEC) No 3013/89 as regards the import and export of products in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector
Date: 2000-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: derogation from EU law, goat, goatmeat, sheep, sheepmeat, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2808/2000

of 21 December 2000

opening Community tariff quotas for 2001 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 Regula-
tion (EC) No 1439/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89 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) 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 of multilat-
eral 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 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 (3), and in particular
Article 1 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1349/2000 of 19
June 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and
providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with Estonia (4), as amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 2677/2000 (5), and in particular Article 1(3)
thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1727/2000 of 31
July 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and
providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with Hungary (6), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 of 18
September 2000 introducing exceptional trade measures for
countries and territories participating in or linked to the Euro-
pean Union's Stabilisation and Association process, amending
Regulation (EC) No 2820/98, and repealing Regulations (EC)

(1) OJ L 328, 30.12.1995, p. 31.
(2) OJ L 303, 13.11.1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 319, 21.12.1993, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 155, 28.6.2000, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 308, 8.12.2000, p. 7.
(6) OJ L 198, 4.8.2000, p. 6.

No 1763/1999 and (EC) No 6/2000 (7), as amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 2563/2000 (8),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2290/2000 of 9
October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and
providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with Bulgaria (9), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2433/2000 of 17
October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and
providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with the Czech Republic (10), and in
particular Article 1(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2434/2000 of 17
October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and
providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with the Slovak Republic (11), and in
particular Article 1(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2435/2000 of 17
October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and
providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with Romania (12), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2341/2000 of 17
October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and
providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with Latvia (13), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2766/2000 of 14
December 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and
providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with Lithuania (14), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

(7) OJ L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 1.
(8) OJ L 295, 23.11.2000, p. 1.
(9) OJ L 262, 17.10.2000, p. 1.
(10) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 1.
(11) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 9.
(12) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 17.
(13) OJ L 271, 24.10.2000, p. 7.
(14) OJ L 321, 19.12.2000, p. 8.

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Whereas:

from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 for the period 1 January to
31 December 2001.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(EC) No 2435/2000,

Annex A(b) of Regulations (EC) No 1349/2000, (EC) No
1727/2000, (EC) No 2290/2000, (EC) No 2433/2000,
(EC) No 2434/2000,
(EC) No
2341/2000 and (EC) No 2766/2000 lays down the
quantities of certain agricultural products that may be
imported with a total exemption from customs duty
subject to tariff quotas, ceilings or reference quantities
from 1 July 2000.

The tariff quotas have to be opened for 2001 by the
Commission and be managed according to the rules laid
down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 (1),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2534/2000 (2).

A carcase-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
conversion factor is therefore required.

As the imports are managed on a calendar year basis,
the quantities foreseen for 2001 are the sum of half of
the quantity for the period 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001
and half of the quantity for the period 1 July 2001 to 30
June 2002.

0104 10 30,

Accordingly it is necessary to prepare this Regulation
establishing Community tariff quotas
for 2001 for
sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat falling within CN
codes
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 (EEC) No 3013/89 (3),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1589/96 (4), as
regards the import and export of products in the sheep-
meat and goatmeat sector.

0104 10 80,

Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 establishes
access to the Community without quantitative restric-
for products originating in the Republics of
tions
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia. Therefore it is also necessary to
take account of these concessions.

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

Article 2

The customs duties applicable to imports into the Community
of sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat falling within CN
codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204 origin-
ating in the countries indicated in the Annexes and of live
pure-bred breeding goats falling within CN code 0104 20 10
for Poland, 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

1.
The quantities of meat, expressed in carcase-weight
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 2001, shall be those laid down in Part 1 of the
Annex.

2.
The quantities of live animals and meat expressed as
carcase-weight equivalent, falling within CN codes 0104 10 30,
for
0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204 and,
Poland, 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 2001, shall be those laid down in
Part 2 of the Annex.

in addition,

The quantities of live animals, expressed in live weight,
3.
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 2001, shall be those laid down in Part 3 of
the Annex.

4.
The quantities of meat, expressed in carcase-weight
equivalent, falling within CN code 0204 for which the customs
duty, applicable to imports,
the period
between 1 January and 31 December 2001, shall be those laid
down in Part 4 of the Annex.

is suspended for

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

This Regulation opens Community tariff quotas for the sheep-
meat and goatmeat sectors and provides for certain derogations

(1) OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 7.
(2) OJ L 291, 18.11.2000, p. 6.
(3) OJ L 289, 7.10.1989, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 206, 16.8.1996, p. 25.

Article 4

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

2.
The tariff quotas provided for in Article 3(3) and (4) shall
be managed in accordance with the rules laid down in Title IIB
of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95.

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Article 5

Article 6

1.
The term ‘carcase-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 kg of boned mutton or
goatmeat other than kid corresponds to 100 kg of bone-in
mutton or goatmeat other than kid and 60 kg of boned lamb
or kid corresponds to 100 kg of bone-in lamb or kid.

2. Where the option is available under the Association
Agreements between the Community and certain supplier
countries, of allowing imports in the form of live animals or as
meat, 100 kg of live animals shall be considered to be equiva-
lent to 47 kg of meat.

By way of derogation from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95, Title
IIA shall apply mutatis mutandis in respect of the import of
products falling within CN code 0104 20 10 for Poland.

Article 7

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

It shall apply from 1 January to 31 December 2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

PART 1 — QUANTITIES FOR 2001 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(1)

Order No 09.4033

Sheepmeat and goatmeat (tonnes carcase weight equivalent) at zero duty

Argentina

Australia

Chile

New Zealand

Uruguay

Iceland

Slovenia

23 000

18 650

3 000

226 700

5 800

1 350

50

PART 2 — QUANTITIES FOR 2001 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(2)

Order No 09.4575

Sheep and goats,

live animals and/or meat (tonnes carcase weight equivalent) at zero duty

Poland

Romania

Hungary

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Slovakia

9 200

7 350

14 832,5

7 000

2 150

4 300

PART 3 — QUANTITIES FOR 2001 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(3)

Order No 09.4036

Live sheep and goats (tonnes live weight) at duty rate 10 %

Others

105

PART 4 — QUANTITIES FOR 2001 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(4)

Order No 09.4037

Sheepmeat and goatmeat (tonnes carcase weight equivalent) at zero duty

Others
(of which: Greenland 100 tonnes,
Faeroes 20 tonnes, Baltic States (1) —
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — 127,5
tonnes and Turkey 200 tonnes)

647,5

(1) This is a global amount for those three countries.