Commission Regulation (EC) No 2858/2000 of 27 December 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for preserved mushrooms
Date: 2000-12-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, customs regulations, import licence, mushroom-growing, preserved product, tariff quota

28.12.2000

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2858/2000

of 27 December 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 opening and providing for the administration of tariff
quotas for preserved mushrooms

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulations (EC) No 2290/2000 (1),
(EC) No 2435/2000 (2) and 2851/2000 (3), establishing certain
concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain
agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an
autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural
concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with
Bulgaria, Romania and Poland respectively, and in particular
Articles 1(3) thereof,

other hand. Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 should accord-
ingly be amended to strike out any reference to Poland,
the reference in Article 5 relating to licence
except
applications by traditional importers, in order to adapt it
to those new provisions.

(3)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Processed Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 is hereby amended as follows:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 (4), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2493/98 (5), provides
for the administration of the quotas for preserved mush-
rooms allocated to Poland, Romania and Bulgaria in
Annexes II, V and VI respectively 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 transitional
measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreements to take account of the Agree-
ment on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay
Round Multilateral Trade Negotiations (6),
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2435/98 (7).

as

abovementioned tariff

Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 was repealed by Regulation
(EC) No 2851/2000 and replaced by Regulations (EC)
No 2290/2000, (EC) No 2435/2000 and (EC) No 2851/
2000 as regards Bulgaria, Romania and Poland respec-
tively. The
for
preserved mushrooms have been included as they stand
in Regulations (EC) No 2290/2000 and (EC) No 2435/
2000 as regards products originating in Bulgaria and
Romania on the one hand, and they are granted subject
to no limit on quantity by Regulation (EC) No 2851/
2000 as regards products originating in Poland on the

concessions

(1) OJ L 262, 17.10.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 17.
(3) See page 7 of this Official Journal.
(4) OJ L 212, 7.9.1995, p. 16.
(5) OJ L 309, 19.11.1998, p. 38.
(6) OJ L 328, 30.12.1995, p. 31.
(7) OJ L 303, 13.11.1998, p. 1.

1. Article 1 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

The tariff quotas for preserved mushrooms of the
1.
genus Agaricus
by CN codes 0711 90 40,
2003 10 20 and 2003 10 30 set out in Annex I are hereby
opened subject to the rules of application laid down herein.

covered

2.
The rate of duty applicable shall be 12 % ad valorem in
the case of products covered by CN code 0711 90 40 (serial
No 09.4062) and 23 % in the case of products covered by
CN codes 2003 10 20 and 2003 10 30 (serial No 09.4063).
However, a single rate of 8,4 % shall apply where the above
products originate in Bulgaria (serial No 09.4725) or
Romania (serial No 09.4726).’.

2. The word ‘Poland’ is deleted from Article 2(2) and Article

4(1) and (5).

3. The word ‘Poland’

is deleted from Article 10(3).

4. Annex I is replaced by the Annex hereto.

Article 2

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 2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 December 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

ALLOCATION AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2 IN TONNES (NET DRAINED WEIGHT)

Supplier countries

1 January to 31 December
of each year

Bulgaria

Romania

China

Others

Reserve

1 750

500

22 750

3 290

1 000

Total

29 290’