Commission Regulation (EC) No 1700/2001 of 28 August 2001 on the suspension and opening of tariff quotas applicable to the importation into the European Community of certain processed agricultural products originating in Estonia, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1477/2000
Date: 2001-08-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Estonia, agro-industry, import, originating product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1700/2001

of 28 August 2001

on the suspension and opening of tariff quotas applicable to the importation into the European
Community of certain processed agricultural products originating in Estonia, and amending Regula-
tion (EC) No 1477/2000

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(5)

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 Regulation (EC) No 2580/
2000 (2), and in particular Article 7(2) thereof,

Having regard to Protocol 2 to the Agreement establishing an
association between the European Communities and their
Member States, acting within the framework of the European
Union, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the
other part (3), as amended by the Protocol adjusting trade
aspects of the Europe Agreement (4), and in particular Articles
1 and 2 thereof,

Whereas:

and additional duties laid down by Regulation (EC) No
1477/2000.

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 (8), as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 993/2001 (9), codifies the management of
tariff quotas intended to be used in the chronological
order of
the dates of acceptance of declarations for
release for free circulation.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for horizontal questions concerning trade in
processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2906/2000 (5) opened,
for
the tariff quotas applicable to
Community imports of products originating in Estonia.

the year 2001,

The application of tariff quotas opened by Annex I to Regula-
tion (EC) No 2906/2000 shall be suspended as from 1
September 2001.

lays
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1477/2000 (6)
down the reduced agricultural components and addi-
tional duties applicable as from 1 July 2000 to the
importation into the Community of goods covered by
Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under Europe Agreements.

The Community tariff quotas for goods originating in Estonia,
set out
in the Annex to this Regulation, shall be opened
annually from 1 January to 31 December. For the year 2001,
they shall be opened from 1 September 2001 to 31 December
2001.

Decision No 6/2001 of
the EU-Estonia Association
Council of 18 July 2001 (7) amended Protocol 2 to the
Europe Agreement. The said Decision amends
the
volume of tariff quotas and the system for calculating
the reduced agricultural components and additional
duties. The Decision enters into force on 1 September
2001.

It is appropriate to suspend the application of quotas
opened by Regulation (EC) No 2906/2000 and to open
the new annual quotas provided for in Annex I
to
Protocol 2. As these annual quotas cannot be opened
before 1 September 2001, it is appropriate to reduce
them, for the year 2001, in proportion to the period
which has already elapsed. At the same time, it is appro-
priate to abolish the reduced agricultural components

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 68, 9.3.1998, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 29, 3.2.1999, p. 11.
(5) OJ L 336, 30.12.2000, p. 54.
(6) OJ L 171, 11.7.2000, p. 44.
(7) Not yet published in the Official Journal.

Article 2

The sixth paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1477/
2000 and Annexes XIII and XIV thereto are deleted.

Article 3

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

Article 4

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

It shall apply from 1 September 2001.

(8) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.
(9) OJ L 141, 28.5.2001, p. 1.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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

Done at Brussels, 28 August 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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Preferential tariff quotas for Community imports of goods originating in Estonia

ANNEX

Rate of duty applicable within the limits of the quota: 0 %.

Order
number

CN code

(1)

(2)

09.6551

0403 10 51 to
0403 10 99

09.6552

1518 00

1518 00 91

Description

(3)

Yoghurts, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated,
sulphurised, blown, polymerised or otherwise chemically modified, but not
including those of heading No 1516; non-food mixes or preparations of animal
or vegetable fats or oils or the fractions of various fats or oils included in this
chapter, not elsewhere specified or included:
– Other:
– – Animal or vegetable fats or oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehy-
drated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised or otherwise chemically modified,
but not including those of heading No 1516

1518 00 95 to
1518 00 99

– – Other

Quota volume, per annum
(tonnes)

2001

2002

2003

(4)

67

(5)

(6)

200

200

200

600

600

09.6553

1704

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate) not containing cocoa:

140

640

860

09.6517

ex 1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa, but not including CN
code 1806 10 15

267

900

1 000

1901

food preparations of

flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not
Malt extract;
containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on
a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of
goods of headings Nos 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less
than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere
specified or included:

09.6554

1901 20 00

– Mixes and doughs for the preparation of baker's wares of heading No 1905

50

150

150

09.6555

1901 90

– Other food preparations

167

500

500

09.6519

1905

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other baker's wares, whether or not containing
cocoa, communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical
use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

100

450

600

09.6556

2102

2102 10
2102 30 00

Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not
including vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking powders:
– Active yeasts
– Prepared baking powders

217

950

1 250

2103

Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings;
mustard flower and meals and prepared mustard:

09.6557

2103 20 00

– Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

167

600

700

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Order
number

CN code

(1)

(2)

09.6558

2103 90 90

– – Other

Description

(3)

09.6559

2104

Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food prep-
arations

09.6523

2105 00

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

09.6560

2106 10

– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances

09.6561

2106 90
2106 90 20

– Other:
– – Compound alcoholic preparations, other than those based on odorifeous

2106 90 92

substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages

– – Other:
– – – containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing
less than 1,5 % milk fat by weight, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose
or starch

2106 90 98

– – – Other

Quota volume, per annum
(tonnes)

2001

2002

2003

(4)

(5)

(6)

50

50

33

200

150

250

150

150

200

3

15

200

600

25

600

09.6541

2202 90 91 to
2202 90 99

Other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading
No 2009, containing fats or oils derived from products of headings Nos 0401 to
0404

267

800

800

09.6562

2402 20
2402 20 10
2402 20 90

– Cigarettes containing tobacco:
– – containing cloves
– – Other

33

100

100