Commission Regulation (EC) No 2487/2001 of 18 December 2001 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 as regards trade relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Republic of Slovenia
Date: 2001-12-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European Union, Yugoslavia, import policy, originating product, tariff quota, trade relations

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2487/2001

of 18 December 2001

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 as regards trade relations with Bosnia and
Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the
Republic of Slovenia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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) No
1763/1999 and (EC) No 6/2000 (1), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 2563/2000 (2), and in particular Articles 9 and 10
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Council is in the process of concluding a Stabilisa-
tion and Association Agreement between the European
Communities and its Member States of the one part, and
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other
part, which was signed on 9 April 2001. Pending the
completion of the procedure necessary for its entry into
force an Interim Agreement between the European
Community and the former Yugoslav Republic of Mace-
donia covering trade and trade-related provisions was
concluded and entered into force on 1 June 2001.

The Council is in the process of concluding a Stabilisa-
tion and Association Agreement between the European
Communities and its Member States, of the one part,
and the Republic of Croatia of the other part, which was
signed on 29 October 2001. Pending the completion of
the procedure necessary for its entry into force an
Interim Agreement between the European Community
and the Republic of Croatia covering trade and trade-
related provisions was signed on 29 October 2001 and
will be applied as of 1 January 2002.

The Stabilisation and Association Agreements and the
Interim Agreements establish a contractual trade regime
between the European Community and the Republic of
Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
respectively, with bilateral trade concessions which on
the Community side are equivalent to the concessions
applicable within the unilateral autonomous trade meas-
ures under Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000. Moreover,
textiles products originating in the Republic of Croatia
and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, have
been granted unlimited duty-free access and specific
bilateral concessions for fisheries products and ‘baby-
beef’ have been defined.

(5)

(6)

(7)

It is therefore appropriate to amend Regulation (EC) No
2007/2000 to take into account these developments. In
particular, it is appropriate to remove the Republic of
Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
from the list of beneficiaries of the tariff concessions
granted for the same products under the contractual
regimes. In addition, it will be necessary to reduce the
global tariff quota volumes for specific products for
which tariff quotas have been granted under the contrac-
tual regimes.

The Republic of Croatia and the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia will remain a beneficiary of
Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 only in so far as the
Regulation provides for concessions which are more
favourable than the concessions existing under
the
contractual regimes.

Additional Protocols including reciprocal preferential
concessions for certain wines, reciprocal recognition,
protection and control of wine names and reciprocal
recognition, protection and control of designations for
spirits and aromatised drinks are also in the process of
being concluded with the Republic of Croatia (3) the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (4) and the
Republic of Slovenia (5), (hereinafter referred to as ‘Addi-
tional Protocols on wine’), and should apply as of 1
January 2002. Within the Additional Protocols on wine,
individual tariff quotas have been provided out of the
global tariff quota of 545 000 hl opened within Regula-
into the
tion (EC) No 2007/2000,
Community of wine originating in the Republic of
Croatia (45 000 hl), in the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia (300 000 hl) and in the Republic of Slovenia
(48 000 hl).

imports

for

It is therefore appropriate to amend Regulation (EC) No
2007/2000 in order to deduct the volumes of the indi-
vidual tariff quotas from the volume of the global tariff
quota and to specify the conditions for the access to the
remaining volume of the global tariff quota. In particular
the consequence will be that access to the tariff quota
for wine under Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 to the
Republic of Slovenia should be suspended and that
access to the Republic of Croatia and to the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia should be subject to
the prior utilisation of the individual tariff quotas respec-
tively provided for in the Additional Protocols on wine
with these countries.

(1) OJ L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 295, 23.11.2000, p. 1.

(3) Not yet published in the Official Journal.
(4) Not yet published in the Official Journal.
(5) Not yet published in the Official Journal.

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(8)

(9)

The individual tariff quotas provided for certain wines
originating in the Republic of Croatia and in the
Republic of Slovenia will be progressively increased
subject to specific conditions indicated in the Additional
Protocols on wine. In particular, the yearly increase of
the volumes of these individual tariff quotas is subject to
using up a minimum volume of 80 % of the individual
tariff quotas opened within the previous year. Therefore,
the Commission should review the volumes used each
year and should adopt provisions to implement any
necessary adjustment of these volumes for Croatia and
Slovenia, and accordingly, of
tariff quota
applicable under order No 09.1515.

the global

An Agreement on trade in textile products with Bosnia
and Herzegovina which had applied provisionally since
1 March 2001 was signed on 27 June 2001. This agree-
ment established that exports from Bosnia and Herzego-
vina to the Community will be free from quantitative
limits and measures of equivalent effect and put in place
a double-checking system. A similar Agreement, provi-
sionally applied since 1 January 2001, was also signed
with Croatia on 17 May 2001.

which are more favourable than the trade concessions
provided for in the framework of bilateral agreements
between the European Communities and these countries.’

3. In Article 2(2) the terms ‘For Albania, Bosnia and Herzego-
vina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the entitlement to
benefit from the preferential arrangements introduced by
Article 1 shall equally be subject
to their readiness to
engage’ are replaced by the following: ‘Entitlement to benefit
from the preferential arrangements introduced by Article 1
shall also be subject to the readiness of the beneficiary
countries to engage’.

4. In Article 3(1) the terms ‘As regards textile products origin-
ating in the countries or territories referred to in Article 1(1)
of this Regulation’ are replaced by the following ‘As regards
textile products originating in the federal Republic of Yugo-
slavia’.

5. In Article 3(2) the terms ‘when products originate in coun-
tries or territories mentioned in Article 1(1) of this Regula-
tion’ are replaced by the following ‘when products originate
in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’.

(10)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Customs Code
accordance with the opinion of
Committee,

6. Article 4(1) is replaced by the following:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

‘1.
For certain fishery products and for wine originating
in the countries and territories referred to in Article 1, both
listed in Annex I, the customs duties applicable to imports
into the Community shall be suspended during the periods,
at the levels, within the limits of the Community tariff
quotas and under the conditions indicated for each product
and origin set out in that Annex.’

7. In Article 4(2):

Article 1

(a) the amount of ‘22 525’ tonnes in the first and second

subparagraphs is replaced by ‘11 475’ tonnes;

Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 is hereby amended as follows:

(b) points (b) and (c) are deleted.

1. In Article 1(1) the terms ‘originating in the Republics of
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugo-
slav Republic of Macedonia and the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia including Kosovo as defined by UNSC Resolu-
tion 1244 of 10 June 1999’ are replaced by ‘originating in
the Republics of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia including Kosovo as defined
by UNSC Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999’.

2. Article 1(2) is replaced by the following:

‘2.
Products originating in the Republic of Croatia and
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will continue to
benefit from the provisions of this Regulation when so
indicated or for any measures provided in this Regulation

8. Annex I is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regula-

tion.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2002.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 December 2001.

For the Commission

Christopher PATTEN

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

CONCERNING THE TARIFF QUOTAS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 4(1)

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the
products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined, within
the context of his Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to
be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding description taken together.

Quota
volume per
year (1)

120 tonnes

Beneficiaries

Rate of duty

Albania, Bosnia
and Herzegovina,
former Yugoslav Republic of Mace-
donia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
including Kosovo

Exemption

140 tonnes

Albania, Bosnia
and Herzegovina,
former Yugoslav Republic of Mace-
donia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
including Kosovo

Exemption

115 tonnes

Albania, Bosnia
Federal
Republic
including Kosovo

and Herzegovina,
Yugoslavia

of

Exemption

Order No

CN Code

Description

(Salmo

Trout
trutta, Oncorhynchus
mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhyn-
chus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae,
Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus
chilled;
chrysogaster):
frozen; dried,
in brine,
fillets and other fish meat;
smoked;
flours, meals and pellets, fit for human
consumption

salted or

fresh or

live;

live;

fresh or chilled;

Carp:
frozen;
dried, salted or in brine, smoked; fillets
and other fish meat; flours, meals and
pellets, fit for human consumption

live;

fresh or chilled;

Sea bream (Dentex dentex and Pagellus
spp.):
frozen;
dried, salted or in brine, smoked; fillets
and other fish meat; flours, meals and
pellets, fit for human consumption

09.1571

09.1573

09.1575

0301 91 10
0301 91 90
0302 11 10
0302 11 90
0303 21 10
0303 21 90
0304 10 11
ex 0304 10 19
ex 0304 10 91
0304 20 11
ex 0304 20 19
ex 0304 90 10
ex 0305 10 00
ex 0305 30 90
0305 49 45
ex 0305 59 90
ex 0305 69 90

0301 93 00
0302 69 11
0303 79 11
ex 0304 10 19
ex 0304 10 91
ex 0304 20 19
ex 0304 90 10
ex 0305 10 00
ex 0305 30 90
ex 0305 49 80
ex 0305 59 90
ex 0305 69 90

ex 0301 99 90
0302 69 61
0303 79 71
ex 0304 10 38
ex 0304 10 98
ex 0304 20 95
ex 0304 90 97
ex 0305 10 00
ex 0305 30 90
ex 0305 49 80
ex 0305 59 90
ex 0305 69 90

ex 0301 99 90
0302 69 94
ex 0303 77 00
ex 0304 10 38
ex 0304 10 98
ex 0304 20 95
ex 0304 90 97
ex 0305 10 00
ex 0305 30 90
ex 0305 49 80
ex 0305 59 90
ex 0305 69 90

1604 13 11
1604 13 19
ex 1604 20 50

1604 16 00

1604 20 40

09.1577

09.1579

09.1561

09.1515

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Order No

CN Code

Description

Quota
volume per
year (1)

100 tonnes

Beneficiaries

Rate of duty

Albania, Bosnia
Republic
Federal
including Kosovo

and Herzegovina,
Yugoslavia

of

Exemption

labrax):

Sea bass (Dicentrarchus
live;
fresh or chilled; frozen; dried; salted or
in brine, smoked; fillets and other fish
meat; flours, meals and pellets, fit for
human consumption

Prepared or preserved sardines

70 tonnes

Prepared or preserved anchovies

960 tonnes

Albania, Bosnia
Republic
Federal
including Kosovo

and Herzegovina,
Yugoslavia

of

Albania, Bosnia
Federal
Republic
including Kosovo

and Herzegovina,
Yugoslavia

of

6 %

12,5 %

Exemption

fresh grapes, of an actual 152 000 hl (2) Albania, Bosnia
2204 21 79 Wine of
alcoholic
strength by volume not
exceeding 15 % vol, other than spark-
ling wine

and Herzegovina,
Croatia (3), former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia (4), Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia including Kosovo

ex 2204 21 80
2204 21 83
ex 2204 21 84
2204 29 65
ex 2204 29 75
2204 29 83
ex 2204 29 84

(1) One global volume per tariff quota accessible to imports originating in the beneficiaries.
(2) From 1 January 2003, the volume of this global tariff quota shall be reduced if the quota volumes of the individual tariff quotas applicable under order Nos 09.1588 and

09.1548, for certain wines originating in Croatia and in Slovenia are increased.

(3) Access for wine originating in the Republic of Croatia to this global tariff quota, is subject to the prior exhaustion of the individual tariff quotas provided for in the

Additional Protocol on wine concluded with Croatia. These individual tariff quotas are opened under order Nos 09.1588 and 09.1589.

(4) Access for wine originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to this global tariff quota, is subject to the prior exhaustion of the individual tariff quotas
provided for in the Additional Protocol on wine concluded with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. These individual tariff quotas are opened under order Nos
09.1558 and 09.1559.’