Commission Regulation (EC) No 2565/2001 of 27 December 2001 opening Community tariff quotas for 2002 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat and derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95
Date: 2001-12-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: goat, goatmeat, import licence, sheep, sheepmeat, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2565/2001

of 27 December 2001

opening Community tariff quotas for 2002 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat and
derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 of 3
November 1998 on the common organisation of the market in
sheepmeat and goatmeat (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
1669/2000 (2), and in particular Article 17(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 (3), as amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 2677/2000 (4), 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 (5), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

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 (6), 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 (7), 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 (8), 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

(1) OJ L 312, 20.11.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 155, 28.6.2000, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 308, 8.12.2000, p. 7.
(5) OJ L 198, 4.8.2000, p. 6.
(6) OJ L 262, 17.10.2000, p. 1.
(7) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 1.
(8) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 9.

providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with Romania (9), 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 (10), 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 (11), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2851/2000 of 22
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 the Republic of Poland and
repealing Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 (12), and in particular
Article 1(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The quantities of certain agricultural products that may
be imported from certain countries with a total exemp-
tion from customs duty subject to tariff quotas, ceilings
or reference quantities are laid down in Regulations (EC)
No 1349/2000,
(EC) No 2290/
(EC) No 1727/2000,
2000, (EC) No 2433/2000, (EC) No 2434/2000, (EC) No
2435/2000,
(EC) No 2341/2000 and (EC) No 2766/
2000 from 1 July 2000 and in Annex A(b) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2851/2000 from 1 January 2001.

The Commission must open tariff quotas for sheepmeat
and goatmeat for 2002. Those quotas must subsequently
be managed in accordance with the rules laid down in
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 of 26 June
1995 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 (13), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 272/2001 (14).

(9) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 17.
(10) OJ L 271, 24.10.2000, p. 7.
(11) OJ L 321, 19.12.2000, p. 8.
(12) OJ L 332, 28.12.2000, p. 7.
(13) OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 7.
(14) OJ L 41, 10.2.2001, p. 3.

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(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

A carcass-weight equivalent needs to be fixed in order to
ensure a proper functioning of the tariff quotas. Further-
more, since certain tariff quotas provide the option of
importing either the live animals or their meat, a conver-
sion factor is required.

Since imports are managed on a calendar-year basis, the
quantities fixed for 2002 are the sum of half of the
quantity for the period 1 July 2001 to 30 June 2002
and half of the quantity for the period 1 July 2002 to 30
June 2003.

Accordingly it is necessary to prepare this Commission
Regulation establishing Community tariff quotas for
2002 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat falling
within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90
and 0204.

Following difficulties in the sheep sector in Uruguay due
to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and in order
to avoid a disruption in the supplies of this country to
the European Community, provision should be made to
derogate from Article 11(1) and Article 13(1) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 1439/95 and to allow, on an exceptional
basis, the extension of the validity until 25 January 2002
for the documents of origin and the import licences
issued pursuant
to Commission Regulation (EC) No
2808/2000 of 21 December 2000 opening Community
tariff quotas for 2001 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and
goatmeat
0104 10 30,
0104 10 80, 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 Regu-
lation (EEC) No 3013/89 as regards the import and
export of products in the sheepmeat and goatmeat
sector (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 272/2001.

falling within CN codes

(7)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

suspended or reduced in accordance with the provisions laid
down in this Regulation.

Article 3

1.
The quantities of meat, expressed in carcass-weight
equivalent, falling within CN code 0204 and for which the
customs duty, applicable to imports originating in specific
supplying countries,
is suspended for the period between 1
January 2002 and 31 December 2002, shall be those laid down
in Part 1 of the Annex.

The quantities of live animals and meat expressed as
2.
carcass-weight equivalent, falling within CN codes 0104 10 30,
0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204 and for which the customs
duty, applicable to imports originating in specific supplying
countries, is reduced to zero for the period between 1 January
2002 and 31 December 2002, shall be those laid down in Part
2 of the Annex.

3.
The quantities of live animals, expressed in live weight,
falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80 and
0104 20 90 and for which the customs duty, applicable to
imports, is reduced to 10 % ad valorem for the period between
1 January 2002 and 31 December 2002, shall be those laid
down in Part 3 of the Annex.

4.
The quantities of meat, expressed in carcass-weight
equivalent, falling within CN code 0204 and for which the
customs duty, applicable to imports,
is suspended for the
period between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2002, shall
be those laid down in Part 4 of the Annex.

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 II
A 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 II B
of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95.

Article 1

Article 5

This Regulation opens Community tariff quotas for the sheep-
meat and goatmeat sectors for the period 1 January to 31
December 2002.

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-
indicated in the Annex shall be
ating in the countries

(1) OJ L 326, 22.12.2000, p. 12.

1.
The term ‘carcass-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 kilograms of boned
mutton or goatmeat other than kid corresponds to 100 kilo-
grams of bone-in mutton or goatmeat other than kid and 60
kilograms of boned lamb or kid corresponds to 100 kilograms
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 kilograms of live animals shall be considered to be
equivalent to 47 kilograms of meat.

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Article 6

Notwithstanding Article 11(1) and Article 13(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 the documents of origin
and import licences issued pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2808/2000 for quantities imported from
Uruguay, which have not yet expired at the date of entry into force of this Regulation shall be valid until 25
January 2002.

Article 7

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 to 31 December 2002. However, Article 6 shall apply from the date of entry
into force of this Regulation.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 December 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

SHEEPMEAT AND GOATMEAT TARIFF QUOTAS FOR 2002

PART 1 — QUANTITIES FOR 2002 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(1) — ORDER No 09.4033

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

CN code

0204

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 2002 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(2) — ORDER No 09.4575

Sheep and goats,

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

CN code

0104 10 30
0104 10 80
0104 20 90
0204

Poland

Romania (1)

Hungary (2)

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Slovakia

9 200

8 050

16 247,5

7 000

2 150

4 300

(1) Pro memory annual
(2) Pro memory annual

increase = 700 tonnes (Regulation (EC) No 2435/2000).
increase = 1 415 tonnes (Regulation (EC) No 1727/2000).

PART 3 — QUANTITIES FOR 2002 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(3) — ORDER No 09.4036

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

CN code

0104 10 30
0104 10 80
0104 20 90

Others

49,35 (1)

(1) The former amount of 105 tonnes live weight has been converted into carcass weight.

PART 4 — QUANTITIES FOR 2002 REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(4) — ORDER No 09.4037

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

CN code

0204

Others (of which Greenland 100 tonnes, Faeroes 20 tonnes, Baltic States (1)
— Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — 132,5 tonnes, Turkey 200 tonnes and
others (2) 200 tonnes).

652,5

(1) This is a global amount for those three countries. Pro memory annual increase = 5 tonnes (Regulations (EC) No 2341/2000, (EC) No

2677/2000 and (EC) No 2766/2000).

(2) ‘Others’ stands here for all origins excluding the countries mentioned in the current table.