Commission Regulation (EC) No 811/2002 of 16 May 2002 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 to take account of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2031/2001 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2002-05-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, common customs tariff, paper, tariff exemption, tariff nomenclature

17.5.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 132/13

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 811/2002

of 16 May 2002

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 to take account of Commission Regulation (EC) No
2031/2001 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of 17
December 1999 opening and providing for the administration
of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other
Community tariff quotas and establishing detailed rules for
adjusting the quotas, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1808/
95 (1), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2511/
2001 (2), and in particular Article 9(1)(a) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2031/2001 of 6
August 2001 amending Annex I to Council Regulation
(EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomencla-
ture and on the Common Customs Tariff (3) made
changes
to the nomenclature for certain products
covered by Annexes I, II and IV to Regulation (EC) No
32/2000. Those Annexes should therefore be adjusted
accordingly.

Under Regulation (EC) No 2031/2001, newsprint (CN
code 4801 00 00) has been exempt from customs duties
since 1 January 2002. Tariff quotas for this product have
therefore become superfluous and should be closed as at
31 December 2001.

The above adjustments should apply from the date of
entry into force of Regulation (EC) No 2031/2001.

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

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 is amended as follows:

1. Annex I is amended as follows:

(a) serial Nos 09.0015 and 09.0017 are deleted;

(b) for serial No 09.0091, in the seventh column, the figure

‘20’

is deleted.

2. In Annex II, for serial No 09.2501, in the second column,
CN code ‘6002’ is replaced by CN codes ‘6002 to 6006’.

‘ex 6110 10 35’

3. In Annex IV, for serial No 09.0106, in the second column,
CN code
replaced by CN code
‘ex 6110 12 10’, CN code ‘ex 6110 10 38’ is replaced by
CN code ‘ex 6110 19 10’, CN code ‘ex 6110 10 95’
is
replaced by CN code ‘ex 6110 12 90’ and CN code
‘ex 6110 10 98’ is replaced by CN code ‘ex 6110 19 90’.

is

‘ex 6110 10 35’

In Annex IV, for serial No 09.0106, in the list of TARIC
codes, for serial No 09.0106, in the column ‘CN code’, CN
code
the CN code
‘ex 6110 12 10’, CN code ‘ex 6110 10 38’ is replaced by
CN code ‘ex 6110 19 10’, CN code ‘ex 6110 10 95’
is
replaced by CN code ‘ex 6110 12 90’ and CN code
‘ex 6110 10 98’ is replaced by CN code ‘ex 6110 19 90’.

replaced by

is

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2002.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 May 2002.

For the Commission

Frederik BOLKESTEIN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 339, 21.12.2001, p. 17.
(3) OJ L 279, 23.10.2001, p. 1.