Commission Regulation (EC) No 1718/2002 of 27 September 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 541/2002 concerning the opening of tariff quotas applicable to the importation into the European Community of certain processed agricultural products originating in Switzerland and in Liechtenstein
Date: 2002-09-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Liechtenstein, Switzerland, agricultural product, agro-industry, import, originating product, tariff quota

28.9.2002

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 260/13

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1718/2002

of 27 September 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 541/2002 concerning the opening of tariff quotas applicable to the
importation into the European Community of certain processed agricultural products originating
in Switzerland and in Liechtenstein

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

interpreted as an extension on an annual basis of the
Community tariff quotas. Commission Regulation (EC)
No 541/2002 should therefore be amended so that the
quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 2603/2001 and
not used are included in the Community tariff quotas
opened by Regulation (EC) No 541/2002. Regulation
(EC) No 2603/2001 must also be repealed.

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

(3)

The measures laid down in this Regulation comply with
the opinion of the Management Committee on hori-
zontal questions concerning trade in processed agricul-
tural products not listed in Annex I,

Having regard to Council Decision 2000/239/EC (3) of 13
March 2000 concerning the conclusion of the Agreement in
the form of an exchange of Letters between the European
Community, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of
the other part, on Protocol 2 to the Agreement between the
European Economic Community and the Swiss Confedera-
tion (4), and in particular Article 2 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2603/2001 opened, for
the first three months of the year 2002, the annual
quotas provided for in section III(1) and (3) of the Agree-
ment in the form of an exchange of Letters between the
European Community, of the one part, and the Swiss
Confederation, of the other part, on Protocol 2 to the
Agreement between the European Economic Community
and the Swiss Confederation, hereafter ‘the Agreement’,
approved by Regulation (EEC) No 2840/72 of
the
Council of 19 December 1972 concluding an Agreement
between the European Economic Community and the
Swiss Confederation and adopting provisions for its
implementation and concluding an additional Agreement
concerning the validity, for the Principality of Liechten-
stein, of the Agreement between the European Economic
Community and the Swiss Confederation of 22 July
1972 (5).

(2)

Following a review by the Joint Committee, the two
to the Agreement agreed to extend these
parties
measures until 31 December 2002. Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 541/2002 (6) therefore opened the Commu-
nity tariff quotas pro rata temporis from 1 April to 31
the Agreement should be
December 2002. However,

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 76, 25.3.2000, p. 11.
(4) OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 52.
(5) OJ L 300, 31.12.1972, p. 188.
(6) OJ L 83, 27.3.2002, p. 24.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 541/2002 is amended as follows:

1. Article 1 is amended as follows:

(a) Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1.
The Community tariff quotas for imports origi-
nating in Switzerland and in Liechtenstein listed in the
Annex shall be opened duty-free from 1 January to 31
December 2002.’

(b) The following is added as paragraph 3:

‘3.
The quantities of goods covered by tariff quotas
under Commission Regulation (EC) No 2603/2001 shall
be deducted from the relevant quantities listed in the
Annex to this Regulation.’

2. Article 2a is added as follows:

‘Article 2a

Regulation (EC) No 2603/2001 is repealed.’

3. The Annex is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 27 September 2002.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘ANNEX

Table 1

Serial No

CN code

Description

09.0911

1302 20 10

Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates: dry

09.0912

2101 11 11

Extracts, essences and concentrates with a coffee-based dry matter
content of 95 % or more by weight

09.0913

2101 20 20

Extracts, essences and concentrates of tea or maté

09.0914

2106 90 92

Food preparations/other containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose,
glucose or starch or containing, by weight, less than 1,5 % milk fat,
5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

Volume
(tonnes)

660

2 040

144

1 020

Applicable rate of
duty

Free

Free

Free

Free

Table 2

Serial No

CN code

Description

Volume

Rate of duty
applicable within
the quota

Rate of duty
applicable
outside the quota

09.0916

2202 10 00

ex 2202 90 10
(TARIC Code 10)

Waters,
including mineral waters and aerated
waters, containing added sugar or other sweet-
ening matter or flavoured

Other non-alcoholic beverages, containing sugar

90 750 000
litres

Free

9,1 %’