Commission Regulation (EC) No 2364/2002 of 27 December 2002 opening tariff quotas for the year 2003 for imports into the European Community of products originating in the Republic of Poland
Date: 2002-12-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Poland, confectionery product, foodstuff, import, milk product, originating product, processed food product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2364/2002

of 27 December 2002

opening tariff quotas for the year 2003 for imports into the European Community of products
originating in the Republic of Poland

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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

Having regard to Council Decision 2002/63/EC of 23 October
2001 relating to the conclusion of a Protocol for the adaptation
of the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement between the
European Communities and their Member States, of the one
part, and the Republic of Poland, of the other part, to take into
account the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic
of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union
and the results of the agricultural negotiations of the Uruguay
Round, including the improvements of the existing preferential
regime (3), and in particular its Article 2,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Protocol 3 on trade in processed agricultural products,
as amended by the Protocol adjusting the Europe Agree-
ment with the Republic of Poland, provides for the
granting of annual tariff quotas for imports of products
originating in the Republic of Poland.

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 (4), as last amended by Regu

lation (EC) No 444/2002 (5), consolidated the arrange-
ments for managing the tariff quotas to be used in
chronological order of the dates of acceptance of the
declarations for release for free circulation.

(3)

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

The annual quotas for products originating in the Republic of
Poland, set out in the Annex to this Regulation, are hereby
opened from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2003 under the
conditions set out in the said Annex.

Article 2

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 3

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 December 2002.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 27, 30.1.2002, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.

(5) OJ L 68, 12.3.2002, p. 11.

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ANNEX

Serial

CN Code

Description

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and
other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether
or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added
fruit, nuts or cocoa:

Quota for 2003
(tonnes)

Rate of duty appli-
cable (1)

23

RAC

09.5401

ex 0403

0403 10 51
0403 10 53
0403 10 59
0403 10 91
0403 10 93
0403 10 99
0403 90 71
0403 90 73
0403 90 79
0403 90 91
0403 90 93
0403 90 99

09.5403

ex 1704

1704 10
1704 90 30
1704 90 55
1704 90 71
1704 90 75

ex 1704 90 99 (Taric Code 10)

09.5404

ex 1806

1806 10 20
1806 20 10
1806 20 30
1806 20 50
1806 20 70
1806 20 80
1806 20 95
1806 31 00
1806 32 10
1806 32 90
1806 90 11
1806 90 19
1806 90 31
1806 90 39
1806 90 50
1806 90 60
1806 90 70
1806 90 90

09.5405

ex 1902

1902 11 00
1902 19 10
1902 19 90
1902 20 91
1902 20 99
1902 30 10
1902 30 90
1902 40 10
1902 40 90

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not
containing cocoa:

7 180

RAC

Chocolate and other
cocoa:

food preparations containing

5 016

RAC

substances) or otherwise prepared,

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or
such as
other
spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli,
cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:

525

RAC

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Serial

CN Code

Description

09.5407

1903 00 00

09.5408

1905

09.5409

ex 2001

2001 90 40

ex 2004

2004 10 91

ex 2005

2005 20 10

ex 2008

2008 99 91

09.5411

ex 2101

2101 12 98

2101 20 98

09.5413

ex 2101

2101 30 19

2101 30 99

Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch,
in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or similar
forms

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

Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants,
prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid:

Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants
containing 5 % or more by weight of starch

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than
by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products
of heading 2006):

Potatoes other than cooked, in the form of flour, meal
or flakes

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than
by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than prod-
ucts of heading 2006):

Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or flakes

Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise
prepared or preserved, whether or not containing
added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not
elsewhere specified or included:

Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants,
containing 5 % or more by weight of starch

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or
maté and preparations with a basis of these products
or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory
and other
roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts,
essences and concentrates thereof:

Preparations with a basis of extracts, essences or
concentrates of coffee or with a basis of coffee, other
than those of CN code 2101 12 92

Preparations with a basis of tea or maté, other than
those with a basis of extracts, essences and concen-
trates of tea or maté.

Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, tea or
maté and preparations with a basis of these products
or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory
roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts,
and other
essences and concentrates thereof:

Roasted coffee substitutes other than roasted chicory

Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted coffee
substitutes other than roasted chicory

Quota for 2003
(tonnes)

Rate of duty appli-
cable (1)

59

RAC

2 295

RAC

36

RAC

23

RAC

450

RAC

09.5415

ex 2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

675

RAC

2106 90 10

Cheese fondues

(1) RAC = Reduced agricultural components applicable within the quota quantity limits. Imports exceeding these quantities are subject to the agricultural components (AC)

shown in the Common Customs Tariff.