Commission Regulation (EC) No 2366/2002 of 27 December 2002 opening Community tariff quotas for 2003 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat
Date: 2002-12-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: goat, goatmeat, import, live animal, sheep, sheepmeat, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2366/2002

of 27 December 2002

opening Community tariff quotas for 2003 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 of 19
December 2001 on the common organisation of the market in
sheepmeat and goatmeat (1), and in particular Article 16(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 of
18 September 2000 introducing exceptional
trade
measures for countries and territories participating in or
linked to the European Union's stabilisation and associa-
tion process, amending Regulation (EC) No 2820/98,
and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1763/1999 and (EC)
No 6/2000 (2), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2563/
2000 (3), establishes access to the Community without
quantitative
and with exemption from
customs duties and charges for products originating in
the Republics of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia including Kosovo as
defined by United Nations Security Council Resolution
1244 of 10 June 1999.

restrictions

Council Regulations (EC) No 1151/2002 (4),
(EC) No
(EC) No 1362/2002 (6) and (EC) No
1361/2002 (5),
1408/2002 (7)
to the Community
establish access
without quantitative restrictions and with exemption
from customs duties and charges for products origi-
nating in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Hungary respec-
tively.

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 Council Regula-
(EC) No 2433/2000 (9),
tions (EC) No 2290/2000 (8),
(EC) No 2435/2000 (11) and
(EC) No 2434/2000 (10),
(EC) No 2851/2000 (12) which establish concessions in
the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricul-
tural products and provide for an adjustment, as an
autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricul-

(1) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 3.
(2) OJ L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 295, 23.11.2000, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 170, 29.6.2002, p. 15.
(5) OJ L 198, 27.7.2002, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 198, 27.7.2002, p. 13.
(7) OJ L 205, 2.8.2002, p. 9.
(8) OJ L 262, 17.10.2000, p. 1.
(9) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 1.
(10) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 9.
(11) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 17.
(12) OJ L 332, 28.12.2000, p. 7.

tural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreements
with Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic,
Romania and Poland.

Council Regulation (EC) No 2286/2002 establishes
concessions applicable to agricultural products and
goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
products originating in the African, Caribbean and
Pacific States (ACP States) (13).

Since imports are managed on a calendar-year basis, the
quantities fixed for 2003 are the sum of half of the
quantity for the period 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003
and half of the quantity for the period 1 July 2003 to 30
June 2004.

Community tariff quotas for sheepmeat and goatmeat
should be opened for 2003. The duties and quantities as
referred to in this Regulation have been fixed in accor-
dance with international agreements in force during the
year 2003. Accordingly it is necessary to prepare this
Commission Regulation establishing Community tariff
quotas for 2003 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goat-
meat falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80,
0104 20 90, 0210 99 21, 0210 99 29 and 0204.

A carcasse-weight equivalent needs to be fixed in order
to ensure a proper functioning of the Community tariff
quotas; furthermore, since certain tariff quotas provide
the option of importing either the live animals or their
meat, a conversion factor is required.

Community tariff quotas must be managed in accor-
dance with the rules laid down in Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 1439/95 (14).

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9) With regard to sheepmeat products it

to
establish, at the moment of their submission for import
to the customs authorities, whether these products origi-
nate from domestic sheep or other than domestic sheep.
It is, therefore, appropriate to provide that the document
of origin contains a clarification to this end.

is difficult

(10)

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

(13) OJ L 348, 21.12.2002, p. 5.
(14) OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 7.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

This Regulation opens Community tariff quotas for the sheep-
meat and goatmeat sectors for the period 1 January to 31
December 2003.

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, 0210 99 21,
0210 99 29 and 0204 originating in the countries indicated in
the Annex shall be suspended or reduced in accordance with
the provisions laid down in this Regulation.

Article 3

1.
The quantities of meat, expressed in carcasse-weight
equivalent, falling within CN code 0204 and for which the
customs duty, applicable to imports originating in the specific
supplying countries listed,
is reduced to zero for the period
between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2003 shall be those
laid down for country group No 1 of the Annex.

equivalent,

falling within

The quantities of

live animals and meat expressed as
2.
carcasse-weight
CN codes
0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204 and for which
the customs duty, applicable to imports originating in the
specific supplying countries listed, is reduced to zero for the
period between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2003 shall
be those laid down for country group No 2 of the Annex.

3.
The quantities of meat, expressed in carcasse-weight
equivalent, falling within CN code 0204 and for which the
customs duty, applicable to imports originating in the specific
supplying countries listed,
is reduced to zero for the period
between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2003 shall be those
laid down for country group No 3 of the Annex.

The quantities

equivalent,
0104 10 80,

falling within
0104 20 90,

live animals and meat, expressed in
4.
CN codes
carcasse-weight
0104 10 30,
0210 99 21,
0210 99 29 and 0204 and for which the customs duty, applic-
able to imports originating in the specific supplying countries
listed,
is suspended or reduced as indicated for the period
between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2003 shall be those
laid down for country group No 4 of the Annex.

The quantities of live animals and meat, expressed as
5.
carcasse-weight
CN codes
0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204 and for which

falling within

equivalent,

the customs duty, applicable to imports originating in the
specific supplying countries listed, is suspended or reduced as
indicated for the period between 1 January 2003 and 31
December 2003 shall be those laid down for country group No
5 of the Annex.

Article 4

1.
The tariff quotas provided for in country groups Nos 1
and 2 of the Annex to this Regulation 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 country groups Nos 3, 4
and 5 of the Annex to this Regulation shall be managed in
accordance with the rules laid down in Title II(B) of Regulation
(EC) No 1439/95.

Article 5

1.
The term ‘carcasse-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 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 bone-in meat.

Article 6

The document of origin accompanying sheep meat products
falling under CN codes
ex 0210 99 21 and
ex 0210 99 29 and as referred to under country group No 4
of the Annex, shall, in box No 9, contain an indication if such
products originate from sheep other than domestic sheep.

ex 0204,

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 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

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

SHEEPMEAT AND GOATMEAT COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTAS FOR 2003

(tonnes of carcase-weight equivalent)

Country
group No (1)

CN-codes

1 (*)

0204

Duty

Zero

Order No

Origin

09.4131

Argentina

09.4132

Australia

09.4133

Chile

09.4134

New Zealand

09.4135

Uruguay

09.4136

Iceland

09.4137

Slovenia

2 (*)

0104 10 30
0104 10 80
0104 20 90
0204

Zero

09.4681

Poland

09.4682

Romania (2)

09.4683

Bulgaria

09.4684

Czech Republic

09.4685

Slovakia

3 (**)

0204

Zero

09.4141

Greenland

09.4142

Faeroe Islands

09.4143

Turkey

100 % reduction of
specific duties

09.4146

ACP States

4 (**)

0104 10 30,
ex 0104 10 80 and
ex 0104 20 90

ex 0204,
ex 0210 99 21 and
ex 0210 99 29
other than domestic sheep

only

for

ex 0204,
ex 0210 99 21 and
ex 0210 99 29 for domestic
sheep only

65 % reduction of
specific duties

09.4147

ACP States

5 (**)

0204

0104 10 30
0104 10 80
0104 20 90

Zero

10 %

09.4037

Others (3)

09.4036

Others (3)

(*) Quota management method based on Title II(A) of Regulation (EEC) No 1439/95.
(**) Quota management method based on Title II(B) of Regulation (EEC) No 1439/95.
(1) Article 3 of this Regulation.
(2) Pro memoria annual
(3)
(4) The former amount of 105 tonnes live weight has been converted into carcase weight.

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

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

Volume

23 000

18 650

3 000

226 700

5 800

1 350

50

9 200

8 750

7 000

2 150

4 300

100

20

200

100

500

200

49,35 (4)