Commission Regulation (EC) No 209/2003 of 3 February 2003 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products originating in Lebanon
Date: 2003-02-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Lebanon, agricultural product, import (EU), originating product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 209/2003

of 3 February 2003

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards Community tariff quotas for certain
agricultural products originating in Lebanon

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 of 9
April 2001 providing for the management of Community tariff
quotas and of reference quantities for products eligible for
preferences by virtue of agreements with certain Mediterranean
countries and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1981/94 and (EC)
No 934/95 (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2335/2002 (2), and in particular Article 5(1)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Pending the completion of the procedure necessary for
the ratification and entry into force of the Euro-Mediter-
ranean Association Agreement between the European
Community and its Member States, of the one part, and
the Republic of Lebanon, of the other part, an Interim
Agreement was concluded on trade and trade-related
matters between the European Community, of the one
part, and the Republic of Lebanon, of the other part,
approved by Council Decision 2002/761/EC (3), herein-
after referred to as ‘the Interim Agreement’, which enters
into force on 1 March 2003.

In the Interim Agreement tariff concessions, at a reduced
or zero-rate of customs duty, within the framework of
Community tariff quotas have been granted at import
into the Community for certain agricultural products
originating in Lebanon.

For the implementation of the tariff quotas provided for
in the Interim Agreement
is necessary to include
Lebanon in Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 and to insert
in that Regulation a list of agricultural products origi-
nating in Lebanon for which tariff quotas are applicable.

it

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(5)

(6)

For the purpose of the calculation of the tariff quotas for
the year 2003, it is stipulated in the Interim Agreement
that the volumes of the tariff quotas, for which the quota
period starts before the date of entry into force of the
Interim Agreement, should be reduced in proportion to
the part of the period which has elapsed before that
date.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 1, the word ‘Lebanon’ is inserted between ‘Syria’
and ‘Israel’;

2. a new Annex VIa is inserted, the text of which is set out in

the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

For the year 2003, the volumes of the Community tariff quotas
for which the quota period starts before the date of entry into
force of
the Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related
matters between the European Community, of the one part,
and the Republic of Lebanon, of
the other part, shall be
reduced in proportion to the part of the period which elapsed
before that date.

Article 3

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

It shall apply from 1 March 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 3 February 2003.

For the Commission

Frederik BOLKESTEIN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 109, 19.4.2001, p. 2.
(2) OJ L 349, 24.12.2002, p. 26.
(3) OJ L 262, 30.9.2002, p. 1.

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ANNEX

‘ ANNEX VIa

LEBANON

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the
products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined, within
the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of the current regulation.
Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application of the CN code and
corresponding description taken together.

Tariff quotas

Order No

CN code

Taric
subdivision

Description of goods

Quota period

09.1171

ex 0701 90 50

New potatoes, fresh or chilled

from 1.1 to
31.5

Quota volume
(in tonnes net
weight)

Quota duty

10 000 (1)

Exemption

09.1172

ex 0701 90 50
ex 0701 90 90

09.1173

ex 0701 90 90

10

10

So-called 'new potatoes', fresh or chilled

New potatoes, and so-called 'new potatoes', fresh or
chilled

from 1.6 to
31.7

20 000 (2)

Exemption

09.1174

0702 00 00

Tomatoes, fresh or chilled

09.1175

0703 20 00

Garlic, fresh or chilled (4)

09.1176

0703 20 00

Garlic, fresh or chilled (4)

from 1.10 to
31.12

from 1.1 to
31.12

from 1.1 to
31.12

from 1.1 to
31.12

20 000 (2)

Exemption

5 000 (1)

Exemption (3)

5 000

Exemption (3)

3 000

40 % of the
MFN customs
duty (3)

09.1177

0709 90 31

fresh or chilled,

Olives,
production of oil (5)

for uses other than the

from 1.1 to
31.12

1 000

Exemption

09.1178

0711 20 11

Provisionally preserved olives, for uses other than
the production of oil (5)

from 1.1 to
31.12

1 000

Exemption

09.1179

ex 0806 10 10

91, 99

Fresh table grapes, except of the variety Emperor
(Vitis vinifera cv.)

09.1180

ex 0806 10 10

91, 99

Fresh table grapes, except of the variety Emperor
(Vitis vinifera cv.)

09.1181

0808 10

Apples, fresh

09.1182

0809 10 00

Apricots, fresh

09.1183

0809 20

Cherries, fresh

09.1184

0809 30

Peaches,

including nectarines, fresh

from 1.10 to
30.4 and
from 1.6 to
11.7

from 1.10 to
30.4 and
from 1.6 a
11.7

from 1.1 to
31.12

from 1.1 to
31.12

from 1.1 to
31.12

from 1.1 to
31.12

6 000

Exemption (3)

4 000

40 % of the
MFN customs
duty (3)

10 000

Exemption (3)

5 000

Exemption (3)

5 000

Exemption (3)

2 000 (6)

Exemption (3)

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Order No

CN code

Taric
subdivision

Description of goods

Quota period

Quota volume
(in tonnes net
weight)

Quota duty

5 000

Exemption (3)

1 000

Exemption

from 1.5 to
31.8

from 1.1 to
31.12

09.1185

0809 40

Plums and sloes, fresh

09.1186

1509 10
1510 00 10

09.1187

2002

Olive oil (7)

Tomatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by
vinegar or acetic acid

from 1.1 to
31.12

1 000

Exemption

(1) From 1 January 2004 on, this quota volume shall be annually increased by 1 000 tonnes.
(2) From 1 January 2004 on, this quota volume shall be annually increased by 2 000 tonnes.
(3) The concession applies only to the ad valorem part of the duty.
(4) Any release into free circulation of garlic is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions (see Articles 9 to 11 of Commission Regulation (EC) No

565/2002 (OJ L 86, 3.4.2002, p. 11).

(5) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions (see Articles 291 to 300 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No

2454/93 (OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1) and subsequent amendments).

(6) From 1 January 2004 on, this quota volume shall be annually increased by 500 tonnes.
(7) The concession applies to imports of untreated olive oil, wholly obtained in the Lebanon and transported directly from Lebanon to the Community.’