Council Regulation (EC) No 1771/2003 of 7 October 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2803/2000 as regards the opening and increase of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products
Date: 2003-10-07
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: fishery product, import (EU), tariff quota

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1771/2003

of 7 October 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 2803/2000 as regards the opening and increase of autonomous
Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity, and in particular Article 26 thereof,

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 2803/2000 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

of

fishery

certain

supplies

in order not

products
Community
currently depend on imports from third countries. It is
therefore in the Community's interest to suspend in part
or in whole the customs duties for the products in ques-
tion,
to jeopardise the development
prospects of the fish production in the Community and
to ensure an adequate supply to satisfy user industries.
Council Regulation (EC) No 2803/2000 of 14 December
2000 opening and providing for the administration of
autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain fishery
products (1) has therefore suspended tariff quota for
certain fishery products for a certain period.

The Commission has researched the markets and supply
needs of user industries for 2003. Having regard to the
requirements of the internal and external policies of the
Community, certain new tariff quotas for the products in
question should be opened and certain existing quotas
should be increased to ensure continuation of Com-
munity production.

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2803/2000 shall be amended
as follows:

1. the tariff quotas listed in the Annex to this Regulation for
the goods and quota periods set out in that Annex shall be
added;

2. for the quota period from 1 January to 31 December 2003:
(a) the quota amount of the tariff quota 09.2785 shall be

fixed at 20 000 tonnes;

(b) the quota amount of the tariff quota 09.2786 shall be

fixed at 1 500 tonnes;

(c) the quota amount of the tariff quota 09.2794 shall be

fixed at 7 000 tonnes.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Luxembourg, 7 October 2003.

For the Council

The President

G. TREMONTI

(1) OJ L 331, 27.12.2000, p. 61.

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CN code

TARIC code

Description

ANNEX

09.2759

09.2760

ex 0302 50 10

ex 0302 50 90

ex 0303 60 11

ex 0303 60 19

ex 0303 60 90

ex 0303 78 11

ex 0303 78 12

ex 0303 78 13

ex 0303 78 19

09.2761

ex 0304 20 91

09.2762

ex 0304 20 95

ex 0304 90 97

ex 0306 11 10

ex 0306 11 90

20

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

11
81

10

70

60

10

60

Amount of
quota
(in tonnes)

50 000

20 000

Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus
macrocephalus), excluding livers and roes,
fresh,
for proces-
sing (a) (b)

chilled or

frozen,

Hake (Merluccius spp. excluding Merluccius
merluccius, Urophycis
for
processing (a) (b)

frozen,

spp.),

Blue grenadier (Macruronus spp.),
frozen
fillets and other meat, for processing (a) (b)

15 000

Rock lobster (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp.,
Jasus spp.), frozen, for processing (a) (b)

1 500

Quota duty
(%)

Quota period

0

0

0

6

1.1.2003 —
31.12.2003

1.1.2003 —
31.12.2003

1.1.2003 —
31.12.2003

1.1.2003 —
31.12.2003

(a) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions.
(b) This quota is available for products intended to undergo any operation, unless it is solely for one or more of the following operations:

— cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading,
— cutting (excluding dicing, filleting, production of flaps or cutting of frozen blocks or splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks),
— sampling, sorting,
— labelling,
— packing,
— chilling,
— freezing,
— deep freezing,
— thawing, separation.
The quota is not available for products intended, in addition, to undergo treatment (or operations) which gives quota entitlement, where such treatment (or operations)
is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The reduction of customs duties shall apply only to fish intended for human consumption.