Commission Regulation (EC) No 1886/2003 of 27 October 2003 modifying Commission Regulation (EC) No 2673/2000 laying down detailed rules for the application of the tariff quota for imports of beef and veal provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000 for the Republic of Slovenia and derogating from that Regulation
Date: 2003-10-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Slovenia, beef, derogation from EU law, import licence, originating product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1886/2003

of 27 October 2003

modifying Commission Regulation (EC) No 2673/2000 laying down detailed rules for the applica-
tion of the tariff quota for imports of beef and veal provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No
2475/2000 for the Republic of Slovenia and derogating from that Regulation

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No
806/2003 (2), and in particular Article 32(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Council Decision 2003/452/EC of 26 May 2003 on the
conclusion of a Protocol adjusting the trade aspects of
establishing an association
the Europe Agreement
between the European Communities and their Member
States, acting within the framework of the European
Union, of the one part, and the Republic of Slovenia of
the other part, to take account of the outcome of nego-
tiations between the parties on new mutual agricultural
concessions (3) provides for new concessions as regards
the importation of beef and veal products originating
from the Republic of Slovenia, applicable from 1
November 2003. As of the same date,
it will replace
Council Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000 of 7 November
2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products
and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and
transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions
provided for in the Europe Agreement with Slovenia (4).

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2673/2000 (5)
laying
down detailed rules for the application of the tariff quota
for imports of beef and veal provided for in Council
Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000 for the Republic of
Slovenia, should therefore be amended.

The provisions of Regulation (EC) No 2673/2000
concerning the tariff quota 09.4082 should apply mutatis
mutandis to the tariff quota 09.4122.

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

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 152, 20.6.2003, p. 22.
(4) OJ L 286, 11.11.2000, p. 15.
(5) OJ L 306, 7.12.2000, p. 19.

Regulation (EC) No 2673/2000 shall be amended as follows:

1. The title shall be amended to read as follows:

‘Commission Regulation (EC) No 2673/2000 of 6 December
2000 laying down detailed rules for the application of the
tariff quotas for imports of beef and veal provided for in
Council Decision 2003/452/EC for the Republic of Slovenia’

2. Article 1(1) and (2) shall be amended to read as follows:

‘1.
On a multiannual basis, for the period running from
1 January to 31 December of the same year, hereinafter
importation”, products listed in
referred to as “year of
Annex I and originating in the Republic of Slovenia may be
imported under the tariff quotas opened by Council Deci-
sion 2003/452/EC in accordance with the provisions laid
down herein.

For

these quotas which bear

2.
the serial numbers
09.4082 and 09.4122, the annual quantities of products
and the preferential rates of customs duty shall be as set out
in Annex I.’

3. In Article 3(1)(e) ‘the serial number 09.4082’ is replaced by

‘the serial numbers of the quotas’.

4. Annexes I and II shall be replaced by Annexes I and II of

the present Regulation.

Article 2

By way of derogation from Articles 2(1) and 4(1) of Regulation
(EC) 2673/2000, applications for import licences in 2003 in
respect of all the quantities available for the quota under serial
number 09.4122 shall be lodged in the first 12 days following
the entry into force of the protocol attached to Council Deci-
sion 2003/452/EC.

Article 3

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

It shall apply from 1 November 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 October 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX I

Serial No

CN code

Description

Applicable duty
(% of MFN)

Annual quantity
from 1 January
2003
(tonnes)

09.4082

Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled:

20

10 500

ex 0201 10 00

Carcases and half-carcases, other
high-quality beef and veal

than

0201 20 20

0201 20 30

0201 20 50

0201 30 00

Compensated quarters

Forequarters, unseparated/separated

Hindquarters, unseparated/separated

Boneless

09.4122

1602 50 39

Other prepared meat, meat offal or blood
of bovine animals

Free

400

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ANNEX II