Commission Regulation (EC) No 2195/2003 of 16 December 2003 opening tariff quotas for the year 2004 for imports into the European Community of certain processed agricultural products originating in Norway
Date: 2003-12-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Norway, agricultural product, import, originating product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2195/2003

of 16 December 2003

opening tariff quotas for the year 2004 for imports into the European Community of certain
processed agricultural products originating in Norway

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

Having regard to Council Decision 2002/981/EC of 11
November 2002 concerning the conclusion of an Agreement
in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European
Community, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Norway, of
the other part, on Protocol 2 to the Agreement between the
European Economic Community
and the Kingdom of
Norway (3) and, in particular, Article 2 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The annual quotas for certain processed agricultural
products originating in Norway provided for in the
in the form of an Exchange of Letters
Agreement
between the European Community, of the one part, and
the Kingdom of Norway, of the other part, on Protocol
2 to the Agreement between the European Economic
Community and the Kingdom of Norway should be
opened for 2004.

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
Common Customs Code (4), as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 1335/2003 (5), lays down rules for the

management of tariff quotas. It is appropriate to provide
that the tariff quota opened by this Regulation is to be
managed in accordance with those rules.

(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 Community tariff quotas for imports of processed agri-
cultural products originating in Norway, as specified in the
Annex, shall be opened duty-free from 1 January to 31
December 2004.

Article 2

The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1 shall be
managed by the Commission in accordance with Articles 308a,
308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

Article 3

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

It shall be applicable from 1 January 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 December 2003.

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 341, 17.12.2002, p. 63.
(4) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 187, 26.7.2003, p. 16.

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Order
number

CN code

Description

Volume

Applicable rate of duty

ANNEX

09.0765

1517 10 90

Margarine excluding liquid margarine
Other

09.0766

2102 30 00

Prepared baking powders

09.0767

ex 2103 90 90

(TARIC codes 10 and
89)

Sauces and preparations thereof, mixed condiments
and mixed seasonings of CN code 2103 90 90,
other than mayonnaise

09.0768

2104 10

Soups and broths and preparations therefor

09.0769

2106 90 92

09.0771

ex 2207 10 00

(TARIC code 90)

elsewhere

Food preparations not
specified or
included/other, containing no milk fats, sucrose,
isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing, by
weight,
less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or
isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcohol strength by
volume of 80 % vol or higher/other
than that
obtained from agricultural products listed in Annex
I to the EEC Treaty

2 470 tonnes

150 tonnes

130 tonnes

390 tonnes

510 tonnes

free

free

free

free

free

134 000 hectolitres

free

09.0772

ex 2207 20 00

(TARIC code 90)

Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any
strength/other than those obtained from agricultural
products listed in Annex I to the EEC Treaty

3 340 hectolitres

09.0774

2403 10

Smoking tobacco, whether or not
tobacco substitutes in any proportion

containing

370 tonnes

free

free