Commission Regulation (EC) No 2271/2003 of 22 December 2003 opening tariff quotas for the year 2004 for imports into the European Community of certain products originating in Romania
Date: 2003-12-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Romania, agricultural product, agro-industry, import, originating product, tariff quota

23.12.2003

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2271/2003

of 22 December 2003

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

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), in particular Article 7(2) thereof,

Having regard to Council Decision 98/626/EC of 5 October
1998 relating to the conclusion of a Protocol for the adaptation
of the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement between the
European Communities and their Member States, of the one
part, and Romania, of the other part, to take into account the
accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland
and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the
results of the agricultural negotiations of the Uruguay Round,
including the
existing preferential
improvements
regime (2), and in particular Article 2(1) thereof,

to the

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Protocol 3 on trade in processed agricultural products to
the Europe Agreement with Romania, as amended by
the Protocol
that Agreement,
provides for the granting of annual tariff quotas for
imports of products originating in Romania. Those
quotas should be opened for 2004.

for the adaptation of

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 (3)
lays down rules for the
management of tariff quotas. It is appropriate to provide
that the tariff quotas opened by this Regulation are 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 annual quotas for the products originating in Romania
listed in the Annex are opened from 1 January 2004 to 31
December 2004 under the conditions set out therein.

Article 2

The Community tariff quotas 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 its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.

It shall apply with effect from 1 January 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 December 2003.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18; Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2580/2000 (OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5).

(2) OJ L 301, 11.11.1998, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1; Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1335/2003 (OJ L 187, 26.7.2003, p. 16).

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ANNEX

Serial No

CN code

Description

09.5431

ex 1704

09.5433

ex 1806

09.5435

ex 1902

09.5437

ex 1904

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate),
not containing cocoa, excluding liquorice extract
containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose
but not containing other added substances, falling
within CN code 1704 90 10 (*)

Chocolate and other food preparations containing
cocoa (*), other than those falling within CN code
1806 10 15 or 1806 20 70

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed or other-
wise prepared, excluding stuffed pasta falling
within CN codes 1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30,
couscous, whether or not prepared

cereals or

cereal products

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or
roasting of
(for
example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize
(corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or
flour and meal),
other worked grains (except
precooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere
specified or included, excluding products falling
within CN code 1904 20 10

Quota for
2004
(tonnes)

Rate of duty
applicable (1)

2 100

0 + RAC

1 500

0 + RAC

600

0 + RAC

438

0 + RAC

09.5439

1905

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers'
wares, whether or not containing cocoa; commu-
nion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for
pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and
similar products

1 875

0 + RAC

09.5441

2101 30 19

Roasted coffee substitutes

163

0 + RAC

2101 30 99

Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted
coffee substitutes excluding those of
roasted
chicory

09.5443

2105 00

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not
containing cocoa

114

0 + RAC

09.5445

0405 20 10
0405 20 30

Dairy spreads of a fat content, by weight, of 39 %
or more, but not exceeding 75 %

1 050

0 + RAC

ex 2106

ex 3302 10

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or
included other than those falling within CN codes
2106 10 20, 2106 90 20 and 2106 90 92 and
other than flavoured or coloured sugar syrups (*)

Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures
(including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one
or more of these substances, of a kind used for
the beverages industries

3302 10 29 Other

09.5447

2202 90 91
2202 90 95
2202 90 99

Non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or
vegetable juices of CN code 2009, containing
products of CN codes 0401 to 0404 or fat
obtained from products of CN codes 0401 to
0404

100

0 + RAC

(1) RAC = reduced agricultural components (calculated in accordance with the basic amounts set out in Protocol 3 to the Agreement)
applicable within the quantitative limits of the quotas. Such reduced agricultural components are subject to the maximum duty laid
down in the common customs tariff,
if any, and in the case of products falling within CN code 1704 10 91, 1704 10 99,
2105 00 10, 2105 00 91 or 2106 90 10, to the maximum duty provided for in the Agreement.

(*) Excluding goods containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose), falling within CN code

ex 1704 90 51, ex 1704 90 99, ex 1806 20 80, ex 1806 20 95, ex 1806 90 90 or ex 2106 90 98.