Council Regulation (EC) No 379/2004 of 24 February 2004 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2004 to 2006
Date: 2004-02-24
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: fishery product, tariff quota

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 379/2004

of 24 February 2004

opening and providing for the management of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain
fishery products for the period 2004 to 2006

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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

gical order of the dates of acceptance of the declarations
of release for free circulation. The tariff quotas opened
by this Regulation should be managed by the Com-
munity authorities and the Member States in accordance
with that system,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

of

fishery

certain

supplies

Community
products
currently depend on imports from third countries. It is
in the Community's interest to suspend in part or in
whole the customs duties for those products, within
Community tariff quotas of an appropriate volume. In
order not to jeopardise the development prospects of
those products in the Community and to ensure an
adequate supply to satisfy user industries, such quotas
should be opened, applying variable customs duties in
accordance with the sensitivity of the product in ques-
tion on the Community market.

Article 1

1.
Import duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be
suspended, within tariff quotas, at the rates for the periods, and
up to the amounts, indicated therein.

2.
Imports of the products listed in the Annex shall be
covered by the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 only if the
declared customs value is at least equal to the reference price
fixed, or to be fixed, in accordance with Article 29 of Council
Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the
common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture
products (2).

Equal and uninterrupted access to those quotas should
be ensured for all Community importers and the rates
laid down for the quotas should be applied without
interruption to all
imports of the products concerned
into all Member States until the quotas have been used
up.

Article 2

The 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.

To ensure the efficiency of a common management of
the quotas, Member States should be permitted to draw
from the quota amount the necessary quantities corre-
sponding to their actual imports. Since that method of
management requires close cooperation between the
Member States and the Commission, the latter should in
particular be able to monitor the rate at which the
quotas are used up and should inform the Member
States accordingly.

Article 3

The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely
to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.

Article 4

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
Community Customs Code (1) provides for a system of
tariff quota management which follows the chronolo-

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2004.

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

lation (EC) No 2286/2003 (OJ L 343, 31.12.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 February 2004.

For the Council

The President

J. WALSH

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ANNEX

Description

Cod livers (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macroce-
phalus) and fish liver of the species Boreogadus saida,
fresh or chilled, for processing (a) (b)

Annual
amount of
quota
(tonnes)

300

Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)
and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, salted or in
brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing (a) (b)

10 000

Quota duty
(%)

Quota period

0

0

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

Tubes of squid (Ommastrephes spp. — excluding
Ommastrephes sagittatus —, Nototodarus spp., Sepio-
teuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, with skin and fins,
for processing (a) (b)

30 000

3.5

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

Squid (Ommastrephes spp. — excluding Ommastrephes
sagittatus —, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and
Illex spp., frozen whole, tentacles and fins, for proces-
sing (a) (b)

1 500

Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), of a weight
exceeding 140 g per piece or flaps of a weight
exceeding 80 g per piece, excluding livers and roes,
for processing (a) (b)

20 000

Fillets known as ‘loins’ of tunas and skipjack,
processing (a) (b)

for

4 000

Herrings,
in brine,
spiced and/or vinegar-cured,
preserved in barrels of at least 70 kg net drained
weight, for processing (a) (b)

6 000

Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis,
cooked and peeled, for processing (a) (b)

7 000

Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus),
excluding livers and roes, fresh, chilled or frozen, for
processing (a) (b)

50 000

3

0

6

6

6

0

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.10.2004-
31.12.2004
1.10.2005-
31.12.2005
1.10.2006-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

Order No

CN code

TARIC
code

09.2758

ex 0302 70 00

20

09.2765

ex 0305 62 00

ex 0305 69 10

09.2785

ex 0307 49 59

ex 0307 99 11

09.2786

ex 0307 49 59

ex 0307 99 11

09.2788

ex 0302 40 00

ex 0303 50 00

ex 0304 10 97

ex 0304 90 22

09.2790

ex 1604 14 16

09.2792

ex 1604 12 99

09.2794

ex 1605 20 99

09.2759

ex 0302 50 10

ex 0302 50 90

ex 0303 60 11

ex 0303 60 19

ex 0303 60 90

20

25

29

10

10

10

20

20

10

10

20

10

20

30

95

10

45

20

10

10

10

10

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Order No

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TARIC
code

Description

Annual
amount of
quota
(tonnes)

Quota duty
(%)

Quota period

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

20 000

0

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

09.2760

ex 0303 78 11

ex 0303 78 12

ex 0303 78 13

ex 0303 78 19

ex 0303 78 90

09.2761

ex 0304 20 91

ex 0304 20 94

ex 0304 90 97

09.2762

ex 0306 11 10

ex 0306 11 90

09.2766

ex 0304 20 94

ex 0304 90 97

09.2768

ex 0303 79 55

09.2770

ex 0305 63 00

10

10

10

11

81

10

10

41

81

60

86

10

10

70

88

31

10

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)

Southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), frozen
fillets and other meat, for processing (a) (b)

1 500

2 000

Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma),
processing (a) (b)

frozen,

for

10 000

Anchovies (Engraulis anchoita), salted or in brine, but
not dried or smoked, for processing (a) (b)

2 000

30 000

0

6

0

0

0

0

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

1.1.2004-
31.12.2006

09.2772

0304 90 05

10

Surimi, frozen, for processing (a) (b)

(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.