2004/805/EC: Decision No 2/2004 of the EC-Mexico Joint Council of 28 April 2004 introducing a preferential tariff rate quota for certain products originating in Mexico and listed in Annex I to Decision No 2/2000 of the EC-Mexico Joint Council
Date: 2004-04-28
Institutions: EC–Mexico Joint Committee
Subjects: Mexico, agreement (EU), cooperation agreement, fish product, import, originating product, sea fish, tariff preference, tariff quota

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DECISION No 2/2004 OF THE EC-MEXICO JOINT COUNCIL

of 28 April 2004

introducing a preferential tariff rate quota for certain products originating in Mexico and listed in
Annex I to Decision No 2/2000 of the EC-Mexico Joint Council

(2004/805/EC)

THE JOINT COUNCIL,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Having regard to the Economic Partnership, Political Coordi-
nation and Cooperation Agreement between the European
Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the
United Mexican States, of the other part, signed in Brussels on 8
December 1997,

Having regard to Decision No 2/2000 of the EC-Mexico Joint
Council of 23 March 2000 (1) (Decision No 2/2000) and in
particular Article 3(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 10(5) of Decision No 2/2000 states that parties
shall enter into negotiations to examine the possibility of
opening a preferential tariff rate quota for tuna loins.

Parties have concluded a mutually satisfactory nego-
tiation.

the

elimination of

Article 3(5) gives to the Joint Council the capacity to
accelerate
customs duties more
rapidly than is provided for in Articles 4 to 10 or
otherwise improve the conditions of access according
to such Articles.

A decision by the Joint Council to accelerate the elim-
ination of
improve
conditions of access shall supersede the terms established
in Articles 4 to 10 for the product concerned,

custom duty or otherwise

a

Article 1

The European Community shall
introduce a preferential tariff
rate quota for tuna loins originating in Mexico, according to
Annex III to Decision No 2/2000, as set out in the Annex to
this Decision.

Article 2

From the third year onwards, the yearly quota increase will be
conditional upon the exhaustion of the previous year’s quota.
For the purposes of this Article the quota shall be considered
exhausted if, at 31 December of each year, at least 80 % of the
total amount available in the year under consideration has been
used.

Article 3

The quota will be opened from the day of the entry into force
of this Decision. From the second year onwards the quota will
be opened on 1 January of each year.

Article 4

This Decision shall enter into force on the 30th day after that of
its adoption.

Done at Brussels, 28 April 2004.

For the Joint Council
The President

L. E. DERBEZ

(1) OJ L 157, 30.6.2000, p. 10. Decision as amended by Decision

No 2/2002 (OJ L 133, 18.5.2002, p. 23).

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European Community quota on tuna loins originating in Mexico classified under CN code 1604 14 16

ANNEX

Yearly increase from year 3 onwards is subject to conditions laid down in Article 2 of this Decision. The quota is
managed on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Following
years

5 000
tonnes

6 000
tonnes

7 000
tonnes

8 000
tonnes

9 000
tonnes

10 000
tonnes

11 000
tonnes

12 000
tonnes

13 000
tonnes

14 000
tonnes

15 000
tonnes

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %

Duty
rate
6 %