Commission Regulation (EC) No 875/2004 of 29 April 2004 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1362/2000 as regards the opening of a preferential tariff rate quota for tuna loins originating in Mexico
Date: 2004-04-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Mexico, customs duties, originating product, sea fish, tariff quota, trade agreement (EU)

30.4.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 162/51

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 875/2004

of 29 April 2004

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1362/2000 as regards the opening of a preferential tariff rate
quota for tuna loins originating in Mexico

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

Having regard to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No
1362/2000,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The European Union — Mexico Joint Council has
decided, by its Decision No 2/2004 of 28 April 2004
rate quota for certain products
introducing a tariff
originating in Mexico and listed in Annex I to Decision
2/2000 of
to open a
the EU-Mexico Joint Council,
preferential tariff rate quota for tuna loins originating in
Mexico.

Regulation (EC) No 1362/2000 of 29 June 2000 imple-
menting for the Community the tariff provisions of
Decision No 2/2000 of the Joint Council under the
Interim Agreement on Trade and Trade-related matters
between the European Community and the United
Mexican States (1) should therefore be amended accord-
ingly.

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1362/2000 is amended as follows:

1. The following sentence is added to Article 2(5):

‘The customs duty applicable to products of CN code
1604 14 16 within the tariff quota at order No 09.1854 in
the Annex to this Regulation shall be 6 %.’

2. Article 2(6) is replaced by the following:

‘6. With the exception of the tariff quotas at order No
09.1854 and order No 09.1899, the tariff quotas referred to
in the Annex to this Regulation shall be opened each year
for a twelve-month period from 1 July to 30 June. These
quotas shall be opened for the first time on 1 July 2000.’

3. The following row is inserted in the Annex:

‘09.1854

1604 14 16

Tuna loins

5 000
tonnes (7)

duty
be

Fixed
to
applied

(7)

In 2005 the annual volume shall be 6000 tonnes. From 2006 onwards
the yearly volume shall be increased in accordance with the Annex of the
Decision of the EU-Mexico Joint Council No 2/2004, provided that at
least 80 % of the total amount of the previous year quota has been used
by the 31 December of that year.’

Article 2

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

(3)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Customs Code
Committee,

It shall apply from the date of entry into force of the Decision
of the European Union-Mexico Joint Council No 2/2004 of 28
April 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 April 2004.

For the Commission

Frederik BOLKESTEIN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 157, 30.6.2000, p. 1.