Commission Regulation (EC) No 2256/2004 of 14 October 2004 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards Community tariff quotas for certain products originating in Egypt, in Malta and in Cyprus and as regards reference quantities for certain products originating in Malta and in Cyprus
Date: 2004-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Cyprus, Egypt, Malta, originating product, tariff quota, tariff reduction

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2256/2004

of 14 October 2004

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards Community tariff quotas for certain
products originating in Egypt, in Malta and in Cyprus and as regards reference quantities for certain
products originating in Malta and in Cyprus

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

In order to facilitate the management of certain existing
in Regulation (EC) No
tariff quotas provided for
the
quantities
747/2001,
the
framework of
taken into
those quotas
account
for charging on the tariff quotas opened in
accordance with Regulation (EC) No 747/2001, as
amended by this Regulation.

imported within
should be

After the accession of Malta and Cyprus to the European
the tariff quotas and reference quantities for
Union,
products originating
as
provided for in Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 should
lapse. The references to those quotas and reference quan-
tities should therefore be deleted.

in those Member

States

Since the Protocol to the EU-Egypt Euro-Mediterranean
Agreement applies on a provisional basis from 1 May
2004, this Regulation should apply from the same date
and should enter into force as soon as possible.

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

(6)

(7)

(8)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 is amended as follows:

1. Article 1 is replaced by the following:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Act concerning the conditions of accession
of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of
Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the
Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of
Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and
the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is
founded (1), and in particular Article 57(2) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 of 9
April 2001 providing for the management of Community tariff
quotas and of reference quantities for products eligible for
preferences by virtue of agreements with certain Mediterranean
countries and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1981/94 and (EC)
No 934/95 (2), and in particular Article 5(1)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

By its Decision 2004/664/EC (3) of 24 September 2004,
the Council has given authorisation for the signature and
has provided for the provisional application from 1 May
2004 of a Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement
between the European Communities and their Member
States, of the one part, and the Arab Republic of Egypt,
of the other part, to take account of the accession of the
Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of
Cyprus, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Latvia,
the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Malta, the
Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the
Slovak Republic to the European Union.

This Protocol provides for a new tariff quota and for
changes to the existing tariff quotas laid down in Regu-
lation (EC) No 747/2001.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

To implement the new tariff quota and the changes to
the existing tariff quotas, it is necessary to amend Regu-
lation (EC) No 747/2001.

‘Article 1

For the year 2004 the volumes of the new tariff quota
and the increases of the volumes of existing tariff quotas
should be calculated as a pro rata of the basic volumes
specified in the Protocol, taking into account the part of
the period elapsed before 1 May 2004.

(1) OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33.
(2) OJ L 109, 19.4.2001, p. 2. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 54/2004 (OJ L 7, 13.1.2004,
p. 30).

(3) OJ L 303, 30.9.2004, p. 28.

Tariff concessions within Community tariff quotas or
within reference quantities

Jordan, Syria, Lebanon,

When products originating in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia,
Egypt,
Israel, the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip and Turkey,
listed in Annexes I to IX, are
put into free circulation in the Community, they shall be
eligible for exemption or reduced rates of customs duties
within the limits of the Community tariff quotas or in the
framework of the reference quantities, during the periods
and in accordance with the provisions set out in this Regu-
lation.’.

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2. Article 3(2) is deleted.

3. Annex IV is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regu-

lation.

4. Annexes X and XI are deleted.

Article 2

numbers 09.1707, 09.1710, 09.1711, 09.1719, 09.1721 and
09.1772, are at the entry into force of this Regulation taken
into account for charging on the respective tariff quotas laid
down in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 747/2001, as
amended by this Regulation.

Article 3

to Regulation (EC) No
The quantities which, pursuant
circulation in the
747/2001, have been put
Community since the start of the quota periods that are still
open on 1 May 2004 within the tariff quotas with order

into free

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 May 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 October 2004.

For the Commission

Frederik BOLKESTEIN
Member of the Commission

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The table in Annex IV is amended as follows:

ANNEX

(a)

the following new row is inserted:

‘09.1779

ex 0701 90 50

New potatoes,
chilled

fresh

or

from 1.5. to
30.6.2004

from 1.4. to
30.6.2005 and for
each period thereafter
from 1.4. to 30.6.

1 166,66

1 750

Exemp-
tion’

(b) the rows for the tariff quotas with order numbers 09.1710, 09.1719, 09.1707, 09.1711, 09.1721, 09.1725 and

09.1772 are replaced, respectively, by the following:

‘09.1710

0703 10

Onions and shallots,
or chilled

fresh

from 1.2. to
15.6.2004

09.1719

0712

sliced, broken or

vegetables, whole,
in
further

Dried
cut,
powder, but not
prepared

09.1707

0805 10

Oranges, fresh or dried

of which:

Sweet oranges, fresh

09.1711

0805 10 10
0805 10 30
0805 10 50

for each period
thereafter from 1.1. to
15.6.

from 1.1. to
31.12.2004

for each period
thereafter from 1.1. to
31.12.

from 1.1. to
30.6.2004

from 1.7.2004 to
30.6.2005

from 1.7.2005 to
30.6.2006 and for
each period thereafter
from 1.7 to 30.6.

from 1.1. to
31.5.2004

from 1.12.2004 to
31.5.2005 and for
each period thereafter
from 1.12. to 31.5.

Exemp-
tion

15 000 + 313,64
tonnes net weight
increase from 1.5.
to 15.6.2004

16 150 (i)

Exemp-
tion

16 000 + 366,67
tonnes net weight
increase from 1.5.
to 31.12.2004

16 550 (ii)

Exemp-
tion (2)

25 000 +
1 336,67 tonnes
net weight
increase from 1.5.
to 30.6.2004

63 020

68 020

Exemp-
tion (6)

of which:

25 000 +
1 336,67 tonnes
net weight
increase from 1.5.
to 31.5.2004 (5)

34 000 (5)

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09.1721

0807 19 00

Other melons, fresh

from 1.1. to
31.5.2004

09.1725

0810 10 00

Strawberries, fresh

09.1772

2009

Fruit juices (including grape
must) and vegetable juices,
not
unfermented
containing
spirit,
whether or not containing
added
other
sweetening matter

and
added

sugar

or

for each period
thereafter from 15.10.
to 31.5.

from 1.1. to
31.3.2004

from 1.10.2004 to
31.3.2005

from 1.10.2005 to
31.3.2006 and for
each period thereafter
from 1.10. to 31.3.

from 1.1. to
31.12.2004

for each period
thereafter from 1.1. to
31.12.

Exemp-
tion

666,667 + 23,33
tonnes net weight
increase from 1.5.
to 31.5.2004

1 175 (7)

Exemp-
tion

250

1 205

1 705

Exemp-
tion (2)

1 000 + 33,33
tonnes net weight
increase from 1.5.
to 31.12.2004

1 050 (iii)

(i)

(ii)

From 1 January 2005, this quota volume shall be annually increased by 3 % of the volume of the previous year. The first increase
shall take place on the volume of 16 150 tonnes net weight.
From 1 January 2005, this quota volume shall be annually increased by 3 % of the volume of the previous year. The first increase
shall take place on the volume of 16 550 tonnes net weight.

(iii) From 1 January 2005, this quota volume shall be annually increased by 3 % of the volume of the previous year. The first increase

(7)

shall take place on the volume of 1 050 tonnes net weight.
From 15 October 2004, this quota volume shall be increased annually by 3 % of the volume of the previous quota period. The
first increase shall take place on the volume of 1 175 tonnes net weight.’