Council Regulation (EC) No 1921/2004 of 25 October 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 499/96 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products and live horses originating in Iceland
Date: 2004-10-25
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: CCT duties, Iceland, equidae, fishery product, live animal, tariff quota

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1921/2004

of 25 October 2004

amending Regulation (EC) No 499/96 opening and providing for the administration of Community
tariff quotas for certain fishery products and live horses originating in Iceland

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

mentioned tariff quota is therefore unnecessary during
that period.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(6)

(7)

Regulation (EC) No 499/96 should be
accordingly.

amended

Since the EEA Enlargement Agreement has taken effect
from 1 May 2004, this Regulation should be applicable
from the same date and should enter into force without
delay,

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 499/96 of 19
March 1996 opening and providing for the adminis-
tration of Community tariff quotas for certain fishery
and live horses originating in Iceland (1),
products
Community tariff quotas were opened for such fishery
products and live horses.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 499/96 is amended as follows:

(hereinafter

the Acceding

the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus,
Participation of
Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and
Slovenia
in the
European Economic Area was agreed by means of the
EEA Enlargement Agreement,
signed between the
Community and its Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
and Norway and the Acceding States on 14 October
2003.

States)

Pending the completion of the procedures required for
the adoption of
the EEA Enlargement Agreement, an
Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters was
agreed, which provides for a provisional application of
the EEA Enlargement Agreement. That Agreement has
been approved by Decision 2004/368/EC (2).

The EEA Enlargement Agreement provides for an addi-
tional Protocol to the EC-Iceland Free Trade Agreement
of 1972, which provides for a new Community tariff
quota for a fishery product. That tariff quota should be
opened.

1.

in Article 1 the following paragraph 4 shall be added:

The benefit of

‘4.
the tariff quota with order number
09.0792 shall not be granted for goods declared for
release for free circulation during the period 15 February
to 15 June.’;

2. the Annex shall be amended in accordance with the Annex

to this Regulation.

Article 2

For 2004, the annual volume of the tariff quota with order
number 09.0792 shall be reduced in proportion to the part
of the quota period in whole weeks which has elapsed before
the date given in the second paragraph of Article 3.

The conventional duty of the Common Customs Tariff
for that fishery product during the period 15 February to
15 June of each year is ‘free’, and usage of the above-

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

Article 3

(1) OJ L 75, 23.3.1996, p. 8.
(2) OJ L 130, 29.4.2004, p. 1.

It shall apply from 1 May 2004.

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

Done at Luxembourg, 25 October 2004.

For the Council
The President

R. VERDONK

In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 499/96 the following item is inserted:

ANNEX

‘09.0792

ex 0303 50 00

0303 50 00 20

or

Clupea

Herrings of the species Clupea
pallasii,
harengus
frozen,
and
roes,
industrial manu-
facture (a) (1)

excluding livers

for

950

0

(a) Entry under this subheading is subject to the conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions (see Articles 291 to 300 of

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 (OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1)).

(1) The benefit of the tariff quota shall not be granted for goods declared for release for free circulation during the period from 15

February to 15 June.’