Council Regulation (EC) No 1920/2004 of 25 October 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 992/95 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway
Date: 2004-10-25
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: European Economic Area, Norway, accession to an agreement, fishery product, tariff quota

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1920/2004

of 25 October 2004

amending Regulation (EC) No 992/95 opening and providing for the administration of Community
tariff quotas for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(7)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

Regulation (EC) No 992/95 is hereby amended as follows:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

to Council Regulation (EC) No 992/95 (1),
Pursuant
Community tariff quotas were opened for such products.

1. The following Article 2a is inserted:

‘the

(hereinafter

Participation of
the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus,
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.

acceding

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 in the
form of an Exchange of Letters was approved by Council
Decision 2004/368/EC (2).

The EEA Enlargement Agreement provides for an Addi-
tional Protocol to the EC-Norway Free Trade Agreement
of 1973 (hereinafter ‘the Protocol’), which provides for
the opening of new Community tariff quotas for certain
fishery products. Those new tariff quotas should be
opened.

‘Article 2a

From 2005, on 15 October of each year, drawings on the
subquotas with order numbers 09.0760 and 09.0763 shall
be stopped.

On the following working day, the unused balances of those
quotas shall be made available for imports declared from
1 October of
the
subquota with the order number 09.0778 for that year.

that year within the framework of

From 15 October onwards of each year, any drawings subse-
quently returned because they are unused shall be made
available only to imports declared from 1 October of that
year.’

2. Annexes I and II are amended in accordance with the Annex

hereto.

Article 2

1.
For 2004, the annual volumes of the tariff quotas with
order numbers 09.0752, 09.0756 and 09.0758 shall be
reduced in proportion to the part of
the quota period in
whole weeks which has elapsed before 1 May 2004.

The Protocol provides that drawings on two new tariff
quotas are stopped on 15 October of each year from
2005, so that any unused balance is made available
exclusively to imports at the end of the year.

For 2004, the tariff quota with order number 09.0754
2.
shall be opened, for the period from 15 June to 31 December,
for a volume of 24 800 tonnes.

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 992/95 should therefore be amended
accordingly.

(1) OJ L 101, 4.5.1995, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1329/2003 (OJ L 187, 26.7.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 130, 29.4.2004, p. 1.

Article 3

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

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

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ANNEX

Regulation (EC) No 992/95 is amended as follows:

1. the following items are inserted in Annex I:

Order No

CN code (1)

Description

Amount of quotas
(tonnes unless
otherwise specified)

Quota duty
(%)

‘09.0752

ex 0303 50 00

Herrings of the species Clupea harengus or
Clupea pallasii, frozen, excluding livers and
roes, for industrial manufacture (a) (2)

44 000

09.0754

ex 0303 74 30

Mackerel of the species Scomber scombrus
frozen, excluding
or Scomber
livers
industrial manu-
facture (a) (2)

japonicus,
for

and roes,

15.6.-31.12.2004

from 2005 to 2009:

09.0760

ex 0303 74 30

1.1.-14.2.

09.0763

ex 0303 74 30

15.6.-30.9.

09.0778

ex 0303 74 30

1.10.-31.12.

09.0756

0304 20 75

Fillets of herring (Clupea harengus, Clupea
pallasii), frozen

ex 0304 90 22

Flaps of herring (butterflies),
industrial manufacture (a) (2)

frozen,

for

24 800

7 500

7 500

15 500

67 000

09.0758

ex 1605 20 10

Shrimps and prawns, peeled and frozen, in
airtight containers (3)

2 500

0

0

0

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) See TARIC codes in Annex II.
(2) The benefit of the tariff quota shall not be granted to goods declared for release for free circulation during the period from 15

February to 15 June.

(3) The additional quota for frozen peeled shrimps and prawns (CN code 1605 20 10) shall be opened upon settlement of the issue of
allowing for the transit, of fish and fisheries’ products landed in Norway by Community vessels, through Norway to the
Community.’

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2. the following items are inserted in Annex II:

Order No

‘09.0752

09.0754

09.0756

09.0758

09.0760

09.0763

09.0778

CN codes

TARIC codes

ex 0303 50 00

0303 50 00 20

ex 0303 74 30

0303 74 30 11
0303 74 30 91

ex 0304 90 22

0304 90 22 20

ex 1605 20 10

ex 0303 74 30

ex 0303 74 30

ex 0303 74 30

1605 20 10 20
1605 20 10 91

0303 74 30 11
0303 74 30 91

0303 74 30 11
0303 74 30 91

0303 74 30 11
0303 74 30 91’