Commission Regulation (EC) No 2244/2004 of 23 December 2004 opening tariff quotas for the year 2005 for imports into the European Community of certain processed agricultural products originating in Romania
Date: 2004-12-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Romania, agricultural product, agro-industry, import, originating product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2244/2004

of 23 December 2004

opening tariff quotas for the year 2005 for imports into the European Community of certain
processed agricultural products originating in Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6
December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable
to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
products (1), and in particular Article 7(2) thereof,

Having regard to Council Decision 98/626/EC of 5 October
1998 relating to the conclusion of a Protocol for the adaptation
of the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement between the
European Communities and their Member States, of the one
part, and Romania, of the other part, to take into account the
accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland
and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the
results of the agricultural negotiations of the Uruguay Round,
including
existing preferential
improvements
regime (2), and in particular Article 2(1) thereof,

to the

the

Whereas:

(1)

Protocol 3 on trade in processed agricultural products to
the Europe Agreement with Romania, as amended by the
Protocol for the adaptation of the trade aspects of that
Agreement, provides for the reduction in the agricultural
component of the duties applicable on importation of
certain processed agricultural products originating in
tariff quotas. Those
Romania, within the limits of
quotas should be opened for 2005.

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July
1993 laying down provisions for the implementation
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing
the Common Customs Code (3) lays down rules for the
management of tariff quotas. It is appropriate to provide
that the tariff quotas opened by this Regulation are to be
managed in accordance with those rules.

(3)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for horizontal questions concerning trade in
processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Community annual tariff quotas for the processed agri-
cultural products originating in Romania listed in the Annex
are opened from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005 under
the conditions set out in that Annex.

Article 2

The Community tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be
managed by the Commission in accordance with Articles 308a,
308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

It shall apply from 1 January 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 December 2004.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18. Regulation as last amended by Council
Regulation (EC) No 2580/2000 (OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5).

(2) OJ L 301, 11.11.1998, p.1.

(3) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p.1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2286/2003 (OJ L 343, 31.12.2003, p.1).

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ANNEX

Serial No

CN Code

Description

09.5431

ex 1704

09.5433

ex 1806

09.5435

ex 1902

09.5437

ex 1904

09.5439

1905

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate),
not containing cocoa, excluding liquorice extract
containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose
but not containing other added substances, falling
within CN code 1704 90 10 (*)

Chocolate and other food preparations containing
cocoa (*), other than those falling within CN codes
1806 10 15 or 1806 20 70

Pasta, whether or not cooked or
stuffed or
otherwise prepared, excluding stuffed pasta falling
within CN codes 1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30,
couscous, whether or not prepared

cereals or

cereal products

swelling or
Prepared foods obtained by the
roasting of
(for
example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize
(corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or
flour and meal),
other worked grains
precooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere
specified or included, excluding products falling
within CN code 1904 20 10

(except

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers’
cocoa;
not
wares, whether
communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind
suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers,
rice paper and similar products

containing

or

Quota for
2005
(tonnes)

2 100

Rate of duty
applicable (1)

0 + RAC

1 500

0 + RAC

600

0 + RAC

438

0 + RAC

1 875

0 + RAC

09.5441

2101 30 19
2101 30 99

Roasted coffee substitutes
Extracts, essences and concentrates of
coffee
excluding those of
chicory

substitutes

roasted
roasted

163

0 + RAC

09.5443

2105 00

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not
containing cocoa

114

0 + RAC

09.5445

0405 20 10
0405 20 30

ex 2106

ex 3302 10

3302 10 29

2202 90 91
2202 90 95
2202 90 99

09.5447

Dairy spreads of a fat content, by weight, of 39 %
or more, but not exceeding 75 %
specified or
Food preparations not elsewhere
than those falling within CN
included other
codes 2106 10 20, 2106 90 20 and 2106 90 92
and other
coloured sugar
syrups (*)
Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures
(including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of
one or more of these substances, of a kind used
for the beverages industries:
Other

than flavoured or

Non-alcoholic beverages, not
including fruit or
vegetable juices of CN code 2009, containing
products of CN codes 0401 to 0404 or
fat
obtained from products of CN codes 0401 to
0404

1 050

0 + RAC

100

0 + RAC

(1) RAC = reduced agricultural components (calculated in accordance with the basic amounts set out in Protocol 3 to the Agreement)
applicable within the quantitative limits of the quotas. Such reduced agricultural components are subject to the maximum duty laid
down in the common customs tariff,
if any, and in the case of products falling within CN codes 1704 10 91, 1704 10 99,
2105 00 10, 2105 00 91 or 2106 90 10, to the maximum duty provided for in the Agreement.

(*) Excluding goods containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose), falling within CN codes

ex 1704 90 51, ex 1704 90 99, ex 1806 20 80, ex 1806 20 95, ex 1806 90 90 or ex 2106 90 98.