Commission Regulation (EC) No 2279/2004 of 30 December 2004 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards the Community tariff quotas and reference quantities for certain agricultural products originating in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
Date: 2004-12-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Palestine, agricultural product, originating product, quantitative restriction, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2279/2004

of 30 December 2004

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards the Community tariff quotas and
reference quantities for certain agricultural products originating in the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

that part of the period which has already elapsed before
that date.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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 (1), and in particular Article 5(1)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

By its Decision of 22 December 2004 (2), the Council has
concluded an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of
Letters between the European Community and the
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) for the benefit
of the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip concerning reciprocal liberalisation measures
and the replacement of the Protocols 1 and 2 to the EC-
Palestinian Authority Interim Association Agreement.
That new Agreement applies from 1 January 2005.

The new Protocol No 1 concerning the arrangements
applicable to imports into the Community of agricultural
products originating in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
hereinafter ‘the new Protocol No 1’, provides for new
tariff concessions and changes to the existing concessions
laid down in Regulation (EC) No 747/2001, some of
and
which
reference quantities.

fall within Community

quotas

tariff

To implement the tariff concessions provided for in the
new Protocol No 1, it is necessary to amend Regulation
(EC) No 747/2001.

For the purpose of calculating tariff quotas and reference
quantities for the first year of application, it should be
provided that, where the period for
the quota or
reference quantity starts before the date from which the
the tariff quota volume and
new Agreement applies,
reference quantity are to be reduced in proportion to

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

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

In accordance with the new Protocol No 1, the tariff
quota volumes for certain products should be increased
twice.

Since the provisions provided for in this Regulation
should apply from the date of application of the new
Agreement,
this Regulation to
is appropriate for
enter into force as soon as possible.

it

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 shall be replaced
by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

For the quota and reference quantity periods still open on 1
January 2005, the quantities which pursuant to Regulation (EC)
No 747/2001 have been put
into free circulation in the
Community within the tariff quota and reference quantities
order numbers 09.1381, 18.0310, 18.0340 and
with
18.0380 shall be taken into account
for charging on the
tariff quota and reference quantities laid down in Annex VIII
to Regulation (EC) No 747/2001, as amended by this Regu-
lation.

Article 3

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

(1) OJ L 109, 19.4.2001, p. 2. Regulation as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2256/2004 (OJ L 385, 29.12.2004, p. 24).

(2) Not yet published in the Official Journal.

It shall apply from 1 January 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 December 2004.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX VIII

WEST BANK AND THE GAZA STRIP

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature, the wording for the description of the
products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined, within
the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of the current regulation.
Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application of the CN code and
corresponding description taken together.

Order No

CN code

Description of goods

Quota period

Quota volume
(in tonnes net weight)

Quota duty

09.1383

0409 00 00

Natural honey

From 1.1 to 31.12.2005

500

Exemption

PART A: Tariff quotas

From 1.1 to 31.12.2006

From 1.1 to 31.12.2007 and for
each period thereafter from 1.1 to
31.12

750

1 000

From 1.1 to 31.12.2005

2 000

Exemption

From 1.1 to 31.12.2006

From 1.1 to 31.12.2007 and for
each period thereafter from 1.1 to
31.12

2 250

2 500

From 1.1 to 31.12

500

Exemption

09.1382

0603 10

Fresh cut flowers and flower buds
of a kind suitable for ornamental
purposes

09.1384

0712 31 00
0712 32 00
0712 33 00
0712 39 00

Mushrooms, wood ears (Auricularia
spp.), jelly fungi (Tremella spp.) and
truffles, dried

09.1385

0806 10 10

Fresh table grapes

From 1.2 to 14.7.2005

1 000

Exemption

From 1.2 to 14.7.2006

From 1.2 to 14.7.2007 and for
each period thereafter from 1.2 to
14.7

1 500

2 000

09.1381

0810 10 00

Fresh strawberries

From 1.11.2004 to 31.3.2005

1 680

Exemption

From 1.11.2005 to 31.3.2006

From 1.11.2006 to 31.3.2007 and
for each period thereafter
from
1.11 to 31.3

2 500

3 000

09.1386

1509 10

Virgin olive oil

From 1.1 to 31.12.2005

2 000

Exemption

From 1.1 to 31.12.2006

From 1.1 to 31.12.2007 and for
each period thereafter from 1.1 to
31.12

2 500

3 000

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PART B: Reference quantities

Order No

CN code

Taric
subdivision

Description of goods

Reference quantity period

18.0310

0702 00 00

Tomatoes, fresh or chilled

From 1.12.2004 to 31.3.2005

From 1.12.2005 to 31.3.2006
and for each period thereafter
from 1.12 to 31.3

Reference quantity
volume
(in tonnes net
weight)

1 750

2 000

Reference
quantity duty

Exemption (1)

18.0320

0709 30 00

Aubergines
chilled

(eggplants),

fresh or

From 15.1 to 30.4

3 000

Exemption

18.0330

ex 0709 60

Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of
the genus Pimenta, fresh or chilled:

From 1.1 to 31.12

1 000

Exemption

0709 60 10

0709 60 99

Sweet peppers

Other

18.0340

0709 90 70

Courgettes, fresh or chilled

From 1.12 to 28/29.2

300

Exemption (1)

18.0350

0805 10 20

Fresh oranges

From 1.1 to 31.12

25 000

Exemption (1)

ex 0805 10 80

18.0360

ex 0805 20 10

ex 0805 20 30

10

05

05

ex 0805 20 50

07, 37

ex 0805 20 70

05

ex 0805 20 90

05, 09

(including

Mandarins
and
wilkings
hybrids, fresh

satsumas);
and

tangerines
clementines,
citrus

similar

From 1.1 to 31.12

500

Exemption (1)

18.0370

ex 0805 50 10

10

Lemons
limonum), fresh

(Citrus

limon,

Citrus

From 1.1 to 31.12

800

Exemption (1)

18.0380

0807 19 00

Melons
fresh

(1) The exemption applies only to the ad valorem duty.’

(excluding watermelons),

From 1.11 to 31.5

10 000

Exemption