Council Regulation (EC) No 374/2005 of 28 February 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 introducing exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the European Union’s stabilisation and association process
Date: 2005-02-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, CCT duties, Serbia and Montenegro, common tariff policy, exemption from customs duties, sugar, tariff quota

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 374/2005

of 28 February 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 introducing exceptional trade measures for countries and
territories participating in or linked to the European Union’s stabilisation and association process

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(a) paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:

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

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Regulation

the
(EC) No
Under
Community has extended duty-free access to imports
from the
concerned of most agricultural
goods, including sugar.

2007/2000 (1),

countries

In the case of sugar, the duty-free access for unlimited
quantities has created an incentive for western Balkan
production at levels that are unsustainable in view of
foreseeable developments.

The modification of the import regime for each of the
western Balkan countries, while allowing the respect of
present trade concessions will prepare their sector for the
adjustments needed to perform within a realistic and
economically sustainable environment.

Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 should be amended to
clarify that preferential Community wine imports from
the western Balkans benefit only from tariff quotas,
rather
the
autonomous measures,

than unlimited duty-free

access, under

Subject

‘1.
to the special provisions laid down in
Articles 3 and 4, products originating in Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro,
including Kosovo, other than those of heading Nos
0102, 0201, 0202, 1604, 1701, 1702 and 2204 of
shall be admitted for
the Combined Nomenclature,
import
quantitative
restrictions or measures having equivalent effect and
with exemption from customs duties and charges
having equivalent effect.’

into the Community without

(b) the following paragraph shall be added:

‘3.
Imports of sugar products under heading Nos
1701 and 1702 of the Combined Nomenclature origi-
nating in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia
and Montenegro,
including Kosovo, shall benefit from
concessions provided for in Article 4.’;

2. the following paragraph 4 shall be added to Article 4:

‘4.
Imports of sugar products under heading Nos 1701
and 1702 of the Combined Nomenclature originating in
and
Albania,
and Herzegovina
Montenegro,
to the
following annual duty-free tariff quotas:

and
shall be subject

including Kosovo,

Bosnia

Serbia

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

(a) 1 000 tonnes (net weight) for sugar products originating

in Albania;

Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 is hereby amended as follows:

(b) 12 000 tonnes (net weight)

for sugar products origi-

nating in Bosnia and Herzegovina;

1. Article 1 shall be amended as follows:

(1) OJ L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 607/2003 (OJ L 86, 3.4.2003, p. 18).

(c) 180 000 tonnes (net weight) for sugar products origi-
nating in Serbia and Montenegro, including Kosovo.’;

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3. Article 6 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

the title shall be replaced by the following:

the procedure laid down in Article 42(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1260/2001 of 19 June 2001 on the common
organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (*).

‘Implementation of
sugar’.

tariff quotas for “baby beef” and

(b) the following subparagraph shall be added:

‘The detailed rules for implementing the tariff quotas for
sugar products under heading Nos 1701 and 1702 shall
be determined by the Commission in accordance with

___________
(*) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1. Regulation as

amended
No 39/2004 (OJ L 6, 10.1.2004, p. 16).’

Commission

Regulation

by

last
(EC)

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 February 2005.

For the Council
The President

F. BODEN