Commission Regulation (EC) No 1046/2005 of 4 July 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Decision 2003/286/EC as regards the concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas on certain cereal products originating in the Republic of Bulgaria and amending Regulation (EC) No 2809/2000
Date: 2005-07-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, agricultural trade, maize, tariff preference, tariff quota, wheat

5.7.2005

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1046/2005

of 4 July 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council
Decision 2003/286/EC as regards the concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas on certain
cereal products originating in the Republic of Bulgaria and amending Regulation (EC) No 2809/2000

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Decision 2003/286/EC of 8 April
2003 on the conclusion of a Protocol adjusting the trade
aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an association
between the European Communities and their Member States,
of the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the other part,
to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the
Parties on new mutual agricultural concessions (1), and in
particular Article 3(2) thereof,

Having regard to the Council and Commission Decision
2005/430/EC, Euratom of 18 April 2005 on the conclusion
of an Additional Protocol to the Europe Agreement establishing
an association between the European Communities and their
Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria,
of the other part, to take account of accession of the Czech
Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the
Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of
Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the
Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the European
Union (2), and in particular Article 2 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

By Decision 2003/286/EC the Community undertook to
establish nil duty import tariff quotas for wheat, meslin
and wheat gluten and for maize from Bulgaria. For the
2003/2004 marketing year the volumes of these were set
respectively.
at 250 000 tonnes and 80 000 tonnes

Commission Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 (3) sets rules
for managing the tariff quotas.

By Decision 2005/430/EC, Euratom the Community has
undertaken to increase the wheat, meslin and wheat
gluten quota to 352 000 tonnes from 1 July 2005,
with a yearly increase of 32 000 tonnes. Annex I to
Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 must
therefore be
adapted to take account of this increase.

Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 should be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for cereals,

(2)

(3)

(4)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 is replaced by the text
in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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 July 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 July 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 102, 24.4.2003, p. 60.
(2) OJ L 155, 17.6.2005, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 136, 4.6.2003, p. 3. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 777/2004 (OJ L 123, 27.4.2004, p. 50).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

List of products originating in Bulgaria to in Article 1(1) and (2)

CN code

Order No

Description of
product

Duty

Annual quantity from
1.7.2005 to 30.6.2006
and following years
(tonnes)

Yearly increase as from
1.7.2006
(tonnes)

1001

09.4676

Wheat and meslin

Nil

352 000

32 000

1109 00 00

1005 90 00
1005 10 90

Wheat gluten

09.4677

Maize

Nil

96 000

8 000’