Council Regulation (EC) No 2175/2005 of  21 December 2005  concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and New Zealand pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules 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 in the course of their accession to the European Union, supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2005-12-21
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: New Zealand, accession to the European Union, beef, butter, goatmeat, tariff quota, trade agreement (EU)

30.12.2005

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2175/2005

of 21 December 2005

concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between
the European Community and New Zealand pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions
in the schedules 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 in the course of their
accession to the European Union, supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the
tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

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,

Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic
of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of
their accession to the European Union (2), the Council
approved, on behalf of
said
Agreement with a view to closing negotiations initiated
pursuant to Article XXIV:6 of GATT 1994.

the Community,

the

Whereas:

(3)

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 should therefore be
supplemented accordingly,

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1) established a goods
nomenclature, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Combined
Nomenclature’, and set out the conventional duty rates of
the Common Customs Tariff.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

By Decision 2005/959/EC of 21 December 2005 on the
conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange
of Letters between the European Community and New
Zealand pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and XXVIII of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994
in the
relating to the modification of concessions
schedules of
the Republic of
Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia,
the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the

the Czech Republic,

In Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Annex 7 entitled WTO Tariff
Quotas to be opened by the competent Community authorities,
of Section III of Part Three of Annex I, shall be supplemented
with the volumes as shown 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.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2005.

For the Council
The President

B. BRADSHAW

(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 493/2005 (OJ L 82, 31.3.2005, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 347, 30.12.2005, p. 78.

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ANNEX

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 concessions 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 concessions are to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding
description taken together.

CN Code

Description

Other terms and conditions

add 1 000 tonnes

Tariff item numbers
ex 0201 20 90
ex 0201 30 00
ex 0202 20 90
ex 0202 30
ex 0206 10 95
ex 0206 29 91

pasture-grazed

‘high quality’ beef;
‘selected chilled or
frozen premium beef cuts derived from
exclusively
bovine
animals which do not have more
than four permanent incisor teeth in
wear,
the carcases of which have a
dressed weight of not more than 325
kilograms, a compact appearance with
a good eye of meat of
light and
uniform colour and adequate but not
excessive fat cover. All cuts will be
vacuum packaged and referred to as
high quality beef’

Tariff item number 0204

Quota for sheep meat;
or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen’

‘meat of sheep

add 1 154 tonnes (carcase weight) to
the allocation for New Zealand

Tariff item number ex 0405 10

Butter of New Zealand origin, at least
6 weeks old, of a fat content by weight
of not less than 80 % but less than
from
82 %, manufactured
the use of
milk or cream without
stored materials,
self-
single,
in a
contained and uninterrupted process

directly

add 735 tonnes to the allocation for
New Zealand