Commission Regulation (EC) No 2158/2005 of  23 December 2005  amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the extension of the Community tariff quotas for jute and coconut-fibre products
Date: 2005-12-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: jute, nut, tariff quota, textile product

24.12.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 342/61

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2158/2005

of 23 December 2005

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the extension of the Community tariff
quotas for jute and coconut-fibre products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of
17 December 1999 opening and providing for the adminis-
tration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and
certain other Community
and establishing
detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Council
Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 (1), and in particular the second
indent of Article 9(1)(b), thereof,

tariff quotas

(4)

(5)

been

extended

the GSP-scheme

As
until
has
31 December 2008 by Council Regulation (EC) No
980/2005 of 27 June 2005 applying generalised tariff
preferences (3), the tariff quota arrangement for jute and
coconut-fibre products should also be extended until
31 December 2008.

Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

In accordance with the offer it made within the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad)
and alongside its
scheme of generalised preferences
(GSP), the Community introduced tariff preferences in
1971 for jute and coconut-fibre products originating in
certain developing countries. These preferences took the
form of a gradual reduction of Common Customs Tariff
duties and,
the
complete suspension of these duties.

from 1978 to 31 December 1994,

Since the entry into force of the GSP-scheme in 1995,
the GATT, opened
the Community has,
alongside
autonomous zero-duty Community tariff quotas
for
jute and coconut-fibre products.
specific quantities of
The tariff quotas opened for those products by Regu-
lation (EC) No 32/2000 have been extended until
31 December 2005 by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 25/2005 (2).

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The phrase, for serial numbers 09.0107, 09.0109 and 09.0111,
in the fifth column (Quota period) of Annex III to Regulation
(EC) No 32/2000, ‘from 1.1.2005 to 31.12.2005’ is replaced by
‘from 1.1.2006 to 31.12.2006, from 1.1.2007 to 31.12.2007
and from 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2008’.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 December 2005.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1102/2005 (OJ L 183, 14.7.2005, p. 65).

(2) OJ L 6, 8.1.2005, p. 4.

(3) OJ L 169, 30.6.2005, p. 1.