Commission Regulation (EC) No 2186/2005 of  27 December 2005  amending Regulation (EC) No 936/97 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for high-quality fresh, chilled and frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat
Date: 2005-12-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: beef, buffalo meat, frozen product, tariff quota

L 347/74

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

30.12.2005

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2186/2005

of 27 December 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 936/97 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas
for high-quality fresh, chilled and frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Decision 2005/959/EC of 21
December 2005 on the conclusion of Agreements in the
form of an Exchange of Letters between the European
Community and Japan and between the European Community
and New Zealand, and in particular Article 2 thereof (1),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 936/97 (2) provides for
the opening and administration, on a multiannual basis,
of a number of quotas of high-quality beef.

As a result of the negotiations between the Community
and New Zealand under Article XXIV:6 and Article
the modification of
XXVIII of GATT 1994 for
concessions in the schedules of
the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia in the course of
their
accession to the European Union,
the Community
agreed to incorporate in its schedule for all Member
States an increase of 1 000 tonnes of
the annual
import tariff quota of high-quality beef.

Regulation (EC) No 936/97 should be
accordingly.

amended

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

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 936/97 is amended as follows:

1. Article 1(1) is amended as follows:

(a)

in the first indent of the first subparagraph,
tonnes’ is replaced by ‘60 100 tonnes’;

‘59 100

(b) the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘However,
59 600 tonnes in the 2005/2006 import year.’

the total volume of

tariff quotas shall be

2. In Article 2, the point (e) is amended as follows:

(a)

in the first subparagraph,
‘1 300 tonnes’;

‘300 tonnes’

is replaced by

(b) the following third subparagraph is added:

‘However,
for the 2005/2006 import year the tariff
for meat
quota shall be 800 tonnes product weight
corresponding to the CN codes and the definition
referred to in the first and in the second subparagraphs.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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, 27 December 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) See page 78 of this Official Journal.
(2) OJ L 137, 28.5.1997, p. 10. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1118/2004 (OJ L 217, 17.6.2004, p. 10).