Council Regulation (EC) No 267/2006 of  30 January 2006  concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Australia 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: 2006-01-30
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Australia, Combined Nomenclature, accession to the European Union, beef, butter, fresh meat, frozen product, hard cheese, raw sugar, refrigerated product, sheepmeat, tariff quota

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 267/2006

of 30 January 2006

concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between
the European Community and Australia 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 establishing tshe European
Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

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.

By Decision 2006/106/EC of 30 January 2006 on the
conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange
of Letters between the European Community and
Australia 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
the Republic of Cyprus,
the
Republic of Lithuania,

the Republic of Latvia,
the Republic of Hungary,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

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 six weeks after its publi-
cation 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, 30 January 2006.

For the Council
The President

U. PLASSNIK

(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) See page 52 of this Official Journal.

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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.

Qualification for these quotas is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions

CN code

Description

Other terms and conditions

Tariff item number
0204

Tariff item number
1701 11 10

Tariff item number
0202 20 30
0202 30
0206 29 91

Tariff item number
ex 0201
ex 0202
ex 0206 10 95 and
ex 0206 29 91

Tariff item number
ex 0406 90 21

Tariff item number
0405 10
0405 90

Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen

Raw cane sugar, for refining

Meat of bovine animals, frozen; unseparated or separated fore-
quarters; boneless and edible offal of bovine animals, frozen;
thick skirt and thin skirt. The meat imported shall be used for
processing

Add 136 tonnes (carcase
weight) to the allocation for
Australia

A country allocated
(Australia) tariff rate quota
9 925 tonnes, in quota rate
EUR 98 per tonne (*)

Add 4 003 tonnes (erga
omnes) in EC tariff quota

High quality meat of bovine animals, fresh, chilled or frozen,
with or without bone; edible offal of bovine animals, fresh,
chilled or frozen

Add 150 tonnes (product
weight) to the allocation for
Australia

Cheddar cheese

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk

Add 461 tonnes to the
allocation for Australia

Add 1 360 tonnes (erga
omnes) in the EC tariff rate
quota

(*) This rate applies to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % (see also additional note 2 to Chapter 17).