Commission Regulation (EC) No 316/2006 of  22 February 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas
Date: 2006-02-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Jordan, New Zealand, butter, cheese, import policy, milk, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 316/2006

of 22 February 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council
Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products
and opening tariff quotas

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of
17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in
milk and milk products (1), and in particular Article 29(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

the Republic of Malta,

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 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 nomen-
clature and on the Common Customs Tariff (4), provides
for an additional allocation of 735 tonnes of butter
import
originating in New Zealand under the annual
tariff quota.
the
quantity of butter under quota No 09.4589 referred to
in Annex III.A to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001.

is therefore appropriate to adjust

It

Council Decision 2006/67/EC of 20 December 2005 on
the conclusion of an Agreement
in the form of an
Exchange of Letters between the European Community
and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan concerning reci-
liberalisation measures and amending the EC-
procal
Jordan
Association
Agreement) as well as replacing Annexes I, II, III and
IV and Protocols 1 and 2 to that Agreement (2),
provides
into the
and unlimited access
Community of cheese originating in Jordan.

Association

Agreement

(the

free

for

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(6)

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

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 (3)
lays
inter alia, detailed rules for the application to
down,
the import arrangements
milk and milk products of
provided for
the Association Agreement. Since the
provisions relating to an import quota of cheese origi-
nating in Jordan are no more compatible with the free
and unlimited access
that
product as provided for in Protocol 1 of the Association
Agreement as replaced by the Agreement in the form of
an Exchange of Letters referred above, they should be
deleted.

into the Community of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 is amended as follows:

Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 provides
for a yearly tariff quota of butter originating in New
Zealand.

1.

in Article 5, point (g) is deleted;

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
to
European Community and New Zealand pursuant

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48. Regulation last

(EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ

amended by
L 307,

Commission Regulation
25.11.2005, p. 2).

(2) OJ L 41, 13.2.2006, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 29. Regulation last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1036/2005 (OJ L 171, 2.7.2005, p. 19).

2.

in Article 13(2), the second subparagraph is replaced by the
following text:

‘However, in the case of the quotas referred to in Article 5(c),
(d), (e), (f) and (h), licence applications shall relate to at least
10 tonnes and to no more than the quantity available for
each period.’;

(4) OJ L 347, 30.12.2005, p. 9.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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3.

in Annex I, Part I.G is deleted;

Article 2

4.

in Annex III.A, the part relating to quota number 09.4589 is
replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

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, 22 February 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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