Council Regulation (EC) No 683/2006 of  27 February 2006  concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Kingdom of Thailand 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, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2006-02-27
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, Thailand, accession to the European Union, fish, fish product, preserved product, rice, tariff quota, trade agreement (EU)

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 683/2006

of 27 February 2006

concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between
the European Community and the Kingdom of Thailand 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, amending and 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,

the Community,
the said Agreement with a view to
closing negotiations initiated pursuant to Article XXIV:6
of GATT 1994.

(3)

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

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

referred to as

By Decision 2006/324/EC of 27 February 2006 on the
conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange
of Letters between the European Community and the
Kingdom of Thailand 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
the Republic of
of Latvia,
the Republic of
Hungary,
and the Slovak
Poland,
Republic
accession to the
European Union (2), the Council approved, on behalf of

the Republic of Lithuania,
the Republic of Malta,
the Republic of Slovenia
their

course of

in the

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 amended and
supplemented as follows:

1. CN codes 1006 10, 1006 20, 1006 40, 1604 20 50 and
1604 20 70, set out in point (a) of Annex to this Regulation,
shall be inserted into the said Annex 7;

2. CN code 1006 30 shall be supplemented with the volumes

as set out in point (b) of Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

The Regulation shall enter into force four 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, 27 February 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 486/2006 (OJ L 88, 25.3.2006, p. 1).

(2) See page 17 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.

(a)

CN Code

Description

Other terms and conditions

item

Tariff
number
1006 10

item

Tariff
number
1006 20

item

Tariff
number
1006 40

item

Tariff
number
1604 20 50

Paddy rice

Husked rice

Broken rice

A new annual tariff rate quota (erga omnes) of
7 tonnes, in quota rate 15 %

A new annual tariff rate quota (erga omnes) of
1 634 tonnes, in quota rate 15 %

A new annual tariff rate quota (erga omnes) of
31 788 tonnes in quota rate 0 %

Prepared or preserved fish (excl. whole or in
pieces):
— of sardines, bonito, mackerel of the species
Scomber scombrus and Scomber japonicus,
fish or the species Orcynopsis unicolor

A new annual tariff rate quota of 2 275 tonnes
of which 1 410 tonnes shall be allocated to
Thailand, the rest erga omnes, with an in quota
rate of 0 %, out of quota rate 25 %

item

Tariff
number
1604 20 70

Prepared or preserved fish (excl. whole or in
pieces):
— of tunas, skipjack or other fish of the genus

Euthynnus

A new annual tariff rate quota of 2 558 tonnes
of which 1 816 tonnes shall be allocated to
Thailand, the rest erga omnes, with an in quota
rate of 0 %, out of quota rate 24 %

(b)

CN Code

Description

Other terms and conditions

Semi-milled or wholly-milled rice

item

Tariff
number
1006 30

An increase in annual tariff rate quota of 25 516
tonnes (erga omnes) in the current EC15 quota, in
quota rate 0 %

allocation of 1 200 tonnes

A country
to
Thailand to be integrated in the current EC15
semi-wholly milled rice quota, in quota rate 0 %