Council Regulation (EC) No 1758/2006 of 22 May 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Malaysia 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 and amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2006-05-22
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: CCT duties, Combined Nomenclature, GATT, Malaysia, accession to the European Union, recording equipment, tariff nomenclature, trade agreement (EU), vegetable oil

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1758/2006

of 22 May 2006

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

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

referred to as

in the

an Agreement

By Decision 2006/862/EC of 22 May 2006 on the
an
conclusion of
Exchange of Letters between the European Community
and Malaysia 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,

form of

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 (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

(3)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Part Two ‘Schedule of customs duties’ of Annex I to Regulation
(EEC) No 2658/87 shall be amended as shown in the Annex to
this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication 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, 22 May 2006.

For the Council
The President

J. PRÖLL

(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 838/2006 (OJ L 154, 8.6.2006, p. 1).

(2) See page 38 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.

In Part Two ‘Schedule of customs duties’ of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, the following duty rates shall apply
for the period indicated:

CN code

‘1511 90 19

8525 40 99

Description

Duty rate

Solid palm oil
refined, but not chemically modified,
packing of > 1 kg

fractions, whether or not
in

Other video camera recorders, other than
those only able
to record sound and
images taken by the television camera

An applied rate of 10,0 % (*)

Implemented through Council Regulation (EC)
No 2114/2005

(*) The lower applied rate indicated above is to be applied for three years or until the implementation of the results of the Doha

Development Agenda Round reaches the tariff level above, whichever comes first.’