Commission Regulation (EC) No 899/2006 of  19 June 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 2133/2001 opening and providing for the administration of certain Community tariff quotas and tariff ceilings in the cereals sector as regards the opening of a Community tariff quota for certain dog or cat food falling within CN code  230910
Date: 2006-06-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cereal product, cereals, pet food, tariff ceiling, tariff quota

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 899/2006

of 19 June 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 2133/2001 opening and providing for the administration of certain
Community tariff quotas and tariff ceilings in the cereals sector as regards the opening of a
Community tariff quota for certain dog or cat food falling within CN code 2309 10

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of
29 September 2003 on the common organisation of
the
market in cereals (1), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof,

Having regard to Council Decision 2006/333/EC of 20 March
2006 on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an
Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the
United States of America 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 (2), and in particular Article 2 thereof,

in the chronological order of the dates of the customs
imports under a
declarations and the monitoring of
preferential regime. To harmonise the management of
this new tariff quota with similar quotas, its management
should be incorporated into the relevant provision.

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2133/2001 (5) should
therefore be amended accordingly.

(4)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following line is hereby added to Annex II to Regulation
(EC) No 2133/2001:

Whereas:

Order No

CN code

Description

(1)

(2)

The agreement between the Community and the United
States of America (3) approved by Decision 2006/333/EC
provides, for each calendar year from 2006 onwards, for
a tariff quota for the import of certain dog or cat food
falling within CN code 2309 10 at a customs duty of
7 % ad valorem.

‘09.0089

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July
1993 laying down provisions for the implementation
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing
the Community Customs Code (4) brings together the
management rules applicable to tariff quotas to be used

Dog or cat
food, put up
for retail sale

2309 10 13
2309 10 15
2309 10 19
2309 10 33
2309 10 39
2309 10 51
2309 10 53
2309 10 59
2309 10 70

Article 2

Quota
volume
in net
weight
(tonnes)

2 058

Tariff
quota
duty

7 % ad
valorem

Origin

All third
countries
(erga
omnes)’

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78. Regulation as

(EC) No 1154/2005 (OJ

amended by
L 187,

Commission Regulation
19.7.2005, p. 11).

(2) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 15.
(4) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 402/2006 (OJ L 70, 9.3.2006, p. 35).

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

its publication in the Official

Journal of

(5) OJ L 287, 31.10.2001, p. 12. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 777/2004 (OJ L 123, 27.4.2004, p. 50).

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 19 June 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission