Commission Regulation (EC) No 928/2006 of  22 June 2006  amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards certain new Community tariff quotas bound in GATT
Date: 2006-06-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: GATT, foodstuff, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 928/2006

of 22 June 2006

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards certain new Community tariff quotas
bound in GATT

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Exchange of Letters, it is necessary to amend Regulation
(EC) No 32/2000.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(5)

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of
17 December 1999 opening and providing for the adminis-
tration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and
and establishing
certain other Community
detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Council
Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 (1), and in particular Article 9(1)(b)
thereof,

tariff quotas

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

By Decision 2006/333/EC (2), the Council has approved
the 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
the Republic of
of Latvia,
the Republic of
Hungary,
and the Slovak
Poland,
Republic
accession to the
in the
European Union.

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

course of

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters
between the European Community and the United States
of America provides for new annual tariff quotas for
certain goods.

Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 opened and provided for
the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in
GATT designed to be used following the chronological
order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations.

of

the

concerning

implementation

Council Regulation (EC) No 711/2006 of 20 March
2006,
the
in the form of an Exchange of Letters
Agreement
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
the Republic of
of Latvia,
the Republic of
Hungary,
and the Slovak
Poland,
Republic
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 (3), provides for the application of the new tariff
quotas six weeks from the date of its publication in the
Official
therefore this
Commission implementing Regulation should apply
from the same date.

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

the European Union,

course of

Journal of

in the

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Customs Code
Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 is amended as set out
in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

(4)

To implement certain new annual tariff quotas for which
provision is made in the Agreement in the form of an

(1) OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2158/2005 (OJ L 342, 24.12.2005, p. 61).

(2) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13.

It shall apply with effect from 22 June 2006.

(3) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 1.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 June 2006.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission

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The following rows are inserted in the table in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000:

ANNEX

‘09.0084

1702 50 00

09.0085

1806

09.0086

1902 11 00
1902 19
1902 20 91
1902 20 99
1902 30
1902 40

09.0087

1901 90 99
1904 30 00
1904 90 80
1905 90 20

09.0088

2106 90 98

Chemically pure
fructose

From 1 January to
31 December

1 253 tonnes

From 1 January to
31 December

107 tonnes

From 1 January to
31 December

532 tonnes

Chocolate and other
food preparations
containing cocoa

Pasta, whether or not
cooked or stuffed or
otherwise prepared,
except stuffed pasta of
CN subheadings
1902 20 10 and
1902 20 30; couscous,
whether or not
prepared

20

43

11

Food preparations of
cereals

From 1 January to
31 December

191 tonnes

33

Other food
preparations not
elsewhere specified or
included

From 1 January to
31 December

921 tonnes

18’