Commission Regulation (EC) No 937/2006 of  23 June 2006  opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota of corn gluten originating in the United States of America
Date: 2006-06-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United States, import, maize, originating product, tariff quota

24.6.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 172/9

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 937/2006

of 23 June 2006

opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota of corn gluten
originating in the United States of America

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

certificate of origin issued by those authorities should
be required on import, in accordance with Community
legislation.

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,

(4)

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(GATT) 1994 (2),

Under 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
approved by Council
Decision 2006/333/EC (3),
the Community undertook
to open, each calendar year, a tariff quota at a rate
below the common external tariff, at an ad valorem rate
of 16 %, for corn gluten falling within CN subheading
ex 2303 10 11 of the tariff and statistical nomenclature
and the common customs tariff originating in the United
States of America.

To ensure the proper administration of this tariff quota,
provision should be made to allow traders to benefit
from it
in accordance with the rules laid down in
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), allowing it
to be
used in the chronological order of the dates on which
the customs declarations are accepted.

The origin of the products is determined in accordance
with the provisions in force in the Community. To verify
the origin of the products, account should be taken of
the control measures
introduced by the competent
the United States of America, and the
authorities of

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

(EC) No 1154/2005 (OJ L 187, 19.7.2005, p. 11).

(2) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 15.
(3) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13.
(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).

Article 1

corn gluten falling within CN subheading
Imports of
ex 2303 10 11 (TARIC subheading 10) originating in the
United States of America shall attract an ad valorem customs
duty of 16 % within the tariff quota of 10 000 tonnes net for
each calendar year starting in 2006.

This tariff quota shall be administered under serial number
09.0090.

Article 2

1.
The tariff quota referred to in Article 1 shall be managed
by the Commission in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and
308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

Use of the tariff quota shall be subject to presentation of a
2.
certificate of origin issued by the competent authorities of the
United States of America in accordance with Articles 55 to 65
of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93. The origin of the products
covered by this Regulation shall be determined in accordance
with the provisions in force in the Community.

Article 3

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

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

Done at Brussels, 23 June 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission