Commission Regulation (EC) No 970/2006 of  29 June 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 2305/2003 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for imports of barley from third countries
Date: 2006-06-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: barley, import, import licence, originating product, tariff quota, third country

30.6.2006

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 970/2006

of 29 June 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 2305/2003 opening and providing for the administration of a
Community tariff quota for imports of barley from third countries

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,

Whereas:

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 (2), approved by Council Decision 2006/333/EC (3),
provides for an increase of 6 215 tonnes in the tariff
quota for barley.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2305/2003 (4) opens a
Community tariff quota for barley. The quantity of barley
covered by the quota should be increased in application
of the Agreement approved by Decision 2006/333/EC.

(5) With a view to modernising the administration of the
system, provision should be made for the electronic
the
transmission of
Commission.

information required by

the

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

In order to clarify the rules, the expression ‘reduction
coefficient’ should moreover be replaced by ‘allocation
coefficient’.

Regulation (EC) No 2305/2003 should therefore be
amended.

Since the Agreement approved by Decision 2006/333/EC
provides for implementation on 1 July 2006, this Regu-
lation must apply from the date of its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Union.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2305/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 1 is replaced by the following:

In the interests of simplification, the obsolete provisions
of Regulation (EC) No 2305/2003, relating to 2004,
should be deleted.

‘Article 1

A tariff quota is hereby opened for the import of
1.
306 215 tonnes of barley falling within CN code 1003 00
(serial No 09.4126).

In order to clarify the rules, it should be stipulated that
import licence applications must be lodged on Monday
at the latest but may be lodged earlier.

2.
The tariff quota shall be opened on 1 January each
year. Duties on imports within the tariff quota shall be
levied at a rate of EUR 16 per tonne.

(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. 15.
(3) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 342, 30.12.2003, p. 7. Regulation as amended by Regulation

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

Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 shall apply
to imports of the products referred to in this Regulation in
excess of the quantity provided for in paragraph 1 of this
Article.’

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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2. Article 3 is amended as follows:

(a) Paragraph 1 is amended as follows:

(i) The first subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘1.
shall be
for
Applications
lodged with the
the
competent
Member States each week no later than Monday at
13.00 (Brussels time).’

licences
authorities of

import

(ii) The third subparagraph is deleted.

(b) In the first

subparagraph of paragraph 2,

the first

sentence is replaced by the following:

‘No later than 18.00 Brussels time on the final day for
the lodging of licence applications, the competent autho-
rities shall forward to the Commission electronically a
notification in accordance with the model given in the
Annex and the total quantity for which import licence
applications have been submitted.’

If

the combined total of

‘3.
the quantities granted
since the start of the year and the quantity referred to
in paragraph 2 exceeds the relevant quota for the year
concerned, the Commission shall fix, no later than the
third working day following the final day for the lodging
of applications, an allocation coefficient to be applied to
the quantities requested.’

(d) In paragraph 4, the first sentence is replaced by the

following:

‘Without prejudice to paragraph 3,
licences shall be
issued on the fourth working day following the final
day for the lodging of applications.’

Article 2

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

(c) Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

It shall apply from 1 July 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 June 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission