Commission Regulation (EC) No 1048/2006 of  10 July 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 2185/2005 opening Community tariff quotas for 2006 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat
Date: 2006-07-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: goat, goatmeat, live animal, originating product, sheep, sheepmeat, tariff quota

11.7.2006

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1048/2006

of 10 July 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 2185/2005 opening Community tariff quotas for 2006 for sheep,
goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 of 19
December 2001 on the common organisation of the market in
sheepmeat and goatmeat (1), and in particular Article 16(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2185/2005 (2) provides
for the opening of Community tariff quotas for sheep,
goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat for the period from 1
January to 31 December 2006.

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters
between the
and Australia
European Community
to Article XXIV.6 and Article XXVIII of
pursuant
the General Agreement
Trade
1994 (3),
by Council Decision
(GATT)
2006/106/EC (4), provides for the granting of an addi-
tional tariff quota quantity of 136 tonnes (carcass weight)
for Australia as from 1 January 2006, which should be
added to the quantity available for 2006.

approved

Tariffs

and

on

the negotiations which led to the
As a result of
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 (5), approved by Council Decision
2006/333/EC (6),
the Community undertook to incor-

live

sheep, other

import
porate in its schedule an erga omnes annual
than pure-bred
tariff quota of
(43
breeding animals of 91 tonnes natural weight
tonnes carcass weight). The import tariff quota of live
animals of 49 tonnes carcass weight previously attributed
to the ‘others’ shall be open to all. The two import tariff
quotas of live animals should be summed up to give a
total of 92 tonnes carcass weight. The order number of
the quota will remain the same.

(4)

(5)

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 2185/2005 should be amended
accordingly.

Since the tariff quotas are opened from 1 January 2006,
this Regulation should apply retroactively as from the
same date.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2185/2005 is replaced by the
text 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.

It shall apply from 1 January 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 10 July 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 3. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).

(2) OJ L 347, 30.12.2005, p. 70.
(3) OJ L 47, 17.2.2006, p. 54.
(4) OJ L 47, 17.2.2006, p. 52.
(5) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 15.
(6) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX

SHEEPMEAT AND GOATMEAT (in tonnes (t) of carcass weight equivalent)
COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTAS FOR 2006

Country
group
No

CN codes

Ad valorem
duty
%

Specific duty
EUR/100 kg

1

0204

Zero

Zero

Order number under “first-come, first-served”

Live animals
(Coefficient =
0,47)

Boneless
lamb (1)
(Coefficient =
1,67)

Boneless
mutton/sheep (2)
(Coefficient =
1,81)

Bone-in and
carcasses
(Coefficient =
1,00)

Origin

Annual
volume in
tonnes of
carcass
weight
equivalent

09.2101

09.2102

09.2011

Argentina

23 000

09.2105

09.2106

09.2012

Australia

18 786

09.2109

09.2110

09.2013

New Zealand

227 854

09.2111

09.2112

09.2014

Uruguay

09.2115

09.2116

09.1922

Chile

09.2119

09.2120

09.0790

Iceland

09.2121

09.2122

09.0781

Norway

09.2125

09.2126

09.0693

Greenland

09.2129

09.2130

09.0690

Faeroes

09.2131

09.2132

09.0227

Turkey

5 800

5 600

1 350

300

100

20

200

100

Zero

Zero

09.2141

09.2145

09.2149

09.1622

ACP States

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

0204

0204

Zero

Zero

Zero

Zero

2

3

4

0104 10 30,
0104 10 80 and
0104 20 90.
For the species “other
than domestic sheep”
only: ex 0204,
ex 0210 99 21 and
ex 0210 99 29

For the species
“domestic sheep” only:
ex 0204,
ex 0210 99 21 and
ex 0210 99 29

5 (3)

0204

6

0104 10 30
0104 10 80
0104 20 90

Zero

65 %
reduction
of specific
duties

Zero

10 %

Zero

Zero

09.2161

09.2165

09.1626

ACP States

500

09.2171

09.2175

09.2015

Others

09.2181

—

—

09.2019

Erga omnes

200

92

(1) And goatmeat of kid.
(2) And goatmeat other than of kid.
(3) “Others” shall refer to all origins including the ACP States and excluding the other countries mentioned in the current table.’