Council Regulation (EC) No 1623/2006 of 17 October 2006 repealing Regulation (EC) No 7/2005 adopting autonomous and transitional measures to open a Community tariff quota for certain agricultural products originating in Switzerland
Date: 2006-10-17
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Council of the European Union, EC Regulation, Switzerland, common tariff policy, leaf vegetable, repeal, tariff preference, tariff quota

1.11.2006

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1623/2006

of 17 October 2006

repealing Regulation (EC) No 7/2005 adopting autonomous and transitional measures to open a
Community tariff quota for certain agricultural products originating in Switzerland

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

open a Community tariff quota for certain agricultural
products originating in Switzerland (2).

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

establishing the European

(4)

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

in

the

laid

tariff

down

concessions

Following the enlargement of the European Union on 1
May 2004, the Community and Switzerland agreed to
adapt
the
Agreement between the European Community and the
Swiss Confederation of 21 June 1999 on trade in agri-
cultural products (1),
the
(hereinafter
Agreement), which entered into force on 1 June 2002.
In particular, they agreed to amend Annexes 1 and 2 to
the Agreement, which listed the concessions, in order to
widen an existing duty-free Community tariff quota to
cover a new product, witloof chicory of CN code
0705 21 00.

referred to as

Pending the formal amendment,
the Community and
Switzerland agreed to provide for the application of the
adapted concessions, as
from 1 May 2004, on an
autonomous and transitional basis.

To ensure that quota benefit for products of CN code
0705 21 00 would be available from 1 May 2004, a new
autonomous Community tariff quota limited to those
products was provided for during a transitional period
by Council Regulation (EC) No 7/2005 of 13 December
2004 adopting autonomous and transitional measures to

(1) OJ L 114, 30.4.2002, p. 132.

Annex 2 to the Agreement, as adapted by Decision No
3/2005 of the Joint Committee for Agriculture set up by
the Agreement between the European Community and
the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products
of 19 December 2005 on the adaptation, following the
enlargement of the European Union, of Annexes 1 and
2 (3),
the
products of CN code 0705 21 00.

tariff quotas expanded to cover

sets out

(5)

is

Annex 2 to the Agreement
implemented by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1630/2006 of 31
October 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 933/2002
opening and providing for the management of
tariff
quotas for certain agricultural products originating in
Switzerland (4) with effect from 1 September 2006.

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 7/2005 should therefore be repealed
with effect from the same date,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 7/2005 is hereby repealed.

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 September 2006.

(2) OJ L 4, 6.1.2005, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 346, 29.12.2005, p. 33.
(4) OJ L 302, 1.11.2006, p. 43.

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

Done at Luxembourg, 17 October 2006.

For the Council
The President

E. TUOMIOJA