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, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 851/95
Date: 2006-10-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Switzerland, agricultural product, leaf vegetable, originating product, tariff quota

1.11.2006

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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, and repealing Regulation (EC)
No 851/95

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

the
Having regard to Decision 2002/309/EC, Euratom of
Council, and of the Commission as regards the Agreement on
Scientific and Technological Cooperation, of 4 April 2002 on
the conclusion of seven Agreements with the Swiss Confe-
deration (1), and in particular Article 5(3) thereof,

Whereas:

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 (2), hereinafter
the
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

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

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 open a Community tariff quota for certain agricultural
products originating in Switzerland (3).

Annex 2 to the Agreement, as amended by Decision No
3/2005 of the Joint Committee on 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 (4) sets out tariff quotas expanded to cover the
products of CN code 0705 21 00.
therefore
necessary to adjust
the corresponding implementation
provisions.

is

It

Commission Regulation (EC) No 933/2002 (5) should
therefore be amended accordingly.

Regulation (EC) No 7/2005 is repealed from 1 September
2006 by Regulation (EC) No 1623/2006 (6). This Regu-
lation should therefore apply from the same date.

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

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

To ensure that the quota benefit for products of CN code
0705 21 00 would be available from 1 May 2004, an
autonomous Community tariff quota limited to those

In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 933/2002 the row for
order No 09.0925 is replaced by the following:

Order No

CN code

TARIC code

Description

Rate of duty

‘09.0925

0705 11 00
0705 19 00
0705 21 00
0705 29 00

Free

Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and
(Cichorium spp.),
chicory
including Witloof chicory
(Cichorium intybus
var.
foliosum), fresh or chilled

Annual volume
(in tonnes net
weight)

3 000’

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

(3) OJ L 4, 6.1.2005, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 346, 29.12.2005, p.33.
(5) OJ L 144, 1.6.2002, p. 22.
(6) See page 1 of this Official Journal.

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Article 2

For the year 2006, the volume of Community tariff quota No 09.0925 shall be reduced by the quantity
used before the date provided for in Article 3, under Community tariff quota No 09.0947 provided for in
Regulation (EC) No 7/2005.

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

Article 3

It shall apply from 1 September 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 31 October 2006.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission