Commission Regulation (EC) No 1712/2006 of 20 November 2006 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products originating in Turkey
Date: 2006-11-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Türkiye, agricultural product, originating product, tariff exemption, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1712/2006

of 20 November 2006

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards Community tariff quotas for certain
agricultural products originating in Turkey

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 of
9 April 2001 providing for the management of Community
tariff quotas and of reference quantities for products eligible
for preferences by virtue of agreements with certain Mediter-
ranean countries and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1981/94
and (EC) No 934/95 (1), and in particular Article 5(1)(b) thereof,

(3)

(4)

(5)

To implement the new tariff quotas and the changes to
the existing tariff quotas, it is necessary to amend Regu-
lation (EC) No 747/2001.

Since Decision No 2/2006 of the EC-Turkey Association
Council is applicable from 1 November 2006, this Regu-
lation should apply from the same date and should enter
into force as soon as possible.

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

By Decision No 2/2006 of 17 October 2006 (2)
the
EC-Turkey Association Council has
the
approved
amendment to Protocols 1 and 2 to Decision No 1/98
of
the EC-Turkey Association Council on the trade
regime for agricultural products.

For certain agricultural products originating in Turkey,
the amended Protocol 1 provides for new Community
tariff quotas and for changes to the existing Community
tariff quotas laid down in Regulation (EC) No 747/2001.

Article 1

Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 is replaced by the
text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 November 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 November 2006.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 109, 19.4.2001, p. 2. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 19/2006 (OJ L 4, 7.1.2006, p. 7).

(2) Not yet published in the Official Journal.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX IX

TURKEY

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the
products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined, within
the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of this Regulation.
Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application of the CN code and
corresponding description taken together.

Tariff quotas

Order No

CN code

Description of goods

Quota period

Quota volume (in
tonnes net weight)

Quota duty

09.0202

0701 90

Potatoes, fresh or chilled, other than seed

From 1.1 to 31.12

2 500

Exemption

09.0211

0703 10 11
0703 10 19

Onions, fresh or chilled

From 16.5 to 14.2

2 000

Exemption

09.0213

0709 30 00

Aubergines (eggplants), fresh or chilled

From 1.5 to 14.1

1 000

Exemption

09.0215

0709 90 70

Courgettes, fresh or chilled

From 1.3 to 30.11

500

Exemption (1)

09.0204

0806 10 10

Fresh table grapes

From 1.5 to 17.6 and
from 1.8 to 14.11

350

Exemption (1)

09.0217 (2)

0807 11 00

Watermelons, fresh

From 16.6 to 31.3

16 500

Exemption

09.0219

Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or
content
boiling in water,
exceeding 13 % by weight:

frozen, with a

sugar

From 1.1 to 31.12

100

Exemption

0811 10 11

Strawberries

0811 20 11

Raspberries,
black-, white- or redcurrants and gooseberries

blackberries, mulberries,

loganberries,

0811 90 19

Other, except tropical fruit and tropical nuts

09.0206

1509 10 90

Other virgin olive oil

From 1.1 to 31.12

100

7,5 % ad valorem

09.0221

Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by
vinegar or acetic acid:

From 1.1 to 31.12

8 900

Exemption

2002 10

Whole or in pieces

2002 90 11
2002 90 19

Other, with a dry matter content of less than 12 % by
weight

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Order No

CN code

Description of goods

Quota period

09.0207 (2)

2002 90 31
2002 90 39
2002 90 91
2002 90 99

Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by
vinegar or acetic acid, other than whole or in pieces,
with a dry matter content of not less than 12 % by
weight

From 1.1 to 30.6

09.0209 (2)

2002 90 31
2002 90 39
2002 90 91
2002 90 99

Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by
vinegar or acetic acid, other than whole or in pieces,
with a dry matter content of not less than 12 % by
weight

From 1.7 to 31.12

Quota volume (in
tonnes net weight)

Quota duty

Exemption

Exemption

15 000, of a
dry matter
content of 28
to 30 % by
weight (3)

15 000, of a
dry matter
content of 28
to 30 % by
weight (3)

Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and
fruit or nut pastes

From 1.1 to 31.12

1 750

33 % of the
specific duty

09.0208

2007 10 10
2007 91 10
2007 91 30
2007 99 20
2007 99 31
2007 99 33
2007 99 35
2007 99 39
2007 99 55
2007 99 57

09.0223

2007 91 30

Jams, jellies, marmalades, puree and pastes, obtained by
cooking, other
than homogenised preparations, of
citrus fruit, with a sugar content exceeding 13 % but
not exceeding 30 % by weight

From 1.1 to 31.12

100

Exemption

09.0225

2007 99 39

Other preparations of
fruit and nuts, obtained by
cooking, with a sugar content exceeding 30 % by
weight, other than homogenised preparations

From 1.1 to 31.12

100

Exemption

fruit,

apricots,

Citrus
including
nectarines, and strawberries, otherwise prepared or
preserved

cherries, peaches,

From 1.1 to 31.12

2 100

Exemption (1)

09.0212

2008 30 19
2008 50 19
2008 50 51
2008 50 92
2008 50 94
2008 60 19
2008 70 19
2008 70 51
2008 80 19

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Order No

CN code

Description of goods

Quota period

Quota volume (in
tonnes net weight)

Quota duty

Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices,
unfermented and not containing added spirit

From 1.1 to 31.12

3 400

33 % of the
specific duty

09.0214

2009 11 11
2009 11 91
2009 19 11
2009 19 91
2009 29 11
2009 29 91
2009 39 11
2009 39 51
2009 39 91
2009 61 90
2009 69 11
2009 69 79
2009 69 90
2009 80 11
2009 80 34
2009 80 35
2009 80 61
2009 80 85
2009 80 86
2009 90 11
2009 90 21
2009 90 31
2009 90 71
2009 90 92
2009 90 94

(1) The exemption applies only to the ad valorem duty.
(2) The application of this tariff quota is suspended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1506/98 (OJ L 200, 16.7.1998, p. 1).
(3) For the administration of these Community tariff quotas, the following coefficients will be applied to imports of products with a dry matter content other than 28 to

30 % by weight:

Dry matter content by weight

not less than:

but less than:

12

14

16
18

20

22
24

26

28
30

32

34
36

38

40
42

93

14

16

18
20

22

24
26

28

30
32

34

36
38

40

42
93

100

Coefficients

0,44828

0,51724

0,58621
0,65517

0,72414

0,7931
0,86207

0,93103

1
1,06897

1,13793

1,20689
1,27586

1,34483

1,41379
1,44828
3,32759’