Commission Regulation (EC) No 1742/2006 of 24 November 2006 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for wines originating in the Republic of Albania
Date: 2006-11-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Albania, originating product, tariff quota, wine

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1742/2006

of 24 November 2006

opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for wines originating in
the Republic of Albania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of
in
wine (1), and in particular Article 62 thereof,

the market

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

A Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the
European Communities and their Member States, of
the one part, and the Republic of Albania, of the other
referred to as the Stabilisation and
part
Association Agreement), was
signed in Luxembourg
on 12 June 2006. The Stabilisation and Association
Agreement is in the process of ratification.

(hereinafter

On 12 June 2006 the Council concluded an Interim
Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between
the one part, and the
the European Community, of
Republic of Albania, of
(hereinafter
referred to as the Interim Agreement), which provides
for the early entry into force of the trade and trade-
related provisions of the Stabilisation and Association
Agreement. The Interim Agreement will enter
into
force on 1 December 2006.

the other part (2)

The Interim Agreement and the Stabilisation and Asso-
ciation Agreement stipulate that wines originating in
Albania may be imported into the Community, within
the limits of Community tariff quotas, at a zero-rate
customs duty.

The tariff quotas provided for in the Interim Agreement
and in the Stabilisation and Association Agreement are
annual and are repeated for an indeterminate period. The
Commission should adopt the implementing measures
for
the
the
and
the opening
Community tariff quotas.

administration of

(5)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July
1993 laying down provisions for the implementation
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing

the Community Customs Code (3) has codified the
management rules for tariff quotas designed to be used
following the chronological order of dates of acceptance
of customs declarations.

equal

importers have

Particular care should be taken to ensure that all
Community
and continuous
access to the tariff quotas and that the rates laid down
for the quotas are applied continuously to all imports of
the products in question into all Member States until the
quotas are exhausted. In order to ensure the efficiency of
a common administration of those quotas, there should
be no obstacle to authorising the Member States to draw
from the quota volumes the necessary quantities corre-
sponding to actual imports. Communication between the
Member States and the Commission should, as far as
possible, take place by electronic transmission.

This Regulation should apply upon the entry into force
of the Interim Agreement and should continue to apply
after the entry into force of the Stabilisation and Asso-
ciation Agreement.

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

(6)

(7)

(8)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Tariff quotas at zero-rate customs duty are opened for
imported into the Community and originating in

1.
wines
Albania as set out in the Annex.

2.
The zero-rate duty is applied provided that the imported
wines are accompanied by a proof of origin as provided for in
Protocol 3 to the Interim Agreement and to the Stabilisation
and Association Agreement.

Article 2

The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be administered
by the Commission in accordance with Articles 308a to 308c
of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2165/2005 (OJ L 345, 28.12.2005, p. 1.)

(2) OJ L 239, 1.9.2006, p. 2.

(3) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 402/2006 (OJ L 70, 9.3.2006, p. 35).

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

Article 3

It shall apply from 1 December 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 November 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Order No

CN code (*)

TARIC
subdivision

Description

Annual quota volume
(in hl)

Tariff quota
duty

Quality sparkling wine, other
than
or Asti
spumante

champagne

From 1 December
2006 to 31 December
2006: 5 000

Exemption

Other wine of fresh grapes, in
containers holding 2 litres or
less

For every year
thereafter, from
1 January to
31 December: 5 000

Other wine of fresh grapes, in
containers holding more than
2 litres

From 1 December
2006 to 31 December
2006: 2 000

Exemption

For every year
thereafter, from
1 January to
31 December: 2 000

09.1512

ex 2204 10 19

91, 99

ex 2204 10 99

91, 99

2204 21 10

ex 2204 21 79

79, 80

ex 2204 21 80

79, 80

ex 2204 21 84

59, 70

ex 2204 21 85

79, 80

ex 2204 21 94

ex 2204 21 98

ex 2204 21 99

20

20

10

09.1513

2204 29 10

2204 29 65

ex 2204 29 75

10

2204 29 83

ex 2204 29 84

ex 2204 29 94

ex 2204 29 98

ex 2204 29 99

20

20

20

10

(*) 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 CN codes. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application of the CN
code and corresponding description taken together.