Council Regulation (EC) No 1839/2006 of 28 November 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Argentine Republic pursuant to Article XXIV:6 of GATT 1994, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2006-11-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Argentina, CCT duties, Combined Nomenclature, agreement (EU), tariff quota

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1839/2006

of 28 November 2006

concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between
the European Community and the Argentine Republic pursuant to Article XXIV:6 of GATT 1994,
amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1) established a
goods nomenclature, hereinafter
the
‘Combined Nomenclature’, and set out the conventional
duty rates of the Common Customs Tariff.

referred to as

By Decision 2006/930/EC of 28 November 2006
concerning the conclusion of Agreement in the form
of
an Exchange of Letters between the European
Community and the Argentine Republic (2), the Council
approved the Agreement, on behalf of the Community,
with a view to closing negotiations initiated pursuant to
Article XXIV:6 of GATT 1994.

Article 1

In Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 Annex I shall be amended
with the duties and supplemented with the volumes shown in
the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Annex 7 of Section III of Part Three (WTO quotas to be opened
by the Competent Community authorities) shall be amended as
follows as regards CN Code 0201 30 00:

(a)

the description of the EC tariff rate quota of 11 000 tonnes
‘Boneless “high quality” meat: “Special or good-quality beef
cuts obtained from exclusively pasture-grazed animals, aged
between 22 and 24 months, having two permanent incisors
and presenting a slaughter live weight not exceeding 460
kilograms, referred to as “special boxed beef”, cuts of which
may bear the letters “sc” (special cuts)” ’ shall be replaced by:
‘Boneless high quality meat of bovine animals fresh or
chilled’;

(b) under ‘Other terms and conditions’
country Argentina’ shall be inserted.

the text:

‘Supplying

Article 3

(3)

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 should therefore be
amended and supplemented accordingly,

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

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

Done at Brussels, 28 November 2006.

For the Council
The President

E. HEINÄLUOMA

(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as

(EC) No 1549/2006 (OJ

last amended by
L 301,

Commission Regulation
31.10.2006, p. 1).

(2) See page 91 of this Official Journal.

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ANNEX

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 concessions being determined, within the
context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of the current Regulation.
Where ex CN codes are indicated, the concessions are to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding
description taken together.

Part two
Schedule of customs duties

CN code

Description

Duty rate

0304 20 94

Frozen fish fillets of other than freshwater fish

A lower applied duty
of 11,4 % (1)

0303 79 98

Other frozen saltwater fish, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat
of heading 0304, excluding livers and roes

A lower applied duty
of 12,4 % (1)

Tariff item numbers
0202 20 30
0202 30
0206 29 91

Meat of bovine animals, frozen; un-separated or separated fore-
quarters; boneless
Edible offal of bovine animals, frozen; thick skirt and thin skirt. The
meat imported shall be used for processing.

Implemented through
Regulation
(EC) No 267/2006

Add 537 tonnes
(erga omnes) in EC
tariff rate quota

Add 96 tonnes
(erga omnes) in EC
tariff rate quota

Implemented through
Regulation
(EC) No 711/2006

Implemented through
Regulation
(EC) No 711/2006

Tariff item number
0402 10 19

Skimmed milk powder

Tariff item number
ex 0808 10 80

Apples

Tariff item numbers
1005 10 90
1005 90 00

Maize

Fruit juices

Tariff item numbers
2009 11 11
2009 11 19
2009 19 11
2009 19 19
2009 29 11
2009 29 19
2009 39 11
2009 39 19
2009 49 11
2009 49 19
2009 79 11
2009 79 19
2009 80 11
2009 80 19
2009 80 34
2009 80 35
2009 80 36
2009 80 38
2009 90 11
2009 90 19
2009 90 21
2009 90 29

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CN code

Description

Duty rate

Part two
Schedule of customs duties

Tariff item numbers
2204 29 65
2204 29 75

Wine

Tariff item numbers
2204 21 79
2204 21 80

Wine

Tariff item number
2205 90 10

Vermouth

Open a tariff rate quota
20 000 hl (erga omnes)
in quota rate EUR 8/hl

Open a tariff rate quota
40 000 hl (erga omnes)
in quota rate EUR 10/hl

Open a tariff rate quota
13 810 hl (erga omnes)
in quota rate EUR 7/hl

(1) The lower applied rate indicated above is to be applied for three years or until the implementation of the results of the Doha

Development Agenda Round reaches the tariff level above, whichever comes first.
The exact tariff description of the EC-15 shall apply to all tariff lines and quotas above.