Commission Regulation (EC) No 2006/2006 of 22 December 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 to include the annual tariff quota for sugar products originating in Croatia
Date: 2006-12-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Croatia, import, originating product, sugar industry, sugar refining, tariff quota

28.12.2006

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2006/2006

of 22 December 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 to include the annual tariff quota for sugar products
originating in Croatia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

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

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20
February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in
the sugar sector (1), and in particular Article 40(1)(e)(iii),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Pursuant to Article 27(5) of and Annex IV(h) to the
Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the
European Communities and their Member States, of the
one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of
the other
part (2), as amended by the Protocol approved by
Council Decision
2006/882/EC of 13
November 2006 (3), the Community is to allow duty-
free
into the Community of
products originating in Croatia falling within CN codes
1701 and 1702, within the limit of an annual quantity
of 180 000 tonnes (net weight).

(EC) No

imports

access

for

to the Stabilisation and Association
The Protocol
Agreement with Croatia enters into force on 1 January
2007. The tariff quota for sugar products originating in
Croatia should therefore be opened as from that date.

That quota should be opened and administered in
accordance with Commission Regulation No 950/2006
of 28 June 2006 laying down detailed rules of appli-
cation for the 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009
marketing years for the import and refining of sugar
products under certain tariff quotas and preferential
agreements (4), as ‘Balkans sugar’ within the meaning of
that Regulation. Since Article 28 of
that Regulation
sugar on a
tariff quotas
opens
marketing year basis, the annual tariff quota for sugar
products originating in Croatia should be adjusted for
the remaining nine months of
the marketing year
2006/2007.

for Balkans

the

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 is amended as follows:

1. In Article 1(1), the following point is added:

‘(h) Article 27(5) of

the Stabilisation and Association
Agreement between the European Communities and
their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic
of Croatia.’

2. In Article 1, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2.
Quantities imported in accordance with the provisions
referred to in paragraph 1(c) to (h) (hereinafter referred to as
“tariff quotas”), and with the provisions referred to in points
(a) and (b) of
that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as
“delivery obligations”) for the 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and
2008/2009 marketing years shall bear
the quota serial
numbers shown in Annex I.’

3. In Article 2, point (d) is replaced by the following:

‘(d)

“Balkans sugar” means sugar products falling within CN
codes 1701 and 1702 originating in Albania, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo,
the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or Croatia
and imported into the Community under Regulation
(EC) No 2007/2000, the Stabilisation and Association
Agreement with the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia
Stabilisation and Association
Agreement with the Republic of Croatia;’

and the

4. Article 28 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 28

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1585/2006 (OJ L 294, 25.10.2006, p. 19).

(2) OJ L 26, 28.1.2005, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 341, 7.12.2006, p. 31.
(4) OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1.

1.
For each marketing year, duty-free tariff quotas for a
total of 380 000 tonnes of sugar products falling within CN
codes 1701 and 1702 shall be opened as Balkans sugar.

However, for the 2006/2007 marketing year the quantity
shall be 381 500 tonnes of sugar products falling with CN
codes 1701 and 1702.

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The quantities referred to in paragraph 1 shall be

2.
allocated by country of origin as follows:

— Albania

— Bosnia-Herzegovina

1 000 tonnes,

12 000 tonnes,

— Serbia and Montenegro

180 000 tonnes,

— Former Yugoslav Republic

of Macedonia

— Croatia

7 000 tonnes,

180 000 tonnes.

However, for the 2006/2007 marketing year the allocation
by country of origin shall be:

The quotas for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
and Croatia for the 2006/2007 marketing year shall be
opened from 1 January 2007 only.’

5. In Article 29, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2.
Import licence applications for Balkans sugar from the
customs territories of Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo or Croatia
shall be accompanied by the original of the export licence
issued by the competent authorities of the customs territories
of Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo or Croatia in accordance with
the model in Annex II for a quantity equal to that in the
licence application.’

— Albania

1 250 tonnes,

Regulation.

6. Annex I is amended in accordance with the Annex to this

— Bosnia-Herzegovina

15 000 tonnes,

— Serbia and Montenegro

225 000 tonnes,

— Former Yugoslav Republic

of Macedonia

5 250 tonnes,

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

— Croatia

135 000 tonnes.

It shall apply from 1 January 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 December 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

In Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 950/2006, the table relating to serial numbers for Balkans sugar is replaced by the
following:

‘Serial numbers for Balkans sugar

Third country

Serial number

Albania

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Croatia

09.4324

09.4325

09.4326

09.4327

09.4328’