Commission Regulation (EC) No 218/2007 of 28 February 2007 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for wines
Date: 2007-02-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import (EU), tariff quota, wine

L 62/22

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

1.3.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 218/2007

of 28 February 2007

opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for wines

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(1) thereof,

the market

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters
between the European Community and the Argentine
Republic relating to the modification of concessions in
the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of
Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia,
the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the
Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic
of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of
accession to the European Community (2), approved by
Council Decision 2006/930/EC (3), provides
the
opening of tariff rate quotas for wine.

for

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 (4), has codified the
management rules for tariff quotas designed to be used
following the chronological order of dates of acceptance
of customs declarations.

an Exchange of Letters,
from 1 January 2007.

this Regulation should apply

(4)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following tariff quotas are opened for products imported
into the Community:

(a) a tariff rate quota 20 000 hl (erga omnes) for wine (tariff
item numbers 2204 29 65 and 2204 29 75), in quota rate
8 EUR/hl (order number 09.0095),

(b) a tariff rate quota 40 000 hl (erga omnes) for wine (tariff
item numbers 2204 21 79 and 2204 21 80), in quota rate
10 EUR/hl (order number 09.0097).

Article 2

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

Article 3

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

(3)

In accordance with the commitments
taken by the
Community pursuant to the Agreement in the form of

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, 28 February 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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

lation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 355, 15.12.2006, p. 92.
(3) OJ L 355, 15.12.2006, p. 91.
(4) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1875/2006 (OJ L 360, 19.12.2006, p. 64).