Council Regulation (EC) No 530/2007 of 8 May 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 introducing exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the European Union's Stabilisation and Association process
Date: 2007-05-08
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Albania, EU market, Western Balkans, association agreement, economic stabilisation, market access, originating product, tariff quota

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REGULATIONS

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 530/2007

of 8 May 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 introducing exceptional trade measures for countries and
territories participating in or linked to the European Union's Stabilisation and Association process

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

the one part, and the Republic of Albania, of the other
part (2), was signed and concluded and entered into force
on 1 December 2006.

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)

Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 (1) provides for unlimited
duty-free access to the Community market for nearly all
products originating in the countries and territories ben-
efiting from the Stabilisation and Association process.

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 part,
was signed in Luxembourg on 12 June 2006. Pending
the completion of the procedures necessary for its entry
into force, an Interim Agreement on trade and trade-
related matters between the European Community, of

(3)

(4)

(5)

The Stabilisation and Association Agreements and the
Interim Agreements establish a contractual trade regime
the beneficiary
between the Community and each of
concessions on the
countries. The bilateral
to the concessions
Community side are equivalent
applicable within the unilateral
trade
autonomous
measures under Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000.

trade

It is therefore appropriate to amend Regulation (EC) No
2007/2000 to take into account these developments. In
it is appropriate to remove the Republic of
particular,
Albania from the list of beneficiaries of
the tariff
concessions granted for the same products under the
contractual regime. In addition, it is necessary to adjust
the global tariff quota volumes for specific products for
which tariff quotas have been granted under
the
contractual regimes.

The Republic of Albania, the Republic of Croatia and the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will
remain
beneficiaries of Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 insofar
as that Regulation provides for concessions which are
more favourable than the concessions existing under
the contractual regimes,

(1) OJ L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1946/2005 (OJ L 312, 29.11.2005, p. 1).

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

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

2.

in Article 4, paragraph 4 shall be replaced by the following:

Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 is hereby amended as follows:

Article 1

1. Article 1 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

Preferential arrangements

1.
Subject to the special provisions laid down in Articles
3 and 4, products originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in
in the customs territories of Serbia or
Montenegro or
Kosovo, other than those of heading Nos 0102, 0201,
the Combined
0202, 1604, 1701, 1702 and 2204 of
Nomenclature,
into the
Community without quantitative restrictions or measures
having equivalent effect and with exemption from customs
duties and charges having equivalent effect.

shall be admitted for

import

Products originating in Albania,

2.
in the Republic of
Croatia or in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
shall continue to benefit from the provisions of this Regu-
lation when so indicated or from any measures provided in
this Regulation which are more favourable than the trade
concessions provided for
in the framework of bilateral
agreements between the European Community and these
countries.

3.
Imports of sugar products under heading Nos 1701
and 1702 of the Combined Nomenclature originating in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Montenegro or in the customs
territories of
from
concessions provided for in Article 4.’;

Serbia or Kosovo,

shall benefit

‘4.
Imports of sugar products under heading Nos 1701
and 1702 of the Combined Nomenclature originating in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the customs terri-
tories of Serbia or Kosovo, shall be subject to the following
annual duty-free tariff quotas:

(a) 12 000 tonnes (net weight)

for sugar products orig-

inating in Bosnia and Herzegovina;

(b) 180 000 tonnes (net weight) for sugar products orig-
inating in Montenegro and the customs territories of
Serbia or Kosovo.’;

3. Annex I shall be replaced by the text appearing in the Annex

to this Regulation.

Article 2

Goods which, on 16 May 2007, are either in transit or in the
Community in temporary storage, customs warehouses or free
zones, and for which before that date a proof of origin of
Albania or of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has
been properly issued in accordance with Title IV, Chapter 2,
Section 2 of 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 (1), shall continue to benefit from
Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 until 16 September 2007.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the first 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, 8 May 2007.

For the Council
The President

P. STEINBRÜCK

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

lation (EC) No 214/2007 (OJ L 62, 1.3.2007, p. 6).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

CONCERNING THE TARIFF QUOTAS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 4(1)

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

Quota volume
per year (1)

70 tonnes

Beneficiaries

Rate of duty

Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, customs territories of
Serbia or Kosovo

Exemption

120 tonnes

Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, customs territories of
Serbia or Kosovo

Exemption

95 tonnes

Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, customs territories of
Serbia or Kosovo

Exemption

Order No

CN Code

Description

(Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss,
Trout
clarki, Oncorhynchus
agua-
Oncorhynchus
gilae, Oncorhynchus
bonita, Oncorhynchus
apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster):
live;
fresh or chilled; frozen; dried, salted or in
brine, smoked; fillets and other fish meat;
flours, meals and pellets,
for human
consumption

fit

live; fresh or chilled; frozen; dried,
Carp:
salted or
fillets and
other fish meat; flours, meals and pellets,
fit for human consumption

in brine,

smoked;

Sea bream (Dentex dentex and Pagellus spp.):
live; fresh or chilled; frozen; dried, salted or
fish
in brine, smoked;
for
meat;
human consumption

fillets and other
fit

flours, meals and pellets,

09.1571

09.1573

09.1575

0301 91 10
0301 91 90
0302 11 10
0302 11 20
0302 11 80
0303 21 10
0303 21 20
0303 21 80
0304 19 15
0304 19 17
ex 0304 19 19
ex 0304 19 91
0304 29 15
0304 29 17
ex 0304 29 19
ex 0304 99 21
ex 0305 10 00
ex 0305 30 90
0305 49 45
ex 0305 59 80
ex 0305 69 80

0301 93 00
0302 69 11
0303 79 11
ex 0304 19 19
ex 0304 19 91
ex 0304 29 19
ex 0304 99 21
ex 0305 10 00
ex 0305 30 90
ex 0305 49 80
ex 0305 59 80
ex 0305 69 80

ex 0301 99 80
0302 69 61
0303 79 71
ex 0304 19 39
ex 0304 19 99
ex 0304 29 99
ex 0304 99 99
ex 0305 10 00
ex 0305 30 90
ex 0305 49 80
ex 0305 59 80
ex 0305 69 80

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Order No

CN Code

Description

Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax): live; fresh or
chilled;
frozen; dried; salted or in brine,
smoked; fillets and other fish meat; flours,
meals
human
and
consumption

pellets,

for

fit

Quota volume
per year (1)

80 tonnes

Beneficiaries

Rate of duty

Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, customs territories of
Serbia or Kosovo

Exemption

09.1577

09.1579

ex 0301 99 80
0302 69 94
ex 0303 77 00
ex 0304 19 39
ex 0304 19 99
ex 0304 29 99
ex 0304 99 99
ex 0305 10 00
ex 0305 30 90
ex 0305 49 80
ex 0305 59 80
ex 0305 69 80

1604 13 11
1604 13 19
ex 1604 20 50

Prepared or preserved sardines

70 tonnes

Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, customs territories of
Serbia or Kosovo

6 %

09.1561

1604 16 00
1604 20 40

Prepared or preserved anchovies

260 tonnes

Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, customs territories of
Serbia or Kosovo

12,5 %

09.1515

2204 21 79
ex 2204 21 80
2204 21 84
ex 2204 21 85
2204 29 65
ex 2204 29 75
2204 29 83
ex 2204 29 84

Wine of fresh grapes, of an actual alcoholic
strength by volume not exceeding 15 %
volume, other than sparkling wine

145 000 hl (2) Albania (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia (4), former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia (5), Montenegro,
customs territories of Serbia or
Kosovo

Exemption

(1) One global volume per tariff quota accessible to imports originating in the beneficiaries.
(2) The volume of this global tariff quota shall be reduced if the quota volumes of the individual tariff quotas applicable under order Nos 09.1588 and 09.1548 for certain

wines originating in Croatia are increased.

(3) Access for wine originating in the Republic of Albania to this global tariff quota is subject to the prior exhaustion of the individual tariff quotas provided for in the

Additional Protocol on wine concluded with Albania. These individual tariff quotas are opened under order Nos 09.1512 and 09.1513.

(4) Access for wine originating in the Republic of Croatia to this global tariff quota, is subject to the prior exhaustion of the individual tariff quotas provided for in the

Additional Protocol on wine concluded with Croatia. These individual tariff quotas are opened under order Nos 09.1588 and 09.1589.

(5) Access for wine originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to this global tariff quota is subject to the prior exhaustion of the individual tariff quotas
provided for in the Additional Protocol on wine concluded with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. These individual tariff quotas are opened under order Nos
09.1558 and 09.1559.’.