Council Regulation (EC) No 580/2007 of 29 May 2007 concerning the implementation of Agreements in the form of Agreed Minutes between the European Community and Brazil, and between the European Community and Thailand pursuant to Article XXVIII of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (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: 2007-05-25
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Brazil, Combined Nomenclature, GATT, Thailand, common customs tariff, customs duties, poultrymeat, tariff nomenclature, tariff quota, trade agreement (EU)

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(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is obligatory)

I

REGULATIONS

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 580/2007

of 29 May 2007

concerning the implementation of Agreements in the form of Agreed Minutes between the
European Community and Brazil, and between the European Community and Thailand pursuant
to Article XXVIII of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (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,

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

establishing the European

Council approved, on behalf of the Community, those
Agreements with a view to closing negotiations initiated
pursuant to Article XXVIII of GATT 1994.

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(3)

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

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

By its Decision 2007/360/EC of 29 May 2007 on the
conclusion of Agreements in the form of Agreed Minutes
between the European Community and the Federal
European
Republic
and
Community and the Kingdom of Thailand (2),
the

between

Brazil,

the

of

Article 1

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

Article 2

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, 29 May 2007.

For the Council
The President

J. PLEWA

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

(EC) No 501/2007 (OJ L 119, 9.5.2007, p. 1).

(2) See page 10 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 this Regulation.

Part Two — Schedule of customs duties

CN code

Description

Duty rate

0210 99 39

Salted poultrymeat

1602 31

Prepared turkeymeat

1602 32 19

Cooked chickenmeat

EUR 1 300/tonne

EUR 1 024/tonne

EUR 1 024/tonne

Part Three — Tariff Annexes

CN code

Description

Duty rate

0210 99 39

Salted poultrymeat

1602 31

Prepared turkeymeat

1602 32 19

Cooked chickenmeat

Open a tariff rate quota 264 245 tonnes, of which
170 807 tonnes shall be allocated to Brazil and
92 610 tonnes to Thailand, in-quota rate 15,4 %

Open a tariff rate quota 103 896 tonnes, of which
92 300 tonnes shall be allocated to Brazil, in quota
rate 8,5 %

Open a tariff rate quota 250 953 tonnes, of which
shall be allocated to Brazil and
79 477 tonnes
160 033 tonnes to Thailand, in quota rate 8 %

The exact tariff description of the EC-25 shall apply to all tariff lines and quotas above.