Commission Regulation (EC) No 740/2007 of 28 June 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 1994/2006 opening Community tariff quotas for 2007 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat
Date: 2007-06-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: beef, goat, live animal, sheep, sheepmeat, tariff quota

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Official Journal of the European Union

29.6.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 740/2007

of 28 June 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 1994/2006 opening Community tariff quotas for 2007 for sheep,
goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 of 19
December 2001 on the common organisation of the market in
sheepmeat and goatmeat (1), and in particular Article 16(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1994/2006 (2) provides
for the opening of Community tariff quotas for sheep,
goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat
for the period from
1 January to 31 December 2007.

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters
between the European Community and the Republic of
Iceland concerning additional trade preferences in agri-
cultural products undertaken on the basis of Article 19
of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (3), as
approved by Council Decision 2007/138/EC (4), provides
tariff quota
for the granting of an additional annual
fresh,
quantity of 500 tonnes
Iceland.
frozen or
chilled,
However, as the Agreement
is applicable as from 1
March 2007, the annual quantity for 2007 should be
adjusted accordingly.

(carcase weight) of

smoked sheepmeat

for

(3)

(4)

(5)

The Agreement specifies that the opening of the tariff
quota is to be made as from 1 July, on the basis of
for 2007. This Regulation should
nine months
therefore apply as from 1 July 2007.

Regulation (EC) No 1994/2006 should be amended
accordingly.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1994/2006 is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply as from 1 July 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 3. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).

(2) OJ L 413, 30.12.2006, p. 3; corrected by OJ L 50, 19.2.2007, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 61, 28.2.2007, p. 29.
(4) OJ L 61, 28.2.2007, p. 28.

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