Commission Regulation (EC) No 812/2007 of 11 July 2007 opening and providing for the administration of a tariff quota for pigmeat allocated to the United States of America
Date: 2007-07-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United States, customs duties, import licence, originating product, pigmeat, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 812/2007

of 11 July 2007

opening and providing for the administration of a tariff quota for pigmeat allocated to the United
States of America

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of
29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market
in pigmeat (1), and in particular Article 11(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The agreement in the form of an exchange of letters
between the European Community and the United
to Article XXIV:6 and
States of America pursuant
Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of
concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the
Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic
the Republic of
of Latvia,
the Republic of
Hungary,
Poland,
and the Slovak
their accession to the
Republic,
European Union (2),
approved by Council Decision
2006/333/EC (3), provides for the opening of a specific
tariff quota allocated to the United States for imports of
4 722 tonnes of pigmeat.

the Republic of Lithuania,
the Republic of Malta,
the Republic of Slovenia

in the course of

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1233/2006 of 16
August 2006 opening and providing for the adminis-
tration of an import tariff quota of pigmeat allocated
to the United States of America (4) has to be amended
substantially. Regulation (EC) No 1233/2006 should
therefore be repealed and replaced by a new regulation.

Commission Regulations (EC) Nos 1291/2000 of 9 June
2000 laying down common detailed rules for the appli-
cation of the system of import and export licences and
advance fixing certificates for agricultural products (5) and
1301/2006 of 31 August 2006 laying down common
rules for the administration of import tariff quotas for

(1) OJ L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

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

(2) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 15.
(3) OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 225, 17.8.2006, p. 14.
(5) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2006 (OJ L 365, 21.12.2006, p. 52).

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

agricultural products managed by a system of import
licences (6) should apply, save as otherwise provided for
in this Regulation.

In order to maintain a regular flow of imports, the quota
period from 1 July to 30 June of the following year
should be subdivided into a number of subperiods. In
any event, under Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 licences
are valid only up to and including the last day of the
tariff quota period.

licences. For this purpose,

The tariff quota should be administered on the basis of
import
to
submitting applications
for
specify the arrangements
and the details that should appear on the licence appli-
cations and the licences themselves.

is important

it

In view of the risk of speculation inherent in the system
in question in the pigmeat sector, precise conditions
should be laid down as regards operators' access to the
tariff quota scheme.

For appropriate administration of the tariff quotas, the
security linked to the import licences should be set at
EUR 20 per 100 kilograms.

In the interest of the operators, the Commission should
establish the quantities that have not been applied for,
which are to be carried over to the following subperiod
in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No
1301/2006.

of

the United

Access to the tariff quota should be subject
to the
presentation of a certificate of origin issued by the autho-
in accordance with
States
rities
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 (7).

(10)

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

(6) OJ L 238, 1.9.2006, p. 13. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 289/2007 (OJ L 78, 17.3.2007, p. 17).

(7) 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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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

4.

Licence applications and licences themselves shall contain:

Article 1

A tariff quota for the import of 4 722 tonnes of pigmeat
1.
products originating in the United States of America is hereby
opened on an annual basis for the period 1 July to 30 June of
the following year.

(a)

in box 8, the country of origin and the entry ‘yes’ marked
by a cross;

(b) in box 20, one of the entries listed in Annex II, Part A.

The serial number of the quota shall be 09.4170.

Box 24 of the licences shall contain one of the entries listed in
Annex II, Part B.

The CN codes of products

from the
2.
arrangements referred to in paragraph 1 and the applicable
rate of customs duty are fixed in Annex I hereto.

benefiting

Article 2

Regulations (EC) Nos 1291/2000 and 1301/2006 shall apply,
save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.

Article 3

The quantity established for the annual quota period shall be
spread out over four subperiods, as follows:

(a) 25 % from 1 July to 30 September;

(b) 25 % from 1 October to 31 December;

(c) 25 % from 1 January to 31 March;

(d) 25 % from 1 April to 30 June.

Article 4

import

For the purposes of applying Article 5 of Regulation (EC)
1.
No 1301/2006,
shall, when
licence
submitting their first application for a given annual quota
period, furnish proof that they imported or exported, during
each of the two periods referred to in that Article, at least 50
tonnes of products covered by Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
2759/75.

applicants

Licence

applications may relate

2.
to several products
covered by different CN codes and originating in the United
States. In such cases, all the CN codes and their descriptions
must be entered in boxes 16 and 15, respectively, of the licence
application and the licence itself.

Article 5

1.
Licence applications may be submitted only in the first
seven days of the month preceding each of the subperiods
referred to in Article 3.

A security of EUR 20 per 100 kilograms shall be lodged

2.
at the time of submission of the licence application.

3.
Not later than the third working day following the final
date of the period for submitting applications, Member States
shall notify the Commission of the total quantities applied for,
expressed in kilograms.

Licences shall be issued as of the seventh working day and
4.
at the latest by the eleventh working day following the end of
the notification period provided for in paragraph 3.

If necessary, the Commission shall establish any quantities
5.
that have not been applied for, and these shall be added auto-
matically to the quantity for the following quota subperiod.

Article 6

1.
By way of derogation from the second subparagraph of
Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, Member States
shall notify the Commission by the end of the first month of
each quota subperiod of the total quantities in kilograms for
which licences have been issued, as referred to in Article
11(1)(b) of that Regulation.

2. Member States shall notify the Commission, before the
end of the fourth month following each annual tariff quota
period, of the quantities actually released for free circulation
under this Regulation in the course of the period concerned,
expressed in kilograms.

Applications must be for a minimum of 20 tonnes and a
maximum of 20 % of the quantity available in the subperiod
in question.

Licences carry an obligation to import from the United

3.
States.

3.
By way of derogation from the second subparagraph of
Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, Member States
shall notify the Commission of the quantities,
in kilograms,
covered by unused or partly used import licences, in the first
instance at the time of the application for the last subperiod and
then again before the end of the fourth month following each
annual period.

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Article 7

1.
By way of derogation from Article 23 of Regulation (EC)
No 1291/2000 the import licences shall be valid for 150 days
from the first day of the subperiod for which they have been
issued.

2. Without prejudice to Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1291/2000, the rights deriving from the licences may be trans-
ferred only to transferees satisfying the eligibility conditions set
out in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 and Article
4(1) of this Regulation.

with Articles 55 to 65 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93. The
origin of
the products covered by this Regulation shall be
determined in accordance with the provisions in force in the
Community.

Regulation (EC) No 1233/2006 is hereby repealed.

Article 9

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as
references to this Regulation and read in accordance with the
correspondence table in Annex III.

Article 8

When goods are released into free circulation they shall be
subject to the presentation of a certificate of origin issued by
the competent authorities of the United States in accordance

Article 10

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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, 11 July 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

Serial number

CN codes

Description of goods

Applicable duty

Total quantity
(tonnes)
(product weight)

09.4170

ex 0203 19 55

ex 0203 29 55

Boned loins
chilled or frozen

and hams,

fresh,

EUR 250/tonne

4 722

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ANNEX II

PART A

Entries referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 4(4)(b):

In Bulgarian:

Регламент (ЕО) № 812/2007.

In Spanish:

In Czech:

In Danish:

In German:

Reglamento (CE) no 812/2007.

Nařízení (ES) č. 812/2007.

Forordning (EF) nr. 812/2007.

Verordnung (EG) Nr. 812/2007.

In Estonian:

Määrus (EÜ) nr 812/2007.

In Greek:

In English:

In French:

In Italian:

In Latvian:

Kανονισμός (ΕΚ) αριθ. 812/2007.

Regulation (EC) No 812/2007.

Règlement (CE) no 812/2007.

Regolamento (CE) n. 812/2007.

Regula (EK) Nr. 812/2007.

In Lithuanian:

Reglamentas (EB) Nr. 812/2007.

In Hungarian:

812/2007/EK rendelet.

In Maltese:

Ir-Regolament (KE) Nru 812/2007.

In Dutch:

In Polish:

Verordening (EG) nr. 812/2007.

Rozporządzenie (WE) nr 812/2007.

In Portuguese:

Regulamento (CE) n.o 812/2007.

In Romanian:

Regulamentul (CE) nr. 812/2007.

In Slovak:

In Slovenian:

In Finnish:

In Swedish:

Nariadenie (ES) č. 812/2007.

Uredba (ES) št. 812/2007.

Asetus (EY) No: 812/2007.

Förordning (EG) nr 812/2007.

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Entries referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 4(4):

PART B

In Bulgarian:

намаляване на
№ 812/2007.

общата митническа

тарифа

съгласно предвиденото

в

Регламент

(ЕО)

In Spanish:

In Czech:

In Danish:

In German:

In Estonian:

In Greek:

In English:

In French:

In Italian:

In Latvian:

In Lithuanian:

In Hungarian:

In Maltese:

In Dutch:

In Polish:

In Portuguese:

In Romanian:

In Slovak:

In Slovenian:

In Finnish:

In Swedish:

reducción del arancel aduanero común prevista en el Reglamento (CE) no 812/2007.

snížení společné celní sazby tak, jak je stanoveno v nařízení (ES) č. 812/2007.

toldnedsættelse som fastsat i forordning (EF) nr. 812/2007.

Ermäßigung des Zollsatzes nach dem GZT gemäß Verordnung (EG) Nr. 812/2007.

ühise tollitariifistiku maksumäära alandamine vastavalt määrusele (EÜ) nr 812/2007.

Μείωση του δασμού του κοινού δασμολογίου, όπως προβλέπεται στον κανονισμό (ΕΚ)
αριθ. 812/2007.

reduction of the common customs tariff pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 812/2007.

réduction du tarif douanier commun comme prévu au règlement (CE) no 812/2007.

riduzione del dazio della tariffa doganale comune a norma del regolamento (CE) n. 812/2007.

Regulā (EK) Nr. 812/2007 paredzētais vienotā muitas tarifa samazinājums.

bendrojo muito tarifo muito sumažinimai, nustatyti Reglamente (EB) Nr. 812/2007.

a közös vámtarifában szereplő vámtétel csökkentése a 812/2007/EK rendelet szerint.

tnaqqis tat-tariffa doganali komuni kif jipprovdi r-Regolament (KE) Nru 812/2007.

Verlaging van het gemeenschappelijke douanetarief overeenkomstig Verordening (EG)
nr. 812/2007.

Cła WTC obniżone jak przewidziano w rozporządzeniu (WE) nr 812/2007.

redução da Pauta Aduaneira Comum como previsto no Regulamento (CE) n.o 812/2007.

reducerea tarifului vamal comun astfel cum este prevăzut de Regulamentul (CE) nr. 812/2007.

Zníženie spoločnej colnej sadzby, ako sa ustanovuje v nariadení (ES) č. 812/2007.

znižanje skupne carinske tarife v skladu z Uredbo (ES) št. 812/2007.

Asetuksessa (EY) N:o 812/2007 säädetty yhteisen tullitariffin alennus.

nedsättning av den gemensamma tulltaxan i enlighet med förordning (EG) nr 812/2007.

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ANNEX III

Correspondence table

Regulation (EC) No 1233/2006

This Regulation

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Article 4(1)(a)

Article 4(1)(b)

Article 4(1)(c)

Article 4(1)(d)

Article 4(1)(e)

Article 4(1)(f)

Article 4(2)

Article 5(1), first subparagraph

Article 5(1), second subparagraph

Article 5(2)

Article 5(3)

Article 5(4), first subparagraph

Article 5(4), second subparagraph

Article 5(5)

Article 5(6)

Article 5(7)

Article 5(8), first subparagraph

Article 5(9)

Article 5(10)

Article 6(1), first subparagraph

Article 6(1), second subparagraph

Article 6(2)

Article 7

Article 8, first subparagraph

Article 8, second subparagraph

Article 1

Article 3

—

Article 4(1)

Article 4(2), first subparagraph

Article 4(2), second subparagraph

Article 4(3)

Article 4(3)

Article 4(3)

—

Article 5(1)

—

—

Article 5(2)

Article 5(3)

—

—

—

—

Article 5(4)

—

Article 6(2)

Article 7(1)

—

—

Article 8

Article 2

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Regulation (EC) No 1233/2006

This Regulation

Article 9

Annex I

Annex II

Annex III

Annex IV

Annex V

Annex VI

Article 10

Annex I

Annex II, Part A

Annex II, Part B

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