Commission Regulation (EC) No 1314/2007 of 8 November 2007 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 499/96 as regards Community tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products originating in Iceland
Date: 2007-11-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Iceland, Ireland, fishery product, originating product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1314/2007

of 8 November 2007

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 499/96 as regards Community tariff quotas for certain fish
and fishery products originating in Iceland

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(6)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 499/96 of 19
March 1996 opening and providing for the administration of
Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products and live
horses originating in Iceland (1), and in particular Article 5(1)(b)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Participation of Bulgaria and Romania in the European
Economic Area was agreed by means of the EEA En-
largement Agreement,
signed between the European
Community and its Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
and Norway and the EEA Applicant Countries on 25 July
2007.

Pending the completion of the procedures required for
the adoption of
the EEA Enlargement Agreement of
2007, an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of
Letters was agreed, which provides for a provisional
application of
the EEA Enlargement Agreement. That
Agreement has been approved by Council Decision
2007/566/EC of 23 July 2007 on the signing and the
provisional application of an Agreement on the partici-
pation of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania in the
European Economic Area and four related agreements (2).

The EEA Enlargement Agreement of 2007 provides for
to the EC-Iceland Free Trade
an additional Protocol
Agreement of 1972. This additional Protocol provides
for new annual duty free tariff quotas at import into
the Community of certain fish and fishery products orig-
inating in Iceland.

To implement the new tariff quotas it is necessary to
amend Regulation (EC) No 499/96.

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 (3) provides for a system
of management for tariff quotas designed to be used
following the chronological order of dates of acceptance
of the customs declarations. For reasons of simplification
the same system should apply for
the tariff quotas
provided for in Regulation (EC) No 499/96.

The tariff quotas provided for in the additional Protocol
should be regarded initially as non-critical within the
meaning of Article 308c of Regulation (EEC) No
2454/93. Therefore, Articles 308(c)(2) and (3) of that
Regulation should not apply.

In accordance with the additional Protocol, the unused
volume of the tariff quota for frozen Norway lobsters for
2007 should be carried over to the corresponding tariff
quota for 2008.

In accordance with Decision 2007/566/EC the new tariff
quotas have to apply from 1 September 2007. This
Regulation should therefore apply from the same date
and enter into force immediately.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Customs Code
Committee,

(7)

(8)

(9)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Regulation (EC) No 499/96 is amended as follows:

Article 1

1. Articles 2 and 3 are replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

The tariff quotas set out in this Regulation shall be managed
in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and 308c of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2454/93.

However, Article 308c(2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
2454/93 shall not apply to the tariff quotas with order
numbers 09.0810 and 09.0811.

Article 3

Where the tariff quota with order No 09.0810 for CN code
0306 19 30 for frozen Norway lobsters will not be fully
exhausted by the end of 2007, the remaining volume shall
be carried over to the corresponding tariff quota for 2008.

(1) OJ L 75, 23.3.1996, p. 8. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1921/2004 (OJ L 331, 5.11.2004, p. 5).

(2) OJ L 221, 25.8.2007, p. 1.
(3) 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).

For this purpose drawings on the tariff quota for 2007 shall
be stopped on the second working day in the Commission
following 1 April 2008. On the following working day, the
unused balance of the tariff quota for 2007 shall be made
available under the corresponding tariff quota for 2008.

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From that date onwards no retroactive drawings and no returns shall be possible on the particular tariff
quota for 2007.’

2. The Annex is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 September 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 November 2007.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission

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In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 499/96 the following rows are inserted:

ANNEX

Order No

CN code

Description of products

Quota volume

Quota duty
(%)

‘09.0810

0306 19 30

Frozen Norway lobsters (Nephrops
norvegicus)

09.0811

0304 19 35

Fillets of
fresh or chilled

redfish (Sebastes

spp.),

From 1.9. to 31.12.2007:
520 tonnes

From 1.1. to 31.12.2008:
520 tonnes

From 1.1. to 30.4.2009:
174 tonnes

From 1.9. to 31.12.2007:
750 tonnes

From 1.1. to 31.12.2008:
750 tonnes

From 1.1. to 30.4.2009:
250 tonnes

0

0

0

0

0

0’