Commission Regulation (EC) No 1338/2007 of 15 November 2007 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards Community tariff quotas for oranges originating in Egypt and for a processed agricultural product originating in Israel
Date: 2007-11-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Egypt, Israel, citrus fruit, fruit product, originating product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1338/2007

of 15 November 2007

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 as regards Community tariff quotas for oranges
originating in Egypt and for a processed agricultural product originating in Israel

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 of 9
April 2001 providing for the management of Community tariff
quotas and of reference quantities for products eligible for
preferences by virtue of agreements with certain Mediterranean
countries and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1981/94 and (EC)
No 934/95 (1), and in particular Article 5(1)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

By its Decision of 30 October 2007 (2),
the Council
authorised the signing and provided for the provisional
application from 1 January 2007 of a Protocol to the
Euro-Mediterranean Agreement
establishing an asso-
ciation between the European Communities and their
Member States, of the one part, and the Arab Republic
the
of Egypt, of
accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to
the European Union.

to take account of

the other part,

tariff

This Protocol provides for an increase in the volume of
the
into the
Community for oranges originating in Egypt. The
increase in the volume shall apply from 1 July 2007.

applicable

import

quotas

at

By its Decision of 22 October 2007 (3),
the Council
authorised the signing and provided for the provisional
application from 1 January 2007 of a Protocol to the
Euro-Mediterranean Agreement
establishing an asso-
ciation between the European Communities and their
Member States, of the one part, and the State of Israel,
of the other part, to take account of the accession of the
Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European
Union.

(1) OJ L 109, 19.4.2001, p. 2. Regulation as

(EC) No 1712/2006 (OJ

last amended by
L 321,

Commission Regulation
21.11.2006, p. 7).

(2) Not yet published in the Official Journal.
(3) Not yet published in the Official Journal.

This Protocol provides for a new annual
tariff quota
applicable at import into the Community for a specific
processed agricultural product originating in Israel. The
new tariff quota shall apply from the first day of the
month following the date of signature of the Protocol.

To implement the tariff concessions provided for in these
Protocols, the list of tariff quotas for Egypt and for Israel
laid down in Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 should be
adjusted.

As the tariff quota for Israel for the year 2007 does not
apply from 1 January 2007, the volume of the new tariff
quota for this year shall be fixed at a lower quantity than
the annual tariff quota volume.

Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 is amended as set out in the
Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 July 2007.

However, point 2 of the Annex shall apply from 1 November
2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 November 2007.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission

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Regulation (EC) No 747/2001 is amended as follows:

ANNEX

1. In the Table set out in Annex IV, the rows for the tariff quotas with order numbers 09.1707 and 09.1711 are replaced

by the following:

‘09.1707

0805 10

Oranges, fresh or
dried

09.1711

0805 10 20

Sweet oranges, fresh

of which:

From 1.7.2007 to
30.6.2008 and for each
period thereafter from 1.7.
to 30.6.

From 1.12.2007 to
31.5.2008 and for each
period thereafter from
1.12. to 31.5.

70 320

Exemption (2)

of which:

36 300 (5)

Exemption (6)’

2. In the Table set out in Part A of Annex VII, the following row is inserted:

Order No

CN code

TARIC
subdivision

Description of goods

Quota period

‘09.1367

ex 2106 90 98

44

Citrus bases for pre-
paration of soft drinks
and beverages contai-
ning by weight at least
30 % of concentrated
fruit juices and no more
than 50 % of sucrose,
not containing milk or
milk products

From 1.11. to
31.12.2007

From 1.1. to
31.12.2008 and
for each period
thereafter from
1.1. to 31.12.

Quota volume
(in tonnes
net weight)

Quota duty

67 % of the
agricultural
component’

3 240

5 550