Commission Regulation (EC) No 54/2009 of 21 January 2009 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 669/97 as regards the opening and management of Community tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products originating in the Faroe Islands
Date: 2009-01-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Faroes, fish product, fishery product, import, originating product, sea fish, tariff quota, tariff reduction

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 54/2009

of 21 January 2009

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 669/97 as regards the opening and management of
Community tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products originating in the Faroe Islands

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 669/97 of
14 April 1997 opening and providing for the administration
of Community tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products
originating in the Faroe Islands, defining detailed provisions for
amending and adapting these measures and repealing Regu­
lation (EC) No 1983/95 (1), and in particular Article 5(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

and to ensure efficient management carried out in close
cooperation between the authorities of the Faroe Islands,
the customs authorities of the Member States and the
Commission, that management system should apply to
the tariff quotas provided for in Regulation (EC) No
669/97.

(4)

the volumes of

For the year 2008,
the tariff quotas
provided for in this Regulation should be calculated as
a pro rata of the basic volumes set out in Decision No
2/2008 (2008/957/EC), in proportion to the part of the
year which has elapsed before the tariff quotas apply.

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 669/97 should therefore be amended
accordingly.

Decision No 2/2008 of the EC-Denmark/Faeroe Islands
Joint Committee (2008/957/EC) (2) has amended Tables I
and II of the Annex to Protocol 1 to the Agreement
between the European Community, of
the one part,
and the Government of Denmark and the Home
Government of the Faroe Islands, of the other part.

(6)

(7)

In accordance with Decision No 2/2008 (2008/957/EC),
the new tariff quotas are to apply from 1 September
2008. This Regulation should therefore apply from the
same date.

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

In the amended Protocol 1 to the Agreement, provision
is made for three new annual
tariff quotas covering
import into the Community of certain fish and fishery
products originating in the Faroe Islands. The new tariff
quotas are to apply from 1 September 2008. In order to
implement
is necessary to
adjust the list of fish and fishery products subject to
tariff quotas laid down in Regulation (EC) No 669/97.

these new tariff quotas,

it

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

(1) OJ L 101, 18.4.1997, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 338, 17.12.2008, p. 72.
(3) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 669/97 is amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

The tariff quotas provided for in this Regulation shall be
managed in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and
308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.’

(1)

(2)

(3)

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

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

It shall apply from 1 September 2008.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 January 2009.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission

In the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 669/97 the following rows are inserted:

ANNEX

Order No

CN code

TARIC
subdivision

‘09.0672

ex 0305 59 80

80

Coalfish (Pollachius Virens), salted
and dried

Description

Rate of duty

Quota volume
(tonnes)

09.0674

ex 0307 91 00

ex 0307 99 18

ex 1605 90 30

10

10

30

Common whelk (Buccinum
Undatum), live, fresh or chilled,
frozen, prepared or preserved

09.0676

ex 0306 14 90

10

Crab of the species Geryon affinis,
frozen

0

0

0

From 1.9 to 31.12.2008:
250

From 1.1 to 31.12.2009
and thereafter from 1.1 to
31.12 of each year: 750

From 1.9. to 31.12.2008:
400

From 1.1.2009 to
31.12.2009 and thereafter
from 1.1 to 31.12 of each
year: 1 200

From 1.9. to 31.12.2008:
250

From 1.1.2009 to
31.12.2009 and thereafter
from 1.1 to 31.12 of each
year: 750’