Commission Regulation (EC) No 204/2009 of 16 March 2009 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the extension of the Community tariff quotas for jute and coconut-fibre products and to take account of amendments to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2009-03-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common customs tariff, jute, nut, tariff nomenclature, tariff quota, textile product

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 204/2009

of 16 March 2009

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards the extension of the Community tariff
quotas for jute and coconut-fibre products and to take account of amendments to Council
Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common
Customs Tariff

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of
17 December 1999 opening and providing for the administra­
tion of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain
other Community tariff quotas and establishing detailed rules
for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Regulation (EC) No
1808/95 (1), and in particular Article 9(1)(a) and the second
indent of Article 9(1)(b), thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

In accordance with the offer it made within the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad)
and alongside its
scheme of generalised preferences
(GSP), the Community introduced tariff preferences in
1971 for jute and coconut-fibre products originating in
certain developing countries. Those preferences took the
form of a gradual reduction of Common Customs Tariff
duties and,
the
complete suspension of these duties.

from 1978 to 31 December 1994,

Since the entry into force of the GSP scheme in 1995,
the GATT, opened
the Community has,
alongside
autonomous zero-duty Community tariff quotas
for
specific quantities of
jute and coconut-fibre products.
The tariff quotas opened for those products under Regu­
until
32/2000 were
lation
31 December 2008 under Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2158/2005 (2).

(EC) No

extended

As the GSP scheme was extended until 31 December
2011 under Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 (3)
applying generalised tariff preferences, the tariff quota
arrangement for jute and coconut-fibre products should
also be extended until 31 December 2011.

In the Combined Nomenclature for 2009, laid down in
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987
on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the
Common Customs Tariff (4), as amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1031/2008 (5),
the Combined
for certain products
Nomenclature codes (CN codes)
have been amended. Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No
32/2000 refers
those CN codes, and
to some of
therefore needs to be adjusted.

(5)

(6)

(7)

Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

Since Regulation (EC) No 1031/2008 enters into force
on 1 January 2009, this Regulation should apply from
the same date.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For order Nos 09.0107, 09.0109 and 09.0111,
in the fifth
column (Quota period) of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No
from
32/2000,
1.1.2007 to 31.12.2007 and from 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2008’
are
from
1.1.2010 to 31.12.2010 and from 1.1.2011 to 31.12.2011’.

the words ‘from 1.1.2006 to 31.12.2006,

‘from 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009,

replaced by

Article 2

Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 is amended as
follows:

(a)

in the first part of Annex IV, for order No 09.0104, the CN
code ‘6406 99 80’ in the second column is replaced by CN
code ‘6406 99 85’;

(1) OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 342, 24.12.2005, p. 61.
(3) OJ L 211, 6.8.2008, p. 1.

(4) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 291, 31.10.2008, p. 1.

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(b) in the second part of Annex IV, the codes for order No

09.0104 are amended as follows:

(iii) CN code ‘6406 99 80’ in the second column is replaced

by CN code ‘6406 99 85’.

(i) in the row for CN code ‘6406 10 19’, TARIC code ‘10’

in the third column is deleted;

Article 3

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

(ii) CN codes ‘6406 10 11’ and ‘6406 10 19’ in the second

column are replaced by CN code ‘6406 10 10’;

It shall apply from 1 January 2009.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 March 2009.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission