Council Regulation (EC) No 1062/2009 of 26 October 2009 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2010 to 2012 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 824/2007
Date: 2009-10-26
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: crustacean, fishery product, import (EU), sea fish, suspension of customs duties, tariff quota, third country




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7.11.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 291/8








            COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1062/2009
of 26 October 2009
         
opening and providing for the management of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2010 to 2012 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 824/2007


THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 26 thereof,


Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:







(1)


Community supplies of certain fishery products currently depend on imports from third countries. In the last 10 years the EU self-sufficiency rate for fishery products has decreased from 57 % to 36 %. It is in the Community’s interest to suspend in part or in whole the customs duties for those products, within Community tariff quotas of an appropriate volume. In order not to jeopardise the Community production of fishery products and to ensure an adequate supply to the EU processing industry, such tariff quotas should be opened in accordance with the sensitivity of the product in question on the Community market. It is therefore appropriate to open such tariff quotas for the period 2010 to 2012, applying a reduction or elimination of customs duties.












(2)


Council Regulation (EC) No 824/2007 of 10 July 2007 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain fishery products for the period 2007 to 2009 (1) should be replaced by this Regulation in order to guarantee the appropriate supply conditions for the Community industry for the period 2010 to 2012.












(3)


Equal and uninterrupted access to those tariff quotas should be ensured for all Community importers and the rates laid down for the quotas should be applied without interruption to all imports of the products concerned into all Member States until the tariff quotas have been used up.












(4)


To ensure the efficiency of a common management of the tariff quotas, Member States should be permitted to draw from the quota amount the necessary quantities corresponding to their actual imports. Since that method of management requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission, the latter should in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and should inform the Member States accordingly.












(5)


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 (2) provides for a system of tariff quota management which follows the chronological order of the dates of acceptance of the declarations of release for free circulation. The tariff quotas opened by this Regulation should be managed by the Commission and the Member States in accordance with that system.












(6)


Therefore, Regulation (EC) No 824/2007 should be repealed with effect from 1 January 2010.












(7)


Given the urgency of the matter, it is important to grant an exception to the six-week period referred to in paragraph I(3) of the Protocol on the role of national parliaments in the European Union annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaties establishing the European Communities,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1

1.   Import duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be suspended, within tariff quotas, at the rates, for the periods and up to the amounts indicated therein.


2.   Imports of the products listed in the Annex shall be covered by the quotas referred to in paragraph 1 only if the declared customs value is at least equal to the reference price fixed, or to be fixed, in accordance with Article 29 of Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products (3).



Article 2
The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be managed in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.


Article 3
The Commission and customs authorities of Member States shall cooperate closely to ensure the proper management and control of the application of this Regulation.


Article 4
Regulation (EC) No 824/2007 shall be repealed.


Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2012.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Luxembourg, 26 October 2009.


For the Council


The President

C. MALMSTRÖM
            





(1)  
            OJ L 184, 14.7.2007, p. 1.

(2)  
            OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.

(3)  
            OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.




ANNEX











Order No


CN code


TARIC code


Description


Annual amount of quota
(tons) (*1)



Quota duty


Quota period




09.2759


ex 0302 50 10 


20 


Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus), excluding livers and roes, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing (1)
 (2)



80 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0302 50 90 


10 




ex 0303 52 10 


10 




ex 0303 52 30 


10 




ex 0303 52 90 


10 




09.2765


ex 0305 62 00 


20 
25 
29 


Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, salted or in brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing (1)
 (2)



5 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0305 69 10 


10 




09.2761


ex 0304 29 91 


10 


Blue grenadier (Macruronus spp.), frozen fillets and other meat, for processing (1)
 (2)



20 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0304 29 99 


41 
81 




ex 0304 99 99 


60 
81 




09.2760


ex 0303 78 11 


10 


Hake (Merluccius spp. excluding Merluccius merluccius, Urophycis spp.), and Pink cusk-eel (Genypterus blacodes), frozen, for processing (1)
 (2)



15 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0303 78 12 


10 




ex 0303 78 13 


10 




ex 0303 78 19 


11 
81 




ex 0303 78 90 


10 




ex 0303 79 93 


10 




09.2770


ex 0305 63 00 


10 


Anchovies (Engraulis anchoita), salted or in brine, but not dried or smoked, for processing (1)
 (2)



5 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




09.2788


ex 0302 40 00 


10 


Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), of a weight exceeding 100 g per piece or flaps of a weight exceeding 80 g per piece, excluding livers and roes, for processing (1)
 (2)



20 000 


0  %


1.10.2010-31.12.2010




ex 0303 51 00 


10 


1.10.2011-31.12.2011




ex 0304 19 97 


10 


1.10.2012-31.12.2012




ex 0304 99 23 


10 




09.2792


ex 1604 12 99 


10 


Herrings, spiced and/or vinegar-cured, in brine, preserved in barrels of at least 70 kg net drained weight, for processing (1)
 (2)



10 000  (6)



6  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




09.2790


ex 1604 14 16 


20 
30 
40 
95 


Filets known as ‘loins’ of tunas and skipjack, for processing (1)
 (2)



15 000 


6  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




09.2774


ex 0304 29 58 


10 


Hake (Merluccius productus), frozen fillets and minced meat for processing (1)
 (2)



12 000 


4  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0304 99 51 


10 




09.2762


ex 0306 11 10 


10 


Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.), live, chilled, frozen, for processing (1)
 (2)
 (3)



750 


6  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0306 11 90 


10 




09.2794


ex 1605 20 10 


50 


Shrimps and prawns of the species Pandalus borealis; cooked and peeled, for processing (1)
 (2)
 (4)



20 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 1605 20 99 


45 




09.2785


ex 0307 49 59 


10 


Pod (5) of squid (Ommastrephes spp. – excluding Ommastrephes sagittatus –, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen, with skin and fins, for processing (1)
 (2)



45 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0307 99 11 


10 




09.2786


ex 0307 49 59 


20 


Squid (Ommastrephes spp. – excluding Ommastrephes sagittatus –, Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) and Illex spp., frozen whole or tentacles and fins, for processing (1)
 (2)



1 500 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0307 99 11 


20 




09.2772


ex 0304 99 10 


10 


Surimi, frozen, for processing (1)
 (2)



55 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




09.2776


ex 0304 29 21 


10 


Cod, (Gadus morhua, Gadus macrocephalus), frozen fillets and meat, for processing (1)
 (2)



20 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0304 29 29 


20 




ex 0304 99 31 


10 




ex 0304 99 33 


10 




09.2778


ex 0304 29 99 


65 


Flatfish, frozen fillets and other fish meat (Limanda aspera, Lepidopsetta bilineata, Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus, Limanda ferruginea, Lepidopsetta polyxystra), for processing (1)
 (2)



10 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012




ex 0304 99 99 


65 




09.2777


ex 0303 79 55 


40 


Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma), frozen, for processing (1)
 (2)



10 000 


0  %


1.1.2010-31.12.2012






(1)  Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions (see Articles 291 to 300 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93).

(2)  This quota is available for products intended to undergo any operation, unless it is solely for one or more of the following operations:






—


cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading, cutting (excluding dicing, filleting, production of flaps or cutting of frozen blocks or splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks),










—


sampling, sorting, labelling, packing, chilling, freezing, deep freezing, thawing, separation.




The quota is not available for products intended, in addition, to undergo treatment (or operations) which gives quota entitlement, where such treatment (or operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The reduction of customs duties shall apply only to fish intended for human consumption.

(3)  Products under CN codes 0306111010  and 0306119010  will, however, qualify for the quota if they undergo one or both of the following operations:






—


dividing the frozen product, subjecting the frozen product to heat treatment to enable the removal of internal waste material.





(4)  Products under CN codes 1605201050  and 1605209945  will, however, qualify for the quota if they undergo the following operation:






—


subjecting the shrimps and prawns to processing treatment by packaging gases as defined in European Parliament and Council Directive 95/2/EC of 20 February 1995 on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (OJ L 61, 18.3.1995, p. 1).





(5)  Body of cephalopod or the squid headless and without tentacles.

(6)  Expressed in net drained weight.

(*1)  Expressed in net weight, unless otherwise specified