Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1335/2014 of 16 December 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas
Date: 2014-12-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, import (EU), milk product, regulation of transactions, tariff quota




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17.12.2014   


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Official Journal of the European Union


L 360/6








            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1335/2014
of 16 December 2014
         
amending Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (1), and in particular Article 187 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1101/2014 (2) provides for amendments in CN codes for dairy products of Chapter 4 with effect from 1 January 2015.












(2)


Commission Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 (3) lays down detailed rules as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas. To reflect amendments in CN codes for dairy products, it is necessary to update Annexes I, II and VIIa to that Regulation.












(3)


Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 refers to CN codes which are deleted with effect from 1 January 2015. Moreover, Annex 3, relating to concessions regarding cheeses, to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products (4), approved by Decision 2002/309/EC, Euratom of the Council and of the Commission (5), provides for the full liberalisation of the bilateral trade in cheeses as from 2007. That provision is therefore obsolete and should be deleted.












(4)


Article 19a(1)(c) and (4)(c) relating to Part 3 of Annex VIIa to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 and Article 20(1)(a)(ii) relating to Part C of Annex II to that Regulation concern respectively a cheese tariff quota and preferential imports in application of the Agreement on Trade, Development and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of South Africa, of the other part (6), approved by Council Decision 2004/441/EC (7). Those provisions refer to CN codes which are deleted with effect from 1 January 2015. Since the corresponding quota period and import duty elimination period have expired, it is appropriate to delete those provisions.












(5)


Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 should therefore be amended accordingly.












(6)


The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 is amended as follows:






(1)


In Article 4, paragraph 2 is deleted;










(2)


In Article 19a, paragraphs 1(c) and 4(c) are deleted;










(3)


In Article 20, paragraph (1)(a)(ii) is deleted;










(4)


Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;










(5)


Annex II is amended as follows:






(a)


Part B is replaced by the text in Annex II to this Regulation;










(b)


Part C is deleted;














(6)


Annex VIIa is amended as follows:






(a)


Part 3 is deleted;










(b)


Part 4 is replaced by the text in Annex III to this Regulation.










Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2015.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 16 December 2014.


For the Commission


The President

Jean-Claude JUNCKER
            





(1)  
            OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671.

(2)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1101/2014 of 16 October 2014 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 312, 31.10.2014, p. 1).

(3)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 of 14 December 2001 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards the import arrangements for milk and milk products and opening tariff quotas (OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 29).

(4)  
            OJ L 114, 30.4.2002, p. 132.

(5)  Decision 2002/309/EC, Euratom of the Council, and of the Commission as regards the Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, of 4 April 2002 on the conclusion of seven Agreements with the Swiss Confederation (OJ L 114, 30.4.2002, p. 1).

(6)  
            OJ L 311, 4.12.1999, p. 3.

(7)  Council Decision 2004/441/EC of 26 April 2004 concerning the conclusion of the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, on the one part, and the Republic of South Africa, on the other part (OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p. 109).




ANNEX I
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 is amended as follows:






(1)


Part I.A is replaced by the following:


                                    ‘I. A

TARIFF QUOTAS NOT SPECIFIED BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN











Quota number


CN code


Description (1)



Import duty
(EUR/100 kg net weight)


Country of origin


Annual quota
(in tonnes)


Six-monthly quota
(in tonnes)




09.4590


0402 10 19 


Skimmed-milk powder


47,50


All third countries


68 537 


34 268,5 




09.4599


0405 10 11 
0405 10 19 
0405 10 30 
0405 10 50 
0405 10 90 
0405 90 10  (*1)

0405 90 90  (*1)



Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk


94,80


All third countries


11 360 


5 680 




in butter equivalent (*1)





09.4591


ex 0406 10 30 
ex 0406 10 50 
ex 0406 10 80 


Pizza cheese, frozen, cut into pieces each weighing not more than 1 gram, in containers with a net content of 5 kg or more, of a water content, by weight, of 52 % or more, and a fat content by weight in the dry matter of 38 % or more


13,00


All third countries


5 360 


2 680 




09.4592


ex 0406 30 10 


Processed Emmentaler


71,90


All third countries


18 438 


9 219 




0406 90 13 


Emmentaler


85,80




09.4593


ex 0406 30 10 


Processed Gruyère


71,90


All third countries


5 413 


2 706,5 




0406 90 15 


Gruyère, Sbrinz


85,80




09.4594


0406 90 01  (2)



Cheese for processing


83,50


All third countries


20 007 


10 003,5 




09.4595


0406 90 21 


Cheddar


21,00


All third countries


15 005 


7 502,5 




09.4596


ex 0406 10 30 
ex 0406 10 50 
ex 0406 10 80 


Fresh (unripened or uncured) cheese, including whey cheese, and curd, other than pizza cheese of quota number 09.4591


92,60
92,60
106,40


All third countries


19 525 


9 762,5 




0406 20 00 


Grated or powdered cheese


94,10




0406 30 31 


Other processed cheese,
not grated or powdered


69,00




0406 30 39 


71,90




0406 30 90 


102,90




0406 40 10 
0406 40 50 
0406 40 90 


Blue-veined cheese and other cheese containing veins produced by Penicillium roqueforti



70,40




0406 90 17 


Bergkäse and Appenzell


85,80




0406 90 18 


Fromage Fribourgeois, Vacherin Mont d'Or and Tête de Moine


75,50


 




0406 90 23 


Edam


75,50


 




0406 90 25 


Tilsit


75,50


 




0406 90 29 


Kashkaval


75,50


 




0406 90 32 


Feta


75,50


 




0406 90 35 


Kefalo-Tyri


75,50


 




0406 90 37 


Finlandia


75,50


 




0406 90 39 


Jarlsberg


75,50


 




0406 90 50 


Cheese of sheep's milk or buffalo milk in containers containing brine, or in sheepskin or goatskin bottles


75,50


 




ex 0406 90 63 


Pecorino


94,10


 




0406 90 69 


Other


94,10


 




0406 90 73 


Provolone


75,50


 




0406 90 74 


Maasdam


75,50


 




ex 0406 90 75 


Caciocavallo


75,50


 




ex 0406 90 76 


Danbo, Fontal, Fynbo, Havarti, Maribo, Samsø


75,50


 




0406 90 78 


Gouda


75,50


 




ex 0406 90 79 


Esrom, Italico, Kernhem, Saint-Paulin


75,50


 




ex 0406 90 81 


Cheshire, Wensleydale, Lancashire, Double Gloucester, Blarney, Colby, Monterey


75,50


 




0406 90 82 


Camembert


75,50


 




0406 90 84 


Brie


75,50


 




0406 90 86 


Other cheese of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 40 % and a water content, by weight, in the non-fatty matter, exceeding 47 % but not exceeding 52 %


75,50


 




0406 90 89 


Other cheese of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 40 % and a water content, by weight, in the non-fatty matter, exceeding 52 % but not exceeding 62 %


75,50


 




0406 90 92 


Other cheese of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 40 % and a water content, by weight, in the non-fatty matter, exceeding 62 % but not exceeding 72 %


75,50


 




0406 90 93 


Other cheese of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 40 % and a water content, by weight, in the non-fatty matter, exceeding 72 %


92,60


 




0406 90 99 


Other cheeses of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 40 %


106,40


 



;









(2)


Part I.I is replaced by the following:


                                    ‘I. I


Tariff quotas under Annex II to the Agreement with Iceland approved by Decision 2007/138/EC


Annual quota from 1 July to 30 June

(Quantity in tonnes)










Quota number


CN code


Description (*2)



Applicable duty


Annual quantity


Half yearly quantity as from 1.1.2008




09.4205


0405 10 11 
0405 10 19 


Natural butter


Exemption


350


175




09.4206


ex 0406 10 50  (*3)



“Skyr”


Exemption


380


190










(*1)  1 kg of product = 1,22 kg butter

(1)  Irrespective of the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording of the product description must be considered to have merely indicative value, since the applicability of the preferential arrangements is determined in the context of this Annex by the scope of the CN code. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the applicability of the preferential scheme is determined on the basis of the CN code and the corresponding description taken jointly.

(2)  The cheeses referred to are considered as processed when they have been processed into products falling within subheading 0406 30  of the Combined Nomenclature. Articles 291 to 300 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 apply.’
         

(*2)  Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential arrangements being determined, within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes. Where ex CN codes are referred to, the applicability of the preferential arrangements is determined to the basis of the CN code and the corresponding description taken jointly.

(*3)  CN code subject to modification, pending confirmation of classification of the product.’
         





ANNEX II



                        ‘II. B

PREFERENTIAL IMPORT ARRANGEMENTS TURKEY









Serial number


CN code


Description (1)



Country of origin


Import duty
(EUR/100 kg net weight without further indication)




1


0406 90 29 


Kashkaval


Turkey


67,19




2


0406 90 50 


Cheeses made from sheep's milk or buffalo milk, in containers containing brine, or in sheepskin or goatskin bottles


Turkey


67,19




3


ex 0406 90 86 
ex 0406 90 89 
ex 0406 90 92 



Tulum peyniri, made from sheep's milk or buffalo milk, in individual plastic or other kind of packing of less than 10 kg


Turkey


67,19







(1)  Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the applicability of the preferential scheme being determined, for the purposes of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN code. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the applicability of the preferential scheme is determined on the basis of the CN code and the corresponding description taken jointly.’
         





ANNEX III



                        ‘4.

TARIFF QUOTAS UNDER PROTOCOL 1 TO DECISION No 1/98 OF THE EC-TURKEY ASSOCIATION COUNCIL










Quota number


CN code


Description (1)



Country of origin


Annual quota from 1 January to 31 December
(in tonnes)


Import duty
(EUR/100 kg net weight)




09.0243


0406 90 29 


Kashkaval


Turkey


2 300 


0




0406 90 50 


Cheese of sheep's milk or buffalo milk, in containers containing brine, or in sheepskin or goatskin bottles




ex 0406 90 86 
ex 0406 90 89 
ex 0406 90 92 


Tulum Peyniri, made from sheep's milk or buffalo milk, in individual plastic or other kind of packings of less than 10 kg







(1)  Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the applicability of the preferential scheme being determined, for the purposes of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the applicability of the preferential scheme is determined on the basis of the CN code and the corresponding description taken jointly.’