Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland
Date: 2024-09-12
Institutions: European Union, Iceland
Subjects: European Economic Area, Iceland, fish, fishery product, import (EU), originating product, protocol to an agreement, tariff quota, trade agreement (EU)




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Official Journal of the European Union


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2024/2601


8.10.2024







            ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY AND THE REPUBLIC OF ICELAND
         


THE EUROPEAN UNION
and
ICELAND

HAVING REGARD to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland signed on 22 July 1972, and to the existing arrangements for trade in fish and fishery products between Iceland and the Community,


HAVING REGARD to the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Iceland concerning special provisions applicable for the period 2014–2021 to imports into the Union of certain fish and fishery products, and in particular Article 1 thereof,

HAVE DECIDED TO CONCLUDE THIS PROTOCOL:




Article 1


1.   The special provisions applicable to imports into the European Union of certain fish and fishery products originating in Iceland are laid down in this Protocol and the Annex hereto. The annual duty free tariff quotas are set out in the Annex to this Protocol. These tariff quotas shall be applicable from the day on which the provisional application of this Protocol becomes effective, according to procedures laid down in paragraph 3 of Article 4, until 30 April 2028.


2.   At the end of this period, the Contracting Parties will assess the need to maintain the special provisions referred to in paragraph 1 and, if necessary, review the quota levels while taking into account all relevant interests.




Article 2


1.   The tariff quotas shall be opened on the day on which the provisional application of this Protocol becomes effective, according to procedures laid down in paragraph 3 of Article 4.


2.   The volumes of the tariff quotas are set out in the Annex to this Protocol. The first tariff quota shall be available from the date of provisional application of this Protocol until 30 April 2024. From 1 May 2024 onwards, subsequent tariff quotas shall be allocated annually from 1 May to 30 April until the end of the period referred to in Article 1 of this Protocol.


3.   The tariff quota volumes covering the period from 1 May 2021 until the provisional application this Protocol shall be proportionally allocated and made available for the rest of the period referred to in Article 1 of this Protocol.


4.   In case tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 are not exhausted during the period referred to in Article 1, and in case a subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products is not provisionally applied, imports from Iceland can be made for the remaining accumulated quota volume of those tariff quotas for up to two years following the end of the period referred to in Article 1, but not longer than provisional application of a subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products.




Article 3

The rules of origin applicable for the tariff quotas listed in the Annex to this Protocol shall be those set out in Protocol 3 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Iceland signed on 22 July 1972.



Article 4


1.   This Protocol shall be ratified or approved by the Parties in accordance with their own procedures. The instruments of ratification or approval shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.


2.   It shall enter into force on the first day of the second month after the last instrument of ratification or approval has been deposited.


3.   Pending the completion of the procedures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, this Protocol shall be applied on a provisional basis from the first day of the third month following the deposit of the last notification to this effect.




Article 5

This Protocol, drawn up in a single original, in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Icelandic languages, the text in each of these texts being equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, which will remit a certified copy to each of the Parties.






















ANNEX
SPECIAL PROVISIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1 OF THE PROTOCOL
In addition to the existing permanent duty free tariff quotas, the European Union shall open the following annual duty free tariff quotas for products originating in Iceland:







CN code


Description of products


Annual (1.5-30.4) tariff quota volume in net weight unless otherwise specified (1)





0303 51 00 


Frozen herrings ‘Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii’ (2)



400 tonnes




0306 15 00 


Frozen Norway lobsters ‘Nephrops norvegicus’, even smoked, whether in shell or not, incl. lobsters in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water


100 tonnes




0304 49 50 


Fresh or chilled fillets of redfish ‘Sebastes spp.’


2 500  tonnes




1604 19 92 
1604 20 90 


Preparations of cod and other fish


2 000  tonnes




 


Fresh or chilled


5 500  tonnes




0302 23 00 


Sole (Solea spp.)


 




0302 24 00 


Turbots (Psetta maxima)


 




0302 29 


Megrim (Lepidorhombus spp.) and other flat fish, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat


 




Ex03025990 


Fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euchlichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae


 




0302 82 00 


Rays and skates (Rajidae)


 




0302 89 50 


Monkfish (Lophius spp.)


 




0302 89 90 


Other fresh or chilled fish, n.e.s.


 




0303 32 00 


Frozen plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)


 




0303 39 85 


Frozen flatfish


 




Ex03035990 


Frozen Indian mackerels, ‘Rastrelliger spp.’


 




Ex03036990 


Frozen fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euchlichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae


 




0303 82 00 


Frozen rays and skates (Rajidae)


 




0303 89 90 


Frozen fish, n.e.s.


 




0303 99 00 


Frozen fish fins, heads, tails, maws and other edible fish offal


 




0304 43 00 


Fresh or chilled fillets of flat fish (Pleuronectidae, Bothidae, Cynoglossidae, Soleidae, Scophthalmidae and Citharidae)


 




Ex03044490 


Fresh or chilled fillets of fish of the families Bregmacerotdae, Euchlichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae


 




0304 46 


Fresh or chilled fillets of toothfish


 




0304 49 10 


Fresh or chilled fillets of freshwater fish


 




0304 49 90 


Fresh or chilled fillets of other fish, n.e.s.


 




0304 95 10 


Frozen surimi


 




0305 39 10 


Fillets of salmon salted or in brine, but not smoked


50 tonnes




0305 42 00 


Smoked herring


 




0305 69 50 


Salmon only salted or in brine


 




0305 41 00 


Smoked salmon, including fillets


 




0305 72 00 


Fish heads, tails and maws, smoked, dried, salted or in brine


1 950  tonnes




0305 79 00 


Fish fins and other edible fish offal, smoked, dried, salted or in brine


 




0305 43 00 


Smoked trout (Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster)


 




0305 49 80 


Other smoked fish


 




1604 11 00 
1604 20 10 


Prepared or preserved salmon, whole or in pieces (excl. minced)


 




1605 61 00 


Prepared or preserved sea cucumbers


 




1605 62 00 


Prepared or preserved sea urchins


 




0302 22 00 


Fresh or chilled plaice (‘Pleuronectes platessa’)


2 500  tonnes




0302 59 20 


Fresh or chilled whiting (‘Merlangius merlangus’)


 




0304 49 10 


Fresh or chilled fillets of freshwater fish, n.e.s.


 




0304 52 00 


Fresh or chilled meat, whether or not minced, of Salmonidae


 




0304 89 10 


Frozen fillets of freshwater fish, n.e.s.


 




0305 69 80 


Other fish, only salted or in brine


 




0304 82 10 
0304 82 90 


Frozen fillets of trout ‘Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae’


 




0302 59 40 


Fresh or chilled ling ‘Molva spp.’


 




0305 53 90 


Dried fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euclichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae, other than cod


 




0303 14 20 
0303 14 90 


Frozen trout ‘Oncorhynchus mykiss’, with heads and gills on, gutted


 




0304 82 10 


Frozen trout ‘Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus’, frozen fillets of trout ‘Oncorhynchus mykiss’, weighing > 400 grammes each


 




0302 14 00 


Fresh or chilled Atlantic salmon ‘Salmo salar’ and Danube salmon


 




0303 13 00 


Frozen Atlantic salmon ‘Salmo salar’ and Danube salmon ‘Hucho hucho’


 




0304 41 00 


Fresh or chilled fillets of Pacific salmon ‘Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)’


 




0304 81 00 


Frozen fillets of Pacific salmon ‘Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)’


 






(1)  Quantities shall be added in accordance with Article 2 paragraph 3 of this Protocol.

(2)  The benefit of the tariff quota shall not be granted to goods declared for release for free circulation during the period 15 February to 15 June.



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/prot/2024/2601/oj
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