Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3164 of 18 December 2024 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 992/95 as regards Union tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products originating in Norway
Date: 2024-12-18
Institutions: Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
Subjects: Norway, common organisation of markets, fish, fishery product, import (EU), originating product, tariff quota








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2024/3164


19.12.2024







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/3164
of 18 December 2024
         
amending Council Regulation (EC) No 992/95 as regards Union tariff quotas for certain fish and fishery products originating in Norway


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 992/95 of 10 April 1995, opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway (1), and in particular Article 5(1), point (b), thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


In 2024, an Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway was concluded concerning special provisions applicable to imports into the Union of certain fish and fishery products originating in Norway (2).












(2)


The Annex to the Additional Protocol provides for duty-free tariff quotas for release for free circulation in the Union as set out in Regulation (EC) No 992/95.












(3)


The Additional Protocol enters provisionally into force on 1 January 2025 as this is the first day of the third month after the last instrument of ratification has been deposited in accordance with its Article 5.2. This Regulation should therefore apply from the same date.












(4)


The annual tariff quotas set out in the Additional Protocol cover the period from 1 May 2021 to 30 April 2028. The unused tariff quota volumes covering the period from 1 May 2021 until 31 December 2024 are to be proportionally allocated for the period 1 January 2025 to 30 April 2025 and after that annually from 1 May to 30 April each year until the end of the period.












(5)


The Additional Protocol provides for the transfer of the unused accumulated quota volumes of such tariff quotas for a period of up to two years following the end of its application but no longer than the provisional application of any subsequent protocol establishing duty-free quotas for the same products.












(6)


The tariff quotas are to be managed by the Commission on the basis of the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations for release for free circulation in accordance with the rules for the management of tariff quotas laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 (3).












(7)


Regulation (EC) No 992/95 should therefore be amended accordingly.












(8)


In order to ensure that the tariff quotas are available as of the date of the provisional entry into force of the Additional Protocol, the tariff quotas provided for in this Regulation should apply from 1 January 2025. This Regulation should therefore enter into force as a matter of urgency.












(9)


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





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 992/95 is amended as follows:






(1)


In Article 2, the following paragraph is added:

                              ‘The tariff quotas with order numbers 09.0860 to 09.0871 shall cover the period from 1 May 2021 to 30 April 2028. In case these tariff quotas are not exhausted during this period and in case any subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products is not provisionally applied, imports from Norway can be made for the remaining accumulated quota volume of those quotas for up to two years following the end of this application period but not longer than the provisional application of any subsequent protocol establishing duty-free tariff quotas for the same products.’;










(2)


in Annex I after order number 09.0820, the text in the Annex to this Regulation is added.






Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2025.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 18 December 2024.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 101, 4.5.1995, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/1995/992/oj.

(2)  Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway (OJ L, 2024/2600, 8.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/prot/2024/2600/oj).

(3)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 of 24 November 2015 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 558, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2015/2447/oj).




ANNEX











Order No


CN code


TARIC sub-division


Description of products


Quota period


Quota volume (in tonnes net weight unless otherwise specified)


Quota duty (%)




09.0860


0303 51 00 


 


Herring (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), frozen, excluding livers and roes 1



From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


17 500 


0




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


52 500 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


52 500 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


52 500 




09.0861


0303 55 90 


 


Frozen jack and horse mackerel ‘Trachurus spp.’ (excl. atlantic horse mackerel and chilean jack mackerel)


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


3 500 


0




0303 59 90 


 


Frozen Indian mackerels ‘Rastrelliger spp.’, seerfishes ‘Scomberomorus spp.’, jacks, crevalles ‘Caranx spp.’, silver pomfrets ‘Pampus spp.’, pacific saury ‘Cololabis saira’, scads ‘Decapterus spp.’, capelin ‘Mallotus villosus’, bonitos ‘Sarda spp.’, marlins, sailfishes and spearfish ‘Istiophoridae’


From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


10 500 




0303 69 90 


 


Frozen fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euclichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae (excl. cod, haddock, coalfish, hake, alaska pollack, blue whitings, Boreogadus saida, whiting, pollack, blue grenadier and ling)


From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


10 500 




0303 82 00 


 


Frozen rays and skates ‘Rajidae’


From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


10 500 




0303 89 90 


 


Frozen fish, n.e.s.


 


 




09.0862


0304 86 00 



10



Frozen fillets of herring ‘Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii’


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


45 500 


0




0304 99 23 


Frozen flaps and meat ‘whether or not minced’ of herring ‘Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii’


From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


136 500 




ex 0304 49 90 


Fresh or chilled fillets of herring


From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


136 500 




0304 59 50 


Fresh or chilled flaps of herring


From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


136 500 




09.0863


0309 10 00 


 


Flours, meals and pellets of fish, fit for human consumption


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


700 


0




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


2 100 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


2 100 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


2 100 




 


 


 


 


 


Net drained weight


0




09.0864


1604 12 91 
1604 12 99 


 


Herring, spiced and/or vinegar-cured, in brine


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


19 600 




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


58 800 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


58 800 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


58 800 




09.0865


1605 21 10 
1605 21 90 
1605 29 00 


 


Shrimps and prawns, peeled and frozen, prepared or preserved


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


4 900 


0




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


14 700 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


14 700 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


14 700 




09.0866


1604 11 00 


 


Prepared or preserved salmon, whole or in pieces, but not minced


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


875 


0




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


2 625 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


2 625 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


2 625 




09.0867


0305 41 00 


 


Smoked salmon, including fish fillets, other than edible fish offal


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


1 750 


0




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


5 250 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


5 250 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


5 250 




09.0868


0306 16 99 
0306 17 93 


 


Frozen Pandalidae shrimps


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


700 


0




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


2 100 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


2 100 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


2 100 




09.0869


0302 19 00 
0302 22 00 
0302 43 90 
0302 59 20 
0302 59 30 
0302 81 15 
0302 89 31 
0302 91 00 
0302 99 00 


 


Fresh or chilled fish and fish offal


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


3 570 


0




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


10 710 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


10 710 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


10 710 




09.0870


0303 19 00 
0303 53 90 
0303 89 31 
0303 89 39 
0303 91 90 
0303 99 00 


 


Frozen fish and fish offal


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


4 795 


0




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


14 385 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


14 385 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


14 385 




09.0871


0304 52 00 
0304 73 00 
0304 99 21 
0304 99 99 


 


Fresh, chilled or frozen fillets of fish


From 1.1.2025 to 30.4.2025


2 520 


0




From 1.5.2025 to 30.4.2026


7 560 




From 1.5.2026 to 30.4.2027


7 560 




From 1.5.2027 to 30.4.2028


7 560 







ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/3164/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)