CELEX: 22003A0430(01)
Language: en
Date: 2003-04-23 00:00:00
Title: Protocol adjusting the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the parties on new mutual agricultural concessions

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22003A0430(01)

Protocol adjusting the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the parties on new mutual agricultural concessions  

Official Journal L 107 , 30/04/2003 P. 0017 - 0034

Protocoladjusting the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the parties on new mutual agricultural concessionsTHE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, hereinafter referred to as "the Community",of the one part, andTHE CZECH REPUBLIC,of the other part,Whereas:(1) The Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the other part (hereinafter referred to as "the Europe Agreement" was signed in Luxembourg on 4 October 1993 and entered into force on 1 February 1995(1).(2) Article 21(5) of the Europe Agreement provides that the Community and the Czech Republic shall examine in the Association Council, product by product and on an orderly and reciprocal basis, the possibility of granting each other additional agricultural concessions. On this basis negotiations have been undertaken and were concluded between the parties.(3) For the first time, improvements to the preferential agricultural regime of the Europe Agreement were provided for in the Protocol adjusting trade aspects of the Europe Agreement(2) to take account of the last enlargement of the Community and the outcome of the GATT Uruguay Round.(4) Two further rounds of negotiations for improved agricultural trade concessions were concluded on 4 May 2000 and 6 June 2002.(5) From the one side, the Council decided, by virtue of Council Regulation (EC) No 2433/2000 of 17 October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with the Czech Republic(3), to apply on a provisional basis, as from 1 July 2000, the Community concessions resulting from the 2000 round of negotiations and from the other side the Government of the Czech Republic took legislative provisions to apply, as from the same date, the equivalent Czech concessions.(6) The abovementioned concessions will be supplemented and replaced on the date of entry into force of this Protocol by the concessions provided for herein,HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:Article 1The arrangements for import into the Community applicable to certain agricultural products originating in the Czech Republic as set out in Annexes A(a) and A(b) to this Protocol and the arrangements for import into the Czech Republic applicable to certain agricultural products originating in the Community as set out in Annexes B(a) and B(b) to this Protocol shall replace those set out in Annexes XI and XII as referred to in Article 21(2) and (4), as amended, of the Europe Agreement. The agreement between the Community and the Czech Republic on reciprocal preferential trade concessions for certain wines, set out in Annex C, shall form an integral part of this Protocol.Article 2This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Europe Agreement. The Annexes to this Protocol shall form an integral part thereof.Article 3This Protocol shall be approved by the Community and the Czech Republic in accordance with their corresponding procedures. The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary measures to implement this Protocol.The Contracting Parties shall notify each other of the accomplishment of the abovementioned procedures.Article 4Subject to completion of the procedures provided for in Article 3, this Protocol shall enter into force on 1 January 2003. Should these procedures not be completed in time, it shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following the Contracting Parties' notification of the accomplishment of the procedures.Article 5This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Czech languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.Hecho en Bruselas, el veintitrés de abril del dos mil tres./Udfærdiget i Bruxelles den treogtyvende april to tusind og tre./Geschehen zu Brüssel am dreiundzwanzigsten April zweitausendunddrei./Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις είκοσι τρεις Απριλίου δύο χιλιάδες τρία./Done at Brussels on the twenty-third day of April in the year two thousand and three./Fait à Bruxelles, le vingt-trois avril deux mille trois./Fatto a Bruxelles, addì ventitré aprile duemilatre./Gedaan te Brussel, de drieëntwintigste april tweeduizenddrie./Feito em Bruxelas, em vinte e três de Abril de dois mil e três./Tehty Brysselissä kahdentenakymmenentenäkolmantena päivänä huhtikuuta vuonna kaksituhattakolme./Som skedde i Bryssel den tjugotredje april tjugohundratre./Dáno v Bruselu dne dvacátého tretího dubna roku dva tisíce tri.Por la Comunidad Europea/For Det Europæiske Fællesskab/Für die Europäische Gemeinschaft/Για την Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα/For the European Community/Pour la Communauté européenne/Per la Comunità europea/Voor de Europese Gemeenschap/Pela Comunidade Europeia/Euroopan yhteisön puolesta/På Europeiska gemenskapens vägnar>PIC FILE= "L_2003107EN.001901.TIF">za Ceskou republiku>PIC FILE= "L_2003107EN.001902.TIF">(1) OJ L 360, 31.12.1994, p. 2.(2) OJ L 341, 16.12.1998, p. 3.(3) OJ L 280, 4.11.2000, p. 1.ANNEX A(a)Custom duties on imports applicable in the Community to products originating in the Czech Republic and listed below shall be abolishedCN code(1)0101 10 900101 90 300101 90 900104 20 100105 190106 19 100106 39 100205 000206 80 910206 90 910208 10 110208 10 190208 20 000208 30 000208 400208 50 000208 90 100208 90 550208 90 600208 90 950210 99 310307 91 000407 000409 00 000410 00 00060106020603 10 300603 90 0006040701 10 000703 10 110703 10 900703 20 000704 90 100705 19 000705 21 000705 29 000708 10 000708 90 000709 10 000709 20 000709 30 000709 40 000709 51 000709 52 000709 590709 60 100709 60 990709 90 100709 90 200709 90 400709 90 500709 90 600709 90 900710 10 000710 80 590710 80 610710 80 690710 80 700710 80 800710 80 850710 80 950710 90 000711 30 000711 40 000711 51 000711 59 000711 90 100711 90 500711 90 800712 20 000712 31 000712 32 000712 33 000712 39 000712 90 050712 90 300712 90 500712 90 900713 50 000713 900802 12 900802 21 000802 22 000802 31 000802 32 000802 40 000802 90 850805 10 800805 50 900806 200807 11 000807 19 000808 10 100808 20 900809 40 900810 20 900810 30 900810 400810 60 000810 90 950811 10 190811 20 590811 20 900811 90 310811 90 390811 90 500811 90 700811 90 750811 90 800811 90 950812 10 000812 90 100812 90 200812 90 400812 90 500812 90 600812 90 700812 90 990813 10 000813 20 000813 30 000813 40 100813 40 300813 40 950813 50 150813 50 190813 50 310813 50 390813 50 910813 50 990814 00 000901 12 000901 21 000901 22 000901 90 900902 10 000904 12 000904 200905 00 000907 00 000910 40 130910 40 190910 40 900910 91 900910 99 991105 20 001106 10 001106 301208 10 001209 10 001209 21 001209 23 801209 29 501209 29 601209 29 801209 30 001209 911209 99 911209 99 9912101211 90 301212 10 101212 10 991214 90 101302 19 051502 00 901503 00 191503 00 901511 10 901511 90 191511 90 911511 90 991512 11 911512 19 911513 29 191513 29 911513 29 991515 11 001515 191515 211515 291515 90 591518 00 311518 00 391603 00 101605 90 3017032001 90 202001 90 502001 90 702001 90 752001 90 852001 90 91200220032005 90 102005 90 502006 00 912006 00 992007 91 902007 99 102008 11 922008 11 942008 11 962008 11 982008 19 192008 19 932008 19 952008 19 992008 20 192008 20 392008 20 512008 20 592008 20 712008 20 792008 20 912008 20 992008 30 112008 30 312008 30 392008 30 512008 30 552008 30 592008 30 712008 30 752008 30 792008 30 902008 92 722009 31 112009 39 312009 41 102009 49 302009 502009 712009 79 192009 79 302009 79 932009 79 992009 80 192009 80 362009 80 382009 80 502009 80 632009 80 692009 80 712009 80 732009 80 792009 80 882009 80 892009 80 952009 80 962009 80 972009 80 992009 90 192009 90 292009 90 392009 90 412009 90 492009 90 512009 90 592009 90 732009 90 792009 90 952009 90 962009 90 972009 90 982302 50 002306 90 192308 00 90(1) As defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2031/2001 of 6 August 2001 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 279, 23.10.2001).ANNEX A(b)Imports into the Community of the following products originating in the Czech Republic shall be subject to the concessions set out below(MFN = most-favoured-nation duty)>TABLE>ANNEX TO ANNEX A(b)Minimum import price arrangement for certain soft fruit for processing1. Minimum import prices are fixed as follows for the following products for processing originating in the Czech Republic:>TABLE>2. The minimum import prices, as set out in Article 1, will be respected on a consignment by consignment basis. In the case of a customs declaration value being lower than the minimum import price, a countervailing duty will be charged equal to the difference between the minimum import price and the customs declaration value.3. If the import prices of a given product covered by this Annex show a trend suggesting that the prices could go below the level of the minimum import prices in the immediate future, the European Commission will inform the Czech authorities in order to enable them to correct the situation.4. At the request of either the Community or the Czech Republic, the Association Committee shall examine the functioning of the system or the revision of the level of the minimum import prices. If appropriate, the Association Committee shall take the necessary decisions.5. To encourage and promote the development of trade and for the mutual benefit of all parties concerned, a consultation meeting will be organised three months before the beginning of each marketing year in the Community. This consultation meeting will take place between the European Commission and the interested European producers' organisations for the products concerned, of the one part and the authorities', producers' and exporters' organisations of all the associated exporting countries, of the other part.During this consultation meeting, the market situation for soft fruit including, in particular, forecasts for production, stock situation, price evolution and possible market development, as well as possibilities to adapt supply to demand, will be discussed.ANNEX B(a)Custom duties on imports applicable in the Czech Republic to products originating in the Community and listed below shall be abolishedCzech customs code(1)0101 90 110105 19 200105 19 900206 10 100206 10 910206 10 990206 21 000206 22 000206 29 100206 29 990206 30 200206 30 300206 30 800206 41 200206 41 800206 49 200206 49 800206 80 100206 80 910206 80 990206 90 100206 90 910206 90 990407 00 110407 00 190407 00 300407 00 900409 00 000410 00 000601 20 100601 20 300601 20 900602 10 100602 10 900602 20 100602 20 900602 30 000602 40 100602 40 900602 90 100602 90 300602 90 910602 90 990603 90 000604 10 900604 91 210604 91 290604 91 410604 91 490604 91 900604 99 100604 99 900701 10 000703 10 110703 10 900703 20 000704 90 100705 19 000705 21 000705 29 000708 10 000708 90 000709 51 000709 60 100709 60 990709 90 100709 90 600709 90 900710 80 590710 80 700710 80 950710 90 000711 40 000711 90 100711 90 500711 90 800712 20 000712 90 050712 90 110712 90 300712 90 500712 90 900713 10 100713 10 900713 40 000806 200807 11 000807 19 000808 10 100808 20 900809 100809 20 050809 20 950809 300809 40 050810 20 100810 20 900810 30 100810 30 300810 30 900810 40 100810 40 300810 40 500810 40 900811 10 190811 10 900811 20 190811 20 310811 20 390811 20 510811 20 590811 20 900811 90 310811 90 390811 90 500811 90 700811 90 750811 90 800811 90 850811 90 950812 10 000812 90 100812 90 400812 90 500812 90 600812 90 700812 90 9908130901 11 000901 12 000901 21 000901 22 000901 90 100901 90 900904 20 100904 20 300904 20 900909 30 000909 40 001001 10 001105 20 001204 00 901206 00 101207 50 101207 50 901207 91 101207 91 901209 10 001209 21 001209 22 101209 22 801209 23 111209 23 151209 23 801209 24 001209 25 101209 25 901209 26 001209 29 101209 29 501209 29 601209 29 801210 10 001210 20 101210 20 901302 19 051502 00 101502 00 901503 001511 90 191511 90 911511 90 991512 11 911512 19 911513 19 111513 29 191513 29 911513 29 991515 11 001515 19 101515 19 901515 21 101515 21 901515 29 101515 29 901515 90 591518 00 311518 00 391703 10 001703 90 002001 90 202001 90 502001 90 652001 90 702001 90 752001 90 852001 90 912002 10 102002 10 902002 90 112002 90 192002 90 312002 90 392002 90 912002 90 992005 60 002005 90 102005 90 602005 90 702005 90 802006 00 912006 00 992007 99 102008 20 192008 20 392008 20 512008 20 592008 20 712008 20 792008 20 912008 20 992008 30 112008 30 312008 30 392008 30 512008 30 552008 30 592008 30 712008 30 752008 30 792008 30 902008 502008 702008 92 722008 99 412008 99 512009 50 102009 50 902009 612009 712009 79 192009 79 302009 79 932009 79 992009 80 192009 80 362009 80 382009 80 502009 80 632009 80 692009 80 712009 80 732009 80 792009 80 882009 80 892009 80 962009 80 972009 80 992009 90 192009 90 292009 90 392009 90 512009 90 592009 90 952009 90 962009 90 972009 90 98(1) As defined in Decree of the Government of the Czech Republic No 480/2001 on the Customs Tariff of the Czech Republic.ANNEX B(b)Imports into the Czech Republic of the following products originating in the Community shall be subject to the concessions set out below>TABLE>ANNEX TO ANNEX B(b)>PIC FILE= "L_2003107EN.003102.TIF">>PIC FILE= "L_2003107EN.003201.TIF">ANNEX CAGREEMENTbetween the European Community and the Czech Republic on reciprocal preferential trade concessions for certain wines1. Imports into the Community of the following products originating in the Czech Republic shall be subject to the concessions set out below:>TABLE>2. The Community shall grant a preferential zero duty within tariff quotas as mentioned under point 1, subject to the condition that no export subsidies shall be paid for exports of these quantities by the Czech Republic.3. Imports into the Czech Republic of the following products originating in the Community shall be subject to the concessions set out below:>TABLE>4. The Czech Republic shall grant a preferential zero duty within tariff quotas as mentioned under point 3, subject to the condition that no export subsidies shall be paid for exports of these quantities by the Community.5. This Agreement shall cover wine(a) which has been produced from fresh grapes wholly produced and harvested in the territory of the Contracting Party in question; and(b) (i) originating in the Community, which has been produced in accordance with the rules governing the oenological practices and processes referred to in Title V of Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine(1);(ii) originating in the Czech Republic, which has been produced in accordance with the rules governing the oenological practices and processes in conformity with the Czech law. These oenological rules referred to shall be in conformity with the Community legislation.6. Imports of wine under the concessions provided in this Agreement will be subject to the presentation of a certificate issued by a mutually recognised official body appearing on the lists drawn up jointly, to the effect that the wine in question complies with point 5(b).7. The Contracting Parties shall examine the opportunities for granting each other further concessions taking into account the development of wine trade between the Contracting Parties.8. The Contracting Parties shall ensure that the benefits granted reciprocally are not called into question by other measures.9. Consultations are to take place at the request of either Contracting Party on any problem relating to the way this Agreement operates.10. This Agreement shall apply, on the one hand, in the territories in which the Treaty establishing the European Community is applied and under the conditions laid down in that Treaty and, on the other hand, in the territory of the Czech Republic.(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1; Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2585/2001 (OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 10).