CELEX: 22003A0424(01)
Language: en
Date: 2003-04-04 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 Republic of Hungary, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the Parties on new mutual agricultural concessions

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22003A0424(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 Republic of Hungary, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the Parties on new mutual agricultural concessions  

Official Journal L 102 , 24/04/2003 P. 0038 - 0059

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 Republic of Hungary, 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 REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY,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 Republic of Hungary of the other part (hereinafter referred to as the Europe Agreement) was signed in Brussels on 16 December 1991 and entered into force on 1 February 1994(1).(2) Article 20(5) of the Europe Agreement provides that the Community and the Republic of Hungary 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) Improvements to the preferential agricultural regime of the Europe Agreement were for the first time 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 14 April 2000 and 25 April 2002.(5) From the one side, the Council decided, by virtue of Regulation (EC) No 1408/2002(3) to apply on a provisional basis the European Community concessions resulting from the 2000 and the 2002 rounds of negotiations and from the other side the Government of the Republic of Hungary took similar legislative provisions to apply the equivalent Hungarian concessions by virtue of Joint Ministerial Decrees No 1/2000, 16/2002 and 17/2002 of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance of Hungary(4).(6) The abovementioned concessions will be 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 Republic of Hungary as set out in Annex A(a) and A(b) and the arrangements for import into the Republic of Hungary applicable to certain agricultural products originating in the Community as set out in Annex B(a) and B(b) to this Protocol shall replace those set out in Annexes VIII and IX as referred to in Article 20(2) and (3), as amended, of the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Hungary, of the other part.Article 2The Annexes to this Protocol shall form an integral part thereof.This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Europe Agreement.Article 3This Protocol shall be approved by the Community and the Republic of Hungary in accordance with their own procedures. The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary measures to implement this Protocol.Article 4This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following the Contracting Parties' notification of the accomplishment of the corresponding procedures according to Article 3.Quantities of goods subject to tariff quotas and released for free circulation as from 1 July 2002 under the concessions provided for in Annex A(b) to Regulation (EC) No 1408/2002 and Annex I of Joint Ministerial Decree No 17/2002 of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance of Hungary shall be fully counted against the quantities provided for Annex A(b) and B(b) to the attached Protocol, except for quantities for which import licences were issued before 1 July 2002.Article 5This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Hungarian languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.Hecho en Bruselas, el cuatro de abril de dos mil tres./Udfærdiget i Bruxelles den fjerde april to tusind og tre./Geschehen zu Brüssel am vierten April zweitausendunddrei./Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις τέσσερις Απριλίου δύο χιλιάδες τρία./Done at Brussels on the fourth day of April in the year two thousand and three./Fait à Bruxelles, le quatre avril deux mille trois./Fatto a Bruxelles, addì quattro aprile duemilatre./Gedaan te Brussel, de vierde april tweeduizenddrie./Feito em Bruxelas, em quatro de Abril de dois mil e três./Tehty Brysselissä neljäntenä päivänä huhtikuuta vuonna kaksituhattakolme./Som skedde i Bryssel den fjärde april tjugohundratre./Készült Brüsszelben 2003 április 4.-én.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_2003102EN.004001.TIF">A Magyar Köztársaság Kormánya részéröl>PIC FILE= "L_2003102EN.004002.TIF">(1) OJ L 347, 31.12.1993, p. 2.(2) OJ L 28, 2.2.1999, p. 1.(3) OJ L 205, 2.8.2002, p. 9.(4) Hungarian Official Journal (MK) No 81, 4.8.2000, p. 5086 and Hungarian Official Journal (MK) No 122, 20.9.2002, p. 6613 and p. 6616.ANNEX A(a)Custom duties on imports applicable in the Community to products originating in Hungary and listed below shall be abolished - 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Minimum import prices are fixed for the following products:>TABLE>2. The minimum import prices, as set out in point 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 Appendix 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 Hungarian authorities in order to enable them to correct the situation.4. At the request of either the Community or Hungary, 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 may be organised three months before the beginning of each marketing year in the European 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 Hungary to products originating in the Community and listed below shall be abolished - Hungarian tariff codes 2002(1)0101 10 100101 10 900101 90 110101 90 300102 10 100102 10 300102 10 900102 90 900103 91 900103 92 900105 11 110105 11 190105 11 910105 11 990105 12 000105 19 200105 19 900106 11 000106 12 000106 19 100106 19 900106 20 000106 31 000106 32 000106 39 100106 39 900106 90 000203 11 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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 982301 10 002301 20 002302 50 002306 20 002306 30 002306 41 002306 49 002308 00 112308 00 402308 00 902309 10 112309 10 312309 10 512309 10 902309 90 102309 90 202309 90 312309 90 412309 90 512309 90 912309 90 952309 90 992905 45 005301 10 005301 21 005301 29 005301 30 105301 30 905302 10 005302 90 00(1) Common Decree No 22/2002 of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance (Magyar Közlöny No 148 Vol. 2, 30.11.2002. p. 58).ANNEX B(b)Imports into Hungary of the following products originating in the Community shall be subject to the concessions set out below>TABLE>