CELEX: 32006R0926
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 926/2006 of  22 June 2006  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

23.6.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 170/8
            
         
      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 926/2006
   of 22 June 2006
   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 COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products (1), and in particular Article 29(1) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Annex I.A to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 (2) sets out the tariff quotas not specified by country of origin to be imported by quota period.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Council Regulation (EC) No 267/2006 of 30 January 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of letters between the European Community and Australia pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (3) provides for an additional allocation of butter and other fats and oils derived from milk under the annual import tariff quota.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Council Regulation (EC) No 711/2006 of 20 March 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (4) provides for additional allocations to several quotas of cheeses under the annual import tariff quota.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               It is therefore appropriate to adjust the concerned quota quantities referred to in Annex I.A to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001.
            
         
               (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 Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   Annex I.A to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
   Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
   It shall apply from 1 July 2006.
   
      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
      Done at Brussels, 22 June 2006.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Mariann FISCHER BOEL
         
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).
   
      (2)  OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 29. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 591/2006 (OJ L 104, 13.4.2006, p. 11).
   
      (3)  OJ L 47, 17.2.2006, p. 1.
   
      (4)  OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 1.
   
      ANNEX
      
         ‘I.A
         TARIFF QUOTAS NOT SPECIFIED BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
         
                     Quota number
                  
                  
                     CN code
                  
                  
                     Description (2)
                     
                  
                  
                     Country of origin
                  
                  
                     Annual quota
                  
                  
                     Six-monthly quota
                  
                  
                     Import duty
                     (EUR/100 kg net weight)
                  
               
                     09.4590
                  
                  
                     0402 10 19
                  
                  
                     Skimmed-milk powder
                  
                  
                     All third countries
                  
                  
                     68 000
                  
                  
                     34 000
                  
                  
                     47,50
                  
               
                     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
                  
                  
                     All third countries
                  
                  
                     11 360
                  
                  
                     5 680
                  
                  
                     94,80
                  
               
                     in butter equivalent
                  
               
                     09.4591
                  
                  
                     ex 0406 10 20
                     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
                  
                  
                     All third countries
                  
                  
                     5 360
                  
                  
                     2 680
                  
                  
                     13,00
                  
               
                     09.4592
                  
                  
                     ex 0406 30 10
                  
                  
                     Processed Emmentaler
                  
                  
                     All third countries
                  
                  
                     18 438
                  
                  
                     9 219
                  
                  
                     71,90
                  
               
                     0406 90 13
                  
                  
                     Emmentaler
                  
                  
                     85,80
                  
               
                     09.4593
                  
                  
                     ex 0406 30 10
                  
                  
                     Processed Gruyère
                  
                  
                     All third countries
                  
                  
                     5 413
                  
                  
                     2 706,5
                  
                  
                     71,90
                  
               
                     0406 90 15
                  
                  
                     Gruyère, Sbrinz
                  
                  
                     85,80
                  
               
                     09.4594
                  
                  
                     0406 90 01
                  
                  
                     Cheese for processing (3)
                     
                  
                  
                     All third countries
                  
                  
                     20 007
                  
                  
                     10 003,5
                  
                  
                     83,50
                  
               
                     09.4595
                  
                  
                     0406 90 21
                  
                  
                     Cheddar
                  
                  
                     All third countries
                  
                  
                     15 005
                  
                  
                     7 502,5
                  
                  
                     21,00
                  
               
                     09.4596
                  
                  
                     ex 0406 10 20
                  
                  
                     Fresh (unripened or uncured) cheese, including whey cheese, and curd, other than pizza cheese of quota number 09.4591
                  
                  
                     All third countries
                  
                  
                     19 525
                  
                  
                     9 762,5
                  
                  
                     92,60
                  
               
                     ex 0406 10 80
                  
                  
                     106,40
                  
               
                     0406 20 90
                  
                  
                     Other grated or powdered cheese
                  
                  
                     94,10
                  
               
                     0406 30 31
                  
                  
                     Other processed cheese
                  
                  
                     69,00
                  
               
                     0406 30 39
                  
                  
                     71,90
                  
               
                     0406 30 90
                  
                  
                     102,90
                  
               
                     0406 40 10
                     0406 40 50
                     0406 40 90
                  
                  
                     Blue-veined cheese
                  
                  
                     70,40
                  
               
                     0406 90 17
                  
                  
                     Bergkäse and Appenzell
                  
                  
                     85,80
                  
               
                     09.4596
                  
                  
                     0406 90 18
                  
                  
                     Fromage Fribourgeois, Vacherin Mont d’Or and Tête de Moine
                  
                  
                      
                  
                  
                      
                  
                  
                      
                  
                  
                     75,50
                  
               
                     0406 90 23
                  
                  
                     Edam
                  
               
                     0406 90 25
                  
                  
                     Tilsit
                  
               
                     0406 90 27
                  
                  
                     Butterkäse
                  
               
                     0406 90 29
                  
                  
                     Kashkaval
                  
               
                     0406 90 31
                  
                  
                     Feta, of sheep’s milk or buffalo milk
                  
               
                     0406 90 33
                  
                  
                     Feta, other
                  
               
                     0406 90 35
                  
                  
                     Kefalo-Tyri
                  
               
                     0406 90 37
                  
                  
                     Finlandia
                  
               
                     0406 90 39
                  
                  
                     Jarlsberg
                  
               
                     0406 90 50
                  
                  
                     Cheese of sheep’s milk or buffalo milk
                  
               
                     ex 0406 90 63
                  
                  
                     Pecorino
                  
                  
                     94,10
                  
               
                     0406 90 69
                  
                  
                     Other
                  
               
                     0406 90 73
                  
                  
                     Provolone
                  
                  
                     75,50
                  
               
                     ex 0406 90 75
                  
                  
                     Caciocavallo
                  
               
                     ex 0406 90 76
                  
                  
                     Danbo, Fontal, Fynbo, Havarti, Maribo, Samsø
                  
               
                     0406 90 78
                  
                  
                     Gouda
                  
               
                     ex 0406 90 79
                  
                  
                     Esrom, Italico, Kernhem, Saint-Paulin
                  
               
                     ex 0406 90 81
                  
                  
                     Cheshire, Wensleydale, Lancashire, Double Gloucester, Blarney, Colby, Monterey
                  
               
                     0406 90 82
                  
                  
                     Camembert
                  
               
                     0406 90 84
                  
                  
                     Brie
                  
               
                     0406 90 86
                  
                  
                     Exceeding 47 % but not exceeding 52 %
                  
               
                     0406 90 87
                  
                  
                     Exceeding 52 % but not exceeding 62 %
                  
               
                     0406 90 88
                  
                  
                     Exceeding 62 % but not exceeding 72 %
                  
               
                     0406 90 93
                  
                  
                     Exceeding 72 %
                  
                  
                     92,60
                  
               
                     0406 90 99
                  
                  
                     Other
                  
                  
                     106,40
                  
               
      
         (1)  1 kg product = 1,22 kg butter.
      
         (2)  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.
      
         (3)  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.’