CELEX: 32006R0928
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 928/2006 of  22 June 2006  amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards certain new Community tariff quotas bound in GATT

23.6.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 170/14
            
         
      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 928/2006
   of 22 June 2006
   amending Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 as regards certain new Community tariff quotas bound in GATT
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 of 17 December 1999 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT and certain other Community tariff quotas and establishing detailed rules for adjusting the quotas, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 (1), and in particular Article 9(1)(b) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               By Decision 2006/333/EC (2), the Council has approved 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.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America provides for new annual tariff quotas for certain goods.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 opened and provided for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               To implement certain new annual tariff quotas for which provision is made in the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters, it is necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 32/2000.
            
         
               (5)
            
            
               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 (3), provides for the application of the new tariff quotas six weeks from the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, therefore this Commission implementing Regulation should apply from the same date.
            
         
               (6)
            
            
               The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
   Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
   It shall apply with effect from 22 June 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
         
         László KOVÁCS
         
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 5, 8.1.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2158/2005 (OJ L 342, 24.12.2005, p. 61).
   
      (2)  OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13.
   
      (3)  OJ L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 1.
   
      ANNEX
      The following rows are inserted in the table in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 32/2000:
      
         
                     ‘09.0084
                  
                  
                     1702 50 00
                  
                  
                      
                  
                  
                     Chemically pure fructose
                  
                  
                     From 1 January to 31 December
                  
                  
                     1 253 tonnes
                  
                  
                     20
                  
               
                     09.0085
                  
                  
                     1806
                  
                  
                      
                  
                  
                     Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa
                  
                  
                     From 1 January to 31 December
                  
                  
                     107 tonnes
                  
                  
                     43
                  
               
                     09.0086
                  
                  
                     1902 11 00
                     1902 19
                     1902 20 91
                     1902 20 99
                     1902 30
                     1902 40
                  
                  
                      
                  
                  
                     Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed or otherwise prepared, except stuffed pasta of CN subheadings 1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30; couscous, whether or not prepared
                  
                  
                     From 1 January to 31 December
                  
                  
                     532 tonnes
                  
                  
                     11
                  
               
                     09.0087
                  
                  
                     1901 90 99
                     1904 30 00
                     1904 90 80
                     1905 90 20
                  
                  
                      
                  
                  
                     Food preparations of cereals
                  
                  
                     From 1 January to 31 December
                  
                  
                     191 tonnes
                  
                  
                     33
                  
               
                     09.0088
                  
                  
                     2106 90 98
                  
                  
                      
                  
                  
                     Other food preparations not elsewhere specified or included
                  
                  
                     From 1 January to 31 December
                  
                  
                     921 tonnes
                  
                  
                     18’