Council Regulation (EC) No 1329/2003 of 21 July 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 992/95 as regards tariff quotas for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway

Council Regulation (EC) No 1329/2003
of 21 July 2003
amending Regulation (EC) No 992/95 as regards tariff quotas for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1) Pursuant 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), Community tariff quotas have been opened for certain agricultural and fishery products originating in Norway. Those quotas were granted under the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway concluded on 14 May 1973(2).
(2) By an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Kingdom of Norway and approved by Council Decision 2003/465/EC(3), the two parties have agreed to additional bilateral trade concessions concerning agricultural products. By virtue of that agreement the Community has undertaken to open, each year and subject to certain conditions, annual tariff quotas at a zero duty for a number of products originating in Norway.
(3) The tariff quotas in question should accordingly be opened from 1 January to 31 December each year. For the first calendar year of application of this Regulation, the full annual volume should be reduced in proportion to the part of the quota period elapsed before the opening of the quotas.
(4) The volume of the tariff quotas under order numbers 09.0785 and 09.0786 should be converted into euro. The amounts of euro should be fixed in accordance with Article 18(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code(4), using the rate for the Norwegian krone published on 1 October 2002 in the Official Journal of the European Communities(5).
(5) As of 1 January 2004, it is intended to manage the tariff quotas for products of CN code 0204 on the basis of Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 of 19 December 2001 on the common organisation of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat(6). Therefore the tariff quota for those products originating in Norway should be managed under the arrangements established by Regulation (EC) No 992/95 only until the end of the year 2003. For the remaining months of the year 2003, provision should already be made, with regard to the importation of those products, that a document of origin be presented in accordance with the provisions established on the basis of Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001.
(6) It is therefore necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No 992/95 accordingly,